Robotron3000 is still out of the office and expeditioning undiscovered islands, searching profitable wreckage from sunken WW2 ships, leaving this week’s Intelligence Bulletin to me. Even though I mostly know of fighting armies of robots and a certain mad scientist, this week’s theme has been Hansen.

“Hansen”, the name of the Wehrmacht “General der Artillerie” in command of the 16. armee during WWII, is also the name of our upcoming build. We are currently working as fast as we can to get this build ready for you guys to play it. Testing, testing, testing is the word here at Reto-Moto and together with the testers, things are shaping up nicely. The feedback we receive is very important in the development of new builds, and it all helps polishing the game, finding critical issues and balancing the gameplay.

Last but not least we have great news to the iOS people. As some already know access to the strategy game from portable devices is under development, and the mobile iOS app. moving closer to a release. Here is what reto.sNell has to say about it:

“The iOS application is nearly ready for its first release. With it, you can watch the movement of Assault Teams and chat with friends and foes. We are working on getting actual Campaign interaction into an upcoming version. We hope you will enjoy this first release, and look forward to your feedback.” 

Rock’n’Roll – Megaman

Onwards to Developer Blogs of the Week and Team Debriefing:

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Developer Blogs this Week

Featured Developer Ask Stenum (Reto.Stenum)

By Stenum, Server Programmer
“Meet Reto.Stenum” Read More

Translations underway

By Goonstah, Programmer and Technical Lead
“Gonstah talks about the upcomming translations” Read More

Whittle down the enemy

By Indusninja, IT Architect
“Indusninja talks about changes to the campaign map” Read More

Featured Developer Filip Lange Nielsen (Reto.Ratamahat)

By Ratamahat Level Designer
“Meet Reto.Ratamahat” Read More

Team Debriefing

Design

Reto.RedBjarne Game Director	• ”Trying to have a few days of holiday. Not easy.” • ”Adding extra zoom layers to campaign map.” • ”Updating currency icons to include warfunds.” • ”Creating a small version of the pricetag in preperation for the currency split.” • ”Adding warfunds to the pricetag.” • ”Prepping all monetization spreadsheets for the currency split.” • ”Press event meeting.” • ”Adding special polish characters to the fonts.” • ”Gluing weird stuff together with my daugther at ‘statens museum for kunst’.” • ”Reviewing the next iteration for our battle system. It’s looking good :-)”
Reto.Fleck Level Designer	“Just got back from vacation and hands already bloody from bug fixing, tweaking and rock’n'roll ….”
Reto.Ratamahat Level Designer	• ”Tested new skirmish level.” • “Discussed fixes on new skirmish level.” • “Continued working on my skirmish level.” • “Made a script to better adjust spawn point positions.”
Reto.Robotron3000 Community Manager & Game Designer	“Searching profitable wreckage from sunken WWII ships and hidden treasures.”

Artists

Reto.Hr.Wille 3D Artist	“GUI & HUD work, but I have been down with the flu most of the week. Frustrating.”
Reto.Mato Lead Character Artist	“Im fixing texturemaps and making Recon uniforms.”
Reto.Owleater Art Director	“Creating art”
Reto.Colding Lead Animator	“This week I have done trailer stuff, tweaked shoulders in the bike animations and started to look at a second pass on skinning!”
Reto.Dave Environment/Props/ Concept Artist	“Been Working on new skermish level.”
Reto.BombeBo Effects Dude	“Making effects M.Bay style.”
Reto.Scratchliquid 3D Artist	• ”Texturing the G43.” • ”Working on the High Poly ________.“ • ”Tweeking texture maps.”

Coders & QA

Reto.Goonstah Programmer and Technical Lead	“Been seeing the bigger picture.”
Reto.Hal9k Render Programmer	“Enjoying some well deserved time off.”
Reto.Ogssan Gameplay Programmer	• ”Hansen fixes.” • ”Hansen vehicle tweaks.” • ”Guderian Localization Fixes.” • ”Guderian anti-cheat tweaks.” • ”Irwin making it possible to leave matches before they are done and not lock the character.”
Reto.Leto Gameplay Programmer	“Working on my flu, general bug fixes and more vehicle tweaks.”
Reto.Injection Senior Programmer	“Investigating ski resorts.”
Reto.Splixxen Lead Tester	• ”Meetings.” • ”Planning.” • ”Testing.” • ”Poke people with a stick.” • ”More test stuff.”
Reto.Indusninja IT Architect	“Fully dedicated to the new battle-system.”
Reto.Vashu Flash Programmer	• ”Airfields now light up everytime you move an airborne unit [Guderian].” • ”Fixed a load of various localization errors or missing localization, I know now the name for Assault Team in Polish “Druzuny” [Guderian].” • ”UI now scales better on Assault Team Progression Overview screen [Guderian].” • ”Continous Update and Show Load Symbol settings are now saved [Guderian].” • ”Design and deadline meeting for Battle System [Misc].” • ”Conversion from Strings to 64 bit Integers as ID’s work [Irwin].” • ”Working with Assault Teams moving to Access Points [Irwin].”
Reto.masterdisaster17 Server Programmer	• ”Battle system design work.” • ”Int64 id system.” • ”Investigating performance monitoring software.”
Reto.stenum Server Programmer	• “Working on triple currency stuff.” • “Was briefly turned to stone by a video sent to the spam mailing list” • “Has been in cover mode ever since meeting megaman ingame.”
Reto.sNell Mobile Programmer	• ”Made some major improvements on the Android application.” • ”Fixed the most serious bugs left in the Android application.” • ”Fixed some more issues with the iOS application.”

Sound

Reto.Draebesmoelf Lead Sound Designer	“Watched every single WWII movie for sound inspiration.”
Reto.Lord Audio Programmer	• ”Flash bigint round up/ fix up.” • ”Started looking into Steam integration.”

Management, IT & support

Reto.KenSolo Producer	“Meetings more meetings.”
Reto.Hansg IT Admin	1. “Order new server setup Amsterdam.” 2. “Order new server setup more power to rusland.” 3. “Check backup of perforce.” 4. “Check backup of databases.” 5. “Build new pc workstation.”
Reto.Lusa Project Coordinator	“Coordinating, researching, meeting, talking, eating and now weekending :)”
Reto.Bacon Support Manager	• ”Supporting users.” • ”Work force management.” • ”Reviewing macro’s.” • ”Eating bacon.”
Reto.CrazyCat Games Analyst	• ”Stats reports, stats reports, stats reports.” • ”Meetings.”

NOTICE

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