Nauticrawl news & patch notes

Hello everyone! It's been a while since the last update, which doesn't mean I haven't been cooking up some new things. I have! I'm just not quite ready to talk about them yet. In the interim, though, there have been some requests for additional languages and I'm happy to announce that Nauticrawl is getting 2 new ones today!

• Simplified Chinese
• Russian

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34698670/6b53f6ebfa8073bf1db6a3aefe9ace53832572cc.jpg I'm super excited to be able to support these new communities. If you're a native speaker of either of these languages and notice something that looks wrong, please let me know. I'm a solo developer and I don't speak either of these languages, so it's tricky testing new languages but I do want to get it right! If you have questions or just want to introduce yourself, please drop me a note on the Steam forums or pop into the Discord and say hello. I'd love to hear from you! Steam Forums: https://steamcommunity.com/app/922100/discussions/ {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34698670/4f1bc0ae82fceebc6e494d7ad67f1e1b6260dcd6.png

I've been thinking a lot about the importance of community lately and not just because we've been asked to remain so far apart in recent months. I'm fortunate enough to have communities developing around each of my active projects (Nauticrawl and Clayxels), both of which have been tremendous sources of energy for me as a solo developer. So first off, thank you for keeping me going! Until today I had a Discord server focused solely on Nauticrawl and Clayxels enthusiasts scattered across Twitter and itch.io, just to name a few. With these projects in the wild and more on the horizon, it seemed appropriate to rename the Discord to include everyone while also serving as a new heading for my varied endeavours. I landed on "Spare Parts Oasis" which is a moniker that accomplishes a few key things: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34698670/9987f0736a7ed99a6f3850742a0647c024c606e7.png First, it's a callback to Nauticrawl. This is how the existing Discord community knows me so for them the transition will be comfortable. If you don't get the reference, find me on Discord and ask me about it or check out the game and see if you can spot it yourself :) Secondarily, it's flexible enough to cover a wide range of projects that reflect my interests as a developer. Clayxels, which is a clay sculpting plugin for Unity, isn't a game but feels right at home under the new name. Lastly, it's memorable and easy to pronounce. Both communities are filled with kind and passionate people and if you're not already in the Discord server, please consider dropping by to say hello. I'm in there regularly and would love to hear from you. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34698670/4f1bc0ae82fceebc6e494d7ad67f1e1b6260dcd6.png Of course I'll still be around the Steam forums and whatnot, but I tend to be quickest to respond on Discord and there are also others there who might help you out. Oh, just one more thing! We'll be adding two new languages in the next update, but more on that soon ;)

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34698670/2c59846762b9b6dc8a07948df75401ee6d3af5b2.png It’s been a little while since I’ve dropped by with an update and what better way to return to it than with news like this? Nauticrawl has received an Honorable Mention from the Independent Games Festival for Excellence in Design. Though it may sound cliche, it really is humbling to be mentioned alongside such an amazing group of games and developers. You never know what to expect when you throw your name into a pool of the best of your peers and this is such a wonderful outcome for us. Many thanks to the IGF judges who gave Nauticrawl a fair play and congrats to all the nominees. What a great boost of energy to start off 2020… what do you suppose is next for Nauticrawl? Stay tuned :) You can read more about this year’s nominees on the IGF website. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34698670/dfc61d52f992f68f9752a9c2105f2a023ce0cb01.png

Ahoy to everyone who’s been waiting for the best moment to jump on our highly pressurized and mysterious Nauticrawl! This might very well be it, Nauticrawl will be cruising through our biggest sale yet, and that’s not all of it. Our very own set of Steam Trading Cards is now available! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34698670/02589336e5519d143e72e590e3deb0d67d9ca44d.png We also want to take a moment to thank all our rogue pilots who have supported us so far, leaving the most amazing reviews, finding hideous little bugs as well as helping other users on our forums. Thanks to your continuous support we’ve been hard at work after launch to further polish the game. Here’s the list of improvements done to date: - Better performance on low quality setting, especially aimed at Mac Os X users to enjoy the game on low-spec computers. - Improved the discovery of some hidden achievements. - Fixed text sizing issues to maintain better consistency between different platforms and monitor setups. - Improved support for wider resolutions. - Various fixes to improve quality of life during gameplay and avoid any possible game locking scenario. We have more coming up, so please keep helping us bringing Nauticrawl in front of as many people as possible. Even just spreading the word helps, or even better, buy a copy to a friend you think would love a unique game this holiday season! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34698670/dfc61d52f992f68f9752a9c2105f2a023ce0cb01.png

