Ascendant Dawn Alpha

Devlog

• Ascendant Dawn: Battle System
  March 05, 2024 by NikousStudio#strategy, #gamedev

  For a while I've been improving the battle system in Ascendant Dawn from a simple simulation to the now strategic system. It's fairly complex taking into account terrain and has many types of units in... Continue reading

  
• Ascendant Dawn 0.2.0.2 Notable Update
  February 13, 2024 by NikousStudio#gamedev, #grandstrategy, #strategy, #historical

  In this update I mostly fixed a few minor things and changed one or two things. A lot of these things aren't in the demo. The main visual thing I did was started to add mountain meshes. Here's one in... Continue reading

  
• Ascendant Dawn: Warfare update
  January 31, 2024 by NikousStudio#unreal, #ue5, #strategy

  This version of Ascendant Dawn, or AD for short. Adds a lot of new features and visual elements as well as cleaning up old stuff. If you don't know what Ascendant Dawn is, it's a grand strategy game s... Continue reading

  
• Ascendnt Dawn 0.1.27.1
  November 05, 2023 by NikousStudio#indie, #solo, #solodev, #unreal engine, #strategy, #grand strategy, #4x

  This update is mostly a bug fix but I also have a gameplay video up. Below is the full changelog -Been working on a new main map -Improved wall performance -Settlers are only spawned by larger settlem... Continue reading

  
• Ascendant Dawn 0.1.27
  October 31, 2023 by NikousStudio#singleplayer, #4X, #grand strategy, #unreal engine, #strategy

  This version of the game focuses mainly on a few quality of life improvements such as tooltips and notifications. Overall they make the game more playable or enjoyable especially in how information is... Continue reading

  
• Ascendant dawn 0.1.26 Adding Ambience
  October 25, 2023 by NikousStudio#4X, #Strategy, #alpha, #bronze age, #civilisation, #game alpha, #unrealengine

  Note: itch appears to be having problems with images so there are no images However there is a video of the ambience This update of Ascendant Dawn mainly contains the adding of lots of Ambience but al... Continue reading

  
• Ascendant Dawn 0.1.25
  October 15, 2023 by NikousStudio#gamedev, #unreal engine, #unreal engine 5, #ue5, #ue4, #strategy, #4X, #indiedev

  This update is a little all over the place and adds a lot of little improvements and mechanics. It generally bulks our and adds some mechanics. Though a few of the things don't work and so will be fix... Continue reading

  
• Ascendant Dawn 0.1.23 character and farm update
  October 03, 2023 by NikousStudio#gamedev, #strategy, #unreal engine

  This update is fairly small and mainly fleshes out the character system and pasture system. You can now have children(you can even name them) and divorce your wife, there's a lot more character based... Continue reading

  
• Ascendant Dawn 0.1.22
  September 30, 2023 by NikousStudio#strategy, #indie, #solo, #hobbyist

  Ascendant Dawn 0.1.22 adds a few new features mainly the new notable system. Notables are characters like in Crusader Kings, with you yourself being a notable. They work like people and can die etc. T... Continue reading

  
• Ascendant Dawn 0.1.21
  September 19, 2023 by NikousStudio#strategy, #indie, #alpha, #free game, #free, #grand strategy, #4x

  This is a minor update that mostly adds a few indicators and improving the snow features. I'd love any feedback on these changes or the game as a whole. You can find a video version of this blog here... Continue reading

  
• Ascendant Dawn 0.1.20
  September 14, 2023 by NikousStudio#strategy, #grandstrategy, #indie, #solodev, #free game, #free pc game, #free alpha, #game alpha, #alpha

  For this update the two biggest things were the bulking up of the livestock system and the addition of dynamic snow on the terrain based on the season. I also re-added the showroom feature. Below is a... Continue reading

  
• Dev blog #4: Solving Bugs
  September 07, 2023 by NikousStudio#strategy, #gamedev, #alpha, #free, #indie

  I released a dev blog with gameplay about solving a major bug and what can be learnt from it. I also go over some other changes in the game. The current version is 0.1.19 which can be downloaded for f... Continue reading

