Hi there!

Over on Team17.com we've been celebrating our landmark 100th game release by looking back at every single game and publishing brand new developer interviews with their creators.

So if you'd like to hear more about how Aven Colony was created then head on over to the website to read the story[www.team17.com] straight from Mothership Entertainment's Paul Tozour.

Thanks for reading! And by the way, if you'd like to stay informed about future Team17 releases, including other sci-fi strategy games like Genesis Alpha One, then why not sign up to our newsletter[www.team17.com].

With the release of PLANET ALPHA on 4th September 2018, Team17 will have released 100 games! This landmark includes games developed and/or published here at Team17, ranging from our early Amiga days with the likes of Alien Breed, Body Blows and Project X, through the explosion in popularity of the Worms series, our work-for-hire period on franchises like Lemmings and Leisure Suit Larry right through to the modern age and our indie games label featuring The Escapists, Overcooked and Yooka-Laylee!

https://youtu.be/CfGBMGPl_5s

Our celebration begins today with the retrospective video above, as well as a new trailer for PLANET ALPHA, available to pre-order now with a 10% discount!

There's more to come too! Keep an eye on Team17's Facebook[www.facebook.com] and Twitter channels for more activities throughout the year, including behind-the-scenes retropspectives, competitions and fun with friends!

What's your favourite Team17 game of all time? Why not join us in the official Team17 Discord[discord.gg] server and let us know?

It’s been a busy week here at Team17 Towers! Overcooked! 2 launched last Tuesday, Sword Legacy: Omen was released this Monday, Forged Battalion has just come out of Early Access and now… We’ve decided to put almost everything we have on Steam on sale! There’s even an extra game in there that we didn’t publish. How ace is that?

In total, you’ll find 75 items on sale from August 14th – 17th 2018 with discounts of up to 90% across the likes of Worms, Overcooked, The Escapists, Alien Breed, Yooka-Laylee and early access title My Time At Portia! In amongst these sales you’ll also find launch discounts for Sword Legacy: Omen and Forged Battalion as well as 10% off pre-orders on PLANET ALPHA Deluxe Edition!

Check out the full list of discounts below and make sure to check our Publisher Sale Page before August 17th to take advantage.