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34698670/da65160588756f8e49f9d30f447ee23afab3fa7e.png I’m so happy to share this news, Nauticrawl has a game-design Deep Dive post on Gamasutra! If you’re not familiar with Gamasutra’s series of Deep Dives (admittedly, that’s the most fitting name that could have ever hosted anything related to Nauticrawl!), here’s the official description: The Gamasutra Deep Dives are an ongoing series with the goal of shedding light on specific design, art, or technical features within a video game, in order to show how seemingly simple, fundamental design decisions aren't really that simple at all. Nauticrawl’s development was one heck of a journey because of its experimental mix of many diverse gameplay elements, so I’m just very happy whenever I get an opportunity to dissect some of that process and how it led to the final result. A big thank you to Gamasutra for the opportunity to share some of this journey with you all. The journey is not over though, please help us spread the word about this unique game! If you’ve purchased the game, thank you so much! Please consider leaving a review. They help us more than you will likely every know and we’re grateful for your thoughts. If you haven’t but are interested, please wishlist so we can let you know about sales and other updates! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34698670/dfc61d52f992f68f9752a9c2105f2a023ce0cb01.png

This is not a big one, but it addresses a couple of annoying things: V 1.169 - Field Note #8 and its achievement is now easier to unlock. - Improved performance on Low quality setting. Mac Os X users should stick to the default Low quality setting on mac, it won't impact quality of lighting, but it will disable some of the camera-filters that tend to be slower on this platform. - Bug fix: Game intro text size could sometimes appear very small on Mac OS X, depending on monitor configuration.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34698670/e12ed0523f64186b5dbe9bd7d0cd713e7b60699f.png Earlier this October I was scheduled to participate in the Roguelike Celebration Day by giving a talk on the game-design iterations that went into Nauticrawl. Though I couldn't be there in person, the organizers were kind enough to let me send them a recording of my presentation. Today that presentation is available online along with all the other awesome talks that happened at the celebration! My talk covers all the headaches that went into designing Nauticrawl as a mix of real-time and turn-based gameplay elements. Coming up with this game has been an amazing journey and I’m happy this video gave me a chance to document some of that process. I hope you’ll enjoy it! For the full list of talks, please head to the Roguelike Celebration youtube channel, you can take a look at my talk straight from this page. If you haven’t but are interested, please wishlist so we can let you know about sales and other updates. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34698670/dfc61d52f992f68f9752a9c2105f2a023ce0cb01.png

Hi everyone, we’re back with some more exciting IndieCade news! Nauticrawl has ALSO been nominated for IndieCade Europe. Since I (Andrea, developer… hi) live in Italy, I’ll be able to hop over to Paris for this one to man the booth myself. Yay! Here’s the recently released trailer showcasing all the nominees. Congrats to everyone! IndieCade EU The European festival takes place October 18-19 in Paris, France. I will be personally attending this event and showing off Nauticrawl. Please come say hello if you’re attending. For tickets and more info, check out the IndieCade EU website.

• All EU IndieCade nominees
• Nauticrawl’s EU page

If you’re just joining us, you can read about our IndieCade US nomination in our previous announcement. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34698670/dfc61d52f992f68f9752a9c2105f2a023ce0cb01.png

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34698670/713053b37cd24d73832686b5853ec033b7fd5954.png We’re excited and humbled to announce that Nauticrawl has been nominated for the US IndieCade festival. It’s a cliche to say that it’s an honor just to be nominated but really there’s no more fitting way to put it than that. Nauticrawl is in almost every way a leap of faith taken in hopes that people would appreciate this unique experience all dressed up as a game. To be showcased along so many other wonderful creators and creations fills us with pride, joy, appreciation… the list goes on. We can’t express enough how appreciative we are that people seem to be “getting” Nauticrawl. IndieCade US The US festival takes place October 10-12 and will be held this year in Santa Monica, CA. A local representative from Armor Games Studios (publisher) will be running our booth at this event. You can find out more info, buy tickets, or make press inquiries on the IndieCade US website. All US IndieCade nominees Nauticrawl’s US page We want to send out a sincere, heartfelt congratulations to all the nominees. There are some truly wonderful games in this lineup and we’re delighted to be recognized among them. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34698670/dfc61d52f992f68f9752a9c2105f2a023ce0cb01.png

