Looking Back at 2025 2025 marked an important step forward for Colossus. With the release of a new version, the project moved beyond pure groundwork and began to show clearer shape and direction. Core systems were expanded, new layers of depth were introduced, and the game took a noticeable step
Today, we’re excited to share the second playable version of our RTS project Colossus with you! Over the past year, our team has poured countless hours into development, and we’re proud to finally show you what we've been working on. If you haven’t seen it
Hello everyone! We’re excited to announce that the next version of Colossus will be released on December 1st, 2025. You’ll be able to download it directly through this newsletter once it’s live! This update marks a major milestone for us — not just in features, but also in
Housing in Colossus In earlier builds of Colossus, housing was handled through a single type of building. This house could either be dedicated to one family or opened up for multiple workers. While the idea gave players some flexibility, in practice it created problems. Managing residents required a lot of
Today we want to take you deeper into the economy of Colossus by presenting our newest workshops, their input and output resources, and how they tie together in production lines that shape the lifeblood of your village. To better understand this, we distinguish between two categories of workshops: resource production
This month's status update focuses on something every player sees right away when launching Colossus – the main menu. But first, let me properly introduce myself: I'm Alessio and I joined Emil and Justus specifically to work on and improve upon the placeholder user interfaces implemented by
In Colossus, each villager begins their journey as a Level 1 Settler—a poor nomad in search of a home. As their basic needs are met, they begin to grow families, advance socially, and gain new rights within the village. Children and adults share many needs, though some (like tools)
Defining the art style also entailed the long-overdue revision and creation of the characters for our villagers. With limited experience in 3D modeling tools like Blender, this initially seemed like a significant challenge. However, without any 3D artists on the team and no financial resources to hire external help, we
Today, we’re excited to dive deeper into some of the most important mechanics that shape life in our village: the Family System Let’s start by taking a closer look at the foundation of village life — the family. In the beginning, your starting villagers are individuals without ties. However,
In a previous post, we explored how buildings in our game are constructed step by step, bringing them to life through smooth animation sequences (see: Artstyle Overhaul). 0:00 /0:22 1× But what happens after a building is finished? That’s where building upgrades come into play. Upgrades are
First lets create a new texture from Scratch In our game development process, we focus on low-poly textures to maintain a stylized, efficient, and visually appealing aesthetic. In this guide, we’ll walk you through how we create our textures using GIMP, a free yet powerful tool we’ve relied
We've taken a fresh approach to our art style, moving away from realism in favor of a more refined low-poly aesthetic. This shift means a complete visual overhaul, covering: * Buildings * Characters * Landscape * GUI To streamline the process, we’ve divided the workload: Justus is sculpting characters in Blender,