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Experience HUMANKIND with State Share and direct touch

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HUMANKIND is launching tomorrow, August 17, and we’re looking forward to jumping into this turn-based historical strategy game and creating our own unique culture. On Stadia, HUMANKIND is launching with two important integrations that will change the way you play - and we’re revealing the full details today along with our friends at Amplitude Studios!

Within HUMANKIND, you’ll see a feature called Leave Your Mark, which is how Amplitude Studios uses State Share to add a competitive spin on the game. Think that you've done a great job in your game of HUMANKIND? With Leave Your Mark, you can capture a screenshot or video clip and invite friends to play your unique game world from the beginning, with the ability to compete against your own accomplishments and discover remnants of your civilization.

Friends can compete for Fame and see if they can achieve more for their civilization than you did - or stand in the shadows of your accomplishments!

HUMANKIND_inline_1.jpgLeave Your Mark gives players three types of content to explore and compete to discover within every game state captured with State Share:

  • Memories Events - These mark significant accomplishments by the game state creator during the game, with Fame rewards.
  • Challenges - These are great actions by the game state creator that will generate additional challenges for players to attempt, rewarding Fame if accomplished in time.
  • Archeology Sites - The map records the remains of civilizations and humanity left behind by the game state creator. Discovering these sites triggers Fame bonuses and special Narrative Events.

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In addition to State Share, Stadia is making it easier than ever to play games on your phone with a new input method called direct touch, launching first with HUMANKIND. Direct touch enables you to interact directly with a game using your phone’s touch screen. Instead of using a touch gamepad overlay. For example, direct touch allows players to control the game by tapping, sliding, and pinching the screen with your fingers to directly play the game.

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You’ll be prompted to enable direct touch after you launch HUMANKIND on Stadia via your Android mobile device when you don't already have a controller linked. Direct touch is coming soon to Stadia on mobile web for players on iOS!

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Before the arrival of HUMANKIND tomorrow on the Stadia store, the team at Amplitude Studios had the following to share about the journey to create this game and what players can expect starting at Turn 1 tomorrow:

HUMANKIND is a true labor of love that we’ve been working on for more than 4 years and dreaming about making since the studio was founded a decade ago.

For those of you who don’t know us, we’re Amplitude Studios, a 130-person studio based in Paris behind strategy game titles like Endless Legend, Endless Space 2, and Dungeon of the Endless. We’re also proud to be a part of SEGA Europe. In HUMANKIND, we’ve left our sci-fantasy roots to tackle history for the first time, and it’s been quite the journey taking on such challenging subject matter.

HUMANKIND is a turn-based historical strategy game, in which you’ll be leading your people from the Neolithic to the Modern era. At the start of each era, you’ll be able to choose one of ten cultures to adopt, whose traits will stack with those of your previous cultures.

The goal of the game is to accumulate as much Fame as possible – the person with the highest Fame score wins. This means that all your actions throughout the game truly count, not just who has the biggest army at the end. We’ve worked with historians to ensure that the building blocks of the game are historically authentic, but what you create with them is up to you!

Finally, we want to thank everyone for our support and participation in making this game the best it can possibly be. Last October, we ran our OpenDev program on Stadia where thousands of you played through a gameplay slice and gave us your feedback on what you liked and wanted to improve. We’re excited for you all to see the result.
We hope you enjoy, and we can’t wait to hear your thoughts!

- the Amplitude team

HUMANKIND is available now for pre-order on the Stadia store ahead of launch tomorrow, August 17!

32 Comments
FantiR
Founder
Founder

I've played the demo nearly 1 year ago and i really liked it 

Edit: Preordered ...

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ViviFFIX
Platinum Stadia Guide
Platinum Stadia Guide

Direct touch is perfect for a game like this!

I've been waiting for a 4X on Stadia for ages, so glad to see this finally launching!!

Chufu
Platinum Stadia Guide
Platinum Stadia Guide

I like this "leave your mark" feature that sounds really cool!

All the best for the release, Humankind!

Hutchy1990
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Is there any news on mafia 

nana
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I hope game is real

 

Bean
Founder
Founder

Can't wait for direct touch on the PWA! Sounds super cool!

MisterMarcoo
Founder
Founder

Of course this is awesome and I have waited for ages on this game, BUT you could have addressed the concerns about crossplay NOT being integrated in Stadia.

According to the Amplitude Devs on a stream: crossplay is in place for Steam, Epic and Gamepass but NOT for Stadia. Your store listing (on Stadia) still says it's available.

