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Hubs & Transport Dev Diary #1: Transport Additions

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Greetings city-builder. To celebrate Cities: Skylines turning 8 years and to give the game the send-off you deserve, we have another free patch full of presents for you and I’m excited to show you everything Hubs & Transport has to offer! The patch brings new content to the base...

Dev Diary #9: Ancient Wonders

Greetings future Rulers, welcome to another Development Journal! I’m Bas, a game designer at Triumph Studios. I’d like to give you some glimpses into the grand structures called Ancient Wonders that can be found in the realms you conquer.

Each Ancient Wonder is a monument from the great ages of...

Surviving the Aftermath - Dev Diary #25 - Rebirth DLC

Greetings survivors!

Our third DLC is now available! “Rebirth” offers a new way to literally transform your colony into a post-apocalyptic paradise! Clear the waters and purify the soil with new terraforming discoveries to bring back the once green fields and lush forests. The journey is...

Dev Diary #1: Game Vision

Hi everyone,

Welcome to the first Dev Diary for The Lamplighters League and the Tower at the End of the World. My name is Chris Rogers—I’m the game’s Director and in this first dev diary I wanted to share the inspiration behind the game.

Our vision for The...

Europa Universalis IV - Development Diary 14th of March 2023 - Government Mechanics + Free Content

Good afternoon and welcome to another Developer Diary! This week we will be taking a closer look at various types of new content added to the game, starting with a review of the new Government mechanics that will come with Domination, and the additions we made to previous DLCs as well as to the...

Dev Diary #119 - Tours and Travel

Dev Diary #119 – Tours and Travel


Hello! My name is Chad and this is my premiere here on the forums. We’re really excited to kick off a series of dev diaries showing off all the work we have put into Tours and Tournaments. To briefly reiterate a bit of what was covered in @rageair ’s...

Dev Diary 8 - Cities and Expansion

Hello everyone!

My name is Sam Minh Ly, a designer at Triumph in charge of the economy of Age of Wonders 4. In this dev diary I would like to talk about the economy and city development. Shoutouts to Glenn and Lennart who did a lot of work to design the systems of the economy in Age of Wonders...

Stellaris Dev Diary #290 - We Have Contact (3.7.2 'Canis Minor' Patch Notes)

Hi, everyone!


This story pack has been something we've wanted to bring you for quite some time, so it's my great pleasure to bring you the release notes for the Stellaris 3.7.2 'Canis Minor' update and the First Contact Story Pack. I've also attached the 3.7.2 Script Documentation...

Victoria 3 - Dev Diary #78 - Update 1.2 changelog

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Hello and welcome! Today I will be going through, or perhaps more accurately infodumping, everything that has happened for Update 1.2. Many of you will have already experienced 1.2 in our Open Beta and will recognize many of these new features, improvements, and bug fixes...

Europa Universalis IV - Development Diary 7th of March 2023 - All Blue

Hello and welcome to another Development Diary! Today we will be talking about the new, yet undisclosed content for Europa Universalis IV: Domination, the new expansion that was announced yesterday!

We are very excited to show you the final features that we will include. But let's...

Surviving the Aftermath - Announcing Rebirth DLC



For the longest time, you strove to survive the aftermath on planet Earth. Now, thanks to your knowledge, skills, and leadership, you can finally look forward to a new chapter for humankind. “Rebirth” is your mantra, your goal, the dream that will make you overcome old and new...

CK3: Tours and Tournaments - The Vision

Greetings!

Come one, come all! The grand tournament awaits your attendance - your steeds have been readied and your entourage assembled for the journey ahead! It’s time to show the world your graciousness as host and worth in the arena… but to get there, we’re better off routing our journey...

Stellaris: Console Edition Development Diary #53 - "Megastructures and Origins"

Hello Stellaris: Console Edition Community!

We’re now only a few days away from the release of Overlord on Console Edition! I know a lot of you have been excited for this day for a long time, and we’d like to thank you for your patience while we work on this update, but we’re finally ready to...

Dev Diary #7 – Exploration and Meeting the Neighbours

Hello there and welcome to a new Development Journal! My name is Lennart, Game Director for Age of Wonders 4. Today we’ll be looking at the early game exploration and “player versus environment” phase, where you'll get your bearings using your scouts, identify allies and threats, while...

Stellaris Dev Diary #289 - Hide and Seek

A staple of sci-fi that has long been missing from Stellaris is the ability to have fleets and stations capable of being cloaked and hiding from enemy sensors. With the addition of Awareness and improvements to interactions with pre-FTL civilizations, we felt that First Contact was the right...

Victoria 3 - Dev Diary #77 - Military Improvements

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Hello everyone, it’s Nik here again to give you all a look at the changes we have been working on for the military. Last time I was in a Dev Diary was back during Game Jam Part 1. I recommend taking a look back at the first parts of the dev diary to get all the...

Europa Universalis IV - Development Diary 28th of February 2023 - Great Britain

Greetings! A new week, a new Dev Diary, and this time it is about our final big country of the DLC, England, and its follow-up nation of Great Britain. Similar to Russia, England and Great Britain received their content update with 1.25 which is now almost 5 years old. While the British mission...

Dev Diary #117 - Shave and a Map Mode

Hello everyone!

My name is Jens and this is my first appearance on this forum. I’ve got the opportunity to share some details with you on my probation project for CK3, which is making it all the way into the upcoming release (because that’s where I pushed my changes, lol)!

I’m happy at least...

Stellaris: Console Edition Development Diary #52 - "Specialty Subjects and Enclaves"

Hello Console Edition Community!

By now I hope you’ve seen the announcement - if not - Stellaris: Console Edition Overlord will release on March 8th!

Get it today as part of Expansion Pass Five!

This release will complete Expansion Pass Five, there’s still more...

Dev Diary #6 — Narrative events

Hello everyone and welcome to today’s development diary about Narrative Events. I am Jakob (@Eomolch) from Triumph’s narrative team and I’ll be picking up where my colleague Michelle (@MichelleTriumph) left off two weeks ago with her more lore and story-focused journal...

Stellaris Dev Diary #288 - Payback and Insights

Nothing unites people more than a common enemy.

You know how the story goes: space invaders attack, and the people of the world unite, casting aside their differences to stand together against a shared threat. Together, they defeat the more advanced enemy, who foolishly underestimated the...

Victoria 3 - Dev Diary #76 - Performance

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Hello and welcome to this week's Victoria 3 dev diary. This time we will be talking a bit about performance and how the game works under the hood. It will get somewhat detailed along the way and if you are mostly interested in what has improved in 1.2 then you can find that...

Europa Universalis IV - Development Diary 21st of February 2023 - Spain

¡Hola a todo el mundo, y bienvenidos! In this week’s Development Diary, we will be talking about the content that we have created for Spain and the different Iberian countries, mainly Castile and Aragon, as they are the top runners for its formation.

First of all, for the redesign of Spain’s...

Dev Diary #116 - Agrarian Research Techniques

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... Anyone watching? No? Good.

Ok, just you and me. Great, because I've only got a few wee lil morsels today and I don't want to share them with too many people. So let's all just keep this quiet and, if anyone asks, the dev diary was about how we research...

Stellaris: Console Edition Development Diary #51 - "Changes to Subjugation"

Hello Console Edition Community!

In the free patch coming alongside Overlord - Coming Soon™ - there are some significant changes coming to the vassalization mechanics in Stellaris: Console Edition that we should go over.

Previously, being vassalized in Stellaris was merely a slow path to...