🎮 Big step towards the Steam Demo
With this new update, The Omins is getting closer to the structure and level of polish I want for the Steam version of the demo.
🏠 Main Menu, Settings & Controls
The game now starts with a real Main Menu. A new settings windows have also been added, including:
Camera Settings: sensitivity and other camera options
Game Settings: language and autosave options
Controls Window: a list of the main game keys and their use
🎨 Faction Identity
You can now customize your faction before starting the game. You can choose or randomize:
Faction name
Faction color
Faction emblem
📖 Faction Journal
A new Faction Journal has also been added to the Main Menu to record important events during the game, helping to follow the story of your settlement and remember what happened during your journey.
💾 Save System improvements
Save entries now display more useful information, and a new Last Save label makes it clearer when your progress was last saved.
Several save-related crashes, inconsistencies, and small issues were also fixed.
🧭 Better command feedback
When you give an order, the game now shows a blinking line to indicate which command has been accepted by an Omin.
Also, when a group of Omins is selected, the game now automatically chooses the most suitable Omins to execute the command. This should make group control smoother, clearer, and reduce cases where the wrong Omin takes the wrong job.
💞 Family Desire indicator
The new Family Desire indicator shows how fast Omins build love desire. This is affected by:
Available food
Available beds
Current season
This should make population growth easier to understand and gives more visibility to the factors influencing your settlement. In next versions I will include also in which percentage these elements influence the Family Desire.
🧍 UI and readability improvements
The UI has been improved with a new Center Top Bar showing faction information, current age, date and season.
Now tutorials no longer interrupt the game flow.
Omins names can now be shown by holding the N key.
🍎 macOS build is now available
Important note: the macOS version is not signed, notarized, or certified by Apple.
This means macOS may show security warnings when trying to open the game. However, the build should still be playable by following the instructions provided in the macOS README file included with the download.
🔧 Fixes and polish
This update also includes several smaller fixes, stability improvements, a new splash screen, UI adjustments, and general polish.
🚀 What’s Next
In future versions, I'm planning to improve the scenario map and the structures of the objectives of the demo, and adding some surprises 🙂
I will also spend some time preparing the Steam page with new images and descriptions.
Thanks to everyone testing the demo and sharing feedback. It helps a lot ❤️