With 2023 coming to an end, I wanted to seize the opportunity to recap what we have achieved this past year and what we are working towards in 2024. To make the message as short as possible, I will keep to bullet points:
In 2023 we managed the following:
• We tripled the member count for our lovely discord community (from around 350 members to more than 1100)
• @Hammie not only introduced us to Beyond New Horizons on the open source StormX engine but even managed to get it to a beta state
• @Mirsaneli significantly upgraded Maelstrom New Horizons in terms of features and quality of life improvements
• We managed to host 10 podcasts on our discord server with various creators in the pirate game community
• We managed to get the English translation for the Russian reconstruction OS mod rolling, allowing us to enjoy this awesome mod soon in English as well
• We reactivated our old community Youtube account, hit 1000+ subscribers on the channel and @Pieter Boelen started his series of Pieter plays let’s plays
• We managed to bring the English as well as Russian Sea Dogs communities closer together, with new partnerships being pursued
• @AkrimalS did significant work on the Russian translation for New Horizons, hopefully bringing the communities further together next year
• And last but not least, our forum members @Grey Roger,@Jack Rackham and @Bartolomeu o Portugues did some great work for an upcoming update for New Horizons
However, I can assure you all that our plans for 2024 will top everything that we have managed to do in 2023 by far:
• We will port our beloved New Horizons mod to Unreal engine 5 with the first playable demo coming along in a couple of months
• We will introduce a new worldmap with new 3D-islands to Beyond New Horizons as well as Maelstrom New Horizons
• We will finish porting the Sea Dogs COAS storyline into New Horizons and start working towards implementing the storylines of the other games such as Caribbean Tales and Sea Dogs 1 as well
• Beyond New Horizons and Maelstrom New Horizons will be further improved and worked upon with new features being introduced too
• We will host our next round of podcasts with an updated schedule
• We will continue uploading new content to our Youtube channel
In 2023 we managed the following:
• We tripled the member count for our lovely discord community (from around 350 members to more than 1100)
• @Hammie not only introduced us to Beyond New Horizons on the open source StormX engine but even managed to get it to a beta state
• @Mirsaneli significantly upgraded Maelstrom New Horizons in terms of features and quality of life improvements
• We managed to host 10 podcasts on our discord server with various creators in the pirate game community
• We managed to get the English translation for the Russian reconstruction OS mod rolling, allowing us to enjoy this awesome mod soon in English as well
• We reactivated our old community Youtube account, hit 1000+ subscribers on the channel and @Pieter Boelen started his series of Pieter plays let’s plays
• We managed to bring the English as well as Russian Sea Dogs communities closer together, with new partnerships being pursued
• @AkrimalS did significant work on the Russian translation for New Horizons, hopefully bringing the communities further together next year
• And last but not least, our forum members @Grey Roger,@Jack Rackham and @Bartolomeu o Portugues did some great work for an upcoming update for New Horizons
However, I can assure you all that our plans for 2024 will top everything that we have managed to do in 2023 by far:
• We will port our beloved New Horizons mod to Unreal engine 5 with the first playable demo coming along in a couple of months
• We will introduce a new worldmap with new 3D-islands to Beyond New Horizons as well as Maelstrom New Horizons
• We will finish porting the Sea Dogs COAS storyline into New Horizons and start working towards implementing the storylines of the other games such as Caribbean Tales and Sea Dogs 1 as well
• Beyond New Horizons and Maelstrom New Horizons will be further improved and worked upon with new features being introduced too
• We will host our next round of podcasts with an updated schedule
• We will continue uploading new content to our Youtube channel
