EARLY ACCESS 0.1 PATCH NOTES AND INFORMATION
Changes
- A complete overhaul to the visual style; assets have been remodelled, the terrain and worlds have been re-made, change of colour palette, UI design changes and more.
- Game loop has been re-designed and re-made to be much more simple and consistent, no more additional modes or lots of different features cluttering the main game loop.
- You have to now maintain the sentiment of your population while placing down buildings, harvesting and earning resources and earning money. Mostly operates as a sandbox/world management game but both can be true.
- Less cluttered UI, much easier to navigate through menus and settings.
- Multiple saves now available.
- Humans leave the world if their sentiment drops too low
- Humans are assigned jobs when they are created, job related buildings provide funds from general earnings and taxing.
- Buildings can affect population, funds, environment, wood, stone, metal, power and water stats negatively or positively depending on their own internal stats; While placing you can see the kind of affect it will have on your stats.
Not all changes could be listed as the game has gone through such an overhaul for this 0.1 Early Access relaunch, and while there is still so much to do this update into 0.1 sets the foundation for a new future for the game. In the coming days and weeks I will lay out plans for the game and set out what the 0.2 update will involve. The main goal is to add new buildings, terrains, unlockables and flesh out the game loop further to add more for you, the players.
There are also several bugs and issues that will be fixed with a patch this week, most likely within the next day or two. These bugs are not game breaking but do cause visual issues like child-objects for some buildings not showing up or new saves not appearing in the menu until you restart the game.
Achievements will be added in a post-launch patch within the next day or two
Developer Note
Hey! Thought I would drop this here under the important stuff to say thank you to everyone who stuck around or bought the game over the last few years. I know the lack of content has been annoying and probably pushed many away from the game or what possible future it might have had. But, I am happy to say that right now I have some motivation back to work on it and I will be making plans for future updates and I am already planning/working towards 0.2!
Please bear with me as I iron out any issues and bugs, as well as while I add content to the game as I understand it may be lacking in quite a few areas. I want to be open and honest about the current state of the game and the future and this is my way of doing it! Keep an eye out for future posts and patch notes, and I hope you stick around for future content and news around Polyion and other stuff I'm working on!
Luke <3