Madruga Works' Future

[martiño]

Hello Everyone,

We've been recently having some internal discussions at Madruga Works about the future of Dawn of Man, and of the studio in general, and we would like to share some information with the community.

We started developing Dawn of Man in the summer of 2016, we had tons of ideas to improve on the Planetbase formula, but we wanted a change of setting.
We weren't 100% sure about the detailed mechanics of the game, but after a bit of experimentation the game started to emerge, and after a lot of hard work we managed to release the first version 2.5 years later.

We were unsure what the reception would be, Planetbase had been a big success for us, but we didn't know if people would be interested in a game about human pre-history.
Luckily the response was great, Dawn of Man ended up even more popular than Planetbase both in terms of sales and reviews. We will be forever thankful to the community for that.
The fact that so many people enjoyed the experience and shared this trip to the beginning of humankind with us it's amazing! Thank you all!

In the more practical sense of things, the success of the game allowed us to work on improving it for the next two years, reaching a total of 4.5 years of development.
Pretty much every idea we ever had is now in the game, and we are very happy with the level of complexity in it.

We are now at the stage where we are doing various experiments to decide what to do next, meaning that we will not be working on Dawn of Man full time anymore.
We will still release maintenance updates, and we want to add some more modding options, but there probably won't be any more large content updates for the core of the game.

We will make an announcement whenever we can about what we will be doing next, but these things take time and this probably won't happen soon.

Thank you everyone for your amazing support!

Martiño.

[Mk Z]

make DOM II ;-)

[Eline]

DAWN OF MAN is a great game Make a sequel with lake towns on the lakes, be able to take looters prisoners, have a village chief A big thank you for this game

[thehalligan]

What a waste.

[Ben74]

Hope to see a Dawn of man 2 in the future :) shame about no large updates tho

[korac]

Thanks for the update, and best of luck with whatever you guys decide to do next... but if you're taking a show of hands, count this as another vote for a DoM 2. :)

P.S. Might be an idea to sticky this thread for the foreseeable.

[threethreethree]

I've gotten the impression that DOM is limited in certain ways because of the game engine or code used. A DOM 2 could be done with a different engine...and end up being a smash success.

[The Gaming Spectrum]

A Planet Base II would be a fantastic option with the ability to create micro bases instead of having everything connected to the main base maybe a small mining outpost / farm outpost with some form of shuttle car that could be built by engineers?

and allow engineers to get further distance to repair/maintain buildings

Also if a Dawn of Man Ii - Specialists like hunters/builders/farmers/gatherers as I feel everyone doing everything is a little burden and also makes the AI less smart as they take forever to figure out what they are going to do next

[clayffo]

make DOM II and fix all the things that could be way better like the AI, multiple camp sites, other civs to play against, etc. maybe do it moving forward into the next era where we can port in old games and continue playing with new challenges.

[thomlovessue]

Your recent updates have caused frequent crashes. Very frequent. Before the recenty updates crashes were very rare and usually on community scenarios. This musdt be adddressed before you move on. Agreed that "Dawn of Man" is a great game. Don't let these recent crashes ruin it.

[martiño]

Originally posted by thomlovessue:

Your recent updates have caused frequent crashes. Very frequent. Before the recenty updates crashes were very rare and usually on community scenarios. This musdt be adddressed before you move on. Agreed that "Dawn of Man" is a great game. Don't let these recent crashes ruin it.

Hi we weren't aware of any new crashes, what kind of crashes do you get? Could you report some more info about this on the bug forum?

Thanks!

[Ribsin32]

Made a solid game in the end. Would really like more support for Modders in the future!

I willl be keeping an eye out for news about the next project.

I'm curious whats the highest population that has been achieved?

[Markus]

Amazing game. Spent many hours playing it.
Please look into making a DOM 2. Would be a great game.

[Jambie Lionheart]

To be honest, what I've realllly been craving next in a game is a modern version of populous. Basically just populous that'll work on modern comps and mayyybe (but not important) updated graphics. That would be a damned amazing project. But make sure you keep the old games character >: ]

[Primeval Angel]

Thank you, Martino, for creating this awesome game! Like everyone already said, me and my wife also hope for a DOM2, or anything that will improve DOM. And yes, she still wants to make pots and shoes :)

Originally posted by martiño:

we want to add some more modding options

Well, since I really want to play without the era requirements for unlocking tech, so that I am no longer forced to repeat real-history advancement order (and to do it for Realistic Stone Age mod version 5, I'm forced to start with all tech up to Iron Smelting, Cereal Domestication and Pottery unlocked), I would really want a modding option to remove ONLY the era requirement for tech, nothing else. This is by far the modding option I want most (and there are many others), as this alone will make the game 10 times more replayable.

[susanneelmer]

Is there a bug where all the people suddenly disappear even when the population count is a positive number?