Hello everyone!

We've been hard at work in the past year, doing contract work for companies like Borealys Games (Mages of Mystralia) and a few others. Doing this, we've managed to scrounge up enough funds to start making our own IPs again and have been working on a special one in the past few months, Steamboat Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan!

Most succinctly described as The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker meets Pokémon, Steamboat Billy is a singleplayer adventure-RPG set in a classic Disney-like universe in which you must defeat and capture strange monsters while sailing the dark seas, in order to rebuild and bring back color to the world you once knew!

The dynamic art style grew out of our love of classic 1930s American cartoon aesthetics and the recent indie hit Cuphead. We have re-mixed these vintage cartoon graphics, adding hints of Japanese anime to our characters and implemented modern animation techniques to enhance the game's visual effects.

We'd love to get our community's feedback on the game and, of course, any support or sharing of the campaign you can do will certainly go a long way towards helping us reach our goal!

ːsteamhappyːYou can see the campaign here.ːsteamhappyː

Thanks again for your continued support and feel free to come and chat with us if you want to know more about the game.

Cheers!

- Chris, for the ManaVoid Dev Team

Greetings friends and fellow managers!


Happy Valentine's day! To celebrate, Epic Manager will be on sale at 25% Off from Feb.13th to 20th - the perfect gift for yourself or a special someone!


Today, ManaVoid Entertainment is happy to officially release Epic Manager on Mac OSx! We worked hard to bring this version of the game to the world and we’re excited to finally be able to share it.

Please note that OSx 10.7 (Lion) is required to run Steam.


On top of these exciting news, Epic Manager is also receiving Steam Trading Cards, Badges, Profile Backgrounds, and Emoticons today. Gotta get ‘em all, am I right?

The Cards

There are 12 unique Steam Trading Cards for Epic Manager, plus a special (and rare) foil version of each card.

Random cards will automatically "drop" into your Steam Inventory while playing the game, while others can be acquired by trading on the Steam Marketplace.

Profile Badges, Backgrounds and Emoticons

Collecting the complete set of 12 cards will grant a Level 1 (Bronze League) Badge to be displayed on your Steam profile. Collecting the set multiple times will upgrade the Badge's level, up to level 5 (Epic League).

Collecting the complete set of rare Foil cards will unlock the exclusive Arcana League Badge.

For each Badge earned, a random Epic Manager Profile Background and chat Emoticon will also drop in your inventory!


This major update also comes with minor fixes and tweaks. Most notably, we’ve ramped up the stats of mid and late game enemies to keep up with the player progression more precisely. For veteran players, we raised the challenge level provided by other agencies on Hard and Nightmare difficulty.

Please, feel free to let us know how it goes for you!


We’re continuously checking up on the Discussion boards, answering questions and comments so don’t hesitate to reach out to us - it's always a pleasure for us to hear from this amazing Community!

We'll be back soon with some exciting news and updates, until then, stay in touch and, above all, stay Epic!

Farewell for now managers, and much Indie Love your way.

-Best regards from the whole ManaVoid Entertainment Dev Team!

Greetings friends and fellow managers,

First off, thanks for all of the comments and reviews you’ve been sending in, we read everything religiously and are always taking your notes to heart, so keep sending them in!

For those of you in the community who supported us during the Kickstarter two years ago, we wanted to give you all a heads up that we are currently finishing up the physical rewards and we will be sending them out very soon!

ALSO, ManaVoid co-founder Christopher Chancey is currently doing a live reddit IAmA, so if you have ANY questions about creating an indie studio, making an indie game or anything game related in general, feel free to go and ask them here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5oc36s/iama_cofounder_of_an_indie_game_development/!

Without further ado, here are the patch notes for this week’s HotFix:


BALANCING

• [REBALANCED in v1.1.1 - Hotfix 3] Following user feedback, Easy Mode will be well... easier. Combat damage output from enemies has been reduced.

BUG-FIXING

• [FIXED in v1.1.1 - Hotfix 3] Fixed bug where there were no ambush options available to parties level 24-25.

VISUAL IMPROVEMENTS

• [IMPROVED in v1.1.1 - Hotfix 3] Visuals for the Stalker Prestige Class have been improved with final character art.

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Thanks as always for your continued support and see you out there in the wilds of Astraeus! ːsteamhappyː

Best regards,
- The ManaVoid Dev Team

Greetings friends and fellow managers,

We hope you had a very nice holiday season! We’re happy to report that the whole ManaVoid Dev Team has just returned to the studio this morning, fully recharged from our short vacation and ready to tackle new and fun challenges in the upcoming year!

