It’s the holiday season – time to infect the world with happiness! Boring governments have banned holidays, laughter and celebrations. Luckily, the Neurax Worm has teamed up with Santa and is determined to infect the whole world with joy and happiness.

On top of this, we have added a Teleportation scenario - Highly advanced technology has created the opportunity to travel through a portal and teleport to other countries. Where will they go?

We've also added loads of new achievements for Simian Flu and a few others. Still waiting for someone to work out how to do "Film Fanatic" properly though :p

There are of course a range of other fixes/tweaks/improvements, including the ability to download scenario files from the Steam Cloud so that you can easily work on a custom scenario from a different machine.

Hope you enjoy spreading the Christmas Spirit :p

Development Update

With the Scenario Creator fully functional (and people making awesome stuff)- we are now focusing on the multiplayer mode. We have some very buggy versions being played between the team, and we are very excited about it. More news in January

James

p.s. fans of Portal should keep an eye out for Easter Eggs ;)



Major Changes:

Main Game

• Santa's Little Helper Scenario
  
• Teleportation Scenario
  
• 25 New achievements

Scenario Creator

• Added ability for creators to download scenarios from cloud
  
• Scenario images now display behind text on custom scenario page

Full change log can be found on our forum.

It’s the holiday season – time to infect the world with happiness! Boring governments have banned holidays, laughter and celebrations. Luckily, the Neurax Worm has teamed up with Santa and is determined to infect the whole world with joy and happiness.

On top of this, we have added a Teleportation scenario - Highly advanced technology has created the opportunity to travel through a portal and teleport to other countries. Where will they go?

We've also added loads of new achievements for Simian Flu and a few others. Still waiting for someone to work out how to do "Film Fanatic" properly though :p

There are of course a range of other fixes/tweaks/improvements, including the ability to download scenario files from the Steam Cloud so that you can easily work on a custom scenario from a different machine.

Hope you enjoy spreading the Christmas Spirit :p

Development Update

With the Scenario Creator fully functional (and people making awesome stuff)- we are now focusing on the multiplayer mode. We have some very buggy versions being played between the team, and we are very excited about it. More news in January

James

p.s. fans of Portal should keep an eye out for Easter Eggs ;)



Major Changes:

Main Game

• Santa's Little Helper Scenario
  
• Teleportation Scenario
  
• 25 New achievements

Scenario Creator

• Added ability for creators to download scenarios from cloud
  
• Scenario images now display behind text on custom scenario page

Full change log can be found on our forum.

The most powerful Scenario Creator update yet is live! Now you can make killer robots stampede through countries, have zombies that spontaneously explode, or just put the entire population of Greenland in a rocket and send them to the moon! The only limit is your imagination (and scripting skills :P).

The Events Lab adds vast scripting / mod options on top of all the other labs you can already use. Many Custom Scenarios have great storylines, however they still have the standard Plague Inc. pop ups appearing halfway through. Now you have the ability to remove standard events and script your own.

Better still, this gives you the opportunity to drastically change gameplay partway through. At the moment you can only set up how the game starts and how the governments respond, but with the Events Lab you can tweak variables (however small or large) at different intervals throughout the game. The scenario can react to the player, and the player will have to react to the scenario. There is a mountain of new variables/mechanisms that can be accessed now, from changing difficulty halfway through a game to bringing people back from the dead as normal healthy people (not as zombies!).

This update gives you an amazing amount of scope to do some really radical things with the Scenario Creator. We are looking forward to seeing what you come up with!

Development Update

Now that the Scenario Creator is fully functional - we are now shifting full focus to the multiplayer mode. We have some very buggy versions being played between the team, and we are very excited about it. We will also be releasing 2 special scenarios in the new few weeks - keep an eye out for Santa's Little Helper and the Teleportation scenarios.

Enjoy!

Major Changes:
Main Game

• Added new filtering options for finding custom scenario by Language & Topic tags.
  
• Added rate up / rate down popup at the end of a custom scenario games.

Scenario Creator

• Add Events Lab! Allows creators to build a whole range of events for their scenarios!
  
• Added tagging system to allow creators to add description tag to their scenario (in publisher screen)
  
• Added new Achievement for publishing a scenario.

Full change log can be found on our forum

The most powerful Scenario Creator update yet is live! Now you can make killer robots stampede through countries, have zombies that spontaneously explode, or just put the entire population of Greenland in a rocket and send them to the moon! The only limit is your imagination (and scripting skills :P).

