The current “meta” for Clockwork Empires experimental branch players is to ding up their relations with the Bandits by one point so they can be stay neutral and avoid Bandit attacks forever. This is a little too convenient, and entirely due to the Bandits not being fully integrated with the new faction code created since the implementation of diplomacy via the Foreign Office.
So let’s make this fun.
Bandits make everything awkward.
What’s in a name? Names have power. To know the True Name of a thing is to have power over it! … wait, wrong world. In any event, names are rather important to the narrative flavour of a game so we’ve made some effort to ensure that when you see a good Clockwork Empires name, you know where it came from.
I love this man’s name.
A party of traders from a Foreign Land showed up and they insist that we really need –
This update will go live to every Clockwork Empires player via Steam!
We have also updated our Clockwork Empires: Development Progress Report! It contains the annotated changelog and possibly extra secret saucy details maybe or at least a new picture of a cat so check it out!
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(Note that this is a slightly shorter changelog than usual due to the holidays.)
Major Changes
Trade Depot
Foreign Office / Foreign Relations
Food & Cooking
UI/UX
Combat
Workshops / Commodity Production
Cults
Other
Want the full annotated changelog? Read it in the Development Report!
We have these little turns of phrase to represent design concepts. One such phrase going back to Dredmor is “put it in the Hat Pack”. I consider this a form of subtractive design.
So: The Hat Pack is an expansion pack for the game you’re working on which is shrouded in the mists of the future yet-to-be. (And as the name suggests, the content is a bunch of useless hats.) You put a feature or idea into the Hat Pack when you need to kill it, cut it, remove it from the game; but you don’t have the heart to kill it. So you quietly put it in the Hat Pack and shove it at the back of a closet to be slowly forgot.
(Or not. I want to say that features have legitimately been revived from the Hat Pack, but the notable example that comes to mind is the facial hair equipment slot for Dredmor that involved a bunch of false beards and mustaches to enhance your powers. Never happened.)
It’s been quite a year, hasn’t it? We’ve released a major update each month – and periodic experimental patches to boot. Clockwork Empire has progressed steadily through development!
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So let us take a moment this holiday season to reflect upon the changes of the last twelve months.
How, you ask? Why, through the power of vaguely consolidated changelogs! To soften the blow of an immense wall of text which is perhaps rewarding mostly to the development team, let’s first revue the promo art from January to December of 2015!
We hope you’ve filled out all of your forms correctly, because we’ve just requisitioned –
This update will go live to every Clockwork Empires player via Steam!
We have also updated our Clockwork Empires: Development Progress Report!
(Don’t own the game? Clockwork Empires can be purchased on ClockworkEmpires.com via Humble or from Steam.)
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Major Changes
Want the full annotated changelog? Read it in the Development Report!
We figured out what those Cultists have been building in the woods all this time! Yes it’s-
This update will go live to every Clockwork Empires player via Steam!
We have also updated our Clockwork Empires: Development Progress Report!
(Don’t own the game? Clockwork Empires can be purchased on ClockworkEmpires.com via Humble or from Steam.)
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Major player-facing additions this month
Alpha 45 Full Changelog (non-annotated, for annotated version go here)
Today we’re working on murder! Yes, it’s a lovely staple of Victorian gothic horror, particularly the madness of contemplating and planning the act, the dread of the murderer, and the horror of the crime after the fact. It’s all very appropriate for the setting of Clockwork Empires, so of course we shall embrace the act of murder with all the Victorian sensibility we can muster (and sneak in a lovecraftian twist whenever possible).
Well, this is most awkward, isn’t it?
The problem with murder, however, is that you can’t just have people going around murdering one another. It’s simply not interesting because you’re removing the interesting moving pieces of the game.
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