EDIT: I see it has been removed from the store listing. This is really disappointing...

If it is NOT implemented:

  • Why is it not available?
  • Will it be implemented in the (near) future?

These questions have already been asked on Twitter, but none of you all answered. I really hope there will be an answer here... 

Don't get me wrong, but I want to play with friends on Steam. If you say crossplay is in place, but it isn't I might have to reconsider my purchase.

Philiphvd
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Pre-ordered! Can't wait!:party_popper:🥳

Mr_JtowN
Founder
Founder

Already pre ordered back when the demo was available. Looking forward to playing this tomorrow!

MisterMarcoo
Founder
Founder

Btw I just wanted to add I am really hyped for this game and will of course play it.

When we talk about Stadia specific feature, maybe the "stream viewer poll" is a nice one. Let your viewers decide which chooses to make in events, what culture to pick etc. Could be fun!

 

VishrutShenoy
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Great feature :thumbs_up:

Dice_for_Death_
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I'm eager to give this game a shot and experience "leave your mark" for myself...and with someone. Sounds like they pulled out all the stops for this one!

NinjaGuyX
Silver Stadia Guide
Silver Stadia Guide

I'm just repeating what Vivi said, but direct touch is a big step for Stadia! Looking forward to give it a shot and to see other games implementing it.

Finally seeing some more games implementing the State Share feature is also really cool.

Genrader
Founder
Founder

Just found out about it a few weeks back.  Great surprise, I just hope they get Crossplay soon since I bet Stadia development started last -- but I know they will add it

ressonix
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

@MisterMarcoo It's best to ask the developers about crossplay, not Google. It's ultimately up to them to put features into their game. Also, it's up to the publisher (in this case Sega) to keep the store listing up-to-date. Don't get mad at Google for something that isn't their fault.

hellcapone
Founder
Founder

will direct touch will also come to pc that have touch screen ?

Gem
Founder
Founder

I'm excited for the new feature of Direct Touch :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

MrVacca
Platinum Stadia Guide
Platinum Stadia Guide

I am eager to see what other games utilize Direct Touch in the future!  Hats off to Civilization to be the first to pull it off!!

lallo1138
Founder
Founder

I was not that interested in the genre, but I had to try it on my Android tablet... a PC game with mobile gaming features is so cool.

(So much better than Mafia:))

MisterMarcoo
Founder
Founder

@ressonix I know and already did. I am not the only one: Reddit, Twitter: there a lot of questions about this asked to Google, Amplitude and SEGA. They only confirmed it will not be available but they are not responding to any follow up....

PerfectCode
Founder
Founder

Pretty cool stuff guys. Nice work. 

Kobra
Founder
Founder

Can you tell us when Cross-Play will be available?

MJParks
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Sounds interesting maybe even engrossing but probably won’t pick up; not until it’s on sale.

SQUiDzzz
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

direct touch is gonna be one of those new features on Stadia like state share this is dope! Nice future ahead! Bravo @StadiaTeam #zzz

Bscott
Community Member

Can we get Direct Touch on ChromeOS tablets. Using Stadia PWA and direct touch isn't an option. 

Sherian
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Direct touch doesnt work on humankind. I've tried enabling experiments but still doesnt work. Please help

Gianchi
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Define soon for iOS..

Horoscopeking4
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

Find a way to get skyrim on stadia 11 11 21 and all ur games will sell better

Kevin13
Founder
Founder

Hey! I just bought Humankind and I love it! I have a Lenovo duet tablet and HP 14A touchscreen Chromebooks (with the android play store in both). I can't seem to get touch controls working on these android devices; can you please help me out? I got it working on my Pixel, but for this game, direct touch is really only useful on a bigger screen (buttons are a little too small for the phone), and the keyboard and trackpad aren't great by comparison. 

Thanks!

Drenfriend
Stadia Player
Stadia Player

I’m trying to get a message to my human kind music is absolutely #postmAlone #711 

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Usstass
Founder
Founder

Direct touch is still not available on iPad :disappointed_face:It is so weird to play Humankind on iPad Pro with a controller🤪 Are there any updates on direct touch on iOS???

panickos
Founder
Founder

Direct touch was released on iOS and is working ok. There is though one major problem which makes the game unplayable:

Vertical scrolling (map panning, and scrolling though lists) is not working! Horizontal is working fine, but vertical is not. Is this something that needs to be handled by Google or by the Humankind devs?

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