Beyond A Steel Sky is an Action Adventure game, developed and published by Revolution Software, scheduled to be released in 2020. Beyond A Steel Sky Releasing On PC This Month After A 26-Year Wait Updated Jul 2, 2020.

• Check out the story trailer for Beyond a Steel Sky, the long-awaited sequel to the 1994 adventure classic, Beneath a Steel Sky.
• Beyond a Steel Sky will launch for Apple Arcade on June 26 and for PC, Mac, and Linux via Steam in July, developer Revolution Software announced. “I am so pleased to have had the opportunity to.
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• Check out the story trailer for Beyond a Steel Sky, the long-awaited sequel to the 1994 adventure classic, Beneath a Steel Sky.

Graham’s messages

With the MINOS hacking over with, we can finally peer into Graham Grundy’s messages, so let’s head back to his apartment – you can throw the Bilby toy into the furnace before you leave, on Leet’s behest

Get into Graham’s bedroom and access the MINOS terminal to peek at his messages

Go through Graham’s messages, read all you want, and find the message with the attachment

Once you’ve found it, select the new mystery icon in the Holoplinth section of the terminal

Now the holoplinth in the main room will change, but be indecipherable – use the broken holoplinth gem in your inventory

Now we have a new message, and a new goal, to get into the Aspiration Gala at midnight

You can talk to Songbird and Chipworth to ask about the Aspiration Gala, but only one droid will help you, and he’s very poetic

Reginald’s Dapper Butler Tarquin will be waiting just outside the building, and he needs inspiration: exhaust his dialogue, and you’ll be tasked with finding inspiration for him from Reginald

Head to the Piazza to find Reginald and steal some inspiration

Getting inspiration poetry from the cafe

You’ll find Reginald in the VIP area of the cafe – getting in is a simple case of opening up your hacker and allowing yourself access, but getting his poetry is more difficult

Exhaust Reginald’s dialogue and you’ll find him to be secretive, and up his own arse: he deserves to have his poetry stolen, honestly

To the left of the cafe you’ll find a diagnostician, you can talk to her, but all you need to do is transfer her music to the cafe’s music system via your hacker

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Since you’ve swapped around the programs on the VIP door, Reginald won’t be able to leave

Transfer the alarm from the Spankles terminal with the door system to trigger it when Reginald tries to leave

When you get confronted by the security droid, blame Reginald

Now get close to Reginald and wait for the speaker robot to approach, then use your hacker and transfer Reginald’s Aspiration Day Poem to the droid

Make sure to deactivate the alarm by setting Reginald free

Follow the speaker droid with the poem to the brooch stall, and transfer the poem to the stall

Once transferred, you’ll can change your brooch hologram, doesn’t matter what you’ll pick, and you’ll get the poem on your brooch

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Finally, go back to Tarquin at the apartments and give him the brooch by using the “inspiration” option

Once all is done you’ll be given a ticket to the gala, and you can put on a set of party clothes in your bedroom, and Songbird will join you once you arrive at the monopod

Getting inside the control room at the Aspiration Gala

Once your arrive at the gala you’ll spot some shadowy types in the rafters, so our goal will be to get to them

You’ll find Alonso at the entrance to the control room, you’ll need to get inside the elevator, but first you’ll need to cause some kind of distraction

Use the nearby Spankles machine, but use the hacker to make the alarm go off, Alonso will approach to investigate, when he does the nearby hoload will change

A vermin warning only shows when Alonso is nearby, while he’s there put the vermin warning node in the main display of the hoload with the hacker

Now use the hacker to slowly move the vermin warning from hoload to hoload, leading down the stairs and towards the projector – make the projector display the vermin warning to light up a giant Gang-Gang bird

This is the distraction you need to use the elevator in the control room, go get up there

Finding the shadows

Inside the control room use your crowbar on the vent in the corner of the room, and then crawl through

Ascend the spiral ramp and follow the people you see

You will be given the option of watching the performances of Reginald and Tarquin – we used the Aspiration Gala poem to give to Tarquin, but you can also use the private poem, and the outcomes are slightly different

Follow the path and descend a ladder to find the path forward

After some happy reunions things go awry pretty badly, and you’ll need Joey to continue

Taking out the android and getting Foster back

You’ll need to take the android out, first you’ll need to use the console in the centre of the room

Deactivate the power to one of the empty chairs, this will prompt the android to press a button on the console to fix it

Make sure it can’t be fixed by flying behind the chair you chose and deactivating it by bashing into it

The android will attempt to fix it by climbing over the rail, at which point you can have Joey push him off

Return to Orana to continue

Once you regain control of Foster, follow Joey into room five

Once everything is done, follow the path you used to get here, and you’ll eventually make your way back to the recycling plant – we’re finally approaching the end of the game…

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November 2019 Dev Diary - Back to Development!

