- Post Mortem - 6 December 2023
Qorena has went through a lot of trial and error in the span of 4 years (+1 year of post-game support). From its original debut in 2018, to it's final release in 2022, and post-release support this year in 2023. Now, I finally announce my post-mortem for this game. Progress Timeline 2018 Maze Qore Arena released commercially into early access on Itch - to an audience of crickets. The game has later switched to a non-commercial early access model. 2019 The multi-player build begins development. Single player build is updated and improved. 2020 The game releases in early access on Steam, for free - to an audience of crickets. Multi-player build is completed and released via the Version 0.5 update. Single player build is further improved. 2021 Multi-player build is further improved. Plans for a game overhaul were announced. www.youtube.com/embed/3CgrizvYLu8?si=cHxosE_eMqJCObUF www.youtube.…
- Qorena available for Free on SHMUP Fest! - 26 September 2023
Qorena is currently available for FREE even after SHMUP Fest! 5 action-packed campaign missions. More than a dozen survival levels. Upgrades that turn your classic pea-shooters into powerful obliterators! Various enemies to slay and pray! Customize your mannequin! We will also be hosting playthroughs of the game on YouTube throughout this week! Subscribe to our YouTube channel and keep an eye on this playlist for updates. Full Playlist Here LOOKING FOR PLAYERS? Join our Discord server and pair up with other players for a match. We hope you will enjoy playing Qorena! Bring friends and enter the arena!
- Qorena Update - Version 0.9.3 - 27 July 2023
Last update, we released the Campaign Update, introducing the new game mode for mission scenario action with friends and/or bots. Now we brought 4 more missions into the fray! Aquamarine - Infiltrate the docks to steal plans for an experimental submarine. Scorch - Storm the beach, fight your way through an airfield, and liberate a suburban village. Valheim - March through a cold blizzard, destroy artillery, find an obscure base, and steal docs from a winter village town. Veritas - Storm through a moving train (be it from floor or top), slaughter your way to the engine room to hijack the train. Slog through a wet jungle marsh and rescue pinned down allies. Assault a castle with your comrades. IMPROVEMENTS: Campaign: 4 new missions. Grenade perk icon now changes according to the perk collected. The Customizer now has background music and ambiance. The Score Streaker has been improved, all…
- The Honest Truth About The Current State of Qorena - 23 June 2023
TIME FOR THE TRUTH: We will be bluntly honest. There was a sale planned in the Fall of this year for the SHMUP Fest, however due to recent turn of events regarding Evil Epic Games, that will not be happening anymore as the game is now free to play - that and we honestly had no more faith that players were willing to buy the game. The purchase of this game is no longer as important as our primary objective to provide an intuitive reason that will convince you to care enough to give this game a chance by playing it and inspiring others to play it with you. All we truly want is to see servers with many players playing the game (preferably in the hundreds). if we can at least 50 concurrent players, then we can consider this game a minimal success. 100 players is a minor success. 500 players is a moderate success. 1K players is a major success. 2K+ players is a phenomenal accomplishment and…
- Qorena Update - Version 0.9.2 - 23 June 2023
The Campaign game mode is finally here with Version 0.9.2! You can now fight against enemy forces in campaign mission packs alone or with bots offline, or with friends and strangers online. For now, only one mission pack exists - Operation Desert Storm. This will change in the future with 4 more mission packs. The level editor will have to arrive later (likely in 0.9.4 earliest). IMPROVEMENTS: Campaign Update - Play a series of mission packs alone or with friends in the new Campaign mode! The map cycle feature now switches to the appropriate game mode to accommodate for the selection accordingly. Cloud storage saves have been updated to save screenshots of your mannequins from the Customizer. COMING SOON: Level Editor - Create your own custom levels for survival mode, or mission packs for campaign mode! ___ We hope you will (at least someday) enjoy playing Qorena more than we ultimately…
- WE ARE DONE WITH EPIC GAMES: ALL Unreal Engine games will become FREE FOREVER. - 31 May 2023
We have made an important announcement regarding all of our products actively being sold on all digital storefronts. Any that use Unreal Engine it are extremely affected. The COMPLETE article can be read here. For those of you who are too busy or too lazy to read a two-page long sermon on what is happening, here is the TL:DR version: We have decided to do what many developers may consider "the unthinkable", or even "the utterly insane". From this day forth, we will begin the process to convert ALL of our projects using any of the Unreal Engines into NON-COMMERCIAL ones or switch engines. ALL games using UE currently on storefronts will become FREE. ALL games using UE we have currently in development that meets or exceeds 50% of progress will also be released for FREE. ALL games using UE we have currently in development that exceeds below 50% of progress will be RESTARTED using a DIFFERE…
- The 2023 Steam Spring Sale is here! - 17 March 2023
The 2022 Steam Winter Sale is here! Qorena is 10% off from now until March 23! Slaughter waves of Imperials with your friends or with bots (offline and online), upgrading on supplies each peacetime wave interval!
