Dear Stormworkers,
This week is the announcement week, while next week will be a new minor update!
We want to dedicate this weeks announcement to saying a few words about creators. We wake up every day with a need to just make something. We are particularly lucky that this game is aimed at people who share this passion. Playing Stormworks is all about designing and creating, sharing what you have built, and thinking about how to improve it. We know how time consuming and difficult it is to make many of the Stormworks creations we see on the workshop. We really value our players passion for design and building. This type of game is not for everyone, and so there is a lot of excitement, joy, and pride to know that these qualities are shared with so many.
We have also talked about content creators and Youtubers before. The processes may be different, but I am sure there are a great many players who like us, appreciate and admire the determination, energy, creativity, and craft that goes into creating this kind of content. Building things is awesome.
But we also want to talk about the many other great building games on Steam. Steam has proven itself as the best platform by far, for supporting an ecosystem of specialist and niche games, that can only exist on PC.
I think around 9 years ago, when I was starting out as an indie game dev, I discovered Space Engineers and Kerbal Space Program. These games are technically creative, and innovative, but at the time, I was most amazed that they had proven viable. It seems obvious now, but 9 years ago, the idea that a highly technical building game for an audience who likes to geek out about science and build stuff, was crazy. These developers took the leap that has lead to a whole generation of new games for people like us. Thank you.
Other big games that deserve a lot of recognition is Scrap Mechanic, Astroneer, Satisfactory, and Stationeers. Each have pushed the genre in their own style, and their enthusiasm to believe in their vision, put everything behind it, and continue to love and support their players for years, is inspirational to all developers. Thank you guys, you are awesome.
This post is getting long, so sorry that we can't list more games or give all the praise these games deserve. Please do check them out and let us know about other games and why they are important in the comments!
Some quick notes:
AMD fixed their drivers!! If you have been crashing with AMD graphics recently, please update your drivers.
Potential new DLC! We are considering a huge update before the end of the year, including loads of new big features that we have been working on for over a year. Some will be part of a free update, while some of the optional stuff might be in a DLC.
Incoming minor updates with new content and components! We have the next few minor updates in testing and there is some great new content to come! Come back next week for the next one.
Much love <3,
The Stormworks Developers