- 3 new laws "Fishing regulation", "Artificial intelligence ban" and "Smart cities" - fixed some devices which gpt screen flickering

We wish you happy holidays and new year 2023!! Let's renew our thanks for supporting the Lawgivers series. FEATURES: - 7 new laws "National lottery", "Decriminalize minor offenders", "Divident tax", "Night curfew", "Mandatory winter tires", "Fireworks prohibition" and "Christmas Gift" - 2 new events "Chemical accident" and "Heat wave" - several balance changes - engine optimizations and fixes

FIXES - crash bug on startup

- lawmaker window can now be opened from law - better performance and power consume - memory leak that could lead to a crash - if the president dies with martial law, than the law is removed - solved some compatibility problems on MacOS

- display rank of party member on members page - people AI behaviour improvements - some graphical improvements - performance and compatibility fixes - fixed date time display according to machine

We are very happy to announce that the Lawgivers II store page just went live up here --> Steam page Feel free to wishlist the game and be ready to start your political career as soon as possible :)
The sequel to Lawgivers will come with a much expanded gameplay and much more features such as:

• 3D World Map with regions and districts of the most popular countries in the world
• A fully operative government (President + Cabinet)
• An enhanced parliament/congress with more seats and the speaker of the house
• Multiple electoral systems such as first-past-the-post or the proportional D'Hondt method
• An economic trade and war system between nations
• Singleplayer and multiplayer modes
• Mods and Seamworkshop support

The ultimate edition is out with more content and variety on all platforms!! Now It's finally possible to have up to 70 seats in parliament :)

1.8.0:

Friends, hope you are all fine these days! Update 1.7 is out with more content and changes. Changelog: - 3 new laws "Cultural subsidy", "Free public transport" and "Propaganda law" - 3 new achievements - general laws rebalancing - in some cases, citizen where approving laws with referendums even if they couldn't - fixed another bug that could stop the game advancement - more minor changes Today we are exiting early access. I really hope you enjoyed all updates and improvements and feel overall satisfacted with the product. Lawgivers has been in development since 2015 with more than 120 public updates since it's first appearence on Android. I've asked the community on discord and we agree that it's finally time to move forward. More improvements could have been made, it's true, but they are very difficult to implement and highly risk to break the game. If needed, there will of course be more balance and bug fixes! Thank you a lot for all support, you made a small developer like me succeed in a very difficult market and with all experience made, I'm sure the next project will really bring political simulation to the next level. Stay tuned!

Finally the long wait has come to and end. Update 1.6 has been rolled out! CHANGELOG: - Achievements system with 20 achievements - the president is now able to call snap election - new action "Create scandal" (whip up a scandal about a lawmaker) - new laws "Plastic tax", "Right of self defence", "Anti-money laundering" and "Sunday shopping ban" - new constitutional law to introduce election majority bonuses - new actions to promise on interviews "Invest more in research" and "Fight corruption" - South Tyrol (my homeland) as playable country - the president may now resign - new events "Volcanic eruption" and "Blizzard" - option to set election every 60 weeks - option to approve constitutional changes with just 80% of votes - population can now vote blank/null on elections - new party and members ai behaviours - substantial balance and AI improvements - improved the way to change constitutional laws - graphical and font enhancements - improved life expectancy behaviour - fixed that sometimes missions failed on reaching goal at same turn - fixed a rare bug that could cause game corruption - fixed several more minor bugs I hope you don't mind if I added South Tyrol as playable country, It always has been my secret dream :) As anticipated this will be the last major update before steam release. More than 110 public updates have been made, after release there will be more improvements (AI, balance, content) but most time will flow in our next big project. Thank you so much for all the support and beta testing. I hope it has been worth it. If want to know more about our next plans and join a great community, visit us on Discord server here: https://discordapp.com/invite/kE7juYR

Since a few weeks Lawgivers Beta 1.6 is live on Steam beta branch for testing purpose. More improvements and features are on way! Here are some upcoming features: - Achievements system with 20 achievements - new actions to plan on calendar, like snap election - more ordinary and constitutional laws - new events and missions - substantial balance and AI improvements If you have any more wishes or suggestions don't hesitate to join us on Discord. We are about to hit 1000 members :D Thanks for all support! All the best for new year!! 2020 gonna be great :)

Update 1.5.7 is out for all platforms with more changes and fixes! Here the complete changelog: - new laws "Animal testing ban" and "Air travel tax" - improved party AI on votes - sometimes a party from another country was joining the game - in rare cases it wasn't possible to start a new game - money balance was sometimes not displayed correctly - some localization errors Thank you as usual for all the feedback and suggestions on discord!! Stay tuned for major update 1.6!

