Hello LoGers!

Exciting news to kick off the new year; I'm here to introduce you to some recent and not-so-recent additions to our publishing team!

We have...

• Kelsey (kindofsquishy), our Publishing Producer
  
• Chan (log_chan), our Community Manager
  
• & Sarah (wolfey_11), our Community Content Manager

We ask that you give them all a massive warm welcome!

Naturally, you'll now be seeing a lot more activity in the community from us, not just on our upcoming two new titles, but Armello too. Including the much requested return of streaming, so watch this space!

While Kelsey and I will be more ninja & behind the scenes, Chan & Sarah will be frequenting our Steam Pages with updates, announcements + comments.

They'll be managing Armello, Solium Infernum AND Jumplight Odyssey, so if you have any questions regarding any of our titles, just give 'em a holler!

Also, feel free to hop into our new Discord Server, where you can hang out with everyone in real time. You can do that by clicking right... here.


<3 Trent & the LoG Squad

Heya Armellians!

Just a little one today. Last week Armello experienced some unexpected and sudden outages to our multiplayer server. This was due to an unannounced change to our multiplayer service provider's API.

While we were able to secure a quick fix last week to get the servers back online, v2.2.2p4 which went live today across all platforms, contains some small under the hood adjustments to permanently protect our multiplayer against this in future (fingers-crossed).

Happy questing, Heroes!


<3 from ya LoG pals!

Hey Armellians!

Short patch notes for this one, but super good news for a portion of our community here...

• Restored private matchmaking functions for Linux and Mac (macOS 12.3+) users.
  
• Public and Private crossplay now available across all platforms (including macOS & Linux).

That's right, Party functionality has been restored for MacOS and Linux players!

As mentioned in this previous update, our multiplayer service provider decided to cease support of Party functionality for MacOS and Linux. Devastatingly, this forced us to discontinue Party functionality (private games, partying up, etc) for MacOS and Linux in Armello, back in July of this year.

However, that service provider has since rolled out support for MacOS & Linux, and so we pounced on the opportunity to restore Party functionality here.

Tell all your apple and penguin flavoured pals that they can join you in your quest for the throne once more! Patch 2.2-p3 is now live.

Those two new games we've been whispering about around these parts have finally been announced.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1893810/Solium_Infernum/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1893820/Jumplight_Odyssey/

Check out the trailers and add the games to your Steam wishlist to be notified when they release.


Until next time, pals!


<3 Trent & the LoG Squad

Hey Armello pals!

We come with news of the brand new game we just revealed as part of the PC Gaming Show!



Lead your crew on a daring, star-flung escape to the sanctuary of the Forever Star in this roguelite colony sim.

Escape the clutches of Admiral Voltan and the warmongering Zutopans, as you build, repair, promote, defend, and grow, across multiple decks of your starship. With your home planet destroyed and your people lost, it's up to you to keep Hope alive on a perilous adventure across the galaxy!



Find out more, suss out the in-game screenshots, and watch our Official Reveal & Story Trailer over at the Jumplight Odyssey Steam page.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1893820/Jumplight_Odyssey/

Don't forget to add it to your Wishlist while you're there!

Heya Armellians!

In many announcements here on Steam we've mentioned that we're currently working on two other titles, so we figured it's time you knew what they are.


Tune in to the PC Gamer Twitch channel to watch it live.

THIS THURSDAY (NOVEMBER 17)
10:00 AM PST | 1:00 PM EST | 6:00 PM GMT | 5:00 AM (FRI) AEDT


Most excitingly, the PC Gaming Show tomorrow will also include a worldwide exclusive reveal of our next title, an entirely brand new game and IP for League of Geeks!

We can't wait for y'all to see what we've got up our sleeve. For fans of our 2D animated trailers, you're definitely not gonna want to miss this one. ;)


For those of you who love Armello because you're fans of...
🎬 Epic animated trailers.
🃏 Digital board games.
🔪 Betraying your friends.
👑 Capturing thrones.

