During the last week there was a lot of stuff to do. The crowdfunding is over and we had a lot of organizational stuff to do. Nevertheless, we were able to continue development and here are some of the things we did:

• Day & Night: Enhanced light and shadow on the planet. When looking onto the day side of the planet the night side seems almost black. When turning the planet the night side becomes lighter to ensure that everything is well recognizable.

Day on Lorian

Night

• Created the first version of the new research menu in the game. Tools like “harvest forest” or “destruct buildings” will no longer be automatically made available. Instead you will be able to unlock the tools you want to have with the stars you receive from achieving big mission goals.

  

• Did a LOT of work on the new mission and small gameplay fixes that became obvious when playing on such a big planet like Lorian is.

Perk Fulfillment

• Invited all crowdfunding supporters to our forums at forum.imagineearth.info
• Created and assigned forum badges to our supporters. Here is a short list of all ranks.

We have started to distribute the wallpaper and font packs for our crowdfunders and today the steam keys for the early access version have been shipped!

Important: You won’t be able to activate Imagine Earth with this key right now. The Early Access version will be made available May 20th!

Here is a short FAQ that explains how to use the steam key.

Some Perks Left

There are still some city names, slots for the Time Trial Top 3 and almost all slots of the Mission and Time Trial Top 10 left. Additionally we had some requests by people who missed the crowdfunding. This is why we decided to continue to sell these things on our own site. There is one thing, though, that we are not going to sell anymore: Having your name in the credits will stay a crowdfunding exclusive thank-you.

We are currently preparing everything and will let you know when the “store” is available.

Have a great week and join the discussion in our forums.

Dear Supporters,

the last 3 days of our crowdfunding campaign have begun. It was an interesting time so far and we learned a lot how to make public relations and propose a good idea better. As we decided to run the whole thing all by ourselfs we also learned which things work and which do not work to create attention.

Good to have you on board now. As we still hope some more might enter the club, we are excited to develop things further with an exclusive crowd of people that do care about the emergence of thisc concept and the latest changes. As you might have red we plan to have weekly newsletters about what’s going on. And we have made a lot changes over the time of funding already. I was happy when we finally got back to work after the first third of the campaign to finish the next planet and it’s mission in time…

To visualize what a big bang the next episode and the – 4 times bigger than the last – planet will be I just made an appropriately large graphic. Please have a look, share it on your accounts or websites as you wish and why not make some noice again for the last 70 hours of our campaign?!

Any Opinions about this so far? Feel free to leave us some coment…

Here is some graphics stuff that we have been working on lately.

The blueish building in the middle-left is a new city building called “Research District”. It will reduce the energy consumption of nearby buildings. Continue reading →

This is update #2 for our crowdfunding on IndieGoGo:

Over 20% funded! Thanks to all of our early backers!

Maybe you already asked yourself how we intend to finish Imagine Earth with only 10.000$ ? Good question. Here comes the answer:

In addition to the crowdfunding we will receive a funding, paying up to 50% of the development cost. This means that every dollar we receive from you will be doubled in the end!

The funding is given us by Nordmedia, the Cultural Media Fund of Lower-Saxony and Bremen. They fund promising and cultural valuable media projects without influencing the development and creative process (like many publishers do).

Continue reading →

We have short articles and some video coverage…

• PC Games
• alphabetagamer.com
• dadsgamingaddiction.com

First of all nice to havesome guys on board at our indiegogo campaign. After having a calm and chilled start with our campaign yesterday, there are a few reactions coming up already. In the end it will be all about press coverage I guess.  Let’s see what a general announcement of the campaign can do..
Maybe we can encourage you to make some noise by sharing and liking it on the usual platforms? Thanks a lot for your interest in this exceptional game production anyways.

www.shakespub.net
Without saying too much this guy concentrates on a fact that was maybe not pointed out enough! It’s simply fun to build up your own world.

vgnaut.com
had an article covering all the basics

Bagel
made a youtube review. In which he discovered that even the tutorial world could be an intersting 30 minutes challenge!

indiecrowd.de
wrote a long and detailed german story about it.

A lot of time has passed since we started the development of our planetary colonization game Imagine Earth. We are happy to announce that we just startet the crowdfunding campaign on IndieGoGo.com and are offering the brand new demo version on Steam right now!

The crowdfunding will give you the opportunity to get early access to the game and a lot of other perks.

Click here to have a look at our crowdfunding and play the demo

Jooki & Martin

PS: The first 100 supporters will earn a special badge for the Imagine Earth forums and will stand out in an extra section of the game credits as “Space Pioneers”!

Seit wir den Intel Level Up Award gewonnen haben, können wir die Demo von Imagine Earth auf Steam präsentieren. Mit dem Funding wollen wir zudem Leute finden, die an der Entstehung dieser außergewöhnlichen Simulation teilhaben wollen.

Umso so glücklicher sind wir, unseren Fundern seit kurzem auch Early Access auf Steam anbieten zu können. Ihr könnt direkt dort weiterspielen, wo die Demo endet, mit Scores und Errungenschaften. Zusätzlich wird nachdem Funding ein neuer Spielmodus freigeschaltet und der nächste Planet. Zukünftig wird episodische Updates aller fertiggestellten Missionen und Features geben…

Did you know? We created a family of 8 fantastic fonts for the game.

In the upcoming crowdfunding campaign for Imagine Earth you can get the whole futuristic font pack as .ttf and .otf for unrestricted personal & commercial use.

Just for 5$ in addition to the Early Access version. That’s almost 90% off from the official myfonts.com price!

We have just released the Imagine Earth demo. It contains the full mission “Prolog:Tuto” and the mission “Episode I: Joma” until week 800.

If you experience any problems let us know (support@imagineearth.info) and please tell us on Facebook if you like the game.

Stay tuned for the crowdfunding in mid-March!

Download and play the Imagine Earth demo.