Even though we were out-of-office for a few weeks, our team was still actively monitoring Forums and gathering community feedback. Many thanks to everyone getting involved in the discussions, it’s always a pleasure to hear from you!

In that spirit, we wanted to mark this back-to-work day with a small update to fix some late-game bugs that were reported by community members over the holidays.

Also, we just received a very nice review article from the folks over at TwinFinite and we’re very proud of that, so here’s the link if you want to check it out ːsteamhappyː : http://twinfinite.net/2017/01/epic-manager-review/

We’ll be back soon with more updates and announcements. Until then, enjoy yourselves and, above all, stay Epic!

Best regards from the whole ManaVoid Dev Team


We recommend that players start a new campaign to make sure all fixes are applied, although previous save games will remain intact.

Bug-Fixes

• Fixed Database Errors with some Late Game Quests, as reported by community members.
  
  
• Fixed Boss issues with Hunters Hall factional Quests #5260 and #5262

Hello everyone!

We just wanted to give everyone another big thanks for helping us develop Epic Manager these past two years! We've come a long way since our Kickstarter days, where 1157 backers had given us their faith that we could deliver a game worthy of their expectations! We hope to have achieved that!

We now have a community of over 10 000 players, many of which have given us a lot of help during the alpha, beta and Steam Early Access testing periods, which was crucial to making the game what it is today.

We hope to continue interacting with this growing community by reading your reviews, your messages in our Steam discussion page and our forums! They all go a long way for us!

For those who haven't seen it, here is a little review from the nice people over at Hooked Gamers!

Epic Manager Review[www.hookedgamers.com]

Thanks again for all the love and support, we couldn't do it without you all in the ManaVoid family! Happy holidays to everyone and we will see you in 2017! ːsteamhappyː

- The ManaVoid Dev Team

Greetings friends and fellow managers!

One of our community members was kind enough to provide us with an important bug-report about an issue introduced with the last 1.1 patch.

One thing led to another and we discovered more potential bugs while fixing the first one! We fixed everything and rolled out this quick HotFix (v.1.1.1) - it is already live as you read these lines, just make sure to update Steam + restart the game. ːsteamhappyː


Here are the patch notes! :

Bug Fixes

• [FIXED in v.1.1.1] Fixed Animator Controller errors (and/or potential errors) with various enemy rigs.
  
  
• [FIXED in v.1.1.1] Fixed Database Error with Kickstarter-exclusive cheat code.

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That's it for now! We're still actively monitoring our Official Forums / emails / Steam discussions, even though we're officially on holiday break. Don't hesitate to report any further bug you may encounter, and we'll keep rolling quick HotFixes if the need arises!

Best regards from the whole ManaVoid Dev Team ːsteamhappyː

Greetings friends, fellow managers,

We’re coming up on the end of our first week of full release and we couldn’t be happier! The game was featured on Steam’s top banner and we were amongst the most popular new releases for a few days.

A sincere THANK YOU to everyone who’ve purchased the game, given us feedback and left us a review, it really helps our little four man studio to keep going and motivates us to make the best games possible for you all! ːsteamhappyː

Today’s patch adds new content, new bug fixes and more. Those who’ve been with us for a while know how we like to react to feedback as quickly as possible to make the game as good as it can be for our players.


Without further ado, here are this week’s (almost) complete patch notes:

New Content!

• [ADDED in v.1.1] New Community Created Prestige Class: The Fevered Paladin! The fervor of the Fevered Paladin gives strength to his fiery devotion! Spending time listening to the gods has caused this zealot to seek vengeance on those who would question his faith.
  
  
• [ADDED in v.1.1] Game Difficulty: Nightmare Mode
  Many of you have been quick to figure out the game’s many mechanics and have been asking us to make an even harder mode. If you can manage to beat the game on ‘Hard’, you will be able to unlock ‘Nightmare Mode’ where enemy agencies gain more fame and enemies hit even harder! Good luck…
  
  
• [ADDED in v.1.1] Mini-Boss Dialogues and Skins
  We’ve added little dialogue sequences before each of our mini-bosses, just to give a bit more ‘Hmpf’ to the story and context before fighting them! They also now have a unique look to make them stand out.

Performance Improvements!

• [OPTIMIZED in v.1.1] Roster and Items Display Performance Improved!
  There was a bit of lag when looking at a big roster or an inventory with many items, this has been improved.

Other Improvements / Balance / Bug Fixes

• [IMPROVED in v.1.1] New Adventurer Visuals
  We’ve added enhanced visuals for most of our basic classes, because some of them were due for a makeover! Let us know how you like the new skins!
  
  
• [CORRECTED in v.1.1] Fixed Typos galore
  With the amount of text in the game and our native language being french, this was bound to happen. Luckily, people in the community have been sharing the typos they found and we were able to fix a ton of them rather quickly!
  
