- News - 12 November 2018
Hi everyone! It is time for some news about the exact state of the project. As you know, in recent months the project has not received any major updates, and there are serious reasons for this: after restarting the game in May, many users faced some technical issues (again) that we didn’t manage to solve quickly. We searched for many ways to solve them and found one that seemed to fully meet our needs — a technology from Improbable (https://improbable.io/) called SpatialOS. Recently, poor sales of Project Genom fell to almost zero (and it’s obvious why): from August 1 to November 1, we sold 182 copies of the game, about 20% of which was returned under the Steam return program. The current income is less than $500 per month, taking into account the fact that we need to support at least 2 database servers (for two regions) and 3 servers with the game world, each of which costs about $ 100…
- Dev news - 15 October 2018
Hi everybody. We got a lot of questions about development status, we want to answer most popular questions: We’re alive; Project still in alpha stage; We got some tech issues and we are solving them; We can’t say any update dates now. Thanks to everybody, we’ll publish additional news after issues will be solved.
- UPDATE 0.7.0.6 - 24 July 2018
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- UPDATE 0.7.0.5 - 30 June 2018
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- UPDATE 0.7.0.4 - 14 June 2018
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- UPDATE 0.7.0.3 - 27 May 2018
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- UPDATE 0.7.0.1, 0.7.0.2 - 14 May 2018
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- UPDATE! 0.7.0.0 Weekly Newsletter - 6 May 2018
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- Weekly Newsletter - 30 April 2018
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- Update! + Weekly Newsletter - 23 April 2018
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- Weekly Newsletter - 16 April 2018
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- Weekly Newsletter - 9 April 2018
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- Weekly Newsletter - 9 April 2018
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- Weekly Newsletter - 2 April 2018
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- Weekly Newsletter - 2 April 2018
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- Weekly Newsletter - 26 March 2018
Introduction Greetings, friends! The Project Genom development goes on and here’s another traditional weekly report on the work done over the last week. Software Our team had added the assault rifles and last week we spent some time fixing the flaws appeared in this regard. In addition to bugs with the assault rifle system, we fixed some errors with the pistols that were directly related to the major weapon system. We also found some flaws in the character system, ammo boxes, sounds and network because they were somehow connected to the assault rifles. Most of the errors, including minor visual defects, are already eliminated (about 30 bugs from minor to major). This week, we’ve fixed a major bug with the level loading at transition points when the character was simply hanging in empty space. We’ve fixed how physical materials function when they are hit by weapons. In addition to some c…
- Weekly Newsletter - 26 March 2018
Introduction Greetings, friends! The Project Genom development goes on and here’s another traditional weekly report on the work done over the last week. Software Our team had added the assault rifles and last week we spent some time fixing the flaws appeared in this regard. In addition to bugs with the assault rifle system, we fixed some errors with the pistols that were directly related to the major weapon system. We also found some flaws in the character system, ammo boxes, sounds and network because they were somehow connected to the assault rifles. Most of the errors, including minor visual defects, are already eliminated (about 30 bugs from minor to major). This week, we’ve fixed a major bug with the level loading at transition points when the character was simply hanging in empty space. We’ve fixed how physical materials function when they are hit by weapons. In addition to some c…
- Weekly Newsletter - 19 March 2018
Introduction Hello friends! Our team is busy developing and improving Project Genom together with our testers. The past week of testing has shown great results. The servers, the network, and the database are stable. All critical bugs have been fixed and there are fewer substantial flaws. We continue to expand the gaming experience correcting bugs that occur and gradually prepare the game for the main servers’ update. And we continue sharing the information about the work we’ve done over the week. We’d also like to inform all players that PTS servers will be disabled in the next few days in order to upload Preview 7, the newest PTS update. Software This week we added the English localization which is important news for all our English-speaking players. The localization features all texts and a part of the voiceover. All players who wanted to test the updated PTS version but couldn’t do s…
- Weekly Newsletter - 19 March 2018
Introduction Hello friends! Our team is busy developing and improving Project Genom together with our testers. The past week of testing has shown great results. The servers, the network, and the database are stable. All critical bugs have been fixed and there are fewer substantial flaws. We continue to expand the gaming experience correcting bugs that occur and gradually prepare the game for the main servers’ update. And we continue sharing the information about the work we’ve done over the week. We’d also like to inform all players that PTS servers will be disabled in the next few days in order to upload Preview 7, the newest PTS update. Software This week we added the English localization which is important news for all our English-speaking players. The localization features all texts and a part of the voiceover. All players who wanted to test the updated PTS version but couldn’t do s…
- Weekly Newsletter - 12 March 2018
Introduction Hi, friends! Last week, the major update with all the game features changed and improved was uploaded to the PTS servers. Before we report on the work we’ve done over the week, we’d like to give you a brief summary of the first tests’ result. Some of the most critical bugs were found on the very first testing day. These bugs were causing a few server crashes and led to information not being saved in the database on several occasions. All errors and issues were quickly fixed and dealt with, and at the moment we can say that the servers and the database are stable. This news is jolly good but the server load indication makes it even better as it has been reduced several times compared to the previous figures. In addition to looking for critical bugs, our testers began bending and breaking the project in all possible directions and identified a number of less critical flaws th…
