June 1, 2023 - Hooded Horse emerges from the grass to share the latest from Ant-themed RTS Empires of the Undergrowth, where developer Slug Disco Studios recently attended this year’s Antcon event in Carmarthen, Wales. Co-founder and Studio Director Liam Comerford gave a presentation on the Ant-themed strategy game’s origins, development, and showed off the new “Road to 1.0” roadmap to attendees.
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The current roadmap covers everything from the recently released “The Culling 2” scenario to all of the updates planned across the summer and the rest of 2023. Key areas of improvement still to come include:
- Campaign balance changes
- Art overhauls for the Beach level
- New Ant models, such as the Black Ant Queen
- Freeplay AI improvements and new freeplay landmarks
- New modes, “uber creatures,” achievements, and more
You can read more about the roadmap, post-1.0 ideas, and other recent events for Slug Disco via its May newsletter. There’s also a new gameplay trailer for Empires of the Undergrowth:
Empires of the Undergrowth is available in early access on PC via Steam, GOG, and the Epic Games Store for $19.99 / £17.99 / €19.99 / ¥2,480. A press kit is available.
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About Slug Disco Studios™
Slug Disco Studios is a UK-based developer founded by three childhood friends who had a dream of producing a videogame all about ants. A combination of freelance contracts, Kickstarter, and a Creative England grant helped bring their debut title, Empires of the Undergrowth, to Steam in 2017. The studio has since explored other game experiences themed on the natural world.
You can learn more via the official website, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Discord channels.