6 years after starting the development of our first turn-based strategy game, Myriads: Renaissance, we’re very excited to announce that the game is now available for purchase on Steam! And with a 10% launch discount for a week!
As a small 2 person team, our goal isn’t to make the next big 4X game. Instead, we took a different approach and focused on delivering a shorter, more intense gameplay experience. Myriads: Renaissance is our personal contribution to the genre, and if you like the idea of a small but challenging 4X game with city-builder and tower defence mechanics then Myriads: Renaissance is the game for you!
And if you’re curious about the game but are not sure if you want to buy it or not, there is a demo! It offers 60 turns of gameplay which represents about 1 hour of gameplay. It also includes a step by step tutorial so that you won’t get lost trying to understand our game. Give it a try!
We are ready to release a new and probably last version of the Myriads: Renaissance demo (apart from bug fixes)! This version focuses mostly on adding the Steam API to the game and fixing various bugs which have been reported to us. The Steam API is however disabled in the demo.
Major changes:
Steam (disabled in the demo):
*add steam achievements
*add steam cloud saving
*save folders are no longer shared amongst different steam users on a same computer
Bug fixes:
*make saving process more robust
*fix fight bug leading to rare events of save corruption
*prevent faulty fights from corrupting save
*fix bug leading to armies not being able to exchange regiments when both are full
*fix GUI rescale for very wide resolutions
*fix a rare occurrence of misplacement of the Tech button during the unlock first tech tutorial
*fix bug leading to not being able to recruit the settler ship during the tutorial when the shipyard has been destroyed
*skip Add shard tutorial if the player has already extended his capital island
*fix bug leading to a rare event of freeze of the screen at the end of a fight if the army lost all its troops due to gold shortage
*update gold shortage automatic disband
*make the game more robust with respect to freezes
*cancelling a building now refreshes the production queue display
*update various texts and outdated pictures in the help panels
*fix crane mesh update bug when destroying warehouses and storehouses
*when there are not enough citizens, the automatic destruction of buildings now selects one randomly. Farms and warehouses are excluded
If you missed the info, we’ve also announced that the game will release on Steam on 1st June. We’re on time, everything we wanted to implement is implemented and we still have some time to do some debug. Hence if you find a bug or have any feedback, feel free to leave a comment on our steam community hub https://steamcommunity.com/app/1737220/discussions/. We read and reply to everything.
And don’t forget to wishlist the game, so you’ll be notified when we release the game!
In the meantime, you can follow us on twitter for more frequent news: @MyriadsRGame. We oftenly tweet about the progress we make in development.
If you did not try the demo yet and are interested in, it is available on:
We’d like to remind you that Myriads: Renaissance will release on Steam in 2 weeks for a price of $19.99 / 14,50 €!
We’re in time for the release and we just started to send preview keys of the game. If you’re a content creator or a journalist, watch your inbox! And if you didn’t receive anything, stay tuned, we’ll soon send a call for content creators on twitter: @MyriadsRGame.
If you’re curious about the game and can’t wait for it to release there is a demo! It offers 60 turns of gameplay which represents about 1 hour of gameplay. It also includes a step by step tutorial so that you won’t get lost trying to understand our game. Give it a try!
Don’t forget to wishlist the game, so you’ll be notified when we release the game!
We are ready to release a new version of the Myriads: Renaissance demo! This version focuses on adding high scores and additional game modes. Unfortunately these 2 features won’t be unlocked in the demo as they require the player to beat the game first.
However, we’ve implemented many features/twiks which were suggested to us during the GRound playtest. Let’s have a look of what we’ve added to the game:
Major changes:
High scores and Modes:
*add a score panel on victory
*add high scores panel to main menu
*add Sailor mode which unlock after the player defeats Catena for the first time. In this mode, the player can’t build towers but all upkeeps are divided by 2.
*add Builder mode which also unlock after the player defeats Catena for the first time. In this mode, the player can only own a single galleon but towers’ cost is divided by 3.
GUI:
*update the design of the ship path print
*add a button to clean all non important events
*remove a shield symbol duplicate and add 2 more symbols
*rename difficulty to Normal/Hard/Very Hard
*add a tooltip explaining why a technology can’t be unlocked
*add notification for inactive ships on the Ships panel button
*add all remaining quests
Tutorial:
*can now open the game menu at the beginning of the tutorial
*can now quit the game at the beginning of the tutorial
*add arrows to various tutorial pages to point out what the tutorial is talking about
*make various tutorial sentences more understandable
*reorganise and simplify the research help panel
*add a tower help panel
Capital Island:
*add pop animation for shards surrounding the capital island
*add Palace which “produces” a small amount of score every turn
*add Business school, Engineering school and Agricultural college
WorldMap:
*change normal raider’s mesh so that’s it’s different from the one’s which are part of a wave
*add manors which “produces” a small amount of score every turn
*towers now boost any ship engage in a battle on a adjacent hexagon
*gunpowder depots now boost any ship engage in a battle in the archipelago
*add the possibility to deploy mines on any owned strait. Mines deal damage to any ship ending its movement on the strait and are then destroyed.
