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Forge empires, incite revolutions, and reshape society in Gilded Destiny, the definitive grand strategy game of the Industrial Age. Take command of your chosen nation and lead it to glory through masterful diplomacy, sweeping industrialization, and decisive warfare.

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Alpha Roadmap Update #13

May 15

Salutations Industrialists,

We're excited to share the progress we've made in April and update you on our Alpha Roadmap.

Work on the economy continues, but is nearly resolved. Meanwhile, work continues on many other features, as you'll see below. Our team also completed several tasks than we had not listed for May in the last roadmap, so please see those below too!

Also, we'd like to thank you for your patience on this roadmap. We’re steadily advancing on several key features of Gilded Destiny as we prepare for the Alpha release to our Kickstarter and Modian backers. Right now, a major focus for the dev team is fine-tuning the in-game economy and population systems. The core challenge lies in ensuring that Pop behavior—how they consume, produce, and trade—remains balanced and consistent within the broader economy. Once these systems are functioning as intended and have passed thorough testing, we’ll be ready to deliver the Alpha build to our backers.

Without further ado, let's take a look at what we accomplished in April and what is planned for May.

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Accomplished in April

Continue testing the newly implemented Trade system

Testing is ongoing. As Trade is integral to the proper function of the in-game economy and many other systems, such as Production, testing is planned to continue for the coming months as new features are added and existing mechanics are adjusted.

Continue Editing terrain of Southeastern and Central Asia

Terrain of the Qing Empire has been completed.

Implement Qing events

Initial early events have been implemented. We plan to add more content soon.

Continue designing Major US events.

The Major US events have been designed and partially implemented. Further implementation is pending group modifiers to be developed and input into the game.
Major event chains include:
- The Trail of Tears
- The US Civil War
- The Mexican-American War
- Texan Revolution

Continue fixing bugs reported by QA testers and pre-Alpha testers

Ongoing. QA testers continue to test the stable and pre-Alpha builds.

Adjust various economic features, such as tariffs, to align with the new Trade system

Progress is being made. Tariffs are functioning in game and appear to have the desired effect. QA testers are currently verifying that they work correctly. Development and refining of the Trade System is ongoing.
Added a feature to allow different sectors to have separate tariff rates (agricultural, military, industrial, etc)

Complete implementation of Rebellions---Test, and update

Ongoing. The system is currently working as intended. Refinement will continue into May.

Update and refine policy modifiers and tech modifiers

Pushed to May

Continue designing and implementing cultural heritages and religious convictions

Work is being done on this currently, but more focused development will occur in May.

Begin implementation of Bureaucratic efficiency system

Done!

Political Parties

Design for Political Parties is complete, including details of how they will interact with existing game systems.

Continue implementing with clothing and portraits

Progress is being made, and our team is implementing more Leaders into the game. Our art team is working with an outsourcing studio which draws most clothing and portraits. Once our in-house art team approves, our artists will touch up each portrait before being sent for implementation into the game.

Working on updating the Trade UI

The main interface for the Trade is largely complete, and should be completed by the end of May.

Continue work on map modes

Map Modes have been implemented and design has been largely completed. Our Artists still need to update a few remaining icons for a few map layers. Several new map views have been introduced, including War Exhaustion, Technology, Literacy Rate, Unemployment, Resource Points, and GDP views. The map modes system now supports dynamic parameters, paving the way for more complex views like Production by Good type. Transitions between map modes are now smoother, and color shading (especially in gray-scale regions) has been optimized with a dynamic grayscale system for better clarity. Finally, existing views like Culture, Religion, and Military Recruitment have been refined with better color logic and tooltip presentation, particularly at different map zoom levels.

Extra tasks accomplished in April

Begin researching additional on Leaders / adding more into the game

Compiled a list of influential figures for our major countries. These concern all of our leader types, so determining which scientists to add, which generals, which presidents/prime ministers, etc... Most of these will not have custom portraits, but they can appear as leaders during their lifetime with appropriate stats.

Begin designing additional Leader Traits

This has been pushed to May. Generally, this will involve a review of our current leader traits and a brief design discussion to standardize what leader traits should offer.

Begin inputting initial data for military units, currently working on the UK

Work has started on this area, and will continue into May and June as we input military data for other countries.

Added New AI Systems

Added systems for restarting closed buildings, managing national reserves, and enabling investment behavior by smallholders and artisans.

Diplomacy AI Logic Redesign

Peace negotiation behavior of AI has been made less rigid and formulaic in order to make outcomes feel more organic and responsive.