It didn't take long before some rogue pilots managed to find one way to really wreck a Nauticrawl, this is our fist patch with the following changes: Version 1_165 Bug fixes: - Switching the computer off while a radio message was waiting to be dismissed on screen caused the radio and the nethook to lock. You can read more about that on our forums. Changes: - The gate terminal icon on the radar now has collisions and you can't walk over it anymore. That is a hard lesson learnt soon, but it will make sense as you progress through the game and learn how to interact with these objects. This patch will go live shortly after this announcement.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34698670/2b0219d2a784953a4fcb3ada092c9c8c339aaf36.png Reviews have a bigger impact on the success of an indie title that most players realize. Having reviews on your page sends out a signal that others are playing it. This is often the thing players wait to see before picking up a lesser known indie title. Certainly the goal is to get a good score, but having a score at all is a very close second. If You Enjoyed the Game - Consider Leaving a Review If you loved it, liked it, or just found it unique and interesting please let other players know it’s worth their time. They may be waiting to hear from you … Reviews can be left at the bottom of the Steam Page and don’t have to be lengthy. If You Didn’t Enjoy the Game - Start a Conversation with Us Before you take to the reviews, please let us know why you weren’t happy. With games being digital goods we’re always tweaking and fine tuning, adding features, and fixing bugs. Know that we are listening and we may already be working on something that will improve your experience. At the end of the day we want to deliver something worth your time and money. If we haven’t done that, please give us a chance to help. .... All that being said, we’re NOT trying to block negative reviews or solicit ingenuine good ones. If you played the game and feel others need to be warned, by all means leave us a review. We’re listening and appreciate all feedback. And if you feel you need your money back, Steam has a process for that as well, but we hope you’ll consider reaching out first. TLDR; Reviews are a HUGE contributor to the success of indie titles and many players are often waiting for someone else to speak up. Please speak up, it helps us and it helps others find Nauticrawl. <3

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34698670/5f2080f3fc9d60e2111273fc1257a74ae62a65e9.jpg Howdy folks, we’ll keep this one short because, well, there’s TWO whole pages filled with Nauticrawl curiosities now available in the latest issue of Wireframe Magazine! In this solo-dev spotlight, Andrea goes back to the very beginning of the project and tells the story of how a vintage tram ride in Turin sparked the whole idea of being stuck in a mysterious machine full of buttons and levers. Also inside are insights into the challenges of designing a real-time cockpit controlling a turn-based system. With the release now just a few days ahead of us, we think this is the perfect read to whet your appetite, or shall we say *flood* your imagination?!? Wireframe Magazine issue #22 is generously available as a free download here. But if you feel like supporting this wonderful indie publication, a physical copy is also available for purchase from their website for only 3£. Support your favorite indies <3 In the same vein, we appreciate every wishlist and social media share that you can contribute. Your support makes a bigger difference than you realize. And don’t forget to come say hi on twitter too, either @andreintg or @nauticrawl

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34698670/990180104b0fdceb5c5b0d738be4bbb1fc189c66.png After roughly 2 years, launch day is nearly upon us and on September 16th I will finally get to share Nauticrawl with you all. This moment for me is one of nervous excitement. Of exhaustion and anticipation. As I look back on making this game, I realize the road to launch eerily parallels what I hoped you as the player would feel experiencing it for the first time. It’s a wonderful loop closing I’d not intended but am delighted to have discovered. I didn’t always know where the game would take me, how to solve the problems it presented, nor exactly what the right answers were. But I always trusted that the game would pull me where it needed to go. If in playing Nauticrawl you afford it the same trust, I believe you’ll find it will give you just enough to keep you going. When you succeed, it’ll repay you with a sense of accomplishment that can only come from a goal hard fought and well earned. This is something I feel now that I hope you will soon feel at the helm of these mechanical beasts. In many ways, Nauticrawl is that indie trope of “something I made for myself”. It’s a reflection of the games I loved as a kid expressed through the game I was finally able to make as an adult. Games have been a huge part of my life, and it means a lot to be able to put something new and unique back into a space that’s given me so much. Creating it was a weird and wonderful experience full of creative solutions to unscripted problems. Now it’s your turn to have that experience. Whether you end up liking it or not, I hope you come away feeling like you’ve seen something entirely new grown from roots of the nostalgic old. That’s been the point of this journey all along <3 Want to Help Out? Indie games live and die by reviews, wish lists, and word of mouth. If you’d like to help support us without having to spend a dime, please consider doing one or more of the following. Wishlist Nauticrawl Follow me @andreintg and/or @nauticrawl on Twitter Tell a friend or another developer about the game <3 Leave a comment below and let us know you’re here so we can say hi {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34698670/d9b39158259744ccf40218e5eff67db72ee7d2c5.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34698670/dfc61d52f992f68f9752a9c2105f2a023ce0cb01.png

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34698670/d860af996969adab234b4a141221f256047659e0.png Something we’ve not talked much (or at all) about during development is that Nauticrawl will be playable in multiple languages. At launch you’ll be able to play in the following languages:

• English
• French
• Italian (evviva!)
• German
• Spanish for Spain
• Spanish for Latin America

