Beta 52F of Clockwork Empires is now on the experimental branch on Steam. Consolidated changelog for Beta 52F

• added smarter tooltip anchoring code
• added anchored tooltips for emotion bars which should cause fewer issues.
• added a major event arc
• Graveyards are now use fixed zone size system (like farms)
• improved "shoo animal" job; it will work more effectively now
• airships now crash in more varied locations
• 2x button, workshops, offices, houses, and commodities buttons now highlight when in use
• "Ceramics" skill is now "Stoneworking" (In future builds its scope will be expanded to include mining)
• the following jobs will now show progress bars: Finish Upkeep, Clear Object, Deconstruct Building, Deconstruct Module, Flatten Terrain
• Master/W-tier upkeep trunk commodities now show the actual number being produced in their recipe
• balance: immigration is more likely to give you lots of characters if you have significant excess capacity
• balance: civilian colonists will get more negative memories from combat
• balance: seeing eldritch horrors is now more terrifying
• balance: inactive workshops/offices do not require upkeep
• FIXED: module tooltips now persist across save/load
• FIXED (52E): immigration count errors
• FIXED (52E): foreign office not resetting missions
• FIXED: Rogue Stahlmarkian would stay forever
• FIXED: tutorial window sticks around when game is shut down, causing crashes
• FIXED: leftover jobs showing up in jobs menu after starting new game, quitting to main menu, starting new game again

Enjoy your weekend, -- Gaslamp Games

[ 2016-07-23 01:39:19 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.