We have some exciting news to share! Diluvian Winds is now part of Simfest, a great Steam festival celebrating all things related to simulation games.
During Simfest, you'll have the opportunity to explore the latest and most thrilling simulation titles. And here's the best part: From today until July 24th, 2023 at 10 am PDT, you can enjoy a fantastic 20% discount on Diluvian Winds!
That's not all! We're also thrilled to announce the game's first update. We've added new settings and difficulties to the game modes (Story, Sandbox, and Scoring). Plus, we've introduced a photo mode so you can easily share beautiful screenshots with your friends!
Make sure to check out the full patchnote for all the details:
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-New sandbox settings -New scoring and story difficulties (easy and hard) -A new photo mode -Quality of life improvements -Bug fixes and balancing
/!\ KNOWN BUGS /!\
-Loading an old save in story mode (saved before update 0.6.0) may result in a soft lock (the query you need to perform in order to progress is not present) -Localization is not complete for some languages
GAME MODES
We've added a seed system for the scoring and sandbox game modes. It allows you to have the same start using the same seed and the same parameters when launching a game.
Story Two new difficulty modes: Easy and Hard.
Sandbox -New parameters for customizing a game -Disaster on/off -Disaster phase frequency -Intervals between disasters -Rainbow weather duration -Quantity of plans obtained -Starting prototype points -Fire weather penalty -Morale weather penalty -Quantity of starting resources -Overheating gauge size -Number of restarts in the caravan
Scoring (BETA) -Two new difficulty modes: Easy and Hard
PHOTO MODE
We've also added a photo mode. Take your best in-game photos and share them with your friend! It includes the following settings: -Staging -Zoom level -Show / Hide room interiors -Lighthouse light orientation -Display settings -Brightness -Contrast -Saturation -Filters -Frames & Decorations -Thumbnail Size / Intensity -Frames -Fancy & Decorations -Logo -Caption
CHANGES AND BUG FIXES
Story mode -The "Build a Mine" objective validates correctly if a mine exists before unlocking it. -Waves appear correctly when continuing a game after completing Chapter 4
Sandbox Mode -Sandbox Mode is now permanently unlocked
Scoring Mode -Scoring Mode is now permanently unlocked
Rooms -Addition of new room tier icons -Tooltip added to icons when rooms are about to suffer disaster damage. -Corrected visual overlay issues during room reinforcement -Traveler lighting no longer depends on the position in the room
Meals -Tooltips added to symbols in the recipe book
Fire -Low fire feedback added to the game interface -New color gradient for fire gauge -Fire level added to HUD
Net -Sending someone to the net no longer crashes the game -Added net levels to unify net upgrades -Net information added to HUD
Traits -Added : -Fish expert -Insect Connoisseur -Veggie Fan
Interface -The main menu music stops correctly when starting a game -Added validation screen to warn of permanent changes
Options -New resolutions added -2560 x 1440 -1280 x 720 -1366 x 768 -1536 x 864 -Added option to show/hide room interiors -Alignment of visual elements
Weather -More detailed disaster tooltips -New icons for Catastrophe weather
Save -Added save difficulty level to the screen -Empty save no longer appear randomly -Autosave icon added to save the tutorial box
Accessibility -Added a screen containing all tutorial boxes -Added option to enable/disable lettering -Added option to adjust screen shake intensity
Localization -Correction of numerous typos in various languages -Portuguese (BR): {morale} tag correctly replaced by its in-game value
Traits -Fish Expert When the meal contains Fish: Moral +3 -NEW Insect Connoisseur When the meal contains Insects: Moral +3 -NEW Veggie Fan When the meal contains Vegetables: Moral +3
Room reinforcement Rooms now have a unified reinforcement cost depending on their size Size 1 (1x1) -Tier 1 Reinforcement Lvl 1 -> 5 Wood Reinforcement Lvl 2 -> 5 Metal -Tier 2 Reinforcement Lvl 1 -> 5 Metal Reinforcement Lvl 2 -> 10 Metal -Tier 3 Reinforcement Lvl 1 -> 10 Metal Reinforcement Lvl 2 -> 15 Metal -Lodgement Reinforcement Lvl 1 -> 10 Wood Reinforcement Lvl 2 -> 10 Metal
Taille 2 (1x2 or 2x1) -Tier 1 Reinforcement Lvl 1 -> 15 Wood Reinforcement Lvl 2 -> 10 Metal -Tier 2 Reinforcement Lvl 1 -> 10 Metal Reinforcement Lvl 2 -> 15 Metal -Tier 3 Reinforcement Lvl 1 -> 15 Metal Reinforcement Lvl 2 -> 20 Metal
Meteos -Reduced the fire loss of all weathers by 1 to allow the addition of the corresponding difficulty setting.
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Simfest is a Steam festival co-hosted by Auroch Digital and Stray Fawn Studio. This year's event, Simfest 2023, is the second edition following the success of Simfest: Hobby Edition in 2022.
Join Diluvian Winds, Terraformers, and many other incredible simulation games at Simfest 2023. We can't wait to see you there!
