V1.0 OF RPG TYCOON WILL OFFICIALLY LAUNCH NEXT WEEK
I am incredibly happy to officially announce that RPG Tycoon will launch out of Early Access next week with the Version 1.0 build of the game going live on Steam at 10am on Friday 12th February for the final release price of £6.99. I’m also extremely excited to confirm that the entire soundtrack will be available and on sale alongside the game at launch for £3.99! They’ll also both be bundled for anyone that wants them together for £8.99 when the game launches!
There’s over 120 new features and improvements coming to the game at launch. Including heavily requested support for language modding. All of the game strings are now extracted and sitting in the /data/ folder strings.xml – I’ve updated the fontsheets to include all Latin-based characters, so languages such as German, French and Spanish should be supported by the game renderer for any language mods. On that topic, the game also comes with a new quest editor now so that you can write, export and share new quests without even leaving the game!
As usual, I’ve put together a little release video that’ll show off tonnes of the new improvements and features you can expect from the game.
Part Two will arrive tomorrow, so be sure to subscribe if you want to see more!
If you’re a member of the Press/YouTuber/Reviewer and would like to request a Steam review code for the launch build of the game please contact Ben or Anita over at IndigoPearl.
Support The Release
If you already own the game and want to be super awesome. We’re trying to make as much noise about release as possible. So please consider joining the Thunderclap (it’s as simple as a couple of clicks) – it will simply send a one-time message out to your followers/friends next week linking to the store page when the game goes live. We only need 100 people to sign up for it to go live, but obviously as many people as possible will spread the word further. So if you like the game and want to support the release I’d hugely appreciate the support. Just head to https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/37286-rpg-tycoon-v1-0-launch and click support! If not, no worries!
What comes next?
Well, just because we’re shipping the game doesn’t mean it’s fully complete, are games ever truly complete any more? If games like Age of Empires are receiving new content years after release, you can probably guess the answer to that. The plan, as it stands, is to continue supporting RPG Tycoon post-launch with extra content patches such as new quests, buildings, decorations etc. to expand the experience even further. However, since this has been a two year process of constant development and updates for me, I hope you understand that I may slow it down a little and take a breather every once in a while so updates won’t be as frequent as Early Access. However, with extendible mod support, this hopefully shouldn’t be a problem as it’s easy to create new content and share it with other players! I’ll likely add more support for modding other data in-game if this is popular.
If you’re interested in extra content, patches or further games or projects in the future you can also sign up to the mailing list over on the blog to be notified of anything new if/when it happens.
Until then, thank you so much for all of your support. This has been an absolutely huge project for me and I’m immensely proud of it and everyone that’s helped get the game to where it is today. I truly couldn’t have done this without you all. Thank you.
See you next week,
Matt