Miner Wars

New video published showing physics and solar wind

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:54:41 GMT

Hello guys!
Its nice to see our community running extremely well!! Everybody took their part and started to promote the game. The team is really proud of the community it has! We need as much help as we can because its always hard to promote and work on a game of this magnitude but with your help we will be able to pull it off.

Medal awards for contributors

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:08:57 GMT

Hello guys!
Today we have promised to release some information on the medal awards. Everybody already knows some things but let me repeat some information.
Other missing info can be found on: http://www.minerwars.com/News.aspx#Minerwarsupchng

There are 3 medal types:

1) Spread the word medal
2) Idea contribution medal
3) 3D Model contribution medal

Sol Command appointed new community manager in charge of 3D Modelling

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:05:01 GMT

Hello guys!
Sol Command has been appointed as the new Community Manager that will be in charge of 3D modelling. In the future and same as Unsung, Sol Command will have the possibility to join the core team of Miner Wars. Sol Commands models have been a really welcome addition to our game. As Marek said "His models look like he was already working on Miner Wars for some time now". So here you go guys.
Give Sol a warm welcome!

Tomas "Darghan" Psenicka

Upcoming forum and community functionality changes and status report

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:31:31 GMT

Hello Guys!

as always we have been very busy with the development of Miner Wars and the community management part. As you all know there are upcoming changes to the forums. We have already put up two new sections. These are called "spread the word" and "contributing models". These new sections are part of the first change to the community management model that we want to implement.

Unsung has been appointed as the new community manager

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:23:36 GMT

Hello guys!
As you might have noticed on the forums a valuable member of our community - Unsung, has been appointed as the community manager of Keen Software House. Unsungs first priorities are to work with us on getting more buzz around the game on our own and external forums. Blogging about the game and getting a good number of people helping us with ship modelling. In the future Unsung will help us in running the new Indie developer hub that we are preparing and maybe Unsung will help us with the iPhone project games. All in all we are thrilled to welcome him to our team! Unsung is the first member from the community that had the opportunity to join our projects. We are still looking for other people. These people are chosen democratically by our project team. Usually those that have the biggest impact on ideas, communication and act good towards others are selected. Some of you might in the very near future expect some message from me with a title-offer :).

Tomas "Darghan" Psenicka

New Alpha Video Released

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:22:08 GMT

Hello guys!

As promised we have added a new video of our current alpha build. This Video features the current cockpit, basic hud, basic targeting and a rear view from the ship. It also features me making a tunnel and reaching an area in the asteroid where there is ice.
Notice that the fragments of the broken astetoids also interact with the ship. Also if you hit the fragment with a rocket then it exlodes. So be careful when firing too much in the tunnels :).
This is first of the series of videos of gameplay features that we will be publishing roughly every week. The aim is to show you how our game is progressing and how close we actually are to the single-player beta release of our game.

You can also find the video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aruyeiqoj4E&feature=player_embedded

Enjoy!

Tomas "Darghan" Psenicka

New Videos coming and a small update from the Devs

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:06:45 GMT

Hello!

I just want to give a brief update to you guys on how the game development is progressing.

1) We have finished some basic core features of the multiplayer web-code
2) Marek succesfully tested VMWare and the game works flawlessly with it - Apple and Linux users will be able to play :)
3) We are working on putting the basic elements needed for the Single-player Beta release
4) Marek is also currently working on making the installer of the game. The installer should be done until the end of the week.
5) I am still working on the Videos and hope to release it real soon. If not today then surely you will have it tommorow.

Tomas "Darghan" Psenicka

Big news on game release! And some screenshots for your pleasure.

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:00:00 GMT

Guys,

in an effort to reach our plans of a better community management we have some features that we updated our web-pages.

1) Now there is a possibility to translate the pages using Google Translate
2) Search option
3) Your forum messages can now be bigger and you can edit them
4) You can now edit your forum profile
5) Messages in the forum can now contain hypertext links

More updates to the game and forum features coming soon :)

Darghan

New video and screenshots revealing very large but still destructible asteroids

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Today we released new Miner Wars video and screenshots, revealing very large but still-destructible asteroids.

The video was captured from the actual game and the scene contains two 8-km asteroids, five medium-size asteroids, and 300 mining ships.

Press Release

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT

London, UK, July 15, 2009 – Keen Software House is pleased to announce the forthcoming premiere of the Miner Wars video game.

Game Announcement

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Today we launched our Miner Wars announcement campaign.

Furthermore, in the following weeks we are going to present you with screenshots displaying large destructible asteroids – almost planetoids. Just imagine; you can dig the terrain in any direction, make kilometers of tunnels, place cave ambushes... and more!

Web Site Release

Tue, 26 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT

We have released this web site to announce the forthcoming premiere of the Miner Wars video game.

Please see the trailers and game screenshots.