Be the Ruler: Britannia — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| Demo Is Still Available for a Limited Time! | 2024-06-27 | Hey everyone, Our demo is still up for a limited time, even though Steam Fest is over. Download it now and enjoy the first 20 minutes of gameplay! :) As a king, establish a dynasty, forge alliances, and defend your kingdom in auto-battler combat. Want to watch us play? Check out our live stream recording here: We also invite you to share your feedback with us on our Discord. Your feedback helps us make the game even better. Long Live Wessex! |
| REBROADCASTING: RULE THE KINGDOM! | 2024-06-16 | Hey everyone! 🎮 We’re having a chill rebroadcasting demo event with the devs going live! Catch some epic gameplay, discover cool features, and chat directly with the people who made the game. Bring your questions and good vibes—don’t miss out on this awesome hangout! See you on Steam! 🚀 |
| REBROADCASTING: WATCH THE DEVELOPER PLAY! | 2024-06-12 | Hey everyone, Missed our live stream? No worries! Catch the rebroadcast of our Be The Ruler demo during Steam Fest. Get an inside look at the world of Britannia, kingdom building, and fighting viking hordes. Don’t miss out on the action and join us for some fun! |
| BE THE RULER - DEMO ON STEAM FEST | 2024-06-10 | Hey everyone, We’re thrilled to bring you the demo version of Be the Ruler! Coronation Event Chain: Get a taste of the core gameplay through a short event chain. Each event offers multiple ways to resolve it, setting the stage for the adventure that awaits in the full game. Manage Resources: Improve your economy before invasions. Build farms and markets to boost your food and cash flow, and set up barracks to increase your forces. Get yourself ready for whatever comes. Battleground: Experience fighting Viking hordes in a sample of our auto-battle system. Deploy forces on the battlefield, choose targets for your regiments, and let strategy and |
| Steam Next Fest Live Stream | 2024-06-07 | Hey everyone, We're going live on Steam Underground during Steam Fest! Come hang out with us, check out some gameplay, and chat with the devs. It's going to be epic! And don't forget to add Steam Be the Ruler to your wishlist! |
| Rule Britannia! Free Demo of "Be the Ruler: Britannia" Coming to Steam Fest! | 2024-05-21 | Hey Everyone! We've got some exciting news! Our game Be the Ruler: Britannia will be part of STEAM FEST starting June 10th, and you'll be able to play the demo for free! We’ve completed the optimization, so now even those who couldn’t play the original version can enjoy it. Check out the new updates, dive into the action, and let us know what you think. We’re really looking forward to sharing this with you. Mark your calendars and get ready for some fun! See you at Steam Fest! |
| FREE DEMO is available NOW | 2024-05-03 | Hi guys! We're excited to announce that Be the Ruler: Prologue is now available for free! So become the King and PLAY NOW here ːsteamhappyː Step into the shoes of an Anglo-Saxon king and navigate a dynamic world where every decision shapes the fate of your kingdom. Your mission? To unite England as Bretwalda before the Norman invasion. With procedurally generated events, no two playthroughs will be the same. We invite you to play Be the Ruler: Prologue and share your feedback with us. Your thoughts are invaluable in helping us shape the full game experience! Get the game now and become the ruler you were meant to be! |
| New Trailer of Be The Ruler: Britatnia | 2024-03-05 | New Trailer Alert for Be The Ruler! We're excited to share that the new trailer for Be The Ruler is now live! As a king, establish a dynasty, forge alliances, and defend your realm through the ages. Every playthrough crafts a new narrative where your choices matter. Now fully in 3D :) Want to talk with us more about the trailer? Join our Discord server! Long Live Wessex, Be The Ruler Team |
| Dev Diary #4 - Worldbuilding - Chippenham | 2021-07-10 | Hello! We've been busy these past weeks building the script for the prologue, setting up the quests, and creating the environment you'll be playing in during the prologue. We've also been creating the NPC generator, setting up the stories and motivations of the NPCs. In the prologue you will be defending Chippenham from a Viking attack led by Haflan, son of Ragnar Lothbrok. Your vassals, allies, and whoever else you can convince as King Alfred, King of Wessex, and potential Bretwald will help you in your battles! See a video of the current Chippenham (still Work In Progress) and step by step how it was created: |
| Dev Diary #3 - Be the Ruler: Britannia - Furnishing! | 2021-05-28 | Hi! More Dev Diary for the new Ruler in 3D! This time see how we furnished the rooms and polished the fort :) In the fort we have created rooms for your advisors (Chancellor, Treasurer and Spymaster), as well as a war room and bedrooms for you and your family! |
| Dev Diary #2 - Royal Feast! | 2021-05-06 | Hey! It's been a long time since we wrote anything🙂 We've been working on the royal fort for the past week. For the past week we have been working mainly on the royal fort. And in it, a royal feast where you will build relationships with your subjects! Besides that, we are currently working on: showing the first in-game event already directly from gameplay, so you can see what the game itself looks like! working on the first years of gameplay for the demo, to put everything we have together into a 15-20 minute game. Keep your fingers crossed! After that we will start closed alpha testing as well🙂 next week working on a special surprise - ba |
