The store page on steam is now hidden. It will become public once we are ready for a full release build on steam. We really appreciate the sudden surge of messages and support.

The reason why we have done this is that quite simply we do not have a set release date for steam, we most likely wont for a while. Like we have said several times we are launching outside of steam Via Humble and our own custom launcher. This means that us being on steam seems to bother some people and we can understand why.

We are still aiming for our testing this year outside of steam. Progress is great and i recommend reading our Development Logs we put out once every two weeks here:
DEV LOGS

We will make the store page public again eventually when the right time comes as it was my fault for putting the store page up so early.

Thanks for the ongoing support once again.

Join our discord here to chat to us, share ideas and ask any questions

DISCORD

Kind Regards,
BLACKBOX STUDIOS

http://forums.blackbox-studio.net/

Hello Everyone!
If you havent already please read the previous post, we recommend you do so before reading this.

As you know we have been working on our own Launcher.



We have good news, everything is on track! We are really happy with the progress being made both in game and on the launcher. But this means we will be stepping away from focusing our updates here. We hope to post weekly updates on our discord and on the launcher news feed.

Currently the team have done alot of the core features of the launcher, they are now currently working on the social features such as the profile pages, friends list, chat ECT.

Thanks to everyone who has supported us with this change off steam, we will return to steam on full release meaning the game will no longer release in early access on steam. We feel like the EA system on steam isnt what we want for our game. We would much rather work closer with the community to build the game the right way.

https://discord.gg/aftershock

Thanks for reading, I will be pinning this as our last post here on steam for now. We will be posting our updates elsewhere.

~ BLACKBOX

Hello Everyone!
Welcome to the latest update of everything AFTERSHOCK.
We have alot of information to share so lets get started!

We have officially decided to change our name from Focus Studios to BLACKBOX.
This decision came up when deciding the name for our Launcher, FOCUS launcher just didnt sound good. Along with the new name we also have some new names to welcome.
- Aidan [Programmer/Launcher Team]
- Steven [Programmer/Launcher Team]
- Dom [Servers/Launcher Team]
Be sure to give them a warm welcome :)


If you have backed the game you will be able to recieve the Launcher for the game in Late March (Do note the testing is set for before MID 2018, the launcher is being sent out prior for us to get things ready). This also does confirm some of the rumors going around, the game will not be releasing into early access on steam, it will be released as a full game title on steam once its ready, testing will be reserved to everyone who backs the game, that means we are cutting ties with steam for now, we will not be using their platform just yet. If you have any questions about this contact me or join our discord for more info.

https://discord.gg/aftershock

We hope you are just as excited as we are for this launchers release, it will support any future titles by us. More info will be posted as time goes on.


We also have some good news for our backers. If you back the game, you are guarenteed access to testing. We hope to start testing before MID 2018.


Here are some photos of the work done in the art department currently:





Kind Regards,
BLACKBOX

Hello Everyone!

Sorry for the lack of Posts here on Steam, we will be resuming back to updates on average every two weeks starting in Febuary.

We have been discussing with our backers about how we want to handle the games testing. We have come to the conclusion that we will be creating our own launcher which we can produce keys so that they can be activated by our backers exclusively (Much like how EFT system works). This means that if your pre order you will be guarenteed a spot in testing. As for the first testing build that is still a WIP, we will be updating more here on that.

Thanks,
Sam
LEAD DEV

Our Senior 3D Artist just finished this Male Character Model for AFTERSHOCK!

https://torix.artstation.com/projects/VXbn4

We have been hard at work recently on the game and with the new year coming along fast we want to post one final update for this year (There will of course be frequent updates in 2018 as well).

We have been making good progress on the recreation of Esseker (Custom Arma 3 Map made by Bojan).

Here are some new pictures:





We did run into some troubles, as some of you may have known we were taking applications for level designers and other spots on the team, we brought in a new level designer who didnt end up doing anything and wasted around 3 weeks of work, thankfully the original creator of Esseker is now fully on board with the recreation and has provided us with more resources and we now have made good progress on the map as seen above.

We cant wait to share more updates on the map in 2018!

We have a 20% discount on all backer/pre order sales!
https://www.f-studios.net/store
https://www.humblebundle.com/store/aftershock

Be sure to join the discord to get your backer rank if you have pre ordered the game/backed.

https://www.discord.gg/aftershock

We recently did a 7 day livestream event but we only streamed 4 - 5 times. We had high viewer counts and alot of people seemed to learn some new things about the whole workflow of working on a game of this calibre, we were even joined by Mike Porter who has worked on big titles like Halo 3! We didnt stream for the full 7 days as we were doing this event to get alot of work done but we quickly found that we were spending most of our time answering questions, this was a big oversight that we should have prepared for so we apologize if we overhyped this.

Here is a good VOD from the stream where Mike uses Z-Brush to create a zombie head:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/209911795



Kind Regards,
FOCUS STUDIOS

Brian Hicks (Fellow Game Dev Guy) explains why its so important to take some time off, even if its very little.

Livestream over:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/209911795##

Hello everyone!
As some of you may have noticed we didnt stream yesterday, this was due to a power outage. We will be streaming today, Mike Porter will be using Z brush and other software to create a 3D model on stream.

We will post here when we go live!

Kind Regards,
Sam