Hello everyone! We have been working for a while on improving and expanding the They Are Billions level editor. The first big update, available right now in the new version V1.1 , allows to modify the rules of the game. You can now modify all the parameters of the units, buildings and enemies in your custom levels. Every time we make this kind of modifications we have to be very careful because…
Greetings! Great news! The Campaign mode of They Are Billions is finally available for consoles for free. To play it just let the game update automatically. It’s been almost six months of hard work. We know that some players were upset because this mode was not available for consoles at the same time as it did for PC, but it required all that time to port and adapt the game to consoles. Some ga…
Greetings! We are very happy to announce that They Are Billions is available for XBOX One (right now) and PS4 on 9th July. The time has come for console players to also enjoy this RTS. Although for the moment it’s only available in the Survival mode, we will also bring the Campaign mode to this console in the near future. An RTS in consoles? Indeed, there are not many RTS games in consoles. Thi…
Spoiler: Developers are scared .... more in V. 1.0.10 ... Greetings! It's almost incredible that we didn’t think of this before... TAB has always stored in a Steam variable the total number of zombies killed by each player, in order to unlock the Infected Killer achievements. So, now those values are added to another global Steam variable that contains the sum of all the zombies killed by the e…
Greetings! We continue working to improve the game and, our number one priority, to fix all the bugs and issues. Since the release They Are Billions has between 15,000 and 20,000 simultaneous players, and has been played for more than 2 million hours in the last week. Amazing! A billion thanks to all players! Something pending to include for future versions is the counter for the total number o…
Greetings! The launch week is becoming really intense. We never thought that version 1.0 would generate so much interest, opinions and feedback. That’s a sign that They Are Billions is becoming a very popular game and, as such, generates intense debate. First of all, thank you very much to all the constructive feedback that helps us to improve the game and to correct mistakes. Thank you very mu…
At last, They Are Billions reaches version 1.0. We are leaving the Early Access and the great Campaign, The New Empire, will be available for all players. The Campaign: The New Empire. Lead the campaign under the orders of Quintus Crane, ruler of the New Empire, and reconquer the lands devastated by the infected. · 48 missions with more than 60 hours of gameplay. · Build fortified colonies to s…
Greetings! There is only one day left until the launch of the They Are Billions Campaign that finally, after a year and a half in Early Access, will become version 1.0! During this time, and thanks to all your support, we have improved TAB in many aspects while developing the Campaign mode almost in secret. It will finally be released tomorrow and, as promised, it will be included for free for…
At last! The highly anticipated They Are Billions Campaign will be available on June 18th. Here at Numantian, we recommend that you ask your boss for at least one month off. That’s because, and you are being warned, the campaign is addictive - really addictive. Check out the teaser trailer of The New Empire. We hope you enjoy it! The campaign will, of course be included free with the current ga…
Greetings! Today we will talk about the heroes and tactic mission in They Are Billions. The Campaign will finally have 48 missions, 23 of which are about building colonies, 15 about attacking swarms of infected and 10 will be tactical missions. As it happened to us with Lords of Xulima, the duration of the final game is much longer than we had anticipated as, according to our testers, it can ta…
Greetings! As you probably know, before launching They Are Billions on Steam we had a presale campaign with special limited editions in which one of the rewards for supporting the development was to appear in the game credits. As appreciation to all our awesome backers, we have produced a theme song for the game credits as a tribute to the more than 3,000 people who, through their support and c…
Greetings! As we mentioned in the previous update, we hope to launch the final game with the Campaign in June. We are working very hard on all fronts in parallel: Missions of the Campaign, new interface for the Campaign, testing and balancing, cinematics, voices and sound effects, new units, translations, and some other surprises we have planned. The name of the Campaign will finally be The New…
Greetings! Today we’ll talk about the World Map and some other elements about the upcoming Campaign Mode of They Are Billions. The World Map If you followed the development of our last game, the RPG Lords of Xulima , you should know that we love World Maps. They’re a great way to put the player directly into the context of the game while showing their progress. Every game should have one! In Th…
Greetings! Today we would like to tell you a bit more about some of the upcoming features of the Campaign: The Train and the Research System The Train During The Campaign you will mostly have to deal with reconquering a big territory currently occupied by the infected. In this future world there is just one city standing: Empire City, where most remaining humans live. At the beginning of the ga…