| We're moving to 3D - new dev diary! A glimpse at NPCs and scene construction. | 2021-04-20 | Hi! You might have seen it on our social media, and now it’s time to make it official – we are moving Be the Ruler to Unity engine and into 3D! Why? After the last beta testing, we noticed that the gamers’ approach was a bit on a technical side. Their in-game choices were dictated more by resource management than role playing and living through the stories we created. This put us kinda in a Reigns corner, and we didn’t like it. So, to make Be the Ruler more immersive, we’re adding 3D environments to walk around and smell the medieval air. It will allow you to experience being a king in a much deeper way. All graphics are work in progress. We |
| Beta Tests - Live Now! | 2020-11-13 | Hi! We're starting Be the Ruler beta tests! Do you want to try our game and tell us what do you think? Join our Discord channel here: https://discord.gg/KRJZPhDxtv and write "I am the King!" We need your help! :) |
| Dev Diary November | 2020-11-09 | Welcome, Your Majesties! I hope that managing your kingdoms hasn’t been too exhausting lately and you can spare a few moments to read what we’ve got in store for you this time. By my troth, it’s certainly worth your time. Here’s a list of the things that have been done: Fixed death notifications Enhanced speed of the game (while playing longer) New sounds and music implemented Fixed various bugs New events regarding romance Enhanced investment events New Illustrations Sketches for upcoming illustrations Partially balanced attribute system Eager to know what we’re currently working on? Here it is: Balancing and unifying attributes Preparing ol |
| Dev Diary October | 2020-10-23 | Welcome back Your Highnesses! Long time no see, but we are back with a brand new dev diary ready to tell you everything about all the stuff coming up. Hope you’re just as excited as we are. So let’s dive right in! Here’s what’s been done up until this point: - New Tutorial, walking the player through resources, prestige, spies, wars and superwitan - Options menu with music and sound effects volume - Special events with information about attributes and the born children - Events and consequences debug - Background instead of black bars - Graphics of children - New foreign countries military power illustrations - Romance illustrations sketches |
| Dev Diary September #2 | 2020-09-17 | Hey kings, Another week, another development diary! A little update to keep you guys posted on all the cool things we've added this week and some future updates. So without further ado, here's what's been done so far: - Battle, win, lose soundtrack - New illustrations - Summary of the year preparation, stage I: ongoing and completed events, warnings - Prototype of the year summary preparation, stage II: the most important events - Stories section containing ongoing events, completed events, lost events - A drop-down view of the tree in the Stories section - Stories section animations - Offensive and defensive events debug What's to come: - Ye |
| Dev Diary September | 2020-09-09 | Hi, The works are on, see what we’ve done so far 😊 Here’s what’s been done since the last update: - The HELP screen added to the game - The STATS screen added to the game - The war screen has been transformed - Preparation of UI animations and screens - Bugs in the game fixed - Bugs in the editor have fixed - New events for the defensive campaign - Game documentation - New system of previewing the eventtree archive during gameplay (instead of viewing the entire story, we see the history of the tree) Here’s what we’re currently working on: - NPC selection screen (a possibility to choose which NPC we will receive as the first one this year) - |
| June 2020 - Dev Diary! Be the one true KING! | 2020-06-19 | Hi! We hope you’re well. We’re okay, and we’ve been hard at work to implement new and updated elements into Be The Ruler. Here’s what we’ve got: New internal events editor. After the beta test feedback, we developed lots of new mechanics. Suddenly, our game became much more complex, and we needed a better editor to create more advanced narratives. It took a while, but the editor is almost finished. Soon, we will put into the game all the stories and plot branches we’ve created lately. New interface. Currently, in the debug process. After our game became deeper and more unique, the old Reigns-like look just didn’t sit well with it. New war eve |
| What is defining our game? Interface - and we will have a new one! | 2020-01-30 | Hello to all our fans, supporters, and players who read about Be the Ruler for the first time. Before I get to the point, I need to tell you something about the history of this project. We wanted to make a game that offers deep experience in a simple interface, but it looks like we made a mistake when we chose the UI project. We decided to go with an interface similar to Reigns, and because of that, people played our game too fast without reading events carefully and considering consequences. Old interface It's not acceptable for us because we put a lot of effort into generating stories and making the entire world in the game alive(these all |
| Raising children | 2020-01-21 | Hi! It's a great time to say more about children in the game. We finished all systems for genetics, attributes, and raising them(events about this are ready and works in the game), and we work on choices when they are adults. Genetic traits At the start, we built in the game system of genetic characteristics. It means children inherit some of the attributes describing Player nad NPCs. Each trait has an impact on gameplay - like "Ugly" makes fertility of character lower and "Attractive" in the opposite - make it higher. So, when you choose a spouse for the king, or his sons and daughters, you should check which traits you will add to the blood |