Lawgivers is finally fully playable on MacOS and Linux. If you still find bugs don't hesitate to report them with the ingame feedback function. I will do my best to fix all reported problems asap. Update 1.5.3: - Mac and Linux edition released - player can now continue after defeat if they can fix negative money or budget values - improvements to localizations - bugs related to referendums Looking forward to update 1.6 and achievements.

Finally, after a long week of bugs hunting 1.5 is ready to ship on all platforms. Thanks to all followers who helped reporting errors on discord, or with the ingame feedback function. Here the final changes for 1.5: - Sweden as playable country - new plannable Events "Revolution" and "Coup d'Etat" - new law "Air travel tax" - president can now suspend a law for 10 turns - president can now supress protests and revolutions - members order is now adjustable for elections - members may now go to prison on bad actions - custom parties are entering politics at beginning, if their foundation year is before the starting game year - now players can speak good or bad about laws on interviews - amendments for 20, 36, 48 or 54 seats in parliament - possibility to start a new game from 1990 - cloud save for steam edition - not elected members (activists) can be sent to distribute flyers - max ingame parties increased to 8 - better UI navigation performance - reduced application size on some platforms - more helpful explanation for question marks - many various layout improvements - constitutional laws were passing when all lawmakers voted to abstain - some localization text where sometimes not displayed propely - balance improvements according to feedback - several more minor bugs I've recieved many requested to introduce achievements to Lawgivers, and I've decided to go for it! You can expect them with Update 1.6. Mac and Linux editions were successfully tested the last days and will be soon available on steam. A special thanks to all reviewers, who every day encourage me to continue development. Stay cool!

As promised, update 1.5 is live on steam beta branch for testing purpose. More content and improvements will be added as the beta goes on. 1.5 will be the last major update for Lawgivers before exiting early access, so I'm taking a bit more time to polish the game. If you find a bug or have more suggestions you are welcome to post it on our discord server: https://discordapp.com/invite/kE7juYR

Sweden wins the twitter poll for the next country to add with 280 votes against 164 of South Africa. Thanks for participating!! Update 1.5 is on way and in a few days it will be available on steam beta branch for testing. Here a small preview of the upcoming changes: - Sweden as playable nation - more seats in parliament - revolution event to overthrow parliament - president power for taking laws out of charge for some turns - president power for trying to supress protests and revolutions - members ordering function for elections - custom number of parties at start of game Over 100 public updates to the game have been made since it's first appearence on Android in 2016. I've always tried to add more features and expand gameplay according to comunity's feedback but we are now definitely hitting the limit of the "old" game design. Thanks to the amazing community I was able to gather a lot of experience, that will allow me to compete eye to eye in the industry with the next projects. So, after the upcoming major update is out we will slowly move away from early access. No worries, if you like politics (like me), there's something amazing ahead :D If you still didn't grab the game, now it's your chance!! On sale the whole week for 15% off.

Finally the name changing process is almost complete and development of Lawgivers can go on faster again :) Meanwhile I've made more silent updates to the game, here the latest changes: - new Law "Stamp duty" - player now gets less irrelevant messages - fixes to korean and french localizations - various improvements to UI - option to send savegame in order to faster catch and solve bugs - several uncommon crashes and bugs Approximately 1% of users are still experiencing rare bugs that makes it sometimes impossible to continue. Unfortunately I can't reproduce them on my machine :( so I've added an option to anonymously send me the savegame file. I will for sure do my best to fix all reported bugs as fast as possible! Furthermore I've collected many improvements and suggestions that the community wrote in our forums and Discord. Thank you so much guys!! Soon there will be another poll on Twitter to choose the next country to add with major update 1.5. More to come!