  
• [ADDED in v.1.1] Simulated Combat Difficulty
  We realized that the Simulated Combat in the game didn’t scale well with the difficulty setting. This has been fixed, prepare to have a more difficult time on hard and nightmare mode folks!
  
  
• [FIXED in v.1.1] Cheat Codes Issues
  It took about an hour for people to find the Cheat Codes for the game (*Sigh* we thought we were being clever too…) and those who had spaces couldn’t be entered correctly. This has been fixed.
  
  
• [FIXED in v.1.1] Random Encounter Bug
  One of our Random Encounters was causing a fatal error, this has been fixed.
  
  
• [FIXED in v.1.1] Combat Bugs with unique characters
  Fixed various animator potential issues with some unique enemies.

This will probably be our last update before the holidays, but we will keep responding to the community and taking notes during the next few weeks, so don’t be a stranger on our official forums, steam discussions or if you wanna get personal, contact@manavoid.com!

So Happy Holidays to everyone from all of us here at the ManaVoid HQ. We really appreciate you being a part of our community and allowing us to make games for a living! <3

Best regards from Louis, Frank, Chris and Simon, the ManaVoid Dev Team
ːsteamhappyː

Hello and welcome to this exciting announcement!

Today marks the official release of Epic Manager after more than two years of development following its successful Kickstarter campaign, back in November of 2014.

We are very happy to deliver to you the feature complete experience of Epic Manager!

The past two years have been absolutely amazing for us. With the support of thousands of players so far, over a thousand Kickstarter backers, and great friends and families, we made it. The game we were so passionate about, the concept we wanted to play but could not because it simply did not exist is now a reality! We are infinitely grateful to everyone that made this possible.

So it’s with great pleasure that we are now sharing Epic Manager with the rest of the world by releasing it officially on this day, just in time for the Holidays.

It’s unreal to look back at all the hard work, the innumerable hours, the anxiety, and the joys that went into making this game. We are humbled by how much we learned while developing this title and have a newfound respect for every game developer out there.

Those of you who followed our progression during the last few months know it, but we are very reactive and we always read all comments and answer questions. Even if the game is feature complete, we will keep monitoring the forums, update the game, and support it should any issues come up.

Thanks again, now go explore the realm of Astraeus and, try your luck at becoming the Epic Manager!

Today's official Full Release comes with Patch v.1.0 with tons of new content, balance changes, bug fixes and other cool improvements! ːsteamhappyː


New and Updated Content!

• [ADDED in v.1.0] Added 23 Unique Items to each of the game’s bosses with Unique sprites and effects!
  
  
• [ADDED in v.1.0] Added Final Boss Music Track (will update the OST in the next few days)!
  
  
• [ADDED in v.1.0] Added a new God - Lotor - Created by Daniel Hall.
  
  
• [ADDED in v.1.0] Added a TON of new entries and visuals to the Epicopedia, which now acts as a strategy guide and opens a pdf with all of the game’s information.
  
  
• [ADDED in v.1.0] Added a Hall of Fame icon to the Main Menu, showing past campaign performances.
  
  
• [ADDED in v.1.0] End Game narrative conclusions for each faction storyline finished in a campaign.
  
  
• [ADDED in v.1.0] Added Redistributables to the game which should fix the New Game issue that a handful of players were experiencing.
  
  
• [CHANGED in v.1.0] New Prestige Class visuals for the Bardbarian (Oops is that a clue to that prestige class recipe?).
  
  
• [CHANGED in v.1.0] New Visuals for Paladin Class.
  
  
• [CHANGED in v.1.0] Enhanced visuals for many of the game’s panels.
  
  
• [CHANGED in v.1.0] Sorting in Inventory and Armory now shows items in categories from best to worst.
  
  
• [ADDED in v.1.0] Added Final Boss Visuals.
  
  
• [ADDED in v.1.0] Added explanation tooltips to top bar icons.
  
  
• [ADDED in v.1.0] When selecting the party’s move options, hovering over nodes now highlights them, clarifying the player’s movement options.
  
  
• [CHANGED in v.1.0] Combat tutorial is now accessible from the topbar in combat, and not forced during the tutorial.

Balancing Galore!

• [CHANGED in v.1.0] Recruitment Campaigns will now have a base 4 candidates instead of 3, giving the player more options.
  
  
• [CHANGED in v.1.0] Recruitment Campaigns prices have been slightly reduced.
  
  
• [CHANGED in v.1.0] Trade Block now has more candidates to browse through, some of them with lower epicness and cost.
  
  
• [CHANGED in v.1.0] Salary Cap has been reworked and gives more cap space in the mid to late game.
  
