


To help reach their goals, we’re launching the Ara: History Untold Insider Program! As an Insider, you’ll join a passionate community of strategy game fans and leave your mark on the game. Oxide Games has an ambitious vision to deliver a truly groundbreaking evolution in the turn-based strategy genre, but can’t get to the finish line without its players. Players will become the architect of a dynamic, living world fully rendered and brought to life through the power of Oxide’s proprietary Nitrous Engine, where their play style and decisions will shape the world they create, the lives of their people, and their legacy as a leader. But not together.Ara: History Untold, built by a team that includes many of the leads behind one of the most popular historical grand strategy games of all time, invites players to build and lead a nation throughout global history as they explore new lands, develop arts and culture, conduct diplomacy, and go head-to-head with rivals to prove they are the greatest leader ever known. Outside of work she likes stinky cheeses, stinky sheep fleeces, and making stuff from those things. Michelle is the Design Director at Oxide Games and the Lead Designer of Ara: History Untold. Thanks for reading, and see you next time. In the meantime, if you haven’t seen the announce you can check out the trailer here, and join the Insider Program herefor the opportunity to play early builds, provide feedback, and earn unique rewards for your game account.
We have content lined up ranging from deep dives into design systems, showcasing of cool visuals, digressions into writing for such a large, diverse game, and some fun adventures into the audio design and vision (it involves a camel). In the coming weeks we’ll be detailing out a different system or area of the game with every new article written, each being presented by a different member of the team. (Seriously, years of zip-lipped darkness – they can’t wait to actually start talking about all the things with you all.) Ara’s been many years in the making, and the team can’t wait to share with everyone all the hard work they’ve put into the game and start a discussion with you about all the new features they hope you’ll love. We’re super excited today to kick off the first of our new dev diaries series, detailing our journey with Ara: History Untold.