*add a 3rd lair popping wave and delay the apparition of Catena’s main island only after all these lairs are destroyed
Bug fixes:
*fix various GUI misalignment
*fix various typos
*fix various minor tutorial bugs
*fix ordering of towers animation which sometimes leads to animation being not in sync with army movement
Note that previous save files will be lost.
If you missed the info, we’ve also announced that the game will release on Steam on 1st June. We’re on time, everything we wanted to implement is implemented and the next time the demo updates, it should be an update to version 1.0.0. This update won’t add anything to the demo as what’s missing now to the game is only Steam related, i.e. cloud saving and achievements.
6 years after starting the development of our first turn-based strategy game, Myriads: Renaissance, we’re pleased to announce that the game will finally launch on steam on 1st June.
Please don’t forget to wishlist the game, so you’ll be notified when we release the game!
In the meantime, you can follow us on twitter for more frequent news: @MyriadsRGame. We oftenly tweet about the progress we make in development.
Between December 29th and January 25th, Myriads was on G.Round for a month-long playtest with a 120 turns extended demo. Thanks to the G.Round staff, the playtest was a success and we got more than 140 reviews from people across the world. This is much more than we expected given the genre of our game.
In general the players enjoyed playing the game and praised how unique the gameplay is. Many found the game mechanics to be well introduced. Many of them also found the game difficult on the first playthrough but easier on the second. We designed Myriads to be an “easy to learn-hard to master” kind of game, and it seems like we succeeded.
Many players also suggested things we could change to make Myriads even better. Most of them are already implemented and tested in our working build. Here is a non exhaustive list:
*adding a tooltip explaining why a technology can’t be unlocked
*update normal raider’s mesh so that it’s different from the one’s which are part of a wave
*add a button to clean all non important events
*add help panel, rewrite some
*add a tutorial page explaining the ships movement
*fix various minor GUI/Tutorial bugs.
Amongst the things suggested to us that we’ll add to the game soon:
*towers will boost the attack of all ships engaged in a battle around it
*in general we’ll add an attack bonus system which will depend on the island (biome, if there is a lighthouse or not, …)
*the tug will be able to build something on any island which will hinder any ship passing on it. This feature will work very well in combination with the towers.
As Myriads is our first game, we also decided to use this playtest as a “stress-test”, in order to see how stable the game is on a larger scale. Very few players actually experienced bugs and that comforted us that we’ll be ready to release the game in the coming months.
Finally we’d like to thank the G.Round staff and all the players who tested the game and provided such great feedback to us!
If you did not try the demo yet and are interested in, it is available on:
We’re pleased to announce that from December 29th, Myriads will be on G.Round for a month-long playtest with a 120 turns extended demo! If you enjoyed our steam demo and are curious of what the game has to offer after the turn 60, come join the playtest! https://gameround.co/detail/327/info
We are ready to release a new version of the Myriads: Renaissance demo! This version focuses on balancing the difficulty of the game. It also adds a shield customisation which we’re quite proud of.
Major changes:
*Adds difficulty setting when creating the faction: easy, normal and hard. The setting changes the heat/turn, ie. how fast the enemies grow. Hence, once set, the difficulty can’t be changed for a given save.
*Balances enemies growth and tower damages.
*Removes tower gold upkeep and increases their construction cost.
*Uniformises mouse control in capital and map views.
*Tunes mouse at edge scrolling.
*Adds a way to close most events by right clicking on the icon.
*Adds shield customisation when creating the faction.
*Prepares the implementation of the game modes.
*Adds production overflow.
*Adds the Merchant guild which turns unused production into gold.
*Adds the Fortress which boosts all the towers’ damage.
*Removes size 5 archipelagos. We decided to remove them as they were too small and could be annoying for the player.
*Adds the Gunpowder depot which can be built in a defence colony. The depot boosts the damage of all the towers in the colony.
*Reorganises the tech tree.
*Adds Era 3 techs.
Note that previous save files will be lost.
Now that the end game is implemented and the game difficulty is balanced, we’ll focus on adding content to add diversity and a bit of replayability to the game. In particular we’re planning to add alternative game modes which will be unlocked once the player finishes the game for the first time. For instance, in the “builder” mode, the towers will cost less but the player will only be able to own a single galleon.
In the meantime, you can follow us on twitter for more frequent news: @MyriadsRGame. We oftenly tweet about the progress we make in development.
If you did not try the demo yet and are interested in, it is available on:
We’re very proud to announce that Myriads: Renaissance is part of Steam Next Fest!
Myriads: Renaissance is a turn-based strategy game with city-building and 4X mechanics. Set in a fantasy world made up of thousands of floating islands, you must grow your capital and expand your kingdom. Resist waves of powerful corsairs and construct defence towers to survive their incursions.
If you’re curious give it a try! And don’t forget to wishlist!
And if you really enjoy our demo, we are currently running a kickstarter campaign, please consider backing us!
Myriads: Renaissance is a turn-based strategy game with city-building and 4X mechanics. Set in a fantasy world made up of thousands of floating islands, you must grow your capital and expand your kingdom. Resist waves of powerful corsairs and construct defence towers to survive their incursions.
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