Welcome, new users! With a new influx of new users has come a stream of new, exciting, strange and bizarre problems. Thank you for participating in our first beta release and giving us useful feedback; we are working to address it as fast as we can. If you are having a crash on startup, or after clicking the embark button on the embark screen, please check to make sure your video card drivers are up to date. This is a particular issue for AMD graphics cards, where older drivers will just flat out crash. Please download and install the latest Catalyst drivers immediately, and let us know if this does not fix the issue. A test hotfix for Beta 51, entitled Beta 51A, is now available in the experimental branch on Steam. Once we have made sure it doesn't introduce new problems, and correctly fixes the problems it is supposed to address, we will be pushing it to the main branch on Steam. A list of things that this hotfix fixes is below: FIXED: Make Copper Plates job FIXED: Make Wooden Altar job FIXED: memories and emotions hanging midair, predominantly for people with multi-monitor setups FIXED: hitting esc to back out of a module recipe selection screen would leave the UI in a state of purgatory where literally anything you did next would crash the game. FIXED: clicking on the trade depot crashes the game FIXED (hopefully): phantom items occasionally left on the ground during stacking, building workshop transformation operations FIXED: q and e are now bound hotkeys for camera moving left and right, rather than hardcoded FIXED: Make chemistry workbench job added "-opengldebug" command flag to return additional OpenGL debug information; please use this and send us the results if you are experiencing crashes on startup! Thanks again for your feedback and patience while we move into the next stage of development! As always, if you have problems, please let us know and we will do our best to fix things in as timely a manner as possible. We can be reached either here on Steam, on our forums at http://www.gaslampgames.com/, or by e-mail at contact 'at' gaslampgames dot com. Please send more coffee, -- Gaslamp Games

[ 2016-05-22 22:40:42 CET ] [ Original post ]

Take on the role of a Junior Bureaucrat (Colonial Grade), sent forth to seek fame, promotions, and natural resources to feed the ravenous maw of Imperial Industry & Commerce. Build a prosperous colony, fill it with magnificent factories worked by oppressed labourers, and harness the awesome power of steam through fearsome machines invented by determined men and women of Science! History is yours to seize for fame and fortune, for Science, and for the Queen and the glory of the Clockwork Empires!

Features

• Colonists are simulated with individual personalities, memories, and will be happy or miserable depending on your management.
  
• Free-form building: Design your own floorplans & arrange machines, furniture, and decorations as you see fit. (Or stuff everyone into bunkhouses.)
  
• Mine ore, chop trees, farm cabbage, brew beer, tin weird caviar and try to keep your people from eating one another!
  
• Weird horrible things: Menacing Fishpeople, cults, cannibalism, and more await your colonists.