  
• [CHANGED in v.1.0] Sorcerer Chaos Bolt has been reworked, giving a steadier damage output (nerfed a bit from last patch).

Bug Fixes!

• [CHANGED in v.1.0] Renamed Hardcore mode saves to make sure players could find their savefiles easier. (were always named ‘New Game’ before)
  
  
• [CHANGED in v.1.0] Fixed some buff and debuff combat effects that weren’t showing anything on their tooltip.
  
  
• [CHANGED in v.1.0] Optimized code and sprite generation on New Game. (Chopped Loading Times significantly). Internal tests have shown an average 20s New Game Load time on an SDDs and 42s load time on HDDs.
  
  
• [CHANGED in v.1.0] Fixed an issue where combat would end before all party members died.
  
  
• [CHANGED in v.1.0] Fixed various typos in Quest, Random Encounters and Tooltip texts.
  
  
• [CHANGED in v.1.0] Fixed a Quest Marker issue where it would always show the first quest amidst the many on a node.
  
  
• [CHANGED in v.1.0] Quality of Life - Added a camera recentering when teleporting a party on the world map.
  
  
• [CHANGED in v.1.0] Fixed Prestige Class Icons not showing up in the Jobs subpanel in the character sheet.
  
  
• [CHANGED in v.1.0] Fixed Heal Resistance spell showing up as a buff instead of a debuff.
  
  
• [CHANGED in v.1.0] Fixed Recruitment Campaigns showing same adventurers too often.
  
  
• [CHANGED in v.1.0] Fixed Recruitment Campaigns showing user created characters even if they were already in party’s roster.
  
  
• [CHANGED in v.1.0] Fixed Prestige Class Skill Sprites not showing up in combat.
  
  
• [CHANGED in v.1.0] Fixed Prestige Class Portraits not showing correctly in combat and bottom bar.
  
  
• [CHANGED in v.1.0] Fixed Prestige Class Skill Sprites not showing up in combat.
  
  
• [CHANGED in v.1.0] Fixed Final Boss portraits not showing correctly.

Misc!

• Removed redundant audio files. The game should now weight a full 2GB less than before!
  
  
• Added recommended third-party redistributables to Steam Installer. (DirectX / .NET / Visual C++)

We're already working on the 1.1 update, which should be live later this week!

Until then, don't hesitate to reach out to us here in the Steam Discussions or on our official Community Forums (http://forums.manavoid.com). It's always a pleasure for us to hear from you and to respond to community feedback!

Once again, thank you, and welcome to Astraeus!

-Best regards from the whole ManaVoid Dev Team

Greetings friends and fellow managers!

We’re happy to bring you yet another HotFix for last week’s v.0.999 major update! Like the last one, today’s patch brings even more performance optimization, fixes and improvements! Read through for the complete patch notes.

Note: All previous v.0.999 save files should still work fine! ːsteamhappyː

V.0.999 HOTFIX 2 - PATCH NOTES

Performance Improvements

• We’ve made some new changes to the World Generation that should once again cut down loading times by about 40%! Huzzah!

New Content

• The final challenge... (!)

Bug-Fixing

• Fixed an instance where a wound would not get applied correctly when simulating combat.
  
• Fixed missing sprite ressources on game Start.
  
• Filled missing description in the “Easy Pickings” Quest.

Quality of Life (QoL) and User Interface

• Added new End-Game Objectives to guide players through the last specific steps of a campaign.
  
• When clicking a selected Party’s “Portal” Action button on the World Map, camera now centers out to offer a better perspective.
  
• Fixed an issue where clicking on a Map Quest Marker containing multiple quests would always display the first quest.
  
• Quest Panel : Improved the Tooltip information in Quest Infos – Landtypes.
  
• Quest Panel : Improved the Tooltip information in Quest Infos – Scouting.
  
• HUD Top Bar : Improved the Tooltip information for all Top-Bar ressources.
  
• HUD Action Bar : Improved the Tooltip information for all Action Bar buttons.
  
• Resolution Panel : Level-up Bottom bar now should now refresh at the same time as a character levels-up.
  
• Various Improvements with the Random Encounter Panel content formatting.

Misc

• Improved some Character Rigs and Sprite Allocations
  
• Corrected white sprites in Credits Scene.
  
• Corrected various in-game Typos.

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That's it for now! We hope you had a great weekend and that you’re enjoying all the changes brought by last week’s meaty update.

We’ll be back soon with more news and updates! Until then, don't hesitate to reach out to us here or on the Community Forums with your feedback and questions, it's always a pleasure for us to hear from you and to answer to everything as best we can.

- Best regards from the whole ManaVoid Dev Team