Greetings, fellow rulers! 👑
Yesterday our expanded demo received its first major creator coverage - huge thanks to Dex for spending roughly 90 minutes with the game and sharing his thoughts with his community!
Watching the video and reading through all the comments gave us a lot of valuable feedback. Based on that feedback, we've prepared another update for the demo.
Fixed tooltip sections being displayed outside of the screen
Fixed audio overlap issues causing uncomfortable sound stacking
Fixed trees not fading correctly when certain buildings were placed
Fixed defeated units occasionally displaying incorrect animations
Fixed some upgrade recommendations not appearing correctly at the start of a reign
Renamed "Tool Smithy" to "Tool Smithery"
Improved positioning of environmental objects to reduce visual obstruction
Adjusted worker mouse priority when shoving so resource areas are easier to interact with
One topic that came up repeatedly was the market.
Originally, the market was designed as a way to bridge temporary resource shortages without heavily penalizing the player. While this created a more forgiving experience, it also reduced some of the strategic decision-making we wanted to encourage and made certain exploits possible.
Because of this, we've reworked the underlying market logic:
Market trades now have a weaker impact on prices but use a fee
Large-scale trading and moving resources around is less efficient
Market usage is encouraged as a supplement rather than a replacement for production
We'll continue reading all feedback and further refine the system as necessary.
If you haven't seen Dex's playthrough yet, now is the perfect time to do so:
As always, thank you for all the feedback and support. ❤️
See you in your Next Reign!
- Tiny Tulip Games