The future of Project Aura

[Nexcentric Games]

Greetings Community!

We want to explain in this post what the future of Project Aura is and whether or not there will be new content. But before answering, let's put it in context:

The development of Project Aura began back in 2013 and, as usual in game development, we encountered difficulties. However, after several years of development, we received the bad news that the game engine we used for its development had been discontinued. By this time it was unthinkable to change the engine, but we continued solving each bug we found on our own, although there were others about incompatibilities or "leaks" that we could not solve. We also tried to purchase the engine source code, but the cost was too high...
We finally released PA in 2018 and continue to release patches throughout the year.

Next, we planned to migrate to a new engine for which we evaluate Unreal / Unity, finally choosing Unity. So after carrying out a series of prototypes and numerous tests,we got to a point where we realized that we had to start from scratch to launch a much much better game.

So we are currently developing a new product, independent from Project Aura, but which maintains its essence and the appeal to its community, and which we will announce soon.


With all this said, we want to assure you that we will continue to maintain and address the most serious bugs in Project Aura, releasing patches when necessary. Both, the wiki and the website, will remain live. And we continue to visit the Steam forums, listening to feedback and continue learning from it.


Finally, we apologize for the lack of news during these last months, but we tell you that we continue working and that we will soon announce our next project with which we are really excited and we trust that it will provide an experience 10 times bigger and better.


As always, thank you for your interest in Project Aura and we keep listening for feedback ;)

[darknight]

dam, good news, look forward to hearing/testing your new game, great to hear from you

[TH3Oo]

Whoot!? Seriously, I did not see this coming!! :DD
But great news anyway, I like PA for how unconventional, complicated and serene it is.
Bring it on guys! :)

[tabla_redonda]

Great news, please count me in for testings!

[silverfang17]

PA is really such a good game. Unique concept and gameplay. Can't wait for the newer and better version of PA. We would be happy if you release us some in game pictures of the new PA. :)

[Nikiforos V Fokas]

Good news. PA is still the only title to bring back echoes of happy memories from EvE Online when it was a lot of fun. Take care.

[Beamrider]

That's great! Hope to hear more about the next project soon.

[McRib]

great to hear that

[Gurgeh]

Best of luck, and I hope the journey is also rewarding.

[Grimmas]

Well, at least there is virtually no risk of Unity being discontinued anytime soon. Good luck!

[pasa]

Wow, I'm really glad to read this. I entered the game only now due to mixed reviews (watered up by people who looked for completely different product and bought without research). And honestly it works way above my expectations. I'd want some more tweaks on the interface and maybe in the economy, but it shows all the signs of 'labor of love' and play-based improvements.

It would be a shame to just abandon it.

About the plan to swap engine, especially to unity I have serious reservations. TBH I'd rather not do it, even if it was considered a viable migration, not 'from scratch' as you write it. I saw too many project going that way and sinking, while the conservative approach of just living with the existing infrastructure and adding value through the game logic.

Meanwhile you can start ProjectNext in the new environment, where it is indeed from scratch and can do whatever new instead of struggling to re-implement the old accustomed stuff. I would not hesitate to even put my money beside my mouth if you started a KS project for that like Thea sequel did to an overwhelming success. (On funding, the game fell a little short of the expectations, but mostly because we put them so high, as a standalone it's perfectly fine.)

In any case I wish the team all the best.

[Inucan]

nice but sadly that means no new stuff for PA. And we must whait some years till the new project have all features and is complex enough. I realy like PA and wish there where new stuff for it like new buildings with new functions new tech the softcore mp mode and so on sadly never happen for PA. Then atleast i hope the new PA is even more complex and bigger in every way

[Fly]

Let's be honest here, I played for 45 hours and even if that's it, I got a good deal out of it, I'm happy.

But I sure wouldn't mind more updates. ;)

[xerxes0]

Hopefully the next project will also embrace all the goodness of PA and being new, even more fun and better using the new technology.

[tabla_redonda]

Originally posted by xerxes0:

Hopefully the next project will also embrace all the goodness of PA and being new, even more fun and better using the new technology.

That's the idea. As they stated they new project will appeal to Project Aura community :)

[Grizzly Bob]

Cant wait