This localization covers all in-game text and menus as well as the Steam page and achievements. We’d love to support more languages in the future but as a small team we have to take manageable bites. As an Italian-born developer I’m truly excited to be able to bring Nauticrawl to you in my native language. If you don’t see your language of choice above, please let us know in the comments what language you’d like to see in Nauticrawl. No Dothraki, please. Wishlists and word of mouth make a bigger difference than most people realize. If you have a minute, please consider supporting the game by wishlisting or following me on twitter. Your support means the world to us <3 https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34698670/dfc61d52f992f68f9752a9c2105f2a023ce0cb01.png https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34698670/14763342a69937d9dfb8822f4096267dffb1a176.gif https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34698670/faa93b2a398b6276287a79d7fe8ada8ea4ec8708.png https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34698670/bfc951e7fa159937d4b47a96d9ceb03cd8c90372.png

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34698670/03cb5792a56f82205cb43841850e120d31d408e3.png Buongiorno! Andrea here, dropping by with some exciting news. I’ve been selected to speak at the Roguelike Celebration 2019 this October in San Francisco. What’s the Roguelike Celebration? It’s community-organized event centered around fans, makers, and admirers of the roguelike genre. For two days in October designers, artists, authors, and others will give talks, play games, and have discussions about all things roguelike. Undoubtedly there will also be heated discussions about what a roguelike is or isn’t. If you’ve got thoughts on the subject - please drop a comment below. I love a good roguelike debate :) Why am I Going? That’s a great question. I’m glad you asked. Though we’ve steered away from calling Nauticrawl a roguelike because it conjures very specific expectations in the minds of gamers, it does contain some roguelike elements. My talk has the longest title, "Designing a turn based roguelike inside a real time simulated environment, and the many headaches that come after". It will delve into the challenges that went into designing the roguelike elements of Nauticrawl and making them co-exist with the simulated nature of the machine itself. So Nauticrawl is a Roguelike? Well no, not really. But it does borrow from the genre. If you’re a fan of roguelikes and come expecting a pure roguelike in Nauticrawl, you will probably be disappointed. However, if you’re interested in a unique, new experience that draws some inspiration from a genre you love (and probably a couple others as well) this game just might be for you. Please consider supporting the game by wishlisting or following me on twitter @andreintg For more information on this event, check out their website at https://roguelike.club/ If you’re in the SF area, maybe I’ll see you there. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34698670/dfc61d52f992f68f9752a9c2105f2a023ce0cb01.png

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34698670/74a8bc410eff298f394b761908463c896387566d.png We’re excited to announce that Nauticrawl will be coming to Steam on September 16th! To mark the occasion, we’ve put together a brand new trailer which you can watch below. https://youtu.be/UC-8UAAE7mc We began our final push toward launch this week and have started seeing some outlets already picking us up. Please excuse us while we attempt to restart our hearts after hearing PC Gamer say “it looks fantastic." If you’re the curious type interested in a unique, challenging experience please consider telling a friend about Nauticrawl or wishlisting the game. It makes a big difference and would mean the world.

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34698670/4c2c526750de49ba10d7742a647c870287254db6.jpg In this devlog I'd like to detail the (painful) process that went into making Nauticrawl a transparently turn based crawling game, while not sacrificing the immersive experience of piloting a machine in real time. Have a read if you want to know more: https://andrea-intg.itch.io/20000atm/devlog/83453/how-a-real-time-simulated-machine-ended-up-with-a-turn-based-gameplay

With the first beta just wrapped we thought it'd be nice to share some thoughts, some of the feedback from our testers and some of the most immediate changes for the next build of Nauticrawl. If you are curious about what happens in the engine room of our Nauticrawl, please have a read at the new dev-log here: https://andrea-intg.itch.io/20000atm/devlog/72310/end-of-beta-atmosphere-game-play-challenges https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34698670/3d17273809dff616d44b15801597c3bd99a2a571.jpg

Hello and welcome to Nauticrawl’s steam page and our first post here! What you see on this page is the fruit of two years of hard work, it really shows when we look back at some of the screens from the first prototype, back then simply called 20’000 Atmospheres. Yet, it feels like this is all just a new start for this project, maybe it’s because of the shiny new steam page, or maybe it’s because of our first beta publicly announced a few days ago and the amazing response we had with a lot of people getting involved! In any case, whether you’ve been following this peculiar project from the beginning or whether you just landed here, this is an exciting time to follow its future developments, lots of cool stuff coming this way, stay tuned, pilots! Follow our official twitter account for development updates: @nauticrawl https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34698670/4223d92cf86bb7b67f9f9771245bd5c42eefa3c3.jpg https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34698670/001938646d2e630cc58ca6ed0f8e4e081d6b83b7.jpg https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34698670/ac85b85c6395a8fb7a104a74c9c3a40ee99747f5.png