Smarter Construction AI

Provincial building AI has been adjusted to prevent over-construction in newly developed regions.

Camera Controls Tuned

Improved responsiveness and behavior for zooming and panning across different game systems.

UI Layer Optimization

Made several enhancements to how UI elements display at various zoom levels, including: 1) differentiation between major and minor city labels to reduce visual clutter and 2) adding small icons for buildings and resource nodes for better at-a-glance clarity.

End of May

World Map
- Edit Terrain of South America and begin editing terrain of Africa
- Cultural Heritages and Religious Convictions
- Continue design and implementation of Cultural Heritages and Religious Convictions, aiming to cover the major Religious Convictions and finalize Religious Groups by the end of May.

Authority and Government Support
- Update and refine systems involving the generation and use of Authority, and review the impact of the Government Support system.
- Review and update configuration of POP Political Power system

Political Parties
- Begin implementation of new Political Parties design.

Policies
- Update and refine the modifiers for Policies in line with new game systems.

Economy
- Continue refining economic behavior and updating initial economic world-state based on historical data.

Rebellions
- Complete implementation of Rebellion system.

AI
- Finalize AI for province-level policy management
- Implement AI systems for leader recruitment and assignment to governmental, province, or military postings

UI
- Complete design of Navy UI
- Complete redesign of Flag Editor UI
- Continue refining Map UI elements for clarity and performance

POPs
- Refine distribution of POP cultures, religions, and professions in Western Europe and Russia, based on historical data.

Diplomacy
- Begin planning for refining and expanding on Diplomacy system

We will share our plan for June at the beginning of the month. As our goals and expectations evolve, and as these milestones are reached, we will keep you updated!

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Also, as a reminder—we have assigned Discord roles to our backers who are already part of our server. If you are not a member of our server, please join via the link below and say hello in the chat to ensure that you claim your role!

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Pre-Alpha Testing Continues

As many of you are already aware, we have launched the Pre-Alpha of Gilded Destiny to a small group of about 100 testers chosen from our Kickstarter and Modian backers at random. So far, we have received lots of constructive feedback, suggestions, and bug reports. As we continue to develop certain systems for Gilded Destiny, we are also now beginning to transition to a more feedback-based approach to development. The pre-Alpha testers have helped a great deal to isolate bugs and to improve playability. We look forward to sharing the game with more of you very soon!

As we've mentioned previously, we decided to do a small closed Pre-Alpha test to gather initial feedback so that experience of the Alpha is enjoyable and meaningful, and to streamline the process of administrating keys, feedback collection, and bug reporting on our end. Of course, as many of you know, both the pre-Alpha and Alpha builds of the game will likely have limited content and systems may not be fully implemented into the game.

Thanks for your support and for reading!
May your day be a gilded one!

Gilded Destiny

not to be dramatic or anything

but I would do some highly questionable acts for an alpha build of this game

Arminius

Apr 30 @ 9:14am

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Alpha Roadmap Update #12

Apr 7

Salutations Industrialists,

We're excited to share the progress we've made over the last month and update you on our Alpha Roadmap.

As mentioned previously, in March we were focused on addressing and resolving a few issues with the in game economy. We're making good progress refining several of the important features of Gilded Destiny, in preparation for the release of the Alpha version of the game to our Kickstarter and Modian backers. Importantly, our dev teams are devoting much of their focus on resolving a few issues with the in-game economy and population. The main problems we have been facing are maintaining the integrity of how the pops consume, produce, and trade in-game, which ties into the economy. Once these systems are working properly, and once we've thoroughly tested them, we are planning to release the Alpha to our backers.

Without further ado, let's take a look at what we accomplished in March and what is planned for April. This is also a special roadmap, as it marks the twelfth update! So, we would like to share a list of major accomplishments in the last year as well!

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Accomplished in March

Complete implementing early Events for the Qing Empire, Netherlands, and Belgium
- This will not include rebellions, which will wait until implementation of the Rebellion system
- Early events for the Qing Empire are underway, and implementation has begun.

Continue designing early Italian Events
- Underway and continuing into April.

Continue refining terrain (such as mountains, lakes, and rivers)
- Southeastern Asia, Central Asia, and South Asia
- Central Asia has been completed and work on Southeastern and South Asia will continue into April.

Begin designing early US Events
- Some initial design work has been completed. Work will continue into April.

Continue adjusting and refining the global economy
- This is an ongoing process. Improvements have been made to the economic system. With the implementation of a redesigned trade system in games, we hope to resolve several of the major bugs plaguing the economy right now.

