Dear fellow survivors,
It is our pleasure to start off the year 2018 with a bang and finally reveal to you what we have been working on for so long. We're going standalone baby! No, not that standalone silly, we're going to have our very own, real game right up there on the shelf with the big boys!
The game is called 'Taviana The Origins' and is being made in the state of the art Unreal Engine 4. Being the engine of choice for games the likes of Unreal Tournament, Gears of War 3, Bio Shock, Mass Effect 2, Red Orchestra 2, PUBG, and so forth... Unreal Engine 4 needs no introduction, and now it's available for us to unleash our imagination in!
Is it going to be like before?
Now we know what you're all wondering and we won't hold you in suspense for any longer - yes, Taviana The Origins will be set on the great Taviana Island! It's being completely recreated from scratch using the latest and greatest technologies available today, it's being textured in beautiful, highly detailed textures, the landscape has become absolutely stunning, more detailed, and more realistic than ever before. The cities and their buildings have become more detailed, more enterable, and realistic than ever. Thanks to Unreal Engine 4 we're not confined only to what is on the surface anymore either, buildings will have basements, there will be tunnels, bunkers, and whole sewer systems under the cities. Everything will be in the same place, you will recognize it, but you won't recognize it, and that's just scratching the surface! If you thought the old Taviana was great, you ain't seen nothing yet!
Taviana The Origins will feature everything Origins Mod had improved, remastered, and better than ever before, but it doesn't stop there, there will be new things that were not possible in the mod due to the old engine limitations, such as a fully dynamic sky with 3D clouds, diving underwater, weapon customization, real bullet ballistics, much smarter and smoother zombie navigation and so much more that we will reveal to you over the coming months. ;)
So what is the game plan?
We made the best zombie survival mod and now we've taken it upon ourselves to create the best survival game ever made, which will have everything we wanted, were promised by so many others, and never got. We will create a game that will not only look stunning but also work well and that will still run on an average computer with decent FPS.
Now that we have 5 years of experience in running the mod, we have also learnt the real things that are important to players so Taviana The Origins will come with a full Wiki from day 1. We also know how diverse our player base is and we will make the game available in all the major languages of our planet!
We want to create the game with your input and feedback, so we want to make it available to you as soon as we can. Therefore the plan is to release a playable pre-Alpha version this year (around Q3-4). This way you will get to play the game as soon as possible and help us develop it with your suggestions. We will generate some funds which will allow us to completely finish the game.
How can I support you?
Speaking of funds, we will need your help with making the pre-Alpha possible. Right now we are nobody in the video game industry, just a bunch of guys that made a mod, have a dream and a hole in their pocket, so we appeal to everyone who has already made something of themselves in life, to everyone that likes what we have done for the last 5 years, and to everyone that wants our own game to become a reality to support us by becoming a Patron. It doesn't matter how much you can send, every dollar is important. It will allow us to upgrade our computers, invest more time into the game, hire new people to create more amazing content, and speed up the development process.
If you are someone who has already made something of themselves in life, please also consider keeping the 'reoccurring donation' option on in Patreon for a while as that would be a massive help to us.
Taviana The Origins will be sold on Steam and although it is not yet certain how many Beta keys Steam will make available to us as we have not yet entered Steam direct, the number is approximately 200 - 300 (according to Steam support). Once we receive those keys we will put the names of everyone that donated over $50 into a hat and draw out the winners, who will receive a key to test with us before the game is released to the public (and keep if afterward too of course).
Those who are generous enough to support us with $150 will be guaranteed to receive a beta key.
Visit Patreon to get more goodies, such as receiving news and screenshots 2 weeks before the public via Patreon, and everything from exclusive W.I.P screenshots and news about the progress we're making in developing the game to real-life postcards, and even t-shirts signed by the devs:
To support us, check out our Patreon page:
https://patreon.com/TavianaTheOrigins