Basically, there won’t be a public release any time soon. We have been working extremely hard where we can, but I was kind of ambitious to say that there would be a release before Christmas considering the events which have been occurring before and of course the size of our team.

Also, I have been hitting some brick walls with development which has put me off and therefore I leave development for a bit until I can think of solutions.

Here is what’s going to happen. There is no release date for BrixNation, because every time we announce a release date, we fail to meet it although we are not far off, but then we find more and more things which we need to do. Instead, we will continue to develop BrixNation like we have been, for a bit of fun, and it’s out when it’s out.

Hopefully, there should be a internal beta test release soon.

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Well it’s been a couple of months since there has been an update here so here is some information on what has been happening.
I have been extremely busy so the progress on BrixNation hasn’t been fantastic and also something went wrong in the past couple of weeks meaning we lost a considerable amount of development time. However, over the past couple of days progress has been massive.

I have been working on the builder studio, website and some amazing physics.

I don’t want to give out much more right now but I will say that our invite period will start soon. Invites will first go out to moderators and the BrixNation team, but anyone with an invite can send one to their friends. Once BrixNation is near-stable and we are ready to launch, we will release it to the public.

We have been speaking more about costs and all that, so here is how it’s going to work and this is final. The free account on BrixNation will allow you to build things in single player and in free build multiplayer servers (which people host themselves). Premium accounts will allow you to play on BrixNation Games and make your own. Games are hosted by us. One of the main reasons for the premium is because it will cost a considerable amount to keep BrixNation running every month.

More information will be posted here as the time approaches so keep tuned!

We have recently made some changes in how BrixNation is going to operate.
Before, we decided that the server application wouldn’t be made public, and we would run all of the servers. That’s all changed.

You can now run your own server either in-game, or using the dedicated server application. Maybe for the release we will have integrated a VPN system meaning you don’t have to forward your ports…

Also, we won’t be a game which you can join for free, and have an optional premium service. BrixNation will cost £9.99, and you will be able to buy it through PayPal on the website. You own the game for your entire life, and there is no premium service.

If you want the game for free, you can try out the demo version which will be available.

We hope this is all for the better future of BrixNation.

With the loss of two members of the Administrator team (Serenity and Antonio) the rest of the team have all come together to push progress on getting the first release of BrixNation up and running. With some major decisions on the running of BrixNation made and the development of the game coming together, all systems are set on getting the Alpha version everyone has been waiting for released.

There are changes happening constantly so make sure you check back here or check the version log @ http://brixnation.com/wiki/index.php?title=Version_Changelog

We have estimated that the release will be near the start of July but we will post more information soon including the official release date.

Make sure you check back and dont miss out!

Greg (Kingey)
Administrator

The Studio for BrixNation is going very well, just a couple of vital things to do now such as the Gizmos (rotate,resize tools), Copy/Cut/Paste, Undo/Redo, and Level Publishing.

I have also been working on the in-game GUI, sound effects and music. I guess now it’s just finishing off the studio, finishing up the client, final modelling and bug fixing. We should have a public release in about a month then!

We have come to the conclusion that we are not going to release a public alpha this week as things could be rushed and at the end of the day we’re not entirely ready.
Therefore the alpha release will be to a select-group of testers who can help us find bugs.

We also discussed how BrixNation will expand out onto multiple platforms. Because it is a lot of work and time expanding to platforms such as Mac’s, it hasn’t been a priority. However, within the next couple of weeks we should have a functioning Mac version. We have not talked about when we will expand to Linux, but eventually this will happen, including the expansion to possibly iOS and Android devices.

We will keep you up-to-date on when a public version of BrixNation is released though

This will not be a stable release, and it won’t be what we intend the first stable public version to be either.
Lot’s of changes and additions will be made during this period, but we feel it’s time to let people give BrixNation a go.

The first alpha version will not have the capability of making custom games/worlds and it also will not have single player.
All it will allow you to do is connect to the test server when it’s up (which won’t be 24/7 to start with).

If you were expecting BrixNation to be stable, and to not have some of these limiting features, then please wait until we release Version 1 of BrixNation. Until “Version 1″ the BrixNation versions will be measured by build numbers, because we will be having constant updates and changes.

Thanks for your understanding

Just to keep you all up to date many improvements are being constantly made to BrixNation. With the creation team working away there have been many new features added, including new transparent engine and dynamic brick colours and many behind the scene work to make BrixNation even better!

All these features are developing quickly and all the team is working hard to bring the first public Alpha Version to you as soon as possible.

It’s going to be an action packed release with secret surprises to come.
More information to follow so make sure you check back soon and don’t miss out!

- Greg

With the first pre-alpha it will probably be just a single world with everyone on testing stuff out, and then we will move on to multiple worlds.
We don’t have any screenshots of the multiplayer building at the moment, but here is something made in a couple of minutes in single player:

We’ll keep you up to date with when the first downloadable version comes out