The Events Lab adds vast scripting / mod options on top of all the other labs you can already use. Many Custom Scenarios have great storylines, however they still have the standard Plague Inc. pop ups appearing halfway through. Now you have the ability to remove standard events and script your own.

Better still, this gives you the opportunity to drastically change gameplay partway through. At the moment you can only set up how the game starts and how the governments respond, but with the Events Lab you can tweak variables (however small or large) at different intervals throughout the game. The scenario can react to the player, and the player will have to react to the scenario. There is a mountain of new variables/mechanisms that can be accessed now, from changing difficulty halfway through a game to bringing people back from the dead as normal healthy people (not as zombies!).

This update gives you an amazing amount of scope to do some really radical things with the Scenario Creator. We are looking forward to seeing what you come up with!

Development Update

Now that the Scenario Creator is fully functional - we are now shifting full focus to the multiplayer mode. We have some very buggy versions being played between the team, and we are very excited about it. We will also be releasing 2 special scenarios in the new few weeks - keep an eye out for Santa's Little Helper and the Teleportation scenarios.

Enjoy!

Major Changes:
Main Game

• Added new filtering options for finding custom scenario by Language & Topic tags.
  
• Added rate up / rate down popup at the end of a custom scenario games.

Scenario Creator

• Add Events Lab! Allows creators to build a whole range of events for their scenarios!
  
• Added tagging system to allow creators to add description tag to their scenario (in publisher screen)
  
• Added new Achievement for publishing a scenario.

Full change log can be found on our forum

The next update is nearly here! More info on what it will contain as well as other things we are working on below...

Scenario Creator to get Events Lab update

In the next few days, the beta for the most powerful Scenario Creator update yet goes live. The Events Lab adds vast scripting / mod options on top of all the other labs you can already use. With this you will be able to make killer robots stampede through countries, have zombies that spontaneously explode, or just put the entire population of Greenland in a rocket and send them to the moon! The only limit will be your imagination (and scripting skills :P).

New Featured Community Scenarios

Players are making some awesome scenarios and Featured Scenarios highlight some of the most inventive and polished creations. Here are the latest Featured Scenarios - congrats to authors!
Cult of Cthulhu by Morrolan
Primeval Anomalies by brothercake
Last Judgement by Fallon
Animatronic by 男性を負担
Human Hives by SKello89

You can check out these and thousands of other scenarios in game now!

Multiplayer development

With the Scenario Creator almost complete, development time is shifting over to Multiplayer. I'm having a great time as I get to pull out my design hat and develop new systems that really shine in a player vs player environment. The current focus is competitive multiplayer and we will move onto co-operative multiplayer after that.

More on this soon!

James

The next update is nearly here! More info on what it will contain as well as other things we are working on below...

Scenario Creator to get Events Lab update

In the next few days, the beta for the most powerful Scenario Creator update yet goes live. The Events Lab adds vast scripting / mod options on top of all the other labs you can already use. With this you will be able to make killer robots stampede through countries, have zombies that spontaneously explode, or just put the entire population of Greenland in a rocket and send them to the moon! The only limit will be your imagination (and scripting skills :P).

New Featured Community Scenarios

Players are making some awesome scenarios and Featured Scenarios highlight some of the most inventive and polished creations. Here are the latest Featured Scenarios - congrats to authors!
Cult of Cthulhu by Morrolan
Primeval Anomalies by brothercake
Last Judgement by Fallon
Animatronic by 男性を負担
Human Hives by SKello89

You can check out these and thousands of other scenarios in game now!

Multiplayer development

With the Scenario Creator almost complete, development time is shifting over to Multiplayer. I'm having a great time as I get to pull out my design hat and develop new systems that really shine in a player vs player environment. The current focus is competitive multiplayer and we will move onto co-operative multiplayer after that.

More on this soon!

James

Evolution 11 notes
I'm amazed by the quality of custom scenarios that the community is making and one piece of feedback we have repeatedly got is that people want to be able to translate their scenarios without having to make multiple different versions on the Steam Workshop as this splits the community.

Your wish is my command and I am pleased to say that we have therefore added the ability to have multiple languages for your scenario which means that people can play the scenario in their own language! If their language isn't available, then the creator can also set which language it will default to in this case.

This update also includes a number of tweaks and fixes for the game - see change log below.

Development log
I'm keen to make sure that great custom scenarios get discovered by players and we are starting to look at them to see which scenarios should be featured. There are load of scenarios to look at so if you are interested in helping out - then please follow this link to become a Custom Scenario Creator Judge.

