It's been a while since the first blog post, so I figured now is a good time to post an update.
New graphics
As you may have noticed from the new screenshots, I revamped some of the graphics in the game. Terrain should now look a bit less blocky, subtle effects like moving clouds and terrain highlights/shadows were implemented, and the water shader was remade to better fit the pixel art style.
There will likely be another pass of graphics refinements before the first demo is out.
Updated roadmap
While initially I was planning to participate in June's Steam Next Fest with a playable demo, I'm making the difficult decision to postpone it a little bit in order to gather more feedback and have more to time to polish the game. Instead, the new release schedule looks more like this:
First private playtests to gather early feedback
Public demo release and Steam Next Fest (Date still TBA)
1.0 Launch
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So, about multiplayer...
In order to reduce scope and be able to release the game in a more timely manner, I'm deciding to indefinitely postpone support for multiplayer. It's unfortunate, but while I had a seemingly working solution for multiplayer, handling all edge cases and making sure it's highly reliable would simply take too much additional development time. Good multiplayer is fairly complicated to get right for an RTS game.
Ideally I'd like to add multiplayer some time after the initial release, but I can make no promises there. I'd like to focus on the singleplayer experience first and make sure it's good.