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Exodus Wars: Fractured Empire will soon launch on Steam!

Exodus Wars: Fractured Empire is a computer game (Windows, MAC and Linux) aimed at capturing the essence of miniatures wargaming, with core elements that make tabletop games great, such as the strategy of building a great list, deploying to maximise your advantages, and manoeuvring in turns to capture objectives.

We ran a crowdsourcing campaign back in 2012 that, even with the support of the amazing people here on DakkaDakka (you know who you are!), sadly did not reach its funding goal, but despite that rather significant obstacle (and several others no less significant over the past two years) we are now entering the final stretch and the end is finally in sight.

The point of this post is that some of you here may have backed our crowdsourcing campaign back in 2012. If you did, you have hopefully received messages from Membraine recently about your entitlement to a Steam key. If not, please PM me here or write to me on mark@membrainestudios.com and let me know.


A Guild Legionnaire model


A Royal Empire of Man Commander model

If you're interested in seeing how the game plays--and seeing what we mean when we say we're trying to capture "the essence of miniatures wargaming"--check out this Gameplay Discussion video.

For those familiar with 6mm wargaming, you may be interested in in hearing what we're thinking as we play Exodus Wars: Fractured Empire. This Tactical Discussion video shows me commenting on what I'm thinking about (and generally talking a lot of rubbish) as I play a tournament-style 3,000-point skirmish game in the current Early Access build. (This is a "warts and all" video of an Early Access game, so please note that the occasional annoying bug does rear its ugly head in this video--much to my chagrin.)

We'll post on WAU again when we've launched on Steam, but for frequent updates please follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

If you have any comments or questions, please feel free to ask.

I must admit that it's not exactly easy to get a short quick grasps of the features that there are in your game.
I also understand that maybe your idea is to try and add as much as possible before the final launch:
From a quick view you look to me like one of those team with solid skills, amazing ideas and of course not enough budget to bring to life all of them.

I always looked for a game like this, judging from the videos it seems a cool game, at least definitely worth 10 bucks. Already bought, tonight I'll definitely give a try and post my feedbacks on your forum. It looks like it has potential

However, my first advice...in your web page just put up a page with a short yet interesting recap of your main features. People on the internet is lazy, gamers are even lazier. You've to catch their attention quickly, IMHO

Thanks, Diablix! We appreciate your support, buying the Early Access version, and we're looking forward to reading more of your feedback.

And thank you also for your feedback on our marketing. Marketing is an area in which none of us have any real expertise, each of us coming from technology and architecture backgrounds respectively, so I'm not stunned if we've made it more complex than it should be.

We are open to any and all suggestions. Your advice to simplify our web page is good, and something I'll discuss with the rest of the team today.

I remember this from when it first appeared, and thinking what a wonderful idea it was.

Have some of the Steel Crown miniatures and they are wonderful (are you guys the same company?)

Will certainly make sure I download and have a go at the early access version!

 Pacific wrote:
I remember this from when it first appeared, and thinking what a wonderful idea it was. ... Will certainly make sure I download and have a go at the early access version!

Thank you! Very much appreciate the support and I hope you enjoy the game--the next Early Access build will be released shortly on Steam*, which will include a full single-player campaign and a lot more maps than the current build, so there's a lot to look forward to in the coming weeks.

 Pacific wrote:
Have some of the Steel Crown miniatures and they are wonderful (are you guys the same company?)

Membraine is a separate company. We have the license to develop an Exodus Wars game from Steel Crown Productions; however, we are working very closely with them, and we regularly contribute to rules and army list development.

Cheers!
Mark (aka GR00V3R)

*Anyone who has purchased from FracturedEmpire.net before the Steam launch will be sent a Steam key, in case you were wondering.