  
• Ascendant Dawn 0.1.19 Monument Update
  September 04, 2023 by NikousStudio

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  #gamedev, #indiededv, #strategy, #grandstrategy, #historical, #fantasy, #bronze age

  I recently updated Ascendant Dawn my grand strategy game where you play as a nomadic tribe. Version 0.1.19 adds in a few new features and improves on other things. I've added the foundations of a live... Continue reading

  
• Ascendant Dawn 0.1.18
  August 26, 2023 by NikousStudio

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  #gamedev, #indie, #strategy, #alpha, #4x

  I just finished alpha version 0.1.18 which adds a few new features and reimplements the armies. This version took a while to create mainly because of the incredibly difficult to debug problem with arm... Continue reading
• Ascendant Dawn Trade and Economy
  August 22, 2023 by NikousStudio#historical, #strategy, #bronzeage, #unrealengine, #ue4, #ue5

  Ascendant Dawn is an innovative grand strategy/4X game where you play as a nomadic tribe in a bronze age setting. One of the most important aspects of the bronze age that is depicted in Ascendant Dawn... Continue reading

  
• Renaming to Kings of Bronze
  August 20, 2023 by NikousStudio#rename, #strategy, #indie

  I'm thinking of renaming Ascendant Dawn to Kings of Bronze which is a more descriptive name. What do you think?... Continue reading
• Renaming to Kings of Bronze
  August 20, 2023 by NikousStudio#rename, #strategy, #indie

  I'm thinking of renaming Ascendant Dawn to Kings of Bronze which is a more descriptive name. What do you think?... Continue reading

  
• Strategy Game Alpha 0.1.17 coming soon
  August 17, 2023 by NikousStudio#unreal engine, #game dev, #strategy game, #indie dev, #grand strategy, #civilisation

  Ascendant Dawn alpha version 0.1.17 is coming soon (sunday/monday) and below is the change log. Since the last time I've fixed a major bug that would cause frequent crashing. -Fixed random freezing CT... Continue reading
• Ascendant Dawn 0.1.16
  August 16, 2023 by NikousStudio#strategy, #alpha

  I've done a lot of updating and there are quite a few things that have been improved. This update improves the game overall and adds a little more content to the alpha. I still couldn't add the random... Continue reading
• Initial Findings from the Alpha
  August 13, 2023 by NikousStudio#alpha, #strategy

  After a little bit of feedback from the alpha I've got a small list of things I need to improve. Firstly there are a few problems with the UI. Firstly how it affects the game speed isn't great with th... Continue reading
• Free Alpha Releae
  August 12, 2023 by NikousStudio

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  I've released a free alpha of Ascendant Dawn that covers the tutorial area and should be a good introduction to the game. The current demo is only available for windows but if it gets enough attention... Continue reading
• Getting Ready For Alpha
  August 04, 2023 by NikousStudio

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  #strategy, #alpha, #4x, #unrealengine

  Preparing Ascendant Dawn for an alpha/pre-alpha on itch required a bit of work. This is a combination of fixing bugs and stripping out unfinished features. Firstly the main part of the game would requ... Continue reading

  
• Ascendant Dawn UI
  August 03, 2023 by NikousStudio#UI, #UserInterface, #Strategy

  User interface is a very important part of strategy games because the user needs to know a lot of information. On the other hand to containing a lot of information this UI also needs to be compact and... Continue reading

  
• Ascendant Dawn Cultures
  August 03, 2023 by NikousStudio

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  #culture, #factions, #strategy, #unrealengine

  Ascendant Dawn has around 20 cultures most of which are playable. Most are very roughly based on a real culture from Afro-Eurasia. Most of the cultures are fairly similar having only stat differences... Continue reading

  
• Introducing Ascendant Dawn
  August 02, 2023 by NikousStudio

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  #strategy, #pre-alpha

  Ascendant Dawn is a grand strategy game I've been developing for about a year. During that time the scope has changed a bit going from a semi fantasy game into a more realistic one. Early on in develo... Continue reading