Prepare yourself for SOLIUM INFERNUM - the strategy game from Hell. 🔥



Though there will be no new updates regarding Solium Infernum in the PC Gaming Show. PC Gamer loved what they've seen of SI so much that they are featuring our Cinematic Announce Trailer and replaying it again in the Strategy section of the PC Gaming Show.

If you want all the details now, including screenshots and that glorious cinematic reveal trailer, head on over to the Solium Infernum Steam page.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1893810/Solium_Infernum/

And don't forget to Wishlist the game while you're there!



We are working on a little something in Armello for our Mac & Linux players. It would appear we may be able to resurrect and reinstate Mac & Linux party support. No promises, but we're working on it and initial tests are very promising. Stay tuned! We'll have more to say in a week or two.


As always, thanks for all your support, folks. Could not be more excited to share these new games with you!


<3 Trent & the LoG Squad

EEK! Is that a Spooky dice?

The unsettling cubes are back again, and you have a chance to collect them for yourself by playing multiplayer games during the spooky season. And in case you missed it - the dice collection has rolled on as well.

Event begins: Thursday 27th of October AEDT

Event ends: Thursday 3rd of November AEDT

Eligible games: Any game that yields a regular chest AKA multiplayer games!

Drop rate: These dice are intended to be rare, they have a pure drop chance of 10% per game.

Platforms: Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox and Playstation

Found more than one set?: Since you could possibly find multiple sets of these throughout the event, share them with your pals who weren't blessed by our RNG overlords if you play on Steam!

<3 Trent and the LoG Squad

Hey Armellians!

Just a quick post to let y'all know that our recent patch v2.2-p2 has been rolled out across consoles, so we've re-enabled Crossplay.

Get questin', and I'll see ya in Armello!


<3 Trent & the LoG Squad

Hey friends!

Another patch hot off the press for any of you affected by issues finding and joining multiplayer games.

In this patch:

• Players will no longer experience automatically cancelled matchmaking when server is erroneously at capacity.
  
• Fixed an issue where players could not requeue after cancelling the multiplayer queue too quickly.
  
• Fixed an issue where party members could break public matchmaking for their party.
  
• The not finding PartyWin7.dll error that was preventing some players from gathering a party has been resolved.

Note: Crossplay is temporarily disabled on Steam as we roll these hotfixes out to you all first. Crossplay will be reinstated to Steam once the fixes land on consoles.
Don't forget, if you're experiencing issues with the game, be sure to submit your bugs via the in-game bugsender with "attach log files" checked, when you see it occur in-game. The best chance we get at promptly identifying and fixing issues is when we see those logs.

That's it! Hope you're havin a blast thrashin' that pesky King (and all your pals)! Talk soon!


<3 Trent & the Log Squad

Hey Armellians!

It's been great seeing so many of you jumping into our final update, v2.2 Crossplay, but after monitoring the live build for a month or so, there were some issues we wanted to iron out. So we just couldn't help ourselves - we’ve dived back in to investigate and address some bugs that were impacting players’ ability to load into matches.

The focus of this patch is major issues with starting and finding games, and it's live now.

We've addressed...

• An issue where the ‘Game ready!’ popup would appear without all the player slots filled, preventing games from starting properly (note: there may still be empty slots for a few seconds while players finish joining the match).
  
• An issue where players would be searching for a game and never find one.
  
• An issue where you would occasionally receive an infinite spinner when attempting to join a private game lobby.

We expedited this patch Steam, so you're a touch ahead of console players and thus won’t be able to crossplay until certification on console is complete and the fix is rolled out to those platforms. We'll keep you posted on that.

As always we are grateful to everyone who supports us and this game. There seemed to be some confusion with our last update, we are not abandoning the game. We are still here, ready and available to resolve major issues. Armello has a huge place in our hearts, even though we’re working on two unannounced titles.

