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Amberspire on Steam A science fantasy dice city builder. Construct buildings, manage resources, and build in harmony with an alien ecology. Beneath the glow of a gas giant, Amberspire will grow and prosper into a flouris...

Wishlist Amberspire now!
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Amberspire on Steam A science fantasy dice city builder. Construct buildings, manage resources, and build in harmony with an alien ecology. Beneath the glow of a gas giant, Amberspire will grow and prosper into a flouris...

Wishlist Amberspire now!
store.steampowered.com/app/3350750/...

Unlock unusual buildings as your population grows and influence rises in Amberspire.

Every city needs a floating fort, right? 🌇

Out May 6th!

Amberspire is out May 6th! 🌇

We wanted to embrace the science fantasy genre in all aspects of the game. For its music, nervous_testpilot created original tracks that capture the bustle of a living, growing settlement, even out among the stars.

Amberspire on Steam A science fantasy dice city builder. Construct buildings, manage resources, and build in harmony with an alien ecology. Beneath the glow of a gas giant, Amberspire will grow and prosper into a flouris...

store.steampowered.com/app/3350750/...

Isometric Slicing Amberspire Design Diary #12 This blog is a quick technical breakdown of how Amberspire buildings and sprites are sliced up and rendered in game. See the o...

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A screenshot of Amberspire as it appears in-game (albeit a slightly older version than you'll see at launch).

A screenshot of the same area in Amberspire, but now with the angle slightly offset to demonstrate how the isometric slicing works.

"Alongside working on the art style of the game was figuring out how to render buildings so they would sort correctly and maintain performance with hundreds of buildings and layers on screen."

We talked a bit about Amberspire's art style earlier in the week. Here's how it actually works! ⬇️

1. A rough line sketch from the very early days of Amberspire, giving an idea of composition with a large gas giant in the back and buildings in front. 2. The finished cinematic concept art, following a similar composition with the gas giant in the background and the city in the foreground.

Remember to appreciate your local game concept artists, folks 🫶

Top: A dev sketch for Amberspire that was given to our concept artist, Simon
Bottom: What Simon gave us in return 🌇

Amberspire on Steam A science fantasy dice city builder. Construct buildings, manage resources, and build in harmony with an alien ecology. Beneath the glow of a gas giant, Amberspire will grow and prosper into a flouris...

store.steampowered.com/app/3350750/...

Amberspire is a city builder where you have influence as to how your settlement grows, but not absolute control.

Have a patch of safe, open land? Residents will want to move there! Destroy an old building? The ground might become unstable.

Find the right strategy to keep balance. Out May 6th! 🌇

Only three weeks to go!!

Amberspire on Steam A science fantasy dice city builder. Construct buildings, manage resources, and build in harmony with an alien ecology. Beneath the glow of a gas giant, Amberspire will grow and prosper into a flouris...

store.steampowered.com/app/3350750/...

An Art Style for Science Fantasy City Amberspire Design Diary #11 As the design is settling it was time to fully settle in on a visual style for the game. We had made the big decision to prese...

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A selection of eight buildings from Lunar Division's upcoming game, Amberspire. They're all 2D and isometric, with a warm colour palette and roughly inspired by Venetian/Mediterranean architecture. From left to right, top to bottom: Salon, Clockworks, Weaver, Hideout, Library, Creche, Chapel, Teahouse. Artist: YueTong Tsen

"[The art style] better reflects the game's flavor of science fantasy: expansive, bright, and unusual. A warm day at a rocky beach, bioluminescent algae visible beneath the slow waves, a planet low on the horizon."

Amberspire, our new science-fantasy city builder, is out on May 6th 🌇💫

The Banished Vault - Official Trailer (Summer 2023) YouTube video by Bithell Games

ICYMI! This month we've partnered with @bithellgames.bsky.social & @nictringali.bsky.social to bring you the wonderfully cerebral The Banished Vault.

Keys will drop Apr 30, and we'll have a new puzzle to guarantee your key on the 23rd. Ready up at: www.pantaloon.io

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Wishlist Amberspire here, out May 6th! 🌇

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You need resources to build a city. In Amberspire, you'll start off with Scrap, Metal, and Brick. But, as you progress, you'll need to source and use more unusual materials, such as Starlight, Tides, and Ash.

Amberspire is out May 6th 🌇 Wishlist it on Steam!

Pantaloon x Bithell

SPACE MATHS! Yes, this month Pantaloon has partnered with @bithellgames.bsky.social & @nictringali.bsky.social to bring our newsletter subscribers The Banished Vault.

We have 4000 keys & a new puzzle for you on April 23.

We also have 5 keys for Bsky - share & follow to enter!

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Amberspire on Steam A science fantasy dice city builder. Construct buildings, manage resources, and build in harmony with an alien ecology. Beneath the glow of a gas giant, Amberspire will grow and prosper into a flouris...

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Dice Design 2 - Cycles and Strategy Amberspire Design Diary #10 Coming out of the atomization process outlined in the previous design diary, I had some overall vague feeling that the dice sy...

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A screenshot from our upcoming city builder, Amberspire. A large city has been built by the player, and they're currently organising the resources from their last dice roll. So far, they've placed resources into the Ruster, Fogbreaker, and Bazaar. They still have a Canvas die to place, and one Weather die.

"The risk has to be carefully balanced so it's not outweighing that reward, but is still present in the player's mind."

Developing Amberspire meant picking apart risk and reward, city builders and strategy, dice and resources. Here's how we put it all back together to create our newest title. ⬇️

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Writing faction events was some of my favourite work on Amberspire!

Looking forward to people meeting and having to deal with these lot.

Amberspire on Steam A science fantasy dice city builder. Construct buildings, manage resources, and build in harmony with an alien ecology. Beneath the glow of a gas giant, Amberspire will grow and prosper into a flouris...

store.steampowered.com/app/3350750/Amberspire/

A line up of three individuals, each from a different faction from our game, Amberspire. Left to right: Chroan, Dais, Gardeners.

When finding your strategy in Amberspire, pay attention to the unusual factions that take notice of you.

Earn their favour and your city will flourish. Earn their disdain and face penalties.

Amberspire is out May 6th 🌇 Wishlist on Steam now!

Amberspire on Steam A science fantasy dice city builder. Construct buildings, manage resources, and build in harmony with an alien ecology. Beneath the glow of a gas giant, Amberspire will grow and prosper into a flouris...

store.steampowered.com/app/3350750/...

Amberspire is our brand-new science fantasy city builder from the Lunar Division team.

Construct buildings, manage resources, keep balance with an alien ecology, and build a flourishing city atop the ruins of an abandoned moon.

Out May 6th! 🌇 Wishlist now ⬇️

Amberspire on Steam A science fantasy dice city builder. Construct buildings, manage resources, and build in harmony with an alien ecology. Beneath the glow of a gas giant, Amberspire will grow and prosper into a flouris...

store.steampowered.com/app/3350750/...

Dice Design 1 - Atomization Amberspire Design Diary #9 After getting other systems like terrain and population up and running, the core dice rolling design gets a very thorough inves...

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