The game's out now! Go buy it!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/488860/MADNESS_Project_Nexus/

It's finally here. After over 7 years of anticipation. After 7+ years of eye-straining, sanity-draining, bank balance-straining work. Through crowdfunding campaigns, cross-country moves, life changes, code-rewrites, engine updates, part time jobs and a freakin' worldwide plague, the end of our wild journey is almost here.

And it has a date.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqoQhjvkTqw




We've been waiting so long to finally get this thing into you folks' hands, and we know you sure as heck have been waiting for us to give it to you. In just two and a half weeks the wait will finally be over. Whether you backed us all the way back in 2014, are one of our Funky new friends, or hopped on this crazy train somewhere in between, we're all eternally grateful that you've continued to stick with us through to the end.

We don't plan on letting you down. See you all on the 29th.

Howdy there folks! After a little over a month of closed testing, we're ready to open up the official Project Nexus Discord server to the world! This is a server exclusively for and about Project Nexus. If it's has anything to do with the game, we've got it. Come on down and chat about the game, share or view fan creations about the game, download mods for the game, catch Swain and Krinkles on a stream developing the game, or just join up and get (optional) pings for updates about the game!

For all your Project Nexus needs, join us at: https://discord.gg/BegDfepgkZ Hope to see you there!

Our testers have just been given access to the latest version of the Madness: Project Nexus Closed Beta (v1.13.a), which means we're now counting down toward only a couple of checkpoints before full release of the game!

The new update includes a ton of balancing fixes and cleanup for Story Campaign, but primarily focuses on the new Arena Combat game mode. Arena was completely gutted and rebuilt from the ground up, and as it stands is mostly complete and only lacks the inclusion of four more stages, which are already nearly done. Barring setbacks, expect that update to reach closed beta in two weeks. After that, we move onto final cleanup before releasing the game to the public.

In addition to cleaning up endless bugs, tightening up CPU/GPU performance, and balancing gameplay, the final cleanup portion of development is also going to include a number of features we've put off until the very end:

* A tutorial stage that teaches basic to advance combat moves.
* Short, playable cutscenes between Story Campaign sectors that explore the history of Project Nexus.
* Multiplayer for Arena mode.
* Introductory video for Story Campaign
* Arena Hireling personalities and base interactions
* Face Picker for Arena Combat
* Story Campaign squadmate swapper
* Make The Playground (aka Interactive Mode) playable

I'm positive there are more, but these are the big ones. We hope to have all of this content in before March, leaving us a solid month of focused testing before we reassess and determine where we are on a final release date. There are other things to be done outside of game development (such as advertising and promotional content) that won't be discussed in this post, which will further occupy us. We're hopeful for this timeline though, and hope to hit you guys with a new set of release notes in two weeks!

-Swain

In the interest of Whetting all you lads and lasses' appetites, we present to you the official demo for Project Nexus! (Just in time for the Autumn Festival!)

The demo contains the first two levels of the Industrial Sector for Story mode, pitting you as Sanford and Deimos in their quest to have a little chat with the Sheriff (seriously, they just wanna talk.) So get yer negotiatin' boots on and go engage in some good old fashioned Nevadan DIPLOMACY!

The Demo is live right now over on the store page of the game. Scroll down to the info sidebar on the right side of the store page and click 'Download PC Demo' to download the PC demo! [img]https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/25485323/9dc427e9f50abb868ce88107ff5fcc4c7960b8cb.png[/img]

We'll be back soon with more info on the Arena update for our beta holders as well as release updates for the rest of you fine folks. Until then enjoy the demo and keep on truckin!