Firefly Studios

Month: June 2018

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Stronghold Kingdoms – Dev Q&A

Seeking new challenges? Contests? Prizes? Then allow us to update you on our immediate and longer term plans for Stronghold Kingdoms. In our latest developer interview, two of Kingdoms’ programmers cover everything from new village features, UI improvements, balancing, larger updates and more to give you a clear idea of what the immediate future looks like for the game. We also reveal new details about the upcoming events-based ‘Tournaments’ system and share what players can look forward to across all worlds and platforms!

If you’d like to know more about the Tournaments update or if there happens to be a particular topic not covered in this week’s video please let us know! We’re constantly listening out for questions from the Kingdoms community in the comments under each new video, so make yourself heard and we’ll try to feature your question in a future release.

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Stronghold Summer Sale

To celebrate the launch of Steam’s 2018 Summer Sale we have added massive discounts to all Firefly Studios titles, Stronghold or otherwise! We have also traveled back to a simpler time of comic books, trading cards and charming 8-bit graphics. Why? To teach those strangely fashionable 90s kids a thing or two about the future of castle sieging! Enter the latest character in the Firefly cinematic universe: Dunk Slater.

Watch as a disembodied but extremely well-informed voice educates Dunk on the finest medieval warfare PC gaming has to offer. Enjoy various pop culture references, terrible accents and questionable acting while simultaneously finding out everything you need to know about this year’s summer discounts! Be sure to check out the sale after watching and perhaps you too could have your life forever changed in the same way as young Dunk here.

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The Making of Space Colony

This week we’re travelling up to the stars with Space Colony, Firefly’s intergalactic base builder featuring a world of Swedish bikers, space chickens, orbital golf courses and the galaxy’s answer to velociraptors. Constructing space stations, paying your crew and melting alien creatures into small puddles of goo was the mission way back in 2003 and today we found out how Firefly came to follow up the birth of the Crusader series with this interesting offshoot. Join Simon and Paul as they recall the trials and tribulations of developing Space Colony off the back of two unique medieval strategy titles and collectively switching gear as a studio. From crafting a brand new armory of sci-fi art assets to designing gameplay around oxygen supplies, allow our veteran devs to lead you down memory lane in this latest ‘Making Of’ episode from the team.

If you liked this new episode don’t forget to subscribe and check out previous entries in the series by watching ‘Stronghold: The Early Years‘!

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MetaMorph – Stars & Skills Update

We have just released another free content update for MetaMorph: Dungeon Creatures, our tactical dungeon crawler currently available on Steam Early Access. Introducing four ultra-hard ‘Star’ levels as well as a trio of powerful new abilities to reward the completionists out there, today’s ‘Stars & Skills’ update is now live for all players!

If you like adventuring as the Rabbit but prefer to keep your distance from foes at times, then the inventively-named ‘Sworderang’ should fit the bill! Just remember that hurling dual scimitars in an arc directly at your enemies isn’t the solution to all life’s problems. As our second new ability, Flame Spirit adds to the ranged repertoire of the Fire Nymph with a large scale area of effect attack triggered in the blink of an eye. Finally our hulking Ice Ogre gains the ability to send out an icy Roar, freezing all enemies in his path for the inevitably follow-up clobbering. Continue reading