So please, keep the feedback and bug reports coming. As mentioned, we read every single one. And of course, reading your positive words gives the team fuel every day!

<3 Trent & the LoG Squad

Hey there Armellians!

It was the biggest, most complicated update we've ever done, but Armello's v2.2 Crossplay update is finally complete.


This update is not only a complete restructuring of our multiplayer architecture, but it has brought all consoles up to date with Steam, AND most importantly, has seen the implementation of cross-platform multiplayer (Crossplay) between Steam, Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo Switch.

There are also numerous bug fixes, quality of life and stability improvements.

The data is in and with the time we spent in v2.2's Beta we now have the most stable version of Armello ever released.

Thanks to all of you who stuck with us and helped along the way. And of course, huge shout out to our QA crew, Jono and Stacey, for doing the work they do.

• On extremely rare occasions, screen can freeze in a solid colour causing an NMA.
  
• Some difficulty connecting to online Party functions, ie. Gather Party window doesn't populate.
  
• Difficulty starting MP games (general issues where games can't start, or less than 4 users appear in lobby). We feel this may be a regional issue.
  
• No Party Functionality (including Private Games) on MacOSX & native Linux. Due to the severity of this one, we've removed any advertising of support for Linux & Mac from Steam (and shortly Humble Bundle), though folks can still purchase and play those versions. For anyone affected by this issue, you can find more info (including a workaround and refund options) here.

Note: All known issues were investigated over months, sometimes years, and could either never be reliably reproduced, are bugs in third party software we use (Unity, Playfab, Fmod, etc), were happening on hardware below min spec, or to an extremely small subset of seemingly unrelated players, regions or hardware.
Unfortunately, there was one casualty we had feared may happen with being forced into a major network upgrade...

We were really hoping that getting Reconnect back online would be a simple solution once the network upgrade was done. After working for weeks on reconnect with little promising progress, it became clear it was going to require nothing less than an entire rewrite. As much as we want to bite that off for y'all and rewrite Reconnect so we can bring it back online, now that we're eleven years into Armello's dev with two new projects heading towards Alpha, we simply do not have the resources or time to invest the focus and effort required into Reconnect. So unfortunately Reconnect will remain offline indefinitely.

The silver lining here is that whilst the forced network upgrade has taken Reconnect from us, it has given us the most stable version of multiplayer in Armello's history. Additionally, Armello thrived for years without Reconnect, so whilst it's a wonderful quality of life feature. Armello's well positioned to live on without it, even if it's removal is against our will.

And we're kicking it off with Skeeve's Curiosities! The collection is live in-game now on Steam, PlayStation Xbox & Nintendo Switch!

We'll continue to roll through Dice Collections every eight weeks.


As many of you know, v2.2 Crossplay also serves as Armello's final update.

Seven years post release and with two brand new games in full production, we are turning our attention to the announce and upcoming release of our new games. We cannot wait for you to see them!

We're not going anywhere. We're still here. We will still be scheduling Stranger Games, as well as rotating through Dice seasons and events. I think we're even gonna start streaming some Armello again. Though this is absolutely the end of the road for content and features for Armello.

We're incredibly proud of what the game has become from our humble aspirations over 11 years ago. We set out to answer the question: What does it mean to bring a tabletop adventure to life?

I can faithfully say I feel we know the answer to that question now. And we have many of you to thank for helping us figure it out.

We may not have pleased everyone along the way, or made the perfect game, but we're pretty proud of what we've all achieved together. So if you've enjoyed our game over the past seven years, how far its come, and everything we've put into it, a positive Steam review is always welcome.

Thank you for being here with us. Whether since the Kickstarter, or last week's Summer Sale. Thanks for adventuring out into the wyld of Armello, for Armello.

See you in-game! I know I'll be questing for the throne over the weekend.


<3 Trent & the entire LoG Squad.

PS. For anyone interested, you won't have to wait long to hear about these new games. Stay tuned.