• Bots/AI didn’t take kindly to be limited to 2D movement...


• Missiles tend to fly above the ground...


• Player ship didn’t interact with terminals and cargo boxes

 

• First three playable missions (voice overs still missing)
• EAC Survey Site
• Laika
• Barth’s moon
• Enemy ship sizes increased by 50% (easier aiming and it looks better)
• Multiplayer
• New gameplay elements: merchants, mining, drilling, turrets, terminals and 50 weapons
• 15 deathmatch sectors
• Hall of Fame – multiplayer sector with posters of our contributors
• Optimizations – now the game should run better even on weaker PCs
• Co-op – it’s in the game, you can play with your friends, but it is still bugy and non-host players will have unsynchronized objectives
• Funny glitch – if you lock doors on your mother ship before you leave a sector, they stay locked also after your arrival to a new sector – but since you get respawn outside of your mother ship, you can’t get inside. You are locked out :-)

• Open in-game editor in Miner Wars 2081 (you need to own a copy of MW 2081 to use in-game editor)
• Build your sector with asteroids, space stations, space ships - design it as if it was a real-life construction. All details have to make sense.
• Add enemy spawn points and waypoints
• Choose factions of stations, enemies and friends
• Post screenshot, your username, sector coordinates or name to this topic - so we can find it and integrate to official game
• Hint: use lights! Lights have 80% impact on the final result. Lights, lights, lights.

• Miner Wars 2081 will become your game too
• Your name in credits
• Glory!

• In-game editor – it’s right in the game, no need for external app
• Switch to the gameplay mode right in the editor!
• Gameplay objects – cameras, turrets, HUBs, generators, scanners, alarms and much more
• Spawn points for bots and players (set faction, behavior type, health and more)
• Waypoints for patrols or missions
• Cargo boxes and player inventory
• Merchants
• Hundreds of new prefabs
• Copy Tool to cut and paste from other sectors
• Influence spheres for atmospheric events (radiation…)
• Dynamic lighting and particle effects
• Voxel hand to create your own custom asteroids
• Snap points for easy way to build
• More control over your environments

 

• Space Ship Speed-building: http://youtu.be/LbWwvRqDueg


• Voxel Hand Speed-building: http://youtu.be/B6KswndA9Ug


• Space Ship Madelyn Speed-building: http://youtu.be/bcPeSbDwv9I


• Space Station Speed-building: http://youtu.be/Nbx9t2IxThY


• The Fourth Reich mothership Speed-building: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QE9WtJW9P0

Purity and Perfection!

Your Thoughts?

Preview of new graphic features for Miner Wars 2081

Peek into our project plan: Empowering level designers

• Drones – camera drones equippable with hacking tools or explosives to perform risky and stealthy operations inside enemy stations.


• Security devices for space stations - cameras, scanners, alarms, doors, turrets. These will be connectable to control panels and will be destructible as well as “hackable,” in order to allow for straightforward action gameplay as well as stealth and tactical gameplay.


• Electricity and functionality for space station parts – objects within a space station will require power generators in order to work. Many of the objects will have specific functionality and will form a logical and organic complex – turrets, generators, docking bays, cargo containers, ore storage, armories, radars and jammers, repair depots, security devices…

New Miner Wars 2081 Logo

New Features

Customer Related Issues

More Interesting News

Coming Soon…

New Features

Coming Soon…

Customer Related Issues

Marek Rosa Introduces New Producer

• The in-game editor - build your own space ship, space station, any sort of space-like edifice you can think of. These structures will be made from prefab modules, and in the future we’re looking to feature ‘total destructibility’ for these objects.

• Image Space LOD (Level of Detail) – seamless LOD with no popping artifacts
• Deferred rendering, unlimited light sources!
• Tons of optimizations!
• Screen space ambient occlusion
• Dynamic shadows
• Upgraded shaders, looking even more gorgeous
• New render quality setting - EXTREME – designed for newer hardware
• New render quality setting - LOW – designed for older hardware
• Backward compatibility with older hardware - Pixel Shader 2.0
• Converted to XNA 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010
• New installer and auto-updater / launcher with P2P optimizations

Hey there!

We’re ecstatic to announce that after several years of busking, turning tricks and selling expired prescription drugs, we’ve finally reached our production goal of 1,000,000 EUR!

We consider it to be a great success and an important milestone.

The business received its capital from private investors.

The team is now able to focus entirely on the development of Miner Wars, the VRAGE engine, and other projects yet to be announced.

Keen is setting up office in Prague, and looking to expand upon the current staff base: The company is seeking to hire additional programmers, artists and web designers.

