Hi everyone!
In this big content update, we've gone outside our usual box and have two new art packs with styles outside of our usual high fantasy genre!
New themes:
Wild West
A full set of functional buildings in an old west style!
A new modular building type, perfect for making frontier settlements!
A mine cart bridge type!
Two new customisable character costumes - the cunning Desperado and the implacable Gunslinger.
Almost a dozen new western-style scenery items!
Pulp Sci-Fi
A full set of functional buildings made from repurposed rockets and spaceships!
A sci-fi laser wall!
Two more new customisable character costumes - the Astronaut and, of course, we couldn't do pulp sci-fi without providing a green-skinned alien!
Almost two dozen new pulp sci-fi era scenery items, including even more spaceships! (we might have gotten a little carried away with these)
Did somebody ask for ray guns? This art pack also contains a full "ray guns" weapon category with about twenty ray gun models which progressively upgrade as your players gain levels!
Both these new art packs are being classed as "exotic", and are available to be developed from the usual development projects menu; the same place where you start work on normal art packs.
And of course, there's also the usual collection of bug fixes and small UI improvements. We hope you'll enjoy this little diversion from our usual world look and feel, and we'll definitely be adding more exotic art packs in future updates! (We'll have a poll about this and other things in the near future, as well as finally delivering the long-awaited results of the last user poll!)
On a personal note, I want to give a huge "thank you" to my fantastic producer and artist pair of Liam and Liam (respectively), who managed to pull this whole content update together almost entirely on their own while I've been away from home, helping out my father after the sudden death of my mother earlier this month. Liams, you two are the best. <3
Anyhow, I'm expecting to be back home in my usual programmer chair in a little over a week, and will then be breaking ground on the upcoming Factions update. We've got some exciting plans for that and I'm very much looking forward to starting to implement them and showing them off!
Thanks so much, everyone, for all your comments, suggestions, and for your kind words! Until next time, I remain,
-T