Update initial country stats for Europe and the Americas
- Done.

Refine and update the placement of resources and the availability of plantation goods in various provinces
- Refinement has begun and will continue into April.

Refine and update design for the effects of Leader Positions
- Done. These have been refined and are ready for implementation.

Design for auxiliary units (engineers, sappers, etc.) that can be added to divisions for various bonuses
- Initial design has been completed, with units including: Engineers, Spotters/Reconnaissance, Field Hospitals/Medics, Service Corps/Logistics, Heavy Machine Guns, Military Police, Signal Corps, and Marines.

Adjust some Country and Province Borders
- Done.

Update and refine Culture, Religion, and Profession distribution in Europe
- Pushed back.

Design new Cultural Heritages and Religious Convictions, and implement where possible
- Underway, a few have been implemented and will be assigned to pops.

Add new Leader Traits
- Delayed. Pushed back.

Complete the Settings and Save/Load Menu Art Design
- Art designs have been completed. Awaiting implementation

Add more portraits and clothes to the game
- Several new country-specific uniforms have been added to the game. These now need to be synced with leader portraits. And one general European military uniform has been added, which can currently be seen in the game.

Continued performance optimization, through internal QA testing and bug reports and feedback from Pre-Alpha testers
- The internal QA team has been growing and is creating procedures to optimize workflow. Performance continues to be optimized in the game build.

Redesign and Implement new Trade system
- With the hope of addressing issues with the Economy, our devs have designed and implemented a new trade system. If the new Trade system is successful, after thorough testing, we are much closer to releasing the Alpha build.

Extras Added in March:

Added New AI behaviors, including Building Construction and the adjustment of Tariffs and Government Expenses
Implemented the HUD UI Design
Implementation of Rebellion system is underway
Navy System design is currently being finalized
Updates to schools and literacy rates are in progress
Bureaucratic efficiency design is currently being finalized
Further refinements to population job transfers and transfer rates

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End of April

Continue testing the newly implemented Trade system
Southeastern and Central Asia
Finish designing early Italian Events
Implement Qing events
Continue designing Early US events.
Continue fixing bugs reported by QA testers and pre-Alpha testers
Adjust various economic features, such as tariffs, to align with the new Trade system
Complete implementation of Rebellions---Test, and update.
Update and refine policy modifiers and tech modifiers
Continue designing and implementing cultural heritages and religious convictions
Begin implementation of Bureaucratic efficiency system
Continue implementing with clothing and portraits
Working on updating the Trade UI
Continue work on map view modes

Major Accomplishments in the Last Year!

Reworking the entire UI and making it more consistent
Creating an improved and more readable visual language to improve UI/UX
The release of the pre-alpha
Reworking the Event Editor, including making changes to improve usability for modders
Developing Prussian events to develop design standards for game content
Creating a demo build and sharing the game at Gamescom
Map Rework of underlying logic and visual appearance (which is still being refined)
Significant performance optimizations from adjustments to Pops, the Map Rework
Bringing several core features from concept to implementation
AI behavior has been greatly improved, especially in relation to buildings and economy
Adding new employees to our Development and Publishing Teams, increasing stability and reliability of the development process
100 new Leader portraits have been designed and many have already been implemented into the game.
Completed design for various core systems, such as Rebellion, Technology, Production Methods, managing Cultures and Religions, and many more. Implementation of these systems is mostly complete, with only one or two still underway.
Significant advances in the historical distribution of POPs, resources, buildings, etc. While this is still a work in progress, the world of Gilded Destiny is far closer to the world of 1822 than it was a year ago (somewhat paradoxically).
The 3 technology trees have been implemented, along with all of the goods and buildings. These will continue to receive refinement, balancing, and artwork, but the bulk of the content is in the game and working as it should be.
A world map that is historically accurate, given the inevitable restrictions of size and gameplay requirements. There may still be a few small errors that need to be fixed, but by and large the political geography is done and the physical geography is almost finished.

Please note that we are again recalibrating our progress at the end of April, so we will look forward to sharing May goals in the next Alpha Roadmap. As our goals and expectations evolve, and as these milestones are reached, we will keep you updated!

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Also, as a reminder—we have assigned Discord roles to our backers who are already part of our server. If you are not a member of our server, please join via the link below and say hello in the chat to ensure that you claim your role!