• Alien Breed 2: Assault - 80%
  
• Alien Breed 3: Descent - 80%
  
• Alien Breed Trilogy - 90%
  
• Alien Breed: Impact - 80%
  
• Aven Colony - 70%
  
• Aven Colony – Cerulean Vale - 50%
  
• Aven Colony – Soundtrack - 50%
  
• Beyond Eyes - 75%
  
• Dangerous Golf (Published by Three Fields Entertainment) - 75%
  
• Flockers - 90%
  
• Forged Battalion (Released from Early Access Discount) - 20%
  
• Interplanetary: Enhanced Edition - 75%
  
• LA Cops - 75%
  
• Lethal VR - 75%
  
• Light - 90%
  
• Mugsters - 25%
  
• My Time at Portia - 20%
  
• Overcooked - 75%
  
• Overcooked – The Lost Morsel - 75%
  
• Overruled! - 75%
  
• Overruled! (4 for the price of 3 Friends Pack) - 75%
  
• Penarium - 75%
  
• PLANET ALPHA (Pre-order Discount) - 10%
  
• RAGING JUSTICE - 40%
  
• Sheltered - 75%
  
• Sword Legacy: Omen (Launch Discount) - 20%
  
• The Escapists - 75%
  
• The Escapists + The Escapists: The Walking Dead Deluxe - 75%
  
• The Escapists – Alcatraz - 66%
  
• The Escapists – Duct Tapes are Forever - 66%
  
• The Escapists – Escape Team - 66%
  
• The Escapists – Fhurst Peak Correctional Facility - 66%
  
• The Escapists 2 - 45%
  
• The Escapists 2: Big Top Breakout - 25%
  
• The Escapists 2: Dungeons and Duct Tape - 25%
  
• The Escapists 2: Season Pass - 25%
  
• The Escapists 2: The Glorious Regime - 25%
  
• The Escapists 2: Wicked Ward - 25%
  
• The Escapists: The Walking Dead - 75%
  
• The Escapists: The Walking Dead Deluxe - 75%
  
• Worms - 75%
  
• Worms Armageddon - 80%
  
• Worms Blast - 75%
  
• Worms Clan Wars - 80%
  
• Worms Clan Wars 4-Pack - 80%
  
• Worms Crazy Golf - 75%
  
• Worms Pinball - 75%
  
• Worms Reloaded - 80%
  
• Worms Reloaded – GOTY - 80%
  
• Worms Reloaded – GOTY Upgrade - 75%
  
• Worms Reloaded Fort Booster Pack - 75%
  
• Worms Reloaded Puzzle Pack - 75%
  
• Worms Reloaded Retro Pack - 75%
  
• Worms Reloaded Time Attack Pack - 75%
  
• Worms Reloaded: The “Pre-order Forts and Hats” DLC Pack - 75%
  
• Worms Revolution - 80%
  
• Worms Revolution – Customization Pack - 75%
  
• Worms Revolution – Funfair - 75%
  
• Worms Revolution – Mars DLC - 75%
  
• Worms Revolution – Medieval Tales - 75%
  
• Worms Revolution – Season Pass - 75%
  
• Worms Revolution 4-pack - 80%
  
• Worms Revolution Gold - 80%
  
• Worms Ultimate Mayhem - 80%
  
• Worms Ultimate Mayhem – Customization Pack - 75%
  
• Worms Ultimate Mayhem – Deluxe Edition - 75%
  
• Worms Ultimate Mayhem – Four Pack - 75%
  
• Worms Ultimate Mayhem – Multiplayer Pack - 75%
  
• Worms W.M.D - 66%
  
• Worms World Party Remastered - 80%
  
• Yoku’s Island Express - 33%
  
• Yooka-Laylee - 70%
  
• Yooka-Laylee Digital Artbook - 66%
  
• Yooka-Laylee Digital Deluxe Edition - 70%
  
• Yooka-Laylee Soundtrack - 70%

Greetings, governors!

You might've been counting down the days as well, but just in case you missed it; Aven Colony is 1 year old this week! We're incredibly happy to have taken this journey with all of you, and hope you've had a lot of fun exploring and colonising Aven Prime!

It's been a busy year with a lot of free content made available since launch, and we hope you're all enjoying it. We've been pretty quiet for a while and you might be wondering what we've been up to in the last couple of months. Well, we're currently working on bringing the latest free content update - that you all on Steam have enjoyed for quite a while now - to our players on PS4 and Xbox One. Beyond that, though, we're not quite ready to talk about the future of Aven. Rest assured, however, that we're continuously keeping an eye on all of your feedback to help us shape whatever comes next!

As part of our celebration this week, we're currently doing a competition over on Twitter, where you could win a copy of Aven Colony on the platform of your choice - in case you want to check it out on consoles, or want to give a second Steam key to a friend. You can enter it right here!

We hope you've enjoyed all that Aven Colony has offered so far, and would love to know which part of the game you've enjoyed the most. What's been your favourite free update? What's your favourite feature or map? Where would you like to see things going next? Let us know in the comments below!

See you around the colony!

Greetings, governors!

Aven Colony is currently a massive 66% off in Steam’s Summer Sale, so if you’ve been looking for your chance to colonise an alien world to save mankind, there’s never been a better time!

If you already own Aven Colony but want to continue your adventure beyond the campaign and all our free content updates to date, you can also save 66% on the Cerulean Vale sandbox map, giving you yet another challenge to overcome in our dangerous alien world. For those of you who’d like to enjoy the Aven Colony soundtrack even when you aren’t playing the game, you can save 66% on the soundtrack as well.

You can also grab a ton of other Team17 games on sale right now, and you can find all offers right here.

See you on Aven Prime!

Hi everyone!

We've now added the 4th challenge map: Crystal Forest! This map is available as both a challenge map and a sandbox map.

