Hey there everyone!
Christmas time is here and we are all locked up in our houses. With Covid vaccines on the corner this perior of our lives seem to be ending soon. While you are still at home, we are sure you have some time to play some games.
This is a special day for Circadian City as we are doing our first version increment since our Early Access release. This is still a Friday Update but a bit bigger than usual. Let me quickly remind you the updates we're planning.
During the Early Access we will have 3 major updates to the game including the release of version 1.0
We will unlock a new Dreamworld map on each of these major updates along with new personality options, features and content.
On our regular Thanks God It's Friday Updates, we also bring some lesser features and content. This version 0.5 Update is bigger than our usual Friday Updates but still smaller than a major update.
Please also note that this update is only for Windows versions of the game. Due to Covid conditions we didn't have access to the Mac in the office therefore we couldn't get the update on Mac this week (It will be possible next week I suppose)
Long story short, we have two new important features:
WEARABLE ITEMS AND CHARACTER CREATION UPDATE:
We updated how character creation works. New and updated faces, hairs and hats! We will update some more on the upcoming weeks. Please tell us how you like them.
We had some negative comments on the woman face types and we worked a bit on them. We would like to see your comments on them as well.
Currently you can't find many hats during the game. But it's possible to add/remove new hats to your characters. If you watch the Razbuten 's stream this week. He will share an easter egg on how to unlock some hidden content!
There will be more hidden contents in the future.
ADDICTIONS
Now, sugar and caffeine are addictive in the game. Any item you consume including sugar or caffeine increases a hidden metric that might make you an addict to these ingredients.
Don't worry though, if you can hold against the coffee or sugar crisis, in about 3 days you will get rid of your addiction.
You can keep consuming these items in moderation, but if you try to abuse them, the addiction is waiting there for you :)
We will enable addiction for alcohol as well in the future but it's related with the happiness mood and it's not in the game just yet.
When you are addicted to an ingredient there are a few things to look after and you can find them under your Moods & Metrics UI.
Time to Crisis: This shows the time you have left until next crisis. Typically around 4 hours when you are awake.
Coffee/Sugar Crisis: When you are in need of consuming some coffee or sugar. Every hour you don't consume these items you receive +1 stress
On the UI we have a known issue that these temporary metrics don't show as a rate but rather they either show as full or they don't show at all. This was designed this way in the beginning and we will change it soon to reflect the real values.
BALANCE CHANGES / BOOSTERS
Some of the new items have descriptions including morning, afternoon, evening and after midnight. They describe the time of the day you do these actions.
From Midnight to 6 AM is considered "After Midnight"
From 6 AM to 12 PM is considered "Morning"
From 12 PM to 6 PM is considered "Afternoon"
and from 6 PM to midnight is considered "Evening"
- Garlic Fish: Gives Bad Breath for 4 hours, reducing your the rate you earn friendships by 75% but also gives double effect from stress reduction actions (if consumed in the evening)
- Beef Stew: 25% Chance to remove addictions instantly (if consumed in the evening)
- Milk with Honey: 50% more energy gained during sleep (if consumed after midnight)
Major Update Sneak Peek:
We are still working on remaking the UI of the game. This takes time and we will enable mouse controls with that update. Tell us what you think about this new look:
- Follow the development and vote for content on the development board
- Join the discussions and experience the hype on Discord