Slashing Dragon, in addition to creating various Ultima-inspired retro games (not to mention the Ultima 6-inspired OpenArthurianX6 game engine), is also a professional developer who has worked on a number of applications and games. His latest commercial title is Nova Mundi: Echoes of the Emerald Jungle…and you can find a page for it on Steam as of last month. Thereat, you can find a brief description of the game, as well as a few screenshots:

NovaMundi is a strategy game set in a fictional Age of Exploration. Lead expeditions into the depths of unexplored jungles full of dangers, to discover new animal species and learn about the inhabitants of the land. A new adventure awaits you every time.

It’s also worth mentioning the latest news post that Slash has posted on Steam, detailing the latest progress he has made on NovaMundi:

It’s been three months since the last update. And many things have happened… but before delving into the dev update, some general announcements.

First off, the name of the game is now NovaMundi. Expedition is now the underlying engine (players will likely never know about it). We did some heavy branding work for it, as you can see on the new website.

We are also now in Steam, where players can now wishlist us! we created a brand new trailer to launch there (Soundworks by QuietGecko and voice by Nash Makado), as well as a pretty detailed gameplay video (which went quite well for not having any script, except there was no combat).

It’s hard to make an interesting 3 months changelog, so I’ll focus on the more visible aspects (but of course there was a lot more work in tweaking and fixing stuff under the hood).

It’s well worth giving the complete news post a read, as Slash goes into considerable detail about changes and improvements to a number of the game’s systems. And perhaps consider wishlisting the game on Steam so you’ll be notified of its release!