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Dev Diary #5 – Faction creation: Dwarves of the Underworld

Hello everyone, my name’s Tom Bird and I’m a senior developer at Triumph Studios. In today's Dev Diary, we will create our own faction — classical Dwarfs. We will also have a deeper look into the Forms and traits they can have. Together with Lennart I've recorded a special gameplay video where...

Stellaris Dev Diary #287 - The Art of MSI

Hi, I’m Lloyd Drake-Brockman, Concept artist on the Stellaris team. I worked extensively on the First Contact DLC and I'm excited to share some of the artistic journey that this pack took me and the art team on. Specifically we're going to be discussing the development of MSI, a new, non-player...

Victoria 3 - Dev Diary #75 - Diplomatic Improvements in 1.2

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Hello and welcome to another Victoria 3 Dev Diary about Update 1.2! By now the Open Beta is of course in full swing, and everything in this post will either already be available to try out or be part of one of the upcoming updates to the Open Beta in the following weeks...

Europa Universalis IV - Development Diary 14th of February 2023

Bonjour! Welcome to this week’s Development Diary where we will be taking a closer look at the new content for France. Before we begin, I would like to take a moment and discuss the idea behind giving content to France and other countries which have already received content of any form in...

Stellaris: Console Edition Development Diary #50 - "Situations and Deficits"

Hello Console Edition Community!

This week we’ll be talking about some more free features included in the upcoming patch for Stellaris: Console Edition, and finally introducing you “officially” to Situations! Its important to note the screenshots in this Development Diary are from a...

Dev Diary #4 — Realms and the Pantheon

Hello everyone, I'm Thomas Schuiten, a designer at Triumph Studios. Today in this dev diary I will give you some insight into the many Realms you can explore, and the Magehaven from which you do so.

The fourth Age of Wonders brings the return of the Wizard kings, but more than that, with the...

Stellaris Dev Diary #286 - Fear and Archaeotechs in First Contact

Hello everyone! I am PDS_Iggy, and I’m here to tell you all about Fear of the Dark!

This new narrative origin for First Contact focuses on a people divided. After a planet in your solar system blew up, fear and xenophobia spread to such a degree that a large portion of your population decided...

Victoria 3 - Dev Diary #74 - UX Improvements

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Hello, my name is Henrik, and I am one of the UX Designers on Victoria 3. For 1.2 I have been fully focused on improving the user experience of the game. Before we go into the details of what has been worked on for this update, I want to give a special thanks to the community, all...

Bookmark your favorite hubs with our new option !


Hub filtering and favorites feature announcement


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Hello dear CEOs,

During Christmas, you were able to discover our new feature allowing you to enjoy your flights in 3D thanks to the Globe.

In order to continue to make your...

Europa Universalis IV - Development Diary 7th of February 2023 - Russia

Privet! Welcome to this week’s Dev Diary, which is all about Russia. The last time Russia saw any big changes was with the release of “Third Rome” in 1.22 and the addition of their mission tree in 1.26. Ever since not a lot has happened there. 1.35 will change this as we are revisiting this...

Dev Diary #115 - Monumental Foundations

Hello and welcome to this dev diary where we will be looking into some new map visuals that’ll be added in the future. As the team grows, we’ve had the opportunity for our new artists to warm up by sprucing up the map a little. Among the things we’ll show off today, chief is the Canterbury...

Stellaris: Console Edition Development Diary #49 - "Unity and Influence"

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Hello Stellaris: Console Edition Community!

It has been awhile since we had any updates on Overlord for Console Edition, but I’m now able to share with you that we’re still on-pace for an early 2023 release! We don’t have an exact date to share just yet, but there are a lot of...

Airport Simulator: February 2023 Balancing

Airport Simulator: February 2023 Balancing


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Hello everyone,
In the next update of Airport Simulator: First Class, we have re-balanced the gaming experience to make it more realistic, and consistent and increase immersion into...

Dev Diary #3 Narrative: Story and Lore

Hi everyone and welcome to a new Dev Diary about Story and Lore!

I’m Michelle (@MichelleTriumph), a narrative designer at Triumph, and today I’d like to talk about the narrative in Age of Wonders 4. Our internal narrative team consists of me and Jakob (@Eomolch). The...

Stellaris Dev Diary #285 - Observation and Awareness

Hello!

Before I delve into the new systems for interactions with pre-FTL civilizations, I'm handing over to one of our newest Content Designers @PDS_Bojj to discuss an example of the types of events that will feature in First Contact.

Watch the Video Dev Diary here...

War Effort - Open Beta & Developer Diary!

Hello there Generals! We are back with another War Effort open beta. This time with a new added feature for the Peace Conference system! But that's not all, we have also done a huge update to the Career Profiles for Multiplayer! And we got a Developer Diary just below to cover just that!

So...

Victoria 3 - Dev Diary #73 - Open Beta and Update 1.2 overview

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Hello and welcome! Today we'll be covering several topics relating to Update 1.2:

  • Open 1.2 Beta
  • Feature Overview
  • Anticipated 1.2 Release Date

As mentioned in our last dev diary, 1.2 is a big update with some far-reaching changes, and we don't want to push...

Europa Universalis IV - Development Diary 31st of January 2023 - Japan

Konnichiwa! Welcome to another week’s Dev Diary, this time around focusing on Japan. As a region, it already received a good amount of interesting content during ‘Mandate of Heaven’, with the introduction of the Shinto interactions, as well as the Shogunate. The goal of revisiting Japan is to...

Dev Diary #114 - And the Winner is…

Greetings!

The polls are closed, and the winner is…

Wards and Wardens

Which I’m very excited about! Not only because it was the theme I personally liked the best, but because there’s a lot of interesting history to explore! We’ll definitely aim to make both rearing and...

Dev Diary #2 — Affinities

Hello Everyone and welcome to a new Dev Diary issue about Affinities!

My name is Tom Bird, and I’m a senior developer at Triumph Studios. Today I’d like to talk about affinities, one of the systems that sits at the heart of Age of Wonders 4. Each affinity represents an...

Stellaris Dev Diary #284 - Broken Shackles

Free at Last!

I’m incredibly excited to introduce ‘Broken Shackles’, one of the new origins featured in the upcoming First Contact DLC.

Watch the Video Dev Diary here:

From the very beginning of the project, @Eladrin stressed the word ‘utopian’...

Victoria 3 - Dev Diary #72 - Economic Law Changes in 1.2

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Hello and welcome to the second Victoria 3 dev diary for 2023! Today we’re going to continue talking about patch 1.2 for Victoria 3 (release date to be announced), on a topic that is closely related to last week’s dev diary, namely Economic Laws and how they have...

Europa Universalis IV - Development Diary 24th of January 2023

Merhaba ve hoşgeldin!

I am excited to showcase the new content for the Ottomans. But before we get to that, I want to comment on some lessons we have learned from the development process of Lions of the North, even if we are quite happy with the final result and its release state:
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Welcome to Age of Wonders 4’s first Dev Diary!

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Age of Wonders 4’s first Development Diary! Here we’ll talk about the game’s inception, big new features, and what you can expect in the coming months leading up to release on May 2nd! You can wishlist the game on Steam today!...

Stellaris Dev Diary #283 - The Vision of First Contact

Hello everyone!

Earlier this week we announced that the First Contact Story Pack is arriving later this quarter, alongside the 3.7 “Canis Minor” update.

Today we’ll combine a quick summary of some of the features and go into why we wanted to do this Story Pack.

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