State of Development Update Blog Post - June 2016

I was so excited to see this that I quickly clicked the "like" button only to find out it was the "report" button!

EDIT: Wow I read it. I don't know what to say.

Cool! Though I have a worry: The new "small" game is really seems to be a big game. First you say "A brutal shooter", then you say "dynamic cover creation", then you say "entirely moddable", all very big features! It seems to me like "oh I'll it isn't too big I'll make this in a few days" and then turns out to be way bigger then you thought(this happened to me a lot).

Very excited for the shooter, and still excited for the development of SoA. Would love to contribute in some small ways, i.e. in ideas, making maps, blah blah like now with SoA.

Slightly off-topic: Also would love to see the MakingGamesWithBen episodes, I think I forgot everything, too bad I don't know where I am and my codebase is different, maaaannnn I wish I'd known git that time.

Wow, really interesting stuff! This isn't what I expected SoA to become, but hey, this new direction sounds real neat and I can't wait to see where it takes us.

Quick question: are these games going to take place in the SoA universe, or totally different? Or could it be both?

Quite an interesting read, and I'm sure developing this smaller game will help you as a team gain the experience you need to realize the final vision for SoA, while getting a tangible result in the short term which will be encouraging for developers and players alike.

Will this new, smaller game be working off the same engine/codebase as SoA itself? Or are the two disconnected and does code have to be migrated over if you want to use something in both places?

If it's the former, this sounds quite a bit like the star citizen model of development where they started with Arena Commander and slowly work up towards adding more content and different ways to play, leading up to the full realization of the game they wanted to make at the end. If the codebases are integrated, what is the likelihood of releasing new SoA builds which have these features that are being added for the shooter game, to be used in a pure sandbox type of environment?

These wouldn't have to receive any polish, merely allow players to utilize these features as-is, even if they have to add LUA code themselves to harness it. For example the arena building features being added for the shooter game leading to a new SoA build where voxel building is again possible even though the terrain generation is in an unfinished state.

Either way I wish you and the team all the best in the new direction you've taken.

Got to say, I'm excited to see how this ends up working out. I also thought of the Star Citizen model of development when I read the blog post. Also, in reference to the dynamic cover with voxels, really reminds me of Ace of Spades (before Jagex bought it, that is to say).

Anyway, can't wait to get my hands on the arena shooter. Going to have to get some of my friends to try it with me.

So true,who the heack made AoS paid?
Anyway, i love your idea of making small games. Pretty clever,cuz u don`t want to destroy everything you made.(Well like with Ace of Spades)

good to hear that you have a clear road-map. more experiences means that you guys will make better games. looking forward in trying out the arena game.

I'm happy to see that the team will be back to developing and specifically that it will be a Vorb based game which excites me further, my concern does lie in the possibility that SoA will be left behind in order for some other project to take the main focus, however I do trust that the team will continue to create fun and enjoyable games.
My one question is what does this mean for the Testers? Will we be included in the process of development for these new smaller games? Or will our position remain as strictly SoA testing?

Apart from those few concerns I do wish everyone luck! Especially with the unforeseen silence that had occurred in the past, I am indeed happy to see that everyone will be back to working together for another round of Vorb-based development.

Sweet, I look forward to hearing the results as I do look forward to contributing to development as much as I can in my position.

Well, glad to see that it's been worth the wait.

You totally need awesome company name!(Thread about this is locked,and i`m not sure why)

I hope we'll have something in our hands to play by the end of the summer if those projects go well maybe you could think about releasing them on Steam Greenlight, it could be a good way to recruit new fellow Andromeders and gain some more attention on the main project.

Regrowth Studios is hard to pronounce (atleast for me). but it`s cool!