Our Early Access journey continues and the next Evolution (12) will add immense power to the Scenario Creator in the form of the Events Lab. This will allow you to create game-changing events and narrative pop ups for your scenario using powerful mod/scripting tools. The only limit is your imagination :P

We are also hard at work on multiplayer now and are having a lot of fun testing it in Office Zero. Will share more news soon!

Happy Halloween!

James

Major changes:
Scenario Creator

• Translations option - SC allows creator to export game strings, edit the files and import back in so that the same scenario can host multiple languages.

Main Game

• Graphs for population now area graphs.
  
• Updated main game population bar tool tips.
  
• Added Custom Scenario search tagging filter for Languages.

Full change log can be found on our forum.

Evolution 11 notes
I'm amazed by the quality of custom scenarios that the community is making and one piece of feedback we have repeatedly got is that people want to be able to translate their scenarios without having to make multiple different versions on the Steam Workshop as this splits the community.

Your wish is my command and I am pleased to say that we have therefore added the ability to have multiple languages for your scenario which means that people can play the scenario in their own language! If their language isn't available, then the creator can also set which language it will default to in this case.

This update also includes a number of tweaks and fixes for the game - see change log below.

Development log
I'm keen to make sure that great custom scenarios get discovered by players and we are starting to look at them to see which scenarios should be featured. There are load of scenarios to look at so if you are interested in helping out - then please follow this link to become a Custom Scenario Creator Judge.

Our Early Access journey continues and the next Evolution (12) will add immense power to the Scenario Creator in the form of the Events Lab. This will allow you to create game-changing events and narrative pop ups for your scenario using powerful mod/scripting tools. The only limit is your imagination :P

We are also hard at work on multiplayer now and are having a lot of fun testing it in Office Zero. Will share more news soon!

Happy Halloween!

James

Major changes:
Scenario Creator

• Translations option - SC allows creator to export game strings, edit the files and import back in so that the same scenario can host multiple languages.

Main Game

• Graphs for population now area graphs.
  
• Updated main game population bar tool tips.
  
• Added Custom Scenario search tagging filter for Languages.

Full change log can be found on our forum.

We've been working on quite a few different things recently, and that has all come together into one big update which has something for everyone, both in the Main Game and the Scenario Creator.

Zombies, Mind Control, Intelligent Apes and more come to the Scenario Creator!
The Scenario Creator has been a huge success already, and we can't wait to see what people do now that they can modify all of Plague Inc.'s diseases, as well as controlling the actions that Governments take to respond to diseases.

Diseases revamped and human AI improved
We've been analysing everyone's feedback on the core game over the last few months, and so have adjusted Prion and Parasite to make sure they encourage different strategies. Trojan planes from the Neurax Worm have also been tweaked. Last, but definitely not least, we have made significant improvements to human AI routines which control the identification and response to infectious disease threats.

Access to Necroa Virus and Cheats
The zombie making Necroa Virus is one of the hardest diseases, and many people find it difficult to lead their zombie armies to victory against the mighty Z Com. As a result, we have moved Necroa so that people will encounter it later in the game. We've also opened up some of the cheats to more players by making the core ones unlock on normal difficulty. You still have to beat everything on mega-brutal to unlock the final ones though...


As always, there is still lots more to come. We are currently working on expanding Scenario Creator functionality further, to let you create game-changing events and narrative pop ups for your scenario using powerful mod/scripting tools. After that we will be working on multiplayer, and then we will be doing final optimisation, porting (linux) and polish to get ready to leave Early Access! Not giving a date yet though :P

Hope you enjoy the update, let me know how you get on!

James

Major changes:
Scenario Creator

• Disease templates added for Fungus, Nano-Virus, Bioweapon, Neurax Worm, Necroa Virus and Simian Flu
  
• Government Actions Lab added to expand mod options

Main Game

• Major gameplay update to core disease types following player feedback, particularly Parasite, Prion and the Neurax Worm
  
• Necroa and Prion unlock order switch, and basic cheats unlocked by beating all diseases on normal
  
• Tooltip overhaul throughout the game
  
• Upgraded human AI, making life more difficult for any potential world-ending pathogen
  
• Added a 'New' tab to custom scenarios to increase visibility of newly created scenarios
  
• Significantly sped up download speeds for custom scenarios
  
• Country populations updated

New Languages Added

• The community has done fantastic work translating the game into Norwegian, Turkish, Polish and Japanese. Thanks very much to all those that have helped out!

Full change log can be found on our forum.