In the Crystal Forest challenge map, you must build a colony that can survive 10 full sols against every sort of threat that Aven has to offer.

We've also done a major polish pass on the user interface for a much more attractive UI.

Please keep in mind that we're still hard at work on bringing content drop 3 to Xbox One and Playstation 4 as soon as we can. We sincerely apologize for the delays.

Additionally, if you'll be in Austin this Friday, Saturday, or Sunday (June 1-3), we'll be at booth I-22 in the Indie Playground at the Dreamhack Expo[dreamhack.com]! Swing by and say hi!

Thank you for being part of the Aven Colony community.

Paul

Hi everyone,

We've posted a quick update that significantly improves the interface for Energy Batteries:

Some users had expressed a desire to have Energy Batteries turn on automatically and remain on even when their excess power is no longer needed. Now, you can achieve that result using the new interface; just set the check boxes to the opposite of the settings shown above.

These settings are global and always apply to all Energy Batteries.

The button has also changed from opening the Powers & Policies pane to directly toggling the battery state.

We've also checked in some fixes for a few issues with Ark Ships building installations.

• The button on the Energy Battery selection panel is now "Toggle Active" instead of "Open Powers & Policies"
  
• The Energy Battery selection panel now has an option "Batteries turn on automatically" -- turning this on will automatically turn on Battery Mode in the event of a power deficit in the primary power zone
  
• The Energy Battery selection panel now has an option "Batteries turn off when not needed"; turning this off will allow Battery Mode to remain on even when the excess power is no longer needed
  
• When loading a saved game, any "orphaned" installations on the expedition screen will be assigned an Ark ship to build them (or removed if you have no Ark ships)
  
• Fixed bug with unfinished Missile Launcher installations sometimes being able to fire missiles at approaching threats
  
• Fixed bug with ark ships not being able to build when they reached an installation IF their queue was screwed up
  
• The "Remove" button that appears when selecting unfinished installations is now ALWAYS visible and selectable on the POI panel even if no Ark Bay is currently selected

Also, don't forget that we're holding a competition for the 3 new challenge maps! Although Melodix has claimed the prize by posting a brilliant playthrough of Boreal Bay (see link below), the other maps remain unclaimed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC8zS8O30lw

Be the first player to record a full playthrough of Icebound Isle or Bluestone Falls at Insane difficulty as per the Rules, and you could win some of the fabulous prizes shown below ... in addition to fame, glory, and bragging rights for all eternity!

Thank you for being part of the Aven Colony community, and we look forward to bringing you many more updates in the future.

Paul

Hi everyone,

Just a quick heads-up that we've put up another update for Aven Colony! This update completely revamps the game's ice effects, in addition to a few other fixes.

• There's now an option in the Gameplay options sections to disable the visor frost effect.
  
• Improved battery indicator: now has a green outline when active.
  
• The indicators at the bottom of the screen have been reformatted to not overlap at 1600x1024.
  
• Any "Build N buildings" mission objective now instantly completes if you hit the building limit
  
• Due to a slight change in ocean currents, Serpent Isle water now freezes during winter, just like all other parts of Aven Prime
  
• Fixed a rare stability issue related to expeditions
  
• The startup logos are now the same as on console (Mothership & Team17 logos)

In case you missed it, we recently released Content Drop 3 to PC ... be sure to check out our post here!

Also, don't forget that we're holding a competition for the 3 new challenge maps! Be the first player to record a full playthrough of any of the 3 challenge maps at Insane difficulty as per the Rules, and you could win some of the fabulous prizes shown below ... in addition to fame, glory, and bragging rights for all eternity!

We are hard at work bringing content drop 3 to console. We're also expecting to deliver the 4th challenge map (which will also be available as a sandbox map) in the first week of March.

Thank you for being part of the Aven Colony community!

Paul

We're holding a Challenge Map competition to celebrate the release of Aven Colony Content Drop 3 on Steam!

The official competition rules are posted here:

http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/app/484900/discussions/0/2860219962092783773/

Also, see this post for a full list of all the new features in content drop 3: http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/games/484900/announcements/detail/3330846125844964424