Join the Gilded Destiny Discord Server[discord.com]

Pre-Alpha Testing Continues

As many of you are already aware, we have launched the Pre-Alpha of Gilded Destiny to a small group of about 100 testers chosen from our Kickstarter and Modian backers at random. So far, we have received lots of constructive feedback, suggestions, and bug reports. As we continue to develop certain systems for Gilded Destiny, we are also now beginning to transition to a more feedback-based approach to development. The pre-Alpha testers have helped a great deal to isolate bugs and to improve playability. We look forward to sharing the game with more of you very soon!

As we've mentioned previously, we decided to do a small closed Pre-Alpha test to gather initial feedback so that experience of the Alpha is enjoyable and meaningful, and to streamline the process of administrating keys, feedback collection, and bug reporting on our end. Of course, as many of you know, both the pre-Alpha and Alpha builds of the game will likely have limited content and systems may not be fully implemented into the game.

Thanks for your support and for reading!
May your day be a gilded one!

Gilded Destiny

Special Announcement - [VLOG] Major Redesign focused on Prussia

Mar 31

Greetings, Industrialists!

In today's Special Announcement, we are excited to share a major redesign of Gilded Destiny! As many of you are aware, our Content Design team has spent a significant amount of time on Prussia. In light of all the knowledge accumulated, we are announcing a major redesign of the game, making it the first ever Grand Strategy Game dedicated solely to the Kingdom of Prussia!

Also, Check out our eleventh Alpha Roadmap Update:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2189430/view/501692943024783533?l=english

You can find the full script of the Announcement below.

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Let us know if you have any questions or feedback over on Discord. And be sure to wishlist us to stay up to date!

Join our Discord community today!
https://discord.gg/3d77T9gxDF

Speaking of Discord, we have started rolling the Discord roles to our Kickstarter backers! If you have not yet completed the Kickstarter survey we sent out, please do so. If you have filled it out, and are not yet in our Discord server, join and say hello in the main channel to let us know you're there to claim your role!

Our Kickstarter officially ended in April, and brought in a total of £31,974 GBP, which is 159% of our goal! We offer the most gilded appreciation to all of our backers and our community. Your support, positive feedback and encouragement, and our growing vibrant community of industrialists motivates more than ever to make Gilded Destiny the most moddable, immersive, fun, and grandest GSG out there.

You can access the survey on the Kickstarter website:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gildeddestiny/gilded-destiny-a-grand-strategy-game?ref=bjurrh

Finally, if you are interested in what we do and want to join us but do not see a relevant job, send us your resume at jobs@aquilainteractive.io!

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Script for the Special Announcement:

Salutations Industrialists,

As many of you may be aware, we have spent a significant amount of time developing content for Prussia.

We are excited to announce that Gilded Destiny is being redesigned to focus solely on the most glorious of nations during the nineteenth century!

Play as any Prussian country in the 19th century.

You can even play as the original, historical Prussia, as you can see here colored in splendid and imposing Prussian Pink.

Make your Prussia the best Prussia!

More details to follow!

Until our paths converge once more, may your destiny and your April Fools day be a gilded one.

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Also:

Be sure to listen closely to the backing tracks in all our videos—they are the pieces you will come to hear in the game, composed by John Skoog. Also, the solo clarinet on this track was performed by yours truly, Marc.

Listen to some of John Skoog's other work on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3PGd3lmURa72oFasqK3N7N?si=nDl4DUTRQGKKLaDtGcHBJw
John Skoog Music: https://www.johnskoogmusic.com/

Gilded Destiny

Out of 400 games on my wishlist I want this the most.

Don't forsaken me by abandoning it.

Toxicwire†

Apr 24 @ 3:25pm

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Anyone have any inside scoops on how development is progressing?

I am beyond excited for this game. I wishlisted it immediately and I am deeply excited about the potential 2025 release. I'm currently battling cancer IRL, but I'm finishing up/wrapping up my long 4 yr chemo stint in December. I've forgotten what it's felt like to game when I'm not under the influence of so many meds. This game is something my friends and I have thought about for eons. In the past, I would be afraid that I could possibly not live to see the day of X game being released. And, to my absolu...

Serpentar

Apr 26 @ 2:46pm

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Release 2024?

Will this release in 2024?

Bruce Wayne

Apr 1 @ 9:48am

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Performance

How well will the game perform and why do you need 32GB of RAM? That's fine but if I want to play this on my laptop I couldn't. Would there be a way to just turn off the terrain and make it just the paper map like Victoria 2?

epicgamerrusher

May 12 @ 10:13am

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