Hi Tycoons,
As I previously mentioned the 0.9.3.07 is here. It has a bit of bug fixing and performance boost in loading/saving and the 3D scene. I've waited until player levels lowered again after the autumn sale to release it. Because unfortunately, this will break your saved files (you won't even see them on the loading screen), and your game settings will be lost as well. If you haven't read my last announcement, you should check it out for more information.
Earlier I mentioned that I've decided to upgrade the UI visuals, and lately I was trying to implement an earlier idea of mine (which was requested by you as well).
Namely the altering UI. Please check out this little preview how I imagine it so far:
Let me know what you think. If I want to create it, I will have to keep some limits in creativity, because the more different the look of the stages is, the more work it needs in my engine, and this is not a priority task.
Another thing I wanted to mention is that I will be able to reduce system requirements because the mentioned solution in my last post seems to work,
it just needs time to implement. I'm very happy because a lot of you have more than 6 years old PCs which are not able to run the game normally.
Lately, I tried to port the game to as many places as I can as I mentioned in my previous post, and so far it didn't really worth it, so despite
Steam has dropped indies' traffic by 50-90% the other stores are still mostly a waste of time, unfortunately. AAA games are not only getting a better revenue share in the future (while indies don't), they also
get more traffic what is possible by decreasing ours. Some think it is just a result of a bug, but I barely think that. You can find a short article about it on PCGamer if you are interested. We indies are worried about our future on the PC platform.
Anyway, what I wanted to say is that porting has to be closed very soon because I have a lot of work with the game. (And also because I'm going crazy of those "unknown error" messages from Microsoft and Apple dev kits) And I'm really sorry that yet again I postponed (by around 1.5 months) my main task: developing the game.
Have a nice day or evening or whatever you have :) As soon as I will know if I will be able to post a bigger update still this year I will notify you here!
Andris
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Pictures from the yet unrleased upcoming development version (0.9.4.0):
