Dec 15, 2022
Suzerain - hopppi
Citizens of Sordland! The last weeks have been really exciting and we feel grateful to close off another fantastic year. Here is an overview of all the updates we have from the past few weeks.
You can read the news from our most recent launch here.
Last week we also held the State of Torpor Games address, where we revealed some important news and highlights. Here is an overview:
- State of Torpor Games 2022 milestone report released on the website detailing monthly highlights of the studio and projects, check it out here.
- Announcement of "Project Toras" and "Project Amendment" for the Suzerain product, following high demand from the community for more content. More on this soon.
- Suzerain Nintendo Switch Physical partnership announcement with Serenity Forge to bring authentic items into the hands of our fans. We will reveal further details in the coming months.
- Suzerain has surpassed 4,000 reviews on Steam, with a 93% Very Positive review score.
- We revealed the new Suzerain Universe 1954 Map of the Antacean depicting our expanding universe outside the borders of Sordland.
- Announced new Merch Store items of Map of the Antacean 1836 and 1954 maps coming in the following month.
Map of the Antacean. Year 1954.
Map of the Antacean. Year 1836.
During the livestream, we answered more than twenty questions and communicated thoroughly about our affairs with our most crucial company pillar, our community. Thank you all for following our journey. You can watch the video of the livestream here.
On another topic, we are very proud that The Conformist has received the highest funding amount by medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, the Berlin Media funding institution, an outstanding achievement for Torpor Games! This is a huge step towards making The Conformist happen!
To wrap up, here is an update on what the team has been working on. The development has been intensifying across the finish line of 2022 as we advance on several aspects of our products. A significant effort went into ensuring the last release check on our mobile version to alleviate the most critical bugs and analyze the remaining issues to address post-launch to avoid jeopardizing overall stability at launch. We are happy to have deployed an app on iOS and Google devices for the first time in our company's history and with success.
Significant progress has been made on the UI and UX front of Project Amendment, with multiple improvements in how the players experience the game. We have also addressed the sections where overall communication regarding the experience was missing, and have acted to develop new elements to immerse and inform our players. Efforts also went into assessing where we can make the most impact with additions to the game. A significant data structure update has been completed, with data conversions and setup renewals remaining on Articy and Unity. A 3D optimization pass was made to improve the frame rates on lower-end devices. Plenty of advancements were made in the 3D pipelines with asset creation and with new visualization work, increasing the visual quality of the scene.
Project Toras, meanwhile, went through significant iterations in the narrative design and story work. A few massive diagrams were completed to outline narrative design elements for internal and external affairs. We have detailed several lore elements where the detail was missing and have consolidated the story setup and focus. Currently, we are developing our designed new storylines with more nuanced content. Additionally, a new experimental feature for Project Toras has entered the concept and design phase. We are looking to create a prototype of it soon. Multiple new music tracks and sounds were added to the project that we are pleased about. The first few painted art pieces have also been worked on. Overall, we are full steam ahead with Project Toras work and are excited about the steps ahead in 2023.
Finally, we celebrated the 2nd year anniversary of Suzerain on December 4th. For this reason, Suzerain is currently -60% off on Steam for the very first time! Let your friends and family who haven't played the game know. The discount will run until the 21st of this month.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1207650/Suzerain/
This is it for now! We will be back with the next broadcast at the end of January.
In the meantime, Colonel Soll wishes you all happy holidays, a good end to 2022 and a great start into the new year.
(Picture courtesy of #Topmak.)
A morgna wes core!
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