Hello! I am BACK! It's been a few months since I haven't published an update on the demo, or actually even worked a lot on it, but it was for the best. As I explained in the DevBlog about the Steam Next Fest and the game future, the demo release and Steam Next Fext were exhausting and I needed to rest. I eventually took more time than expected, I have been able to think about other things and work on them as well and now I'm back to writing some updates on the demo and seeing where it leads :)

Changelogs:

Quality of life:

• #1842 - Global Market: Improve buying/selling amount selection (e.g. 100% of the slider should make buy max space or sell all
• #1818 - Market: search bar for resources

Bugs:

• Fix game crash when right-clicking sometimes in the main UI
• [LINUX VERSION] Add missing .so file causing crashes on Steam Deck (and probably some other Linux systems too)
• [LINUX VERSION] Prevent the game from instant crashing when the OS locale is set to "C"

Housekeeping:

• Update to Tauri V2
• Update lots of technical dependencies
• Improve unit tests
• Because of Tauri V2: Drop support for Ubuntu 20.04 (min. version is now 22.04)

Other:

• Remove Twitter link from "About page"
• Update the Bluesky link in the "About page"
• Moved the game servers to a new group of servers (on Jan 25th)

Known issues:

• The MacOS version won't work because of an external issue, it has been disabled temporarily (it's still in the Webkit team's hands :/)
• The "maximum amount" displayed on the global market may include in-transit resources, which may make it wrong by up to 5 units
• Steam overlay doesn't work
• Tutorial needs to be reworked
• We need to prevent the factory from infinitely growing asap, and it's planned in the current set of updates (electricity consumption, employee gauge, and dynamic market prices will be needed)
• Multiple places in the game need tooltips or more information to clarify what you can do (resources icon in the market, machines in the bottom bar, ...)
• The auto-linking between machines and/or storage is still pretty dumb and needs improvements (and a way for you, the player to override this choice!)