We're thrilled to bring you the latest updates and new content for Diluvian Winds! Check out our roadmap, which outlines new updates, new features and upcoming optimizations.
Find out more below!
Thank you for your feedback, we hope you enjoy the additional content and if you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to join our Discord server! https://discord.gg/v4rnPdcZ
Once again, thank you so much for your feedback and continous support! We really hope you will have an amazing time playing Diluvian Winds. ♥ Also, stay tuned as we'll share our roadmap with you very soon, so you'll learn more about what we've planned in terms of content thoughout the early access.
Daily runs (beta): score system and limited time, but no run modifiers
Of course, we've planned more content during early access and we can't wait to show you more through our roadmap. Stay tuned for that! 👀
PRICING:
Diluvian Winds will be priced at $17,99 / €17,99 / £15,99 with a 10% launch discount for a week. We may slightly increase this pricing after early access.
Until launch, feel free to join us on our Discord server if you have any questions for us!
We can't wait for you to play Diluvian Winds and get your feedback!
Happy Chinese New Year!
Hi everyone,
As you may know, the year of Rabbit is right on the way! We'd like to send our best regards and wishes to everyone in China and Asia.
Looking back on the past year, happy to see the prologue has received such great responses, and we're working hard now hoping to deliver you the game at its best.
Diluvian Winds is expected to come out this year. Please stay tuned! We can't wait to share more info with you.
Again, Happy New Year to everyone!
Diluvian Winds is part of WePlay 2022 Expo!
We're happy to announce Diluvian Winds is part of the WePlay Online Games Week, and we'll also bring it to the later WePlay Expo right this weekend in Shanghai!
Go check some other amazing indie titles on Steam right now! https://store.steampowered.com/sale/WePlay2022
Greetings travelers We are the Alambik Studio team. We are happy to meet you again for this second devlog about Diluvian Winds!
- A new forecast
Today, we will describe a core element of the game: weather and natural disasters. Throughout your experience, weather influences everything in the game and hinders progress. Even if the weather looks like an obstacle, being adaptive lets you carry through your plans and get the most out of any situations.
And here's the trick: each weather effect offers a unique challenge: foggy weather affects the morale of your travelers while a bright shiny sun affects resources production. It is also the perfect opportunity for us to offer immersive visual and sound design related to the different day's phases.
- Brace yourselves
Weather is a core mechanic, and natural disasters are the equal of bosses. During the Prologue, you encountered a giant wave that is testing your base. Get ready for the next disasters as they will join the party during the development of the game.
- You sent your feedback, we listened!
We dived into reworking how weather disasters would appear. In the previous version, they would appear after a challenging weather creating unfair difficulty spikes, which could be overwhelming at the time.
With the new system, we have now splitted weather effects from natural disasters to allow more flexibility and control over randomness. Also, it opens a good development angle towards the behavior of weather as you progress through a run, which provides a more appropriate challenge throughout the game.
Thank you for the warm comments and feedback you submitted after playing the Prologue. Know that we are currently working on the Early Access which is planned for early next year! We are so happy to share our work and look forward to your feedback! If you want to follow our game’s development and support us, you can always follow us on social media.
What you can do to support us: - Wishlist the game on Steam! - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/alambikstudio
As Diluvian Winds Prologue is a free version of the complete game which will launch in the next few months, any feedback is greatly appreciated so we can improve both the Prologue and the full game.
To give your feedback, ask your questions or simply say hi, join us on this brand new Discord server. We can't wait to see you all there!
Hope you will enjoy our game!
Cheers, -Alambik Studio & Goblinz Publishing
Prologue out soon & Devlog #1
Hi everyone,
We are so glad to announce we have a release date for Diluvian Winds Prologue! 🎉
The free version of our upcoming building and management game Diluvian Winds will launch on September 21st.
To celebrate this announcement, we have decided to make a first devlog so you can learn more about the game. Enjoy your reading below!
Welcome to our very first devlog, where we are going to talk about the travelers who live in the world of Diluvian Winds. In our game, you will welcome different wanderers in a hamlet tied to a lighthouse that will help you manage your base.
It was very important for us to offer diverse and endearing characters through several species with a different version of clothing and colors for each one of them - which is also very useful for character identification.
To mark the idea around the characters traveling the world of Diluvian Winds, we decided that the characters would be able to frequently come and leave the hamlet. It allows the player to change from an inhabitant to another and adapt depending on the needs.
In exchange for shelter in the hamlet, the Travelers help the Lighthouse Keeper! Characters have different personal traits which allow them to do different actions for resource production. For example, Beavers are experts in woodworking and have diverse bonuses tied to wood production!
What’s next?
Diluvian Winds was playable during Gamescom 2022, at Goblinz Publishing booth, and we wanted to thank you for the warm feedback you gave us. But don’t worry, the prologue is coming on September 21th so you can all enjoy Diluvian Winds for real!
We are so happy to share our work and we are looking forward to your feedback! If you want to follow our game’s development and support us, you can always follow us on social media.
