Hey everyone! On June 18th at 12pm EST we will be hosting an hour-long Q&A session in our official Discord server. Everyone is invited to join, and we'll do our best to answer as many questions about the game as we can!
We look forward to seeing you there!
The Iron Oath - Developer Livestream!
Play the demo!
From June 16-22 you can check out a free demo of The Iron Oath!
Watch the live stream
Join us at 6pm EST where we will be livestreaming a playthrough of the demo on our steam page. So if you're unsure of what the game is about, or just want to watch someone else play it, be sure to tune in!
Join our Community:
Later in the week we will be hosting a developer Q&A on our official Discord so we welcome everyone to join our server!
The Iron Oath in IGN's Summer of Gaming
Hey everyone! Our next development update will be coming next week, but for now we wanted to let you all know that we have a new trailer, gameplay video and interview appearing on the IGN Summer of Gaming stream. Be sure to watch the livestream today at 11:30am PST on:
In addition to the update next week, we'll also be participating in Steam's Summer Game Festival from the 16th to 22nd where our PAX East demo will be available to the public for the duration of the event! We hope you enjoy today's new reveals, and we'll see you next week :)
Humble Partnership & PAX East Recap
Hey everyone! We hope you're all doing well and staying safe during these uncertain times. We have a couple things on the menu for this month's update, and first up is a very special announcement that we can finally reveal: our partnership with Humble Bundle!
We've had to keep it under wraps for a while, but we've been working with them as our our publisher for a little over a year now and it's been a great relationship thus far. It's certainly made development easier and less stressful, and they've been super supportive every step of the way. We'll also have more news to announce as the result of our partnership down the line!
To go along with this announcement, Humble has just launched a new video series for showcasing their upcoming games catalog called the Humble Brag. You can check it out here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0QRDcn_-4k
PAX East Recap
At the end of February we attended PAX East with a new build of The Iron Oath. This was our first time attending a PAX event in any capacity, and we were pretty overwhelmed by the size of it! We participated in DreamHack Austin back in 2018 with an early build of the game, which helped give us some booth experience, but PAX East is an entirely different animal and was quite a lot of work for just the two of us. That being said, we managed just fine aside from some sore feet ;)
Over the course of 4 full days we ended up handing out about 800-900 postcards, and our 3-station booth was fully occupied 95% of the time (probably had around 200 players). It was very encouraging for us to see so many enjoy the game, and be genuinely excited and interested in talking to us about the design and features it has to offer.
We were pretty nervous about the difficulty level of the demo, but it fortunately ended up being just right. Experienced tactical RPG players were able to clear it by utilizing familiar techniques, and those who were less experienced generally found success as well so long as they took their time to read and plan things out. We didn't keep exact statistics, but something like an 85% success rate seems likely. We were also very happy to see that the vast majority of players who sat down tended to play to completion (or their death haha) despite the demo being a somewhat lengthy 30 minutes. We also came away with a few nice suggestions which is always one benefit of an event like this, but for the most part it seemed like we had a lot of quality of life things covered already :)
As mentioned in the last update, we were fortunate enough to be selected by the Indie MEGABOOTH and we can't thank them enough for letting us take part with so many other great devs. It was a terrific experience and we met a lot of great people(shout out to our booth neighbors Warhammer Underworlds Online & Stronghold: Warlords - be sure to check them out!). Hopefully we'll be back for future events :)
Our next update will go in-depth about some new changes we've made to the Dungeon Exploration system which was first revealed at PAX. To stay up to date in the meantime, be sure to join our Discord server if you haven't yet. Everyone is welcome to join and we'd love to have you be a part of our community :)
We've had to sit on this news for the past few months, but now we're finally able to let you know that The Iron Oath will be at PAX East from February 27 to March 1. We welcome you to stop by the Indie MegaBooth and try out the game! We have some new features that will be on display and we're excited to see everyone's reaction.
We'll be joining a bunch of other awesome developers in the Indie MegaBooth. Our booth is #23055, you can see where we're situated here on the floorplan:
In other news, we have just opened up our community Discord to the public, so we welcome everyone to join the server and invite your friends as well: https://discord.gg/HC4AKaA
Following PAX we plan to start posting regular devlogs here on Steam so keep an eye out for that too! Thanks for reading and for your support, and we hope to see you in Boston!
