PDXCON 2022 was just awesome. Thank you everyone for being there, for playing Victoria 3 and for sharing your thoughts and excitement with me. Hope you all had as good a time as I did!

Just wrapped up the last big pass on Diplomatic Play AI for the release of Victoria 3 and I have to say that it's a lot more rude now :(

Gaining interests from the navy? How very nautical of us.

Just finished writing the draft for this week's Victoria 3 AI dev diary. It's... wordy.

AI nations have dynamic strategies that influence how they act, both internally and externally.

This week, Martin will be leading us through the AI and how it works! Let us hope he hasn't made a R.U.R. situation! Read it here: pdxint.at/3R5Ge3H

Dealing with a wretched cold for the last couple weeks has at least led to one good thing: I finally gave in to the British Paradox Tea Lobby and bought a big box of Yorkshire Tea. It's lovely stuff.

QA are an absolutely crucial and often grossly undervalued part of game development - and frequently some of my absolutely favorite people to work with. You should read this dev diary!

Thank you Johan Andersson for trusting me with Victoria 3, it’s been a hell of a ride and part of me still can’t believe we're releasing tomorrow. Incredibly excited for it!

So I guess we’re releasing Victoria 3 today, huh?

It's teaser time again! One of the things we're looking at in upcoming Victoria 3 patches is balancing cultural/religious tolerance laws by having more restrictive laws increase the loyalty of accepted pops, so there is an actual trade-off involved.

In patch 1.1 for Victoria 3, Pondicherry no longer starts the game as a functioning Treaty Port, as Treaty Ports will now only work against markets controlled by a lower-ranked power. If you want a backdoor into the British Market, you'll have to take them down a peg first!

The holidays are over and we're starting up Victoria 3 dev diaries again this week to talk about all the fixes, improvements and changes that upcoming 1.2 patch will bring. To tidy you over until then, here's a teaser of the new and more condensed trade routes interface in 1.2!

Just here to notify you some of what we have been gearing up for in 1.2. You'll see more of an overview tomorrow!

This review is giving me life for a couple of reasons. 1) I understand enough Spanish to read it! 2) It's a review from a 50 year old widower who bought the game so he could spend more time with his son and it's the most time they've bonded since his wife passed away.😭

For all Victoria 3 music lovers, we've got a treat for you! Let this ambience music from Victoria 3 transport you to a time when anything seemed possible. youtu.be/R4PtTqFC8dw