Sneak Peek Roundup #2
February 21, 2025
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Hello, everyone!
If you caught our last Sneak Peek Roundup you’ll know the deal. But just in case, our Discord is the place to be for a lot of our smaller updates. We have short videos and screenshots that give everyone an insight into what we’re working on right then.
So, let’s round up another month's worth!
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So, in the last sneak peek you saw the new area from high up, today we're taking a closer look!
I took this screenshot in today's bi-weekly progress meeting with the team and it's your first look at the flooded swamp land that you will find in the new area we are working on. You can also get a sense, looking at the aerial view above, roughly where this flooded barn might be and get a sense of the scale we're trying to build in Ardem!
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"...it was when farms began to fail that we truly understood, nothing was going to be the same anymore." - Survivor 217
It's another sneak peek at the new area we're building! This time it's an abandoned farm which you can stumble across. The whole area features a lot of what was previously farm land. Possibly great to build a new future on, possibly not. Time will tell.
We love putting these points of interest into the game and trying to tell a little story just using the environment. Be sure to check back here next week as we may have some news on how you could get involved with that as well...
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"I had no idea so much code went into Corn..." - Me, jumping in a meeting this morning.
Staying fed will be a big part of Ardem, and farming will be something a survivor can work towards! Maybe you'll be the Farmer on your server? Though, you'll probably need either some good defences, or some agreements with other clans to protect your crops. Or maybe you just stay a little more low key and just farm for yourself.
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You may have seen the area in our latest dev diary, or some of the maps above, that feature a "swampy" terrain. Well, here we are experimenting with trying to bring that swamp atmosphere with some volumetric fog. We're not saying there's anything spooky in the swamp.
We are not saying that. It just, I mean, it looks both spooky and chill at the same time, right?!
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Not so much a sneak peak, it's a fun bug we found while play testing the other day. Should flying trees be a feature and not a bug?! No. But what if...?
No.
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"Just follow the signposts, they should get you there. Unless someone has messed with the signposts, but nobody would do that, right?" - Survivor 0486
Hello everyone! It's another Sneak Peak for you, and you can see here, we're trying to make the world of Ardem as immersive as we can! We hope you can find where you need to go with signs, but hey, who knows what condition those signs are in. And how accurate they might be...
And that’s another month of sneak peeks from the Ardem Discord server! If you want to see everything as soon as it comes out, be sure to join us! The team is there to chat about the game and it’s the best place to hear the second we open the Closed Alpha Testing or the date of our next Open Alpha Test!
Until next time,
- Techtive Games
If you caught our last Sneak Peek Roundup you’ll know the deal. But just in case, our Discord is the place to be for a lot of our smaller updates. We have short videos and screenshots that give everyone an insight into what we’re working on right then.
So, let’s round up another month's worth!
#1 Into The Swamp
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So, in the last sneak peek you saw the new area from high up, today we're taking a closer look!
I took this screenshot in today's bi-weekly progress meeting with the team and it's your first look at the flooded swamp land that you will find in the new area we are working on. You can also get a sense, looking at the aerial view above, roughly where this flooded barn might be and get a sense of the scale we're trying to build in Ardem!
#2 Farms in the New Area
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"...it was when farms began to fail that we truly understood, nothing was going to be the same anymore." - Survivor 217
It's another sneak peek at the new area we're building! This time it's an abandoned farm which you can stumble across. The whole area features a lot of what was previously farm land. Possibly great to build a new future on, possibly not. Time will tell.
We love putting these points of interest into the game and trying to tell a little story just using the environment. Be sure to check back here next week as we may have some news on how you could get involved with that as well...
#3 Corn with a C
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"I had no idea so much code went into Corn..." - Me, jumping in a meeting this morning.
Staying fed will be a big part of Ardem, and farming will be something a survivor can work towards! Maybe you'll be the Farmer on your server? Though, you'll probably need either some good defences, or some agreements with other clans to protect your crops. Or maybe you just stay a little more low key and just farm for yourself.
#4 The Fog Descends on the Swamp
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You may have seen the area in our latest dev diary, or some of the maps above, that feature a "swampy" terrain. Well, here we are experimenting with trying to bring that swamp atmosphere with some volumetric fog. We're not saying there's anything spooky in the swamp.
We are not saying that. It just, I mean, it looks both spooky and chill at the same time, right?!
#5 When the Trees Fly
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Not so much a sneak peak, it's a fun bug we found while play testing the other day. Should flying trees be a feature and not a bug?! No. But what if...?
No.
#6 The Road Ahead
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"Just follow the signposts, they should get you there. Unless someone has messed with the signposts, but nobody would do that, right?" - Survivor 0486
Hello everyone! It's another Sneak Peak for you, and you can see here, we're trying to make the world of Ardem as immersive as we can! We hope you can find where you need to go with signs, but hey, who knows what condition those signs are in. And how accurate they might be...
And that’s another month of sneak peeks from the Ardem Discord server! If you want to see everything as soon as it comes out, be sure to join us! The team is there to chat about the game and it’s the best place to hear the second we open the Closed Alpha Testing or the date of our next Open Alpha Test!
Until next time,
- Techtive Games
