We hope you're all heading into a restful and cozy holiday season. We thought we'd drop off a few tidings along with some more info for 0.7 - Shared Workload, so bundle up next to a cozy Forge and grab a preferred beverage...
We've been hard at work on Multiplayer and are pleased to inform you we've entered the internal testing phase! After an arduous journey of moving over every system, subsystem and sub-subsystem, Multiplayer is now 'works' at a stable enough point that we can start poking at it! Rudely! That's right, Golems are hanging out with Golems, ready to do Golem Things... Or at least try to. Now it is time for us to break it on purpose, as much as we can, to get it ready for Testers to break it in even more exciting and confusing new ways! It's all part of the process, as they say...
"... SOON....."
We've also been cooking up a bunch of fancy new pixels to help expand our palette and give more personality to world. New additions will help add flavor to areas like Points of Interest and NPC locations, but for the more immediate future: give you more options for stylizing your factories and homebases. Systems-wise, the Decoration structures themselves are going to work as placeable objects that use (and break down into) refined materials like Metal or Biomass. We feel like this is the best way to handle things since inventory space is so important, while also allowing folks to try things out and shake things up without wasting any precious materials.
In addition to Decoration structures, a few tileset themes are getting their full makeovers implemented - you may have noticed the Pooka Brick graphics sneak in the previous update and now there's some gorgeous Corvus tilesets and also Pooka Wood to fill out the roster. These archetypes along with 'Ancient' will serve as our larger Decoration Themes to group and guide stylings (meaning both tilesets and Decoration structures can fall under a set theme). Of course, you'll still be able to put down whatever you like, where-ever you like; we'll leave the Factory Fen Shui to you.
(From left to right: Brick, Corvus Brick & Pooka Brick)
AutoForge will enjoy a most festive 25% over the next two weeks for the Steam Winter Sale. A great stocking stuffer for that person in your life who feels strongly about factories and might enjoy going Golem-Mode this season.
That's all for now! We hope everybody has a joyful and restful December. We'll be sneaking in as many mince pies as we can, as we continue tinkering away on Shared Workload, ready to deliver to you in the Early New Year.
As always, thank you for joining us on this journey and for all of your amazing support!
Jasson & James