Mar 11, 2015

Offworld Trading Company - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Graham Smith)

Offworld Trading Company [official site] is a competitive, multiplayer RTS set on Mars, but instead of fighting with lasers, players compete to dominate a fluctuating commodities market. The winner is the person who buys low, sells high and uses their gains to launch hostile takeovers of their opponent’s companies.

At GDC, I spoke to designer Soren Johnson (formerly of Civilization IV) and artist Dorian Newcomb (formerly of Civilization V) about Early Access, how player’s had surprised them in the months since its initial release, why they wish the game was hidden on Steam, and what small companies can do that big .

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Mar 5, 2015

Soren Johnson On Maxis: One Of The Great PC Devs

Offworld Trading Company - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Graham Smith)

Until their functional closure yesterday, Maxis were “one of the great PC developers”. From the seminal SimCity and adventurous SimAnt, to the breakthrough The Sims and absurdly ambitious Spore, the studio made two decades of strange, thoughtful, risky games.

One of the people who helped was Soren Johnson, who joined the studio in 2007 to work on finishing Spore. I was talking to Johnson about his new game Offworld Trading Company [official site] just a few hours after news of the closure broke and took the opportunity to ask him about his former employer, the studio’s closure, and the difficulties of working with big studios that have “a laundry list of requirements” for a game.

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Mar 4, 2015

Offworld Trading Company v0.1.5062 Available

Offworld Trading Company - IslandDog

Mohawk Games has released a new patch today for Offworld Trading Company. This patch includes fixes for a variety of issues, and we appreciate the feedback you have been giving so far.

You can see the full list of updates in the change log.

Mar 4, 2015

Offworld Trading Company v0.1.5062 Available

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Feb 20, 2015

Offworld Trading Company v0.0.4853 Available

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Mohawk Games and Stardock Entertainment have released version 0.0.4853 of Offworld Trading Company to all owners today. This latest update fixes and improves various UI issues, disables hardware UI rendering (so hopefully everyone can see the UI again), adds back 4:3 and 5:4 aspect ratios and more.

For a full run down of the changes, please see the Change Log.

Feb 20, 2015

Offworld Trading Company v0.0.4853 Available

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Feb 12, 2015

Now Available on Steam Early Access - Offworld Trading Company, 10% off!

Offworld Trading Company - Valve

Offworld Trading Company™ is Now Available on Steam Early Access and is 10% off!*

Rekindle humanity’s adventurous spirit by leaving the tired Earth to find new fortunes in the untapped resources of Mars in Offworld Trading Company, the economic real-time strategy game from Civilization IV designer Soren Johnson.

*Offer ends February 19 at 10AM Pacific Time

Feb 12, 2015

Offworld Trading Company Early Access Now Available

Offworld Trading Company - IslandDog

Stardock and Mohawk Games are extremely proud to announce today the launch of Offworld Trading Company on Steam Early Access. For a limited time, players can buy into the beta for a discounted $35.99 price and immediately start competing for the boundless riches waiting to be extracted from Mars.

Offworld Trading Company is mostly feature-complete already. The cutthroat competition in the real-time, player-driven market is fierce, as randomly generated maps present new challenges and opportunities in every match. No two games are the same, and no one build order or strategy can ever become dominant as the scarcity of each resource affects every decision you make.

Free-for-all multiplayer, competitive or cooperative teamplay, and the dynamic single-player campaign are all available for play in the Early Access beta. As we march toward our 2016 release date, we will be continually iterating on the gameplay to ensure that Offworld Trading Company is as balanced, polished, and fun as humanly possible when we launch. We've also got some pretty cool ideas for the multiplayer metagame that will be rolled into the beta as they're ready.

The dev team streams Offworld Trading Company all the time. Every Thursday at 3pm Eastern we talk through gameplay and explain our development philosophies on our official Twitch channel, and you can catch many of our lunchtime multiplayer games on our individual Twitch channels (Soren, Scott, and others all stream regularly).

Welcome to Offworld Trading Company. May your goon squads be effective and your stock prices high!