| New systems update | 2020-01-14 | Hi Kings! After alpha tests (we're happy for your help and support - thanks to you, our game will be much better and bigger, more than we ever thought), we had a lot to think and to work. Also, as BeardedBrothers.games, we were occupied by premiere our other game - Biker Garage. But, the core team is working for Be the Ruler and achieved big things at this time. We decided to add most features from the feedback that you sent to us. ;> Most important things: Economy A lot of us told about that you can't manage your country because events, when you earn money/prestige, are too random, and you can't make decisions on how to improve your state. T |
| Be the Ruler Closed Alpha 3rd update | 2019-09-26 | Hi @everyone ! We sent the update of Be the Ruler: Closed Alpha to the Steam. What we did in this update: - We fixed bugs that you reported to us. - We added the possibility to marry descendants of the king (at age 16 at least) to secure the inheritance, and also we added events to this system. - We added new variations for management events. - We added new graphics to special events. We're working now on: - fixing the new system, - adding interfaces for player and NPCs Warning: this version will delete your saves, you will start a new game. |
| Closed Alpha Tests started | 2019-09-08 | Hi! I’m happy to show you First Build of Be the Ruler: Britannia Closed Alpha Tests. I hope you will enjoy it and share with us a lot of feedback :) (if you are not a tester, you could sign up to the tests at the http://betheruler.com ) Primary purposes for these tests are: we want to know about your general feelings about the game, how you feel about the interface of the game and what we should change, testing how the game works on different PCs, fixing the bugs :) General feedback about the game, please share on the #btr-alphatesting Discord channel, your thoughts about the interface, please write on the #btr-alpha-interface, and bugs, plea |
| Closed Alpha Tests | 2019-09-04 | https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34022088/f42bfb11af11d76858193be354c1f88f68b66235.png Hello! Nice to see you - that was little silence, but we back with a lot of power... and news. We will send soon new DevLog, but for now, I want to invite you to Closed Alpha Tests and the new website - BeTheRuler.com. You can join to develop our game and tell us what do you think. At the website, you can read about full list of planned features. We're excited. :) |
| Death, battles, generating NPCs | 2019-05-20 | We’ve got death graphics now. Because, you know, even a king could die of dysentery. That’s not all, read on. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34022088/d0afb2622a35d20fe70317b1437064db9f18e45b.png Development status - what we’ve already done: Over 320 events and decisions to make The battle system + tutorial The game’s ability to generate NPC characters Random NPC appearance generator, with animations Marriages Royal children Prestige/resources balancing system Traits system Categorization of players according to their style of playing What we’ve been working on last week: More events and decisions Battle sys |
| Devlog #1 | 2019-04-22 | Greetings, future kings of the past! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34022088/734ff3fab5e9702655980b1288633f74bce6e199.jpg We thought it was a high time to start a series of regular Be The Ruler devlogs. Because things happen and you should know about them. Development status - what we’ve already done: Over 250 events and decisions to make The battle system The game’s ability to create NPC characters Marriages Royal children Prestige/resources balancing system What we’ve been working on last week: More events and decisions Finalizing the battle system Graphics for battles Graphics for the NPC generator Bette |
| Battles | 2019-04-12 | Hi Kings! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34022088/8abc15d825c82d244fbd75dca43bf9dbbd9a22c7.png Big news :) We're finishing the battle system for Be the Ruler. You will fight with other Kings, Vikings and even Franks! Be careful of your decisions, if you are not prepared to war... Vikings https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34022088/afd73e5c6587246626715c1502626a3e363f1172.png Franks https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34022088/b20c057da46ae50c53fb45b3c18a94c85a098e23.png |
| Weekly Work In Progress Report - 2nd Update | 2019-02-15 | Hello Kings and Queens! In this part of Work In Progress, we show you your future advisors. They will ask you about your decisions and execute your will. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34022088/4d52bf75d44a6cfc1deb176175a1de865b1ff721.png https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34022088/0006e6ca171e3f89cc1555e2794e539545408421.png https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34022088/951a164bb52b852de92e42468ccd02874854ad25.png https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34022088/2078382847e6c52b26d5ca7c0c1c2a0fd21a44d2.png https://stea |
| New Teaser Trailer | 2019-01-25 | Hi! We just finished first Teaser Trailer. Could you tell us what do you think before we will send it to press? https://youtu.be/KgHn1yut79o |