Greetings! First of all, happy New Year! We hope your New Year is off to a good start. We’re very grateful for how exciting last year has been for our studio. There are big plans for this new year and we are sure that it will be too for the great community of They Are Billions. Now, let's talk about the development of TAB, What are we working on right now? The Level Editor We continue expanding…
Greetings! After two weeks of testing the level editor and the workshop, we are glad to announce that it’s finally ready. Thank you very much to all the players that joined the editor testing group and shared their feedback with the developers. Right now there are more than 80 levels to enjoy, and we’re sure there are many more to come soon. The editor and custom levels access is now available…
Greetings! This is a quick update for the players that wishes to test the Editor and Workshop features of They Are Billions. For the rest of players, please ignore this update, and wait to the public release. We will announce it here as usual. Before releasing the Custom Levels Editor and the Workshop integration we would like to test it further with the community. So, for this reason we have e…
Greetings! Just a quick update to talk about the new version published 0.92 and some news about the incoming Level Editor. New Version V 0.9.2 It is just a minor update. It fixes some problems and bugs and also improves the general performance. It also includes these new features: Custom Keys Now you can customize most of the keyboard commands available in the game. You can do it from the Optio…
Greetings! I hope you’ve had a great summer! It’s been a while since our last update. It’s not only because even the most devoted developers need to take a break sometimes, but mostly because we’ve been working hard on the game, making big changes as we develop the Campaign Mode. This, unfortunately, has prevented us from updating the Survival Mode with new content for now. So with this post, w…
Greetings! While we are working hard developing the Campaign of They Are Billions we would like to add some more spice to the current Survival Mode: The Infected Giant The Infected Giant is a very special enemy with some specific features. The Giant is a mutated infected that has grown without limit for years and years. It is so huge that the earth trembles under its passage. When does the beas…
Greetings! Just a quick update on the game development. Campaign Development We are working now in two fronts, the Old Fortresses, where the tactic missions will be played, and the Trains system. In the next update we’ll talk more about them and we’ll publish new screenshots with new content. Trains on Survival Mode? As we said before we want to keep on trying to enrich the content of the Survi…
Greetings! Here’s the teaser video we’ve prepared to announce The Six Wonders. Hope you like it! The Six Wonders are the biggest and most amazing ones you can build for the colony. But, as mighty as they are, they’re also really expensive to build. Tons of resources are required for both researching and building them. In return, they grant very special features to the colony, and also increase…
Greetings! As you know we are working on a big update for They Are Billions (V.0.8) with The Six Wonders , that we expect to publish on the 5th of May. Yes, it has been delayed, sorry about that! The main reason is that we have to translate all the new stuff into 12 languages which pushed back the release dates and also requires extra testing time. Meanwhile we have used this time to add more f…
Greetings! It has been an old dream of ours here at Numantian to have the opportunity to record the soundtrack of TAB with a philharmonic orchestra. Our composer, Nicolas Diteriks, did a tremendous job collaborating with Johannes Vogel, who conducts the Bratislava Symphony Orchestra. His orchestra has a great deal of experience recording music for videogames (Castlevania, Batman Arkham Origins,…
Greetings! This is a quick update to talk a bit more about the development and incoming features for They Are Billions. It has been a long time since our last update because we have been working in parallel on different parts of the game, not only for the Campaign but also for the Survival Mode. The Six Wonders Six new buildings are coming... and they are the greatest ones! They are extremely e…
Greetings Survivors! We have a lot of news to share about our most recent big update V0.6! Nine New Languages Available!! Now the game can be played in Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Korean, Japanese, Russian, German, French, Polish, and Brazilian Portuguese. The game should start selecting the language automatically. If it does not work please select the language from the Options screen…
Greetings! First, thanks for all this wonderful support! The amount of comments, feedback, videos, twitchs... is simply amazing! There are players that are making colonies that we have never seen in our play testing. Just look this one with almost 16K colonists! We are glad to see our game engine moving softly these huge scenes with thousands of colonists, hundred of buildings and dozens of tho…
Greetings! Finally, They Are Billions Survival Mode is available on Steam! We know lots of people have been waiting patiently to play the game, especially the backers after we ran out beta keys. We have worked as if we were being chased by billions of zombies to launch the game much earlier than originally anticipated. This version is now much more polished than the original. We have implemente…
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