We are currently working on addressing the resolution issue that a few people have. While we are working to add a setting in-game for it, we do have a way for you to change it manually.
To change the resolution manually:
Right-click "Lost Technology" in your game library, choose "properties" and view the game's local files.
Change the executable file name to: "LostTechnology@s 1600 1200"
This will change the resolution of the game to 1600*1200
Thank you for your patience and your love for the game so far. Please feel free to post any comments or concerns in the forums!
For questions, feel free to ask in our FAQ section.
The game has launched with three of the factions fully translated.
Please note that all the factions are available to play, however they won't have any story or events.
About Lost Technology
Lost Technology is a real-time-strategy (RTS) siege game.The game is centred around three major phases:
Phase One: Turn-Based War Strategy Recruit units, and build your army. Find those who will fight for you, command their movements and formation to smoothly prepare to assault your enemy’s territories, or being diplomacy to build peaceful and prosperous relations.
Phase Two: Real-Time Battle Co-ordinate your army and navigate them through the battle field. With a variety of terrains, attacks and formations, utilize them all to overpower and defeat your enemy.
Phase Three: Story Event Play through scenarios, each triggered by special events within the game. Your choices and interactions here will affect your strategy and progression.
You must take control of all territories to complete the game.
Comments from the Developer
CB-SXF6:
We’ve finally managed to make our way up to release.
We’ve come quite a long way in the two-plus years since PLAYISM first reached out to us on March 16th, 2015.
Lost Technology is an appropriation of a game program called Vahrenturga.
Vahrenturga was the winner of the 2009 game contest held by the major Japanese free game posting site Freem!, and boasts over 200,000 downloads.
I became obsessed with this game and spent an immeasurable amount of time playing it before subsequently becoming obsessed with creating mods, and then finally using the game system to create my own original title.
That title is Lost Technology.
Therefore, this program wasn’t created by our team, and the cooperation of the creator of the original game “Nanaashi”, was absolutely necessary for us to be able to release Lost Technology overseas.
Nanaashi was extremely happy to hear about our plans for an English version, and I myself was a huge fan of Vahrenturga, so I did everything in my power to ensure that this game could be released.
In Japanese, kanji characters can be utilized to shorten all sorts of texts, but that’s not possible in English.
There are some parts in which the text simply could not be made shorter.
Due to this, we often had issues with the game screen requiring tweaking in order to keep all of the necessary text visible and in place. Each time this occurred, Nanaashi helped immensely by accepting our requests for the required tweaks and adjustments. Furthermore, we also had some very serious problems with differences in non-Japanese OS text encoding, and these problems became so serious at one point that we actually came close to giving up on the release altogether.
However, Nanaashi was somehow able to figure out and solve the source of these problems, allowing us to finally bring the game to release. I honestly cannot thank Nanaashi enough.
To all of our overseas players who enjoy Lost Technology:
I would be enthralled if all of you would check out and play Vahrenturga as well since it's game program can be used freely, so as long as you have the various materials in place, you, too, can make your very own original strategy game on the same game system.
Nanaashi (Vahrenturga Developer):
Congratulations on the release of the English version of Lost Technology.
As the creator of the original, I am truly honored to have Vahrenturga used as the base system for this expansive strategy-simulation title featuring beautiful illustrations, music, and voice work.
Thank you very much.
Lost Technology is 10% off in it's launch sale, so grab it now!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/420520/Lost_Technology/
Lost Technology Release Date - August 9th!
Lost Technology will be releasing August 9th!
Set in a world where advanced technology has been lost due to a constant war between the 12 different factions. Choose your side, and fight on for justice, peace or personal desires to conquer and unite the continent under your rule. This country-oriented strategy RTS is coming soon!
Add it to your wishlist now to be notified upon its release!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/420520/Lost_Technology/
Important Information
This is a game has a large amount of story text for each playable faction. Ideally we would like to provide fully localized versions for each respective faction, however, the size and scale of the game meant that a full localization would be extremely difficult to provide all at once, and so only the three factions known as the Reinald Empire, Makan, and Álfheim are included in the English release.
It is possible to start with any of the other playable factions, but story events will not occur and only the simulation part of the game may be played.
The Japanese version still contains the currently available free version, all of the basic functions without changes, and all factions are included in full right off the bat. However, it will be distributed as a paid title due to adjustments made specifically for Steam and the addition of trading cards, etc.
We currently plan to look carefully at how this title sells (including sales within Japan) and will proceed with the localization of the remaining factions in accordance with the sales numbers. The remaining factions are set to be distributed as additional DLC in the future. Please stay tuned for more news regarding further details.
Lost Technology Coming Soon Page!
After all this time, we are finally happy to announce that Lost Technology's coming soon page is now up on Steam! Be sure to add it to your wishlists!!
Lost Technology is a simulation game in which over 100 characters comprising a total of 12 different factions battle to conquer each other’s territories. The faction chosen at the beginning will determine the conversations and events that occur throughout the game between the player and the other factions.
This war-based simulation game features three different phases of play.
Phase One: Turn-Based War Strategy
Phase Two: Real-Time Battle
Phase Three: Story Event
Choose your faction, and conquer the land through strategic battles and diplomatic advances.
Important Information
This is a game has a large amount of story text for each playable faction. Ideally we would like to provide fully localized versions for each respective faction, however, the size and scale of the game meant that a full localization would be extremely difficult to provide all at once, and so only the three factions known as the Reinald Empire, Makan, and Álfheim are included in the English release.
It is possible to start with any of the other playable factions, but story events will not occur and only the simulation part of the game may be played.
The Japanese version still contains the currently available free version, all of the basic functions without changes, and all factions are included in full right off the bat. However, it will be distributed as a paid title due to adjustments made specifically for Steam and the addition of trading cards, etc.
We currently plan to look carefully at how this title sells (including sales within Japan) and will proceed with the localization of the remaining factions in accordance with the sales numbers. The remaining factions are set to be distributed as additional DLC in the future. Please stay tuned for more news regarding further details.
Stay tuned for more updates coming soon, and help support Lost Technology to help us bring the full game worldwide.
