Hello guys!
It’s been a difficult year for everyone in Ukraine. So, our key achievements for this year are:
- Everyone on the team is alive and safe (to the extent you could be safe in a city that occasionally suffers missile strikes)
- The company survived - we continued our operations, managed to keep the team together, and returned to our Kyiv office
That is already good enough on its own, but we are happy to say we managed to do even more, despite all difficulties we also managed the following:
- We made good progress in the development of Headquarters: World War II and kept working on Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty
- We self-funded and self-published a fully free charity project about the war in Ukraine from civilains points of view - Ukraine War Stories
- Our team grew from 15 to 25 people. Now we are quite a large team (which we are still getting used to)
- Installed a power generator and heaters to make sure we have a power supply and internet connection even if the whole city or our district is out of power - ensured our office is autonomous. This allows us to look more confidently into 2023.
- Donated substantial amount of money to help Ukraine both as a company and as individuals
Starni Games team
Now let us look a bit closer at our team. Here is a Starni team introductory video made by Slitherine team for the Headquarters: World War II presentation.
We are very excited that despite the war our team has only grown stronger and is ready to deliver more and better content in 2023 than ever before.
Starni Games Q&A #3 - ask us
We remain very open to our community - so we would be more than happy to answer any and all of your questions. Please, send your questions through this form.
We will record a video answering all of your questions in early January.
Previous Dev Q&As:
Dev Q&A #1
Dev Q&A #2
Also, join our Discord server to talk with us and other players at any time.
Headquarters: World War II
Throughout the year our biggest project was Headquarters: World War II and we are making really good progress with it. You can see that yourself if you watch the recent presentation at the Slitherine Next event.
Also, if you like the project and want to help us with the final polish - sign up for the Beta test of the game here.
Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty
We keep working on the project, but we have to admit that we have some difficulties in organizing the VO as most of teh people we worked with are now unavailable for various war-related reasons and we do not have the budget to just order it somewhere, so we are looking to solve these problems while also working on the remaining levels and aspects of the game we could. We have concrete plans for release in 2023, but we cannot announce it yet, as some aspects of the development remain unresolved at this stage.
We will continue to make regular updates about our development progress, Here is one of the historical music tracks from the upcoming Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty for your listening pleasure.
To support us, please, add the Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty to your wishlist:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1474770/Strategic_Mind_Spirit_of_Liberty/
Ukraine War Stories
We are really happy we managed to create a highly reviewed project (88% Positive reviews at the time of writing, which is a miracle in itself considering the sensitive nature of the project) about the war in Ukraine in the middle of the said war. It is a fully free charity project that our whole team is really proud of - so we invite you to have a look and spread the word:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1985510/Ukraine_War_Stories/
Check out our recent report about Ukraine War Stories.
War in Ukraine
While the war in Ukraine continues, we managed to adapt and keep working even in these difficulty conditions. You can learn more about how that went by checking out our War in Ukraine Despatches on the community hub - there is the most recent one.
We hope that Ukraine’s territories will be liberated by UAF and the war will be over as soon as possible. With that in mind, we also should not be overly optimistic or careless and should be ready and resolved to work in wartime conditions as long as it is required.
Stand with Ukraine!
Extra details for newsletter subscribers
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The letter will be sent out on 30th January.
Happy holidays!
Our team wishes you all happy holidays and looks forward to seeing you all in 2023. We hope you will spend a great time with your family and friends, while also refreshing your body and soul and getting ready for the new and exciting year 2023.
With Best Wishes from Kyiv
Oleksandr and the Strani Games team