- Qorena Update - Version 0.9.1 - 13 March 2023
It has been a while since this game was updated. Important fixes to the game has been applied along with a major graphical revamp. IMPROVEMENTS: The map cycle feature has been fixed completely. You can now add any maps you desire into the cycle and they will be played in the order of top to bottom (and rinse and repeat). You can now play levels in rotating fashion in Instant Action just as you can in online Multiplayer. Initially, you could only play the 1st level from the cycle which would restart that same level after each match. Restore Upgrades on Death finally works. Cloud storage saves are now properly functional for Qorena. The old Maze Qore Arena cloud storage is deprecated from this game. COMING SOON: Campaign Update - Play a series of mission packs alone or with friends in the new Campaign mode! Level Editor - Create your own custom levels for survival mode, or mission packs f…
- The 2022 Steam Winter Sale is here! - 26 December 2022
The 2022 Steam Winter Sale is here! Qorena is 25% off for the rest of this month until January 5th! Slaughter waves of Imperials with your friends or with bots (offline and online), upgrading on supplies each peacetime wave interval!
- Qorena Released out of Early Access! - 7 July 2022
After 4 years, Qorena is finally out of Early Access and onto full release! Those of you who downloaded the game during the EA already got to keep it free. Others will have to buy it now at standard price. NEW FEATURES Improved Spectator Menu Players can now access spectator mode at the pause menu. This will undeploy the player. If you wish to join the fray again, click Play on the spectator panel. Assuming "Allow Late Join" is enabled in settings, the player will deploy instantly, otherwise they will be deployed in the next peacetime interval. Map Cycle List You can now add levels into the map cycle list. This list will also be used to switch to a new map from the Spectator Menu, so add the ones you wish to switch between in your server. Music The game now features sequential music, relative to certain levels. Config Presets You can find this in the game's installation directory >> Con…
- Weekly Qorena Playtest - [5/28/22] - 21 May 2022
Another Qorena Foresight Playtest this weekend! Anyone is welcome to join! To participate, follow the instructions through the Qore World website. If in the event the official server is full, you are encouraged to host a new one and invite friends to join it. We hope you will enjoy the first of the weekly playtest to come. This will be ongoing until version 1.0 release.
- Weekly Qorena Playtest - [5/21/22] - 14 May 2022
Another Qorena Foresight Playtest this weekend! Anyone is welcome to join! To participate, follow the instructions through the Qore World website. If in the event the official server is full, you are encouraged to host a new one and invite friends to join it. We hope you will enjoy the first of the weekly playtest to come. This will be ongoing until version 1.0 release.
- Weekly Qorena Playtest - [5/14/22] - 8 May 2022
Another Qorena Foresight Playtest this weekend! Anyone is welcome to join! To participate, follow the instructions through the Qore World website. If in the event the official server is full, you are encouraged to host a new one and invite friends to join it. We hope you will enjoy the first of the weekly playtest to come. This will be ongoing until version 1.0 release.
- Weekly Qorena Playtest - [5/7/22] - 6 May 2022
Another Qorena Foresight Playtest this weekend! Anyone is welcome to join! To participate, follow the instructions through the Qore World website. If in the event the official server is full, you are encouraged to host a new one and invite friends to join it. We hope you will enjoy the first of the weekly playtest to come. This will be ongoing until version 1.0 release.
