Hello everyone!

As always, a huge thank you to our amazing backers and supporters. A big shout out to our mods here on discord likewise.

We’ve got some big news regarding the next couple of weeks.

Return to the OTK Expo 2024:
Firstly, and in no particular order, we’ve been invited back to exhibit at the OTK Expo 2024. In this case we’re not running in the competition (given that would be a bit unfair given we won in the past), but we’ll be doing an interview update segment during the Expo Stream.
If you'd like to see an early pre-view of just our segment:
We’ll be linking the Expo Stream, when it goes live. This will be running on the 4th of June.

Steam Open World Survival Crafting Fest (27th May to 3rd June PST)
We’re also very excited to be taking part in the “Steam Open World Survival Crafting Fest” between the dates of the 27th of May and 3rd of June, on the Steam Platform.

That means between these dates we’ll be running a free open demo of the current survival alpha. If you’ve got friends looking to try Renown out, or to just better understand the state of the game, this is a great way to try it out.

These events have also always provided us with huge amounts of both game data, and player feedback.

Extended Survival Map Ready – Algara
Another area we’re hyped about is our new extended survival map “Algara”.

You can find a lot more details about this map in our previous dev blog. Without overly going over the same, its roughly 60% larger than our previous survival map, and has an emphasis on increased building space for player bases. In the future it’ll also act as our test bed for the new PGC biomes we’ve created but are causing trouble when all combined onto our 4x4km map.

The map is currently playable for backers.

Renown: The Final Crowdfund
The last area of anxiety and excitement for our team has been preparation for a final Crowdfund during this event. As you know, we’re extremely grateful to the community here and our backers who’ve made our work possible this far.

However, we’re still only a small team of dedicated folks going for just over 4 years now.

We’ve been doing a lot of meetings with Publishers and Venture Capital.

The problem with this is at best we lose creative freedom, and in the worst cases (looking at the paperwork), they take control over the entire community, project, marketing and even when/where we can launch.

Kz has been working hard on a whole new set of cosmetics, and we’ll be providing new titles and packages. We’ll of course be offering testing and full game access as before at the lowest same price as on our store page.

Please see as follows for a pre-launch link to the new campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/playrenown/renown
It’ll be going live with the Steam Open World Survival Crafting Fest.

One thing we really didn’t want, was to create a sense of pressure or FOMO on our old crowdfund by announcing this one early. We’ll be closing the old Indiegogo in the next few hours, and we’ll be temporarily taking down our Xsolla Play.Renown when the fund goes live.

This will likely see a return in the future, however with the updated packages.

As always, should this campaign fail, we’ve got plans for redundancy and fall back. We are dedicated to getting Renown out on steam, no matter what.

Again thank you to our amazing testers and backers. We truly couldn’t have gotten this far without you, and we’re super keen to keep going.

Till next time.