Structure Resources UI/UX Revamp Preview
As previewed a little last week, we're continuing to make a major area of focus for our first content update (coming later this month!) improving the game's core UI/UX and allowing players to clearly and easily understand what any given structure is doing. To that end, we're building stateful and responsive visualisations of any given structure's behaviours. And as a small preview (albeit one where the visuals are still work-in-progress), here's the new resource focus highlighting UI showing precisely where the selected Cricket Farm is receiving its resources from:
There will also be a new panel in a selected structure's "info pane" that shows its various inputs and ouputs and if any of them isn't functioning, additional information about why. The goal is to make diagnosing and addressing those structure production chains more straightforward.
Another Supporter Collaboration
We have selected another registered Supporter to add a name (their own or another) to GenExile's procedural character generation name database! This isn't the only kind of Supporter collaboration we'll do, but the response to this has been really positive thus far, so want to keep letting more folks put their own personal stamp on GenExile.
And how does one become included in future Supporter Collaborations? Easy! If you have the Supporter Sustainability Pack, join us on Discord and send a DM with your receipt to the admin and you'll be included in the pool for future collaborations:
Unity Awards Steam Event
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/TheUnityAwards2025
The Unity game engine hosts an annual award showcase for the best games and game development utilities made with, well, Unity. And for the last few years, this has also included a corresponding Steam event where a bunch of those nominated games are on sale.
As an Early Access title, we didn't want to seek nomination (yet) but as part of this Steam Event, the organisers from Unity also included some titles simply made using the Unity engine, including Generation Exile! There are indeed all kinds of great games in here, so take a gander via the link above.
Folks may not generally be aware, but GenExile's lead programmer has been covering Unity in various forms for a long time via his YouTube channel GameDevGuide. Matt usually provides in-depth tutorials on how to implement discrete game dev features via Unity, but occasionally there's a high-level update, including his most recent video about everything announced at the 2025 Unite conference. At Unite, the roadmap for the next couple years of Unity updates is laid out, so anyone curious about the behind the scenes aspects of game development might find the (wonderfully) boring news of interest:
Content Update Beta Preview
There isn't a new patch this week, as we're fully heads down getting everything in place for the first big content update coming later in December. However, we're planning to offer a playable beta preview of that update approximately a week before it goes fully live, so if you're like to get in on that early, come join us over in our Discord! https://discord.gg/dKaCuJm3M6