- Weekly Qorena Playtest - [4/30/22] - 30 April 2022
On this special day, we are kicking off the first Qorena Foresight Playtest! Anyone is welcome to join! To participate, follow the instructions through the Qore World website. If in the event the official server is full, you are encouraged to host a new one and invite friends to join it. We hope you will enjoy the first of the weekly playtest to come. This will be ongoing until version 1.0 release.
- Nominate Maze Qore Arena for Steam Awards! - 26 November 2021
This game has been out for a full year, improving the game overtime. We truly want to make a fun game that is worth the player's time (however long it takes...), so much that we have made the entire early access free rather than charge money like most developers typically would do with their games (which is also fine). The most important to us is feedback. This will tell us what we are doing right and wrong with the game and how to make it better and more worthwhile. _______________________________ We don't expect for Maze Qore Arena to win this year's Steam Awards, yet it is worth a try. A nomination or Labor of Love while not required, would be really helpful. All we ask from you is to give this game a chance.
- Maze Qore Arena Update & Plans for Overhaul - Version 0.7.0 - 26 November 2021
Greetings! The new 0.7 update for Maze Qore Arena is now available! In this update, we have been hard at work to deliver yet another a new game mode, and a few more new levels! NEW GAME MODE: IDENTITY THEFT: Steal the ID card, escape the area or kill all the other players to win! Player with the fastest completion time wins! IMPROVEMENTS New game mode: Identity Theft. New map: Outdoors - Imperial Base. New map: Outdoors - Deserted Town. Introduced a PS1/PC-classic graphics aesthetic. Improved the AI to perform better with Flag Hustle, and the Riots. KNOWN BUGS Bot AI may still have a few hiccups with Identity Theft. We might work towards fixing it in a patch. MOST IMPORTANT NEWS As this year comes to a close, we've been deciding long and hard with what to do with this game. Despite our efforts, nigh no one seems to care that this game even exists as it has languished for months with no…
- Maze Qore Arena Multi-player Patch - Version 0.6.2 - 13 February 2021
Greetings! Just fixed a few lighting bugs with two levels in the game, and improved movement for the players on network games. Fixes minor latency flaw with player movement on listen server matches. Fixed lighting ray-fighting in levels "Doctor Sid's Lab", and "Cloud Nine". _________ - Establish, Explore, Expand.
- Maze Qore Arena Multi-player Patch - Version 0.6.1 - 8 February 2021
Greetings! We fixed a major latency issue preventing online play on listen servers. This was discovered last year after testing connections to servers and trying the new levels. Fixes major latency flaws with gameplay on listen server matches. Projectiles now fire at the proper position on listen server. Fixed latency cap prematurely set lower than usual in the Engine's config files (Epic Games screwed up again with 4.25), and copies same settings to the project for insurance. Removed Stomt bug reporting feature for Multiplayer build (since no one seems to care enough to use it and it broke in 4.26). NOTE: This patch applies only to Windows. Linux packaging is under difficulty and will arrive at a later time. _________ - Establish, Explore, Expand.
- Maze Qore Arena Multi-player Update - Version 0.6.0 - 21 November 2020
Greetings! The new 0.6 update for Maze Qore Arena is now available! In this update, we have been hard at work to deliver a new game mode, and several more new levels! https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EnV6bmLXcAAY3iV?format=jpg&name=large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EnV6bqpXcAYR8Cd?format=jpg&name=large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EnV6bmdXMAETZHQ?format=jpg&name=large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EnV6bmOWEAAOkHE?format=jpg&name=large IMPROVEMENTS New game mode: Jail Bait. New map: Yellow Sector - Fahrenheit. New map: Red Sector - Peer Pressure. New map: Quarantine Zone - Doctor Sid's Lab. New map: Grey Sector - The Killing Floor. New map: Dream Sector - Cloud Nine. Fixed bugs with the audio and multiplayer settings. Fixed bug preventing a match from loading it's respective settings. Polished the bot AI to perform better with Flag Hustle and Jail Bait. KNOWN BUGS Bot AI is still a WIP; finally…
