First of all, we have got lots of supportive comments from you to the despatch 1. Thank you very much to everyone for the support! We do appreciate that.
In this despatch I will tell you more about how everything started for our team on February 24.
A couple of weeks ago I gave a talk about how our team coped with all the difficulties on a charity event - Games Gathering: Gamedev under bombs. https://ggconference.com/en/conference/games-gathering-gamedev-under-bombs/
You can watch the recording following the link below:
We will keep you updated on how our work progresses and the situation in Ukraine in the next despatches.
With best regards from Kyiv
Oleksandr and the Starni Games team
War in Ukraine - despatch 1
Hello guys! It has been almost 2 months since we last posted anything here. The reason is that on February 24 Russian Army invaded Ukraine. As some of you may know, our team is located in Kyiv - the capital of Ukraine. Russian troops have been stopped just some 7 km from the city. There has been a number of missile strikes and artillery attacks against the city throughout the last 52 days.
I will tell you more about how the war started for our team and how we coped with it in the next despatches. For now, I would like to briefly summarize the last two months for you.
The team was not able to work for around the first 10 days of the war. Then we started to gradually restore our operations. Paying salaries on time was our number one priority that we managed to do - thankfully the banking system of Ukraine works well enough (even though it has certain wartime restrictions that are annoying but both necessary and understandable).
Since March 7 we are working remotely, even if not at 100% of our usual capacity. We have been gradually restoring our operations to full strength since then. We will have to delay all projects that we are working on but that delay most likely would not be a major one. The key thing is that we keep working and doing our best efforts to finish our projects as soon as possible without diminishing their quality.
I am sorry for the lack of communication with the community, but we were very busy organizing and maintaining our work in difficult wartime conditions. So, now I finally found some free time to reach out to you guys and update you on the situation. We decided that work is our number one priority and communication will be done when we are capable of running production as planned. Right now things have leveled out to some extent, so we will be communicating with you more often.
Key thing is that everyone on the team is alive and safe right now (to the extent one can be safe under daily strategic missile strikes).
I will tell you more in the next despatches.
With best regards from Kyiv
Oleksandr and the Starni Games team
Listen to the Säkkijarven Polkka tack from the Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty
Hello, guys!
Today, we reveal Säkkijärven polkka - the second historical track from the Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty soundtrack, recorded by Daraba studio. Säkkijärven polkka is a well-known Finnish folk tune that got new life and meaning during the dramatic events of World War II. It got the lyrics sometimes sung with the tune, which stated that while Säkkijärvi itself might have been lost (ceded to the Soviet Union in 1940), the Finns at least still had the polka.
Listen to the "Säkkijärven polkka" track on our YouTube channel: [previewyoutube="qa8BnE0QBU4;full"]
During the Continuation War, the Finnish Army discovered that the retreating Soviets had scattered radio-controlled mines throughout the re-captured city of Viipuri. These mines were set off when a three-note chord was played on the frequency the radio was tuned to. In order to thwart the enemy's goal, Fins started transmitting the Säkkijärvi polka, so that the frequency of the triads used by the enemy was interfered with to the point that the mines were completely unusable.
The Polka surely bolstered the troops' morale during the hardships of the protracted war.
Thus, this boisterous folk tune became the war-time song and is highly regarded to this day.
If you want to get access to the whole Strategic Mind series soundtrack with all the high-quality recordings - feel free to check out our Franchise soundtrack on Steam:
Today we want to share with you some new community-made screenshots from the Strategic Mind series! Check them out and have a peaceful weekend! 🖤
To share great moments from your own playthrough - add them to our community hubs or send them to our Twitter or Discord server. We will post regular news reports with the best ones.
