It's time for our weekly update again! We shipped two packs, and so did something that isn't a pack at all...
What shipped this week
Viking Fjord is 63 pieces of Norse fjordside. A chieftain's bow-sided great hall, turf-roofed longhouses, a stave church that stands taller than anything else for miles, a stabbur lifted on staddle posts with flat rat-guard stones capping them. A palisade wall, its corner post and a barred gate. Down at the water: a jetty, a naust for the ships to winter under, a dragon-prowed drakkar, a broad-beamed knarr for the trade and a little four-oared faering drawn up on the turf. Spruce, birch, heather and bracken to fill the slopes, shore tiles that turn corners in both directions, and split cod hanging on the drying rack. Then the sky — a deep indigo dome with the northern lights folding green into violet across the crown, which is the one we'd point you at first. 47 of the 63 assets are free.
See Viking Fjord.
Bunker Facility Kit is 60 pieces of cold-war concrete, and it's the second pack we've built almost entirely as an interior. Corridor straights, corners, Ts and crossings, panel bays in two skins so a level reads as two security zones without you doing anything, a blast door and the frame it slides into. Then the room dressing: a backlit map table, a plug-and-cord switchboard, a rack of transceivers, a diesel generator on its anti-vibration skid, bunks, foot lockers, an institutional wall clock that sells the period harder than anything else in there. The corridor T caps its fourth side in a finished wall — a 4-way standing in for a T never can, which is exactly why both ship. The weapon rack ships empty on purpose, too; our FPS weapons pack owns the weapons, and the two are meant to compose. 20 of the 60 are free.
See the Bunker Facility Kit.
The Icons Library is live, and it's version one
This one has been coming for a while. You build a lovely little world, then you need a menu — and suddenly you're pulling icons from four different places that don't sit together at all.
So we drew our own. 1,120 icons across 70 categories, every one of them on the same 24×24 grid at the same optical weight: swords and silos, inventory slots, quest markers, fog of war, crops, weather, belt splitters. 280 are free. They take on whatever colour your interface is already using, so dropping one in doesn't mean a round of recolouring first.
Browse the library.
It's v1.0.0 and we'll be straight about that: 70 categories sounds thorough right up until someone needs the one thing we didn't think of. If you go looking for something obvious and it isn't there, open a ticket and we'll draw it.
A few more wins
- The catalogue crossed 935 assets, 443 of them free.
- The Icons Library is included in All-Access Lifetime at no extra cost, backdated to everyone who already has it.
- Plus the usual pile of smaller wins that don't make for good bullet points.
Where the Lifetime deal goes from here
The founder discount has expired. All-Access Lifetime is now $97, and it covers every pack we've made, every pack we make next, and the full Icons Library.
Here's the honest mechanism behind that. The price goes up every eight packs — about four weeks at the pace we're shipping — because a single one-time payment against an open-ended stream of packs only holds up for so long. We're working on proper subscription plans to sit alongside Lifetime, and we'll say more when they're real rather than when they're a nice idea.
If a one-time price for everything is the shape that suits you, this is the cheapest that shape will ever be. Lifetime is here.
Coming up next
More packs, more characters, more updates to packs already out, and more games built on top of all of it. We're not putting dates on any of it until we've actually got them.
Talk soon!
Cheers,
Aron & Sharon
PS: If you've read until here, here's your bonus: login to your account, click on the games tab, and play LowpolyStein3D right in your browser! It uses the Bunker Facility Kit assets pack - enjoy!