Folks!!!

While we are hard at work on the original Doomer game, we invite you to join the retro Doomer movement with our spin-off project to the original game called Neon Doomer 85.

Featuring retro-futuristic aesthetics, meditative gameplay, and an amazing retrowave soundtrack. It is already scheduled to be released in October. Free of charge.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3081180/Neon_Doomer_85/

It's not a reason to panic, however! On a contrary!

The development of the original Doomer will not be affected in any way, since a very talented third-party developer 70`Strike was engaged to bring this project to life. As well as the publisher's humble efforts

Hurry up and watch the trailer. Add the game to your wishlist and we'll see you soon!

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Greetings from the Doomer development team!

We apologize for the long absence of any news and game updates since the announcement of our roadmap. As is often the case, everything that could go wrong went wrong. As we built all the processes and implemented what we promised, it took more time than expected.

Now that the time has come, we are pleased to present you with the first content update, which is quite significant in scope, but represents only a small part of what's planned.

Let's talk about future plans before we get into the details of the update. From now on, we'll release updates more frequently. We can't reveal the content or dates yet, but there won't be such long breaks between updates anymore. In the next step, we'll rework the technical foundation of the game, optimize everything that's "under the hood", and then start developing game mechanics.

And yes, you read that right, Doomer will feature game mechanics and a clearly defined gameplay cycle. And naturally, we will add more nostalgic items, references, and elements that are signature to the time.

Sincerely yours, the Doomer team.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1793150/Doomer/

Now for the content update:

• Doomer can now run, jump, and crouch;
  
• When running, the camera wobbles more intensely than when walking;
  
• Removed camera shake with the option to turn it on if you want to;
  
• The phone model has been updated to Pokia :), which is more relevant to the time when the game takes place.
  
  
• The phone interface has been updated with the ability to call, but no one will answer...yet.
  
• The ability to take photos through the phone has been removed, since it does not correspond to the time of the game. We will get back to this and explore ideas of how to do photos and screenshots later. However, it won't be done with the phone camera, that is for sure.
  
• A redesigned item interaction system has been added. For example, the rat isn't a part of your pocket anymore. It lives in the cage. You can get it out and put it back in.
  
• Like any doomer character can now die, there are several ways to do that. Feel free to experiment.
  
  
  2) Doomers apartment:
  • You are able to open and close almost all of the doors and windows in the apartment.
    
    
  • Now, there are switches in all rooms, so lights can be turned on and off.
    
    
  • A gas stove can be lit.
    
    
  • Lots and lots of authentic items that are appropriate for the time the events of the game take place. Brand new models of items made from scratch, including Dendy consoles, cartridges, videotapes, books, Great Dragon and Technics of Youth magazines, as well as video and audio tape recorders. There is no sense to list it all, just explore and enjoy.
    
    
  • It is now possible to pick up and inspect items. At the moment, not all of the items are eligible for that, but we will be gradually adding the ability to inspect them all.
    
    
  • You can now watch TV
    
    
  • The apartment has a telephone now, you should expect a call.
    
    
  • There has been a change in the apartment's furnishings. Now that Doomer has a new table, he has rearranged some stuff around the apartment.
    
    
  3) Other:
  • The apartment building has the entrance now, you can access it from the doomers apartment. It allows you to go out onto the street, or access the roof. We attempted to make the entrance as authentic as possible using relevant objects and attributes of the time, writings on the walls, ashtrays, bottles, etc. You can explore, ring your neighbors doorbells and find ways to entertain yourself, maybe getting an achievement or two while you are at it. We'll add more activities over time.
    
    
  • You can access the roof now. There you can walk around, smoke a cigarette and contemplate about your life while looking at the surrounding landscape from above. That, and all other sorts of activities you can think of.
    
    
  • The lighting has been updated, smoothly transitioning to dynamic lighting;
    
  • A variety of ambient sounds, clocks, birds outside the window, street noise, computer startup, and others have been added;
    
  • Picked bottles can be thrown anywhere if you click the left mouse button after picking them up. Give it a try, experiment with it...
    
  • The railroad in the area is now fully operational. Watch the departing train doomer and think about life...
    
    
  • There are many hidden activities now. We won't reveal them, but we are sure you'll enjoy finding them. Don't be afraid to explore the neighborhood and the apartment, something interesting is surely waiting for you there.
    
  • Lines 97 is now installed on the computer.
    
    
  • Several parked cars appeared on the streets.
    
    
  • The apartment buildings themselves were embellished with authentic external elements.
    
    
  • Old achievements have been remade to match the spirit of the game and the changes we've made. You'll find new secret achievements as well, look for ways to unlock them and just have fun.
  
  
  Enjoy the game!!!
  
  https://store.steampowered.com/app/1793150/Doomer/

Thank you all for playing our game in our EA period and we are truly sorry that we seemed in-active for so long, So much has been happening that we slowed down development on Alien Hostage for some time.

We have fixed the last few known bugs that have been emailed to has as well as completing the few space levels that we had planned. So with all that done the game is now completed!

Hey all. Sorry for the massive down time in our inventory item icons being broken. I have been sick for a little over a month now and have only just had the time to fix most of the issues that people have been reporting befor i got sick.

All easter items can no longer be gained and they will be added as legacy items.

Thank you all for your continued support and please forgive me for having such a large down time.

Hey all. In this update we have added 2 new in game items. "Plant Of Life" and "Easter Egg" both of these items are limited edition and can only be gained with-in the next 3 weeks.

Patch Notes:
1) Fixed some UI problems.
2) Added a close button to all popup panels.
3) Added difficulty options to the game 'Normal' and 'Hard'. Hard mode is how the game has always been how ever Normal mode removes all Props from the scene but 1. There should only ever be 1 prop per scene when playing in Normal Mode.

In the next few updates i plan to be finishing off the level select menu ready for release. After the release of the level select i will continue making more levels for the game!

Hows it going everyone?

As some of you may have noticed the images/icons for Alien Hostage inventory items are missing. Unfortunately around 2 weeks ago our dedicated server that was host to those images gave up on us we have been working to get it all set up and working again and we estimate another 3 days - 1 week before its all running. When we do fix our server we will also be adding more items into the game.

This update adds the new UFO Editor to the game. This gives you the option to re-colour the ufo as well as changing how much health or energy you start with.
You can think of the UFO Editor as your difficulty setting. You can either make the game harder by giving your self less health or making it easy by giving your self more.

There is now a new option in the Inventory panel that is called 'Use local skins'
Selecting this will allow you to select the skin that you have created and saved. Skins are saved in the 'UFOSkins' folder of the main game directory and the format of saving is .json.

Using local ufo skins will disable any Steam inventory items you had equiped.

Thanks
ShadowDragon

Hey all. As some of you may have found out there was a small issue with the games workshop uploader that would not submit your items as micro transaction items. This should now be fixed and the guide on how to submit workshop items will also be updated.

Thanks.

In this update i have completed the workshop submission options. You will now be able to submit your own workshop content that can be voted on by the community. At the end of each month the top 5 items will be added into the game.

There will be a guide on how to currectly submit your workshop very soon.

The limited edition "Christmas Hat" can no longer be obtained in game.

I have enabled a very early access version of a game mode that i have also been working on. The game mode is called Stress Relief where the objective is to deal as much damage to your UFO as possible with out making it explode.

Patch Notes:
- Added workshop upload area.
- Added new gamemode.
- "Christmas Hat" can no longer be won.


I know this may seem like a small update but i still need to do some final work on my new forest levels as well as fixing some minor bugs in a few of the older levels.

Thanks
ShadowDragon