Union Update: Winner of the statue design contest

Hey Anno Community,

We have a winner! And against all our internal predictions, it has nothing to do with the Jorgensens.

No, you chose Annocius, the new god of Anno, as your favourite in a quite exciting, but ultimately decisive vote. Congratulations to HiddenMoon79 who designed it!

Combining 32% of the votes, “Annocius” won the Community Vote, ahead of “Latona” by Lucianus with 24% of the votes in second place.

Well, and what’s next? – We’ll sit together with our colleagues in the Art Team and discuss how to translate the drawing by HiddenMoon79 into a first concept art – checking with its creator to make sure we don’t stray too far from the original. This we will then later follow-up with drafts of the 3D model.

On all this progress, we’ll keep you updated here on the Anno Union. Congratulations once more to the winning design!

Below you can find a collection of all valid entries to the contest. A big thank you to everyone who sat down to create their vision of an Anno statue. We very much enjoyed going through all the entries and hope you also had fun creating them.

Q&A

As the second part of today’s blog, we’re tackling some recent questions related to the upcoming Community Event in Cologne.

When will you send invites to the Community Event in Cologne?

We sent out the first round of invites on Monday to a randomly selected group of people. Please make sure to check your inboxes and spam folders, just in case. As mentioned in said email as well, we would need confirmation by Sunday.

Should several people drop out for whatever reason, we will send out more invites over the next days.

Are you showing something exclusive at the Community Event?

Yes… and no. Attendees will get the information of our next DevBlog a little bit earlier than the rest – and delivered in person by Lead Game Designer Andrea and Senior Game Writer Matt.

However, we will follow this up in the days after with an article covering the same topic here on the Anno Union for everyone.

When is the next Anno 117 DevBlog coming?

Due to unforeseen circumstances, we had to push the blog planned for early August back to a later date – which, unfortunately, creates a little gap in terms of content here on the Anno Union. The next DevBlog will therefore release on the 22^nd/23^rd of August as mentioned above.

After that we’ll talk about Game Design and Game Production.

Do you have news on the last two Cosmetic DLC for Anno 1800?

Two more Cosmetic DLC are planned for Anno 1800 and will still release this year. The next one is not that far off anymore, and we might have a first teaser later this month, then the full details in early September – the release-month.

The other one will be released at the end of the year and is still in development, information on that will still have to wait a little bit.

I have problems with adding comments below articles, how do I fix that?

Some of you reached out to let us know you’re experiencing problems with commenting on blogs on the Anno Union since the update.

Due to the website update, this often seems to be related to browser caching. Please try deleting your cache (and potentially cookies) and try again. Should the issues remain, please reach out to us e.g. via Discord and we’ll investigate.