In the past days some updates went online to fix many reported bugs and unbalances. Here a short list about the latest changes: - new amendments to set election frequency every 45, 50 or 55 turns - improved party AI on law votes - Japan citizens have now correctly japanese names - sometimes money was removed without any reason - change party size at start is now working - buy vote wasn't possible sometimes I've also an important announcement to do: As you may probably know, Laws of Civilization was originally intended as a fast played mobile minigame. However thanks to all players, we made it to steam, and the results are incredible so far! What a journey!! Sadly back then I didn't bothered at all about legal stuff, though today in order to continue development and for potential future sequels there's the need to register a trademark. It has been a very difficult decision to take and for sure not a wise marketing move, but in order to avoid 100% legal issues there's the need for a new name. Therefore I've spent many days looking for the best one available for registering and after some headaches the final choice has been LAWGIVERS. Short, synonym of lawmakers, easy to stand out on search engines... Thank you all for the trust and support!! After the new name goes online there will be (of course) another major update to Lawgivers :)

After nearly 2 weeks of testing and bugs reports, 1.4.0 is finally out for everyone! Sometime it's quite difficult to keep track of all supported languages, but all I can say is that the workflow is improving day by day :) Here the most important changes: - Japan as playable country - 3 new constitutional laws "Parliamentary immunity", "Presidential term limits" and "Media censorship" - 8 new laws like "One child policy" or "Travel visa" - new events "Wildfire" and "Sporting victory" - new colors for parties "Dark Blue" and "Turquoise" - new poll to find out world ideology trend - players can promise to raise democracy on interviews - president can adress message to nation on interviews - users can now edit more elements of custom or default parties - sometimes media have more followers of a specific ideology - custom parties are now divided and attached to nations - a member may steal money from their party on certain conditions - party AI is now sending it's lawmakers on missions - desktop edition is now showing active events on top and active missions on bottom - on desktop edition is now possible to progress turns while holding the end turn button - benchmark results are now more stable and useful - improved citizen AI on presidential election - general improvements to user interface - fixed when a party was exacly at 0.00% it wasn't shown on elections - fixed more localization mistakes - fixed many minor reported bugs I'm aware that balancing needs some tweaks. That's why I'm looking forward to 1.4.1 which will further improve realism and behaviours according to feedback. Soon testable on the beta branch!!

Japan won at the binding poll on Twitter with 61% of the 341 votes. This means that with the next update, Japanese players will finally run for elections at home :) Here's a preview of the upcoming changes: - Japan as playable nation - new constitutional laws to regulate your nation - more than 10 new ordinary laws - more options on interview - new positive and negative events - more options to edit custom and default parties Soon 1.4.0 will go live on the beta branch for testing purpose. More to follow :)

You guys rock!! I've collected many feedback and bug reports in the past days, so here are the latest patch notes: - reimagined settings menu for desktop edition - many balance improvements according to feedback - improved UI for higher resolutions - speaking good or bad about ideology works now correctly - citizen names of Australia - several minor bugs What's next?? I'm busy on Update 1.4, which will bring fresh content and many balance adjustments to all platforms. Soon there will be a new binding poll on twitter to choose the next country to add. Stay tuned ;)

First of all, thank you! Nothing would have been possible without the amazing community that gathered around the mobile editions of Laws of Civilization. It has been a really really long journey since the first concept 4(!) years ago. As a fan of politics, I've spent many time trying to find a political simulation game which would allow me to change laws through a parliamentary system and eventually to even change the whole system itself. Couldn't find anything like this on stores. So, on a daily trip by metro I've decided to finally roll up my sleeves and make the game I was seeking. Now we are here. The game is live for early access. The final word goes to the crowd! If you find a bug, UI issue or balancing problem don't hesitate to report it by email to support@somniumsoft.com. Thank you all for the support and encouragement. More updates and fixes to come! Join the talk on Discord if you wanna know more about Laws of Civilization and future projects. Look for the user damidev :) Damian