Dear followers, It's already mid August and it's time for me to give you some news about the game. [h1]Development[/h1] [h2]July-August[/h2] I have been testing the game with my publisher Stray Fawn Studio (I'm already at version 17). It's super insightful and it's helping me a lot to focus on what's important. I'have made a lot of improvements and fixes such as: [list] [*] Improving citizen behaviour, fight system and pathfinding. [*