For any vagabonds and unemployed out there, if you’re seeking a job and won’t trash or sell the furniture, please visit – http://www.minerwars.com/Wanted.aspx

Keen Software House’s staff is very pleased with the news. The company is now able to provide a more protein rich gruel for emaciated workers, and instances of scurvy and rickets are on the decline.

CEO and founder Marek Rosa is particularly pleased, citing that since fund-raising is no longer a burden to his schedule, he’ll have enough time to return to programming and finally finish reading New Moon.

To all you die-hard Miner Wars fans a very warm Thank You! We couldn't have gotten this far without you, so while we're in SUCH a good mood, we would like to share it by introducing a new Medal just for those who have supported us thus far: EVERY REGISTERED MEMBER on the forums will receive the First Adopter Award! This will be a special level of distinction among the future generations of Miner Wars players, and all shall know your awesomeness!

The staff is looking forward to your continued support while Miner Wars 2081 continues to become not just a dream... but a dream come true.

DEVELOPER MEETINGS

A reminder to fans, Keen Software House hosts meetings to the public every Saturday afternoon Pacific Standard Time. There will be a commentary followed by a Q&A session. You are free to voice your opinions on the game or fondle any curiosities.

Times
US: Pacific Standard Time – Noon, Saturday
Eastern Time – 3 pm
EU: Prague Time – 9pm, Saturday
More information can be found here: http://www.minerwars.com/ForumTopic.aspx?id=1221

• Every Saturday, members of the Miner Wars 2081 development hold meetings for live feedback from the community.
  Details here: http://www.minerwars.com/ForumTopic.aspx?id=1221
• Keen Software House is looking for feedback on a new "catchphrase" for the game.
  Details here: http://www.minerwars.com/ForumTopic.aspx?id=1274

The game is still available for a 70% discount. This package includes free access to the current build, and free updates to the engine until the final stages of production.
To take advantage of this offer while it's still hot, visit the Miner Wars store: http://www.minerwars.com/Store/

Don't forget, if you're strapped for cash, there are plenty of ways to earn a free copy of the game:
http://www.minerwars.com/Contests.aspx

Keen Software House draws great pleasure from introducing the company on a personal level to our fans, customers and interested parties.

So this week we’re taking a retrospective approach to the PR, and plotting the progression of the company from its infancy. It has been an interesting ride and there’s a long way to go, but as they say – “when in Rome, don’t build it in a day, or else all roads will lead there.”

Marek Rosa, a veteran programmer devises a game which focuses on giving efficacy to programmers, prioritising strength of coding over artistic facets.

Musing over what is absent from the market, an idea for a game with six axes movement and destructible environments arises. A simple proof demo is devised and created using both OpenGL and C++.

A rudimentary engine is coded together, as well as a program which allows the user to mosey around the inside of an asteroid destroying aspects of the environment.

In the search for employment and food, he turns to freelance programming, and assigns the vocational venture to part-time status.

Still performing freelance and contract work, Marek continues with his side project late into the night. Like Bruce Wayne with an indifference towards the crime of Gotham city. He saves not maidens, but capital, waiting until he’s raised enough to work full-time on his new entertainment enterprise.

The original project receives massive overhauls in sophistication and scope.

The engine VRAGE is coined. An engine developed solely by and for Keen Software House.

Marek Rosa embarks upon the project full-time, lifting a solitary finger to the corporate machine - also a reliable wage. He creates his own company, Keen Software House, and sets upon realising his prospects of authoring a video game. Propped up at his desk, he dims the lights and vigorously thrusts out lines of code from his programming loins.

Miner Wars is officially in production.

‘Phase Two’ begins. Implemented in C# and XNA, the game takes advantage of advanced rendering capabilities on a wide range of graphical hardware.

Targeted for the PC and Xbox 360 platforms, gameplay will include both single player and MMO versions in a realistic sci-fi setting.

The name Miner Wars is chosen for the franchise.

http://www.MinerWars.com is established.

An online community is built up. Forums, participation, social endearing and audience input are put forward in a cunning marketing model.

Marek – still a one-man team – makes a trailer for his game and uploads it to Youtube.

Dan Wentz, a pre-eminent composer and audio director for dozens of video games, stumbles upon the video and supposes it to be a sequel to Descent – a game that he had previously worked on. E-mails and compromising photos are exchanged; and within a few weeks Dan becomes the second member of the team.

Team members are actively recruited in April: Slobodan Stevic, Michal Stefan, Nick Miller, Richard Waldron, Thomas McInturf, Piotr Szekalski, and Adam Smithare of particular note. Marek Rosa employs programmers, designers, art specialists, writers, producers and administrators to work on a voluntary basis. They were likewise hopeful for the endeavour, dedicating thousands of collective hours inbelief in the project’s imminent success – if not a somewhat perturbed by Marek’s dark sense of humour.