Posted 09 / 12 / 19

Hello everyone, and welcome to another Developer diary for Beyond a Steel Sky !

Last month we had a look at some of our development team. This month we thought we’d get back to sharing a bit more behind what’s going into Beyond a Steel Sky.

First off, Beyond a Steel Sky will now be coming to you all in 2020, instead of 2019 as we had initially intended. Owing to a need to extend the development period, we've had to delay the release -but only by a few months. For more information you can read our article here about it.

So, what’s been happening this month?

Well, in short, a lot!

Voice recording for our characters is now underway. Those of you who played the demo at EGX last month will have heard a lot of voices have already been added, but now we’re recording the entire ensemble and getting them added into the project. For now we’re doing this section by section as we progress through the game. What this means is Union City is about to start buzzing with voices - both human and droid alike!

Looks like 2CU is happy to hear she's going to have a voice!

What this also means is that Dialogue is nearing completion and being reviewed. In Beneath a Steel Sky,the humour and dialogue stood out and really exemplified the dystopian and cyberpunk style of the game. We’re ensuring all the puns you're used to make their way into the game, and you'll be able to enjoy the same level and style of humour.

The music for Beyond a Steel Sky is also in production. A gorgeous orchestral score (if we say so ourselves!) that really brings out the atmosphere of the game, and enhancing the mystery of the narrative. We’ve always used Orchestral soundtracks for Broken Sword, and from that we know how to truly enhance a scene and add depth to a scene. We hope you’ll agree when you get to hear it!

And as always, animations are being tidied, motion-captured (or “mocapped”), and added to the game. We’ve still got a ways to go, but it’s a joy to see the game progress every day.
A great example is some of the progress this month is one of the animations you can spot in the Gameplay Trailer - getting refined, smoothed out, and less jerky:

Before and after. Spot the difference?

All of this hopefully indicates we’re all super busy bees in the Studio right now!

Rapid Iteration - Gameplay before Art.

Something we’ve somewhat ceased doing now (because we’re not really designing anything any more, but implementing) is “Rapid Iteration” - the idea of designing and implementing things quickly to gauge the success of an idea in the early stages of development.

One of the hardest things to gauge when designing a game, any game, is whether or not it’s fun. Many a project has completed its development, only to be unleashed upon the testers to a resounding “meh.”

Whilst a talented design team and years of experience can help mitigate the risk of a puzzle that falls flat or a cutscene that’s just too confusing, nothing beats seeing it for yourselves. These days, with the right tools, this is actually a lot easier than it ever was before.

For Beyond a Steel Sky, we’re using Unreal 4 as our game engine, and the game itself is made up of various modular components, carefully built to be versatile and robust in their function, that we can fit together like building blocks.

This means if we want to see how a scene plays out, a designer can grab the individual parts, snap them all together, and with a minimum of code and a sprinkle of dialogue, have a fully functional (albeit often a little rough around the edges,) puzzle to test out, and evaluate.

So, as an example from the earliest days of development, for this idea there's a citizen on a ledge who needs saving. We grab a person, an object and a trigger to tell us where he is, give him a simple behaviour tree and bam!: We have an element for a puzzle ready to go.

How’s this for a dramatic moment? A Citizen on a ledge going to fall!

Well, it’s great as long as you look past the fact that there's an open window there where they could easily be rescued through. We need some more creative solutions, so let’s redesign the scene a bit:

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Ever wondered what a droid looks like on their tip-toes?

With a little tweak, the citizen is now in actual peril and how to rescue them can now be designed.

We call this technique “Rapid Iteration,” and rapid it truly is - we can bounce an idea around the team and get feedback immediately, ensuring that before a section moves to the concept art stage, the gameplay is confirmed as being on target.

For every puzzle you see in a finished game, you can bet that there are an equal number we tested out and found wanting - after all, if it’s not fun, it won’t make the cut, but some useful bits may be added to other designs. This puzzle idea was valuable to gauge the scene, but you won’t find it in Beyond a Steel Sky any more.

Once we’ve done the Rapid Iteration phase, we then move on to a full blockout for the section replacing the basic objects with custom code and artist produced placeholders and then (eventually) the final thing!

With this short, but hopefully juicy, bit of development insight we’re now working towards (and somewhat through) the Christmas holiday. In the New Year we’re hoping to start giving you some more accurate release information, and of course some more insights into how we’re making Beyond a Steel Sky - but gear up as they’ll be a bit more technical going forward. We’ll do our best to keep them easy to read, but increasingly informative for all of you hoping to see into the engine room of the development train.

So be sure to keep an eye on our social channels, on our Steam Page, and on our website. And, as always: