• Fixed: Swinvale / Mountain Village was broken. It should work again now.
• Fixed: Neudorf would load without homes and peasants, works now.
• Fixed: Peasants should no longer stand ON TOP of watchtowers.
• Fixed: Correct mixer assignment for a specific monster
• Fixed: Slightly reduced spawn delays in Rebuild story, to prevent problem of monsters getting into the gate
• Added a small random delay to the gate opening in the mornings.
• Added: Attack sound effects to some monsters (experimental)
• Added: Automatic path generations from houses to levels: Farmstead and Neudorf
• Added: You can now click on the status icons to access a building (started adding this some updates ago, but its now complete for all but the walls)
• Added some polish here and there
• Completed the translation of the manual to German.
• Started translation of quests to German.
• Started translation of dialogues to German, but it will take time (currently: 34 of 791 entries translated)
• Note: The German translation is the foundation for other languages, because while translating I also set up all the code and other details that are needed for translations in general, so once its done any future translations are much easier.

[ 2023-08-14 15:08:31 CET ] [ Original post ]

Black Forest is a turn-based multiplayer game about cooperation and betrayl. A strategy, resource-management game about survival. It is set in the forest of the same name in medieval Germany. It is a casual game, meaning that you will spend anywhere from a few minutes to maybe half an hour on it per day.

In the game, each player controls one family in a village that is located deep in the forest. Everyone tries to survive the wolves, bears and worse that come at night. Plant and harvest, gather and build, cooperate and betray. Survive as a community, but do not forget about yourself. Try to survive the coming winter to win the game. Or simply be the last survivor to gain a personal victory.

The core element of the game is cooperation and its limits. At some point, you have to think of yourself first. If your community is strong, others will help you. But the forest will sooner or later overwhelm you all - when will cooperation break down? Will people betray openly, or trick? Is that proposal a trick maybe, or really the best? What role will common ground play? Does the village provide shelter for those who lost their homes? Do you share resources or keep them private? All of these and many other questions will be asked and answered in every game.