The first title is proclaimed Miner Wars 2081.

Marek collaborates on a book for advanced programming.

In October the Pre-Alpha is pre-released at a 70% discount to allay costs, an alleviation which allows for continued production. The response is vastly beyond what is predicted, and thousands of Euros pour in each day.

The gameplay demo is released. Many customers are pleased with the demo and sales hit a new record high. Upgrade to a new storage server on account of higher fan traffic.

Miner Wars 2081 is expected to release in late December of 2011, available at Steam, IGN’s Direct to Drive, and many other trusted distributers.

The Miner Wars MMO will be developed after this release.

Sequels and a streamlining of devotee-based mods are planned for the not too distant future. After the retail release, sequels will begin production concurrently with Xbox Live and mobile media versions of the game.

Ruthlessand passionate in his ambitious goals for the Miner Wars franchise; Founder Marek Rosa is intent on getting his goods into your lap.

A reminder to fans, on Saturday afternoons PST, we will host meetings open to the public. There will be a commentary followed by a Q&A session. You are free to voice your opinions on the game or facilitate any curiosities.

Times:
US: Pacific Standard Time – Noon, Saturday
Eastern Time – 3 pm

EU: Prague Time – 9pm, Saturday

• Every Saturday, members of the Miner Wars 2081 development hold meetings for live feedback from the community.
  Details here: http://www.minerwars.com/ForumTopic.aspx?id=1221
• Keen Software House is looking for feedback on a new "catchphrase" for the game.
  Details here: http://www.minerwars.com/ForumTopic.aspx?id=1274

The game is still available for a 70% discount. This package includes free access to the current build, and free updates to the engine until the final stages of production.
To take advantage of this offer while it's still hot, visit the Miner Wars store: http://www.minerwars.com/Store/

Don't forget, if you're strapped for cash, there are plenty of ways to earn a free copy of the game:
http://www.minerwars.com/Contests.aspx

Keen Software House derives great pleasure in being able to supply quality entertainment for their clients.

Those of you who have not gone out and bought the game – shame on you – but do not fret, as the Miner Wars Demo is finally being released!

To download the demo – please visit:

http://mirror1.minerwars.com/Downloads/MinerWarsSetup.exe

Or for further download options: http://www.minerwars.com/Downloads.aspx

The demo version of the game will run much like the full version. It will include all of the same features (i.e. harvesting, drilling, weapons, etc.) and receive regular updates. The only restriction will be the limitation that confines players to one particular sector in space.

If players decide they would like to play the full game, they are able to simply purchase an account upgrade on www.minerwars.com and play immediately!

Please note: This is a PRE-ALPHA and still currently in a very early state of production. It should be considered a work in progress. Updates and features are added regularly.

Keen Software House has endeavoured into a partnership with Intel Corporation as part of the Intel Software Partner Program. Intel has subsequently written an article about Miner Wars 2081, describing the successes of the company so far.

(For those of you who don’t know, Intel is the big technology company with the blue logo and the circular bit who electrolize your wizard gizmos and cause computer to happen.)

The article discusses the relationship of the two companies, including an interview from our CEO and Founder, Marek Rosa. Intel gives a rundown through the accomplishments of the company in pre-order sales and strives in software development. The article goes on to read: features, behind-the-scenes, gameplay and upcoming prospects for the Miner Wars 2081. Nicholas Miller concludes on a note discussing the power of association and collaboration, with concern respectively to a pre-installed version of Miner Wars 2081 being implemented on the new Intel power netbooks, and the credibility a company such as Intel provides.

A full copy of the article can be found via the link below:

http://mirror1.minerwars.com/Downloads/Keen_Software_House_Success_Story_by_Intel_2011.pdf

Intel will be showcasing Miner Wars 2081 in the upcoming GDC 2011, March, in San Francisco - http://www.gdconf.com/

• Every Saturday, members of the Miner Wars 2081 development hold meetings for live feedback from the community.
  Details here: http://www.minerwars.com/ForumTopic.aspx?id=1221
• Keen Software House is looking for feedback on a new "catchphrase" for the game.
  Details here: http://www.minerwars.com/ForumTopic.aspx?id=1274

The game is still available for a 70% discount. This package includes free access to the current build, and free updates to the engine until the final stages of production.
To take advantage of this offer while it's still hot, visit the Miner Wars store: http://www.minerwars.com/Store/

Don't forget, if you're strapped for cash, there are plenty of ways to earn a free copy of the game:
http://www.minerwars.com/Contests.aspx