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Hi everyone!

Edit: The Fair Play Policy has been updated as a result of community feedback; please have another look!

Prismata is quickly approaching its public Steam Beta, and we’ll soon be expecting a large amount of growth in the size of our community. Accordingly, we feel that it’s time to introduce some official policies and procedures to help manage our community and maintain the integrity of our competitive ladder and events. These policies revise and supplement our previous sportsmanship guidelines.

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Hi folks.

Just wanted to post a quick update and a few announcements. Again, gonna do it in Q&A form to keep it short.

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Lots of folks liked the Q&A from a few weeks back. I had meant to post a second part, but got a little sidelined. Here it is!

Q: What have you been up to since the last Q&A?

A bunch of stuff:

• De-uglifying and polishing a lot of the in-game assets, animations, menu screens, and so on.
• Switching our server runtime environment from cpython to pypy for additional speed.
• Improving our build/deploy system.
• Finishing up the single player menu screens and the flow for clearing missions and unlocking new content.
• Completing our single-player cinematic cutscene system.
• Rebalancing units like Vivid Drone and Deadeye Operative.
• Sound!

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Prismata co-founder Will Ma has provided us this week’s update, but he’s posted it on the Prismata subreddit instead of the blog. You can check it out here, alongside some comments from me and many other Prismata community members.

As well, if you’re feeling that things have been a bit too quiet lately, rest assured that we have TWO exciting new Prismata patches/updates coming very soon:

• A game patch that will provide a few small balance tweaks, complete reworkings of some units (Deadeye Operative and Corpus), and a few new units.
• A content patch that will add animated skins, some new in-game graphics, and more collectibles.

We’re also making a lot of progress on our “new user experience” (NUE) project, which includes a level-up system, tutorial content, and rewards for new players. I’ve posted some comments on the subject here, and we’ll be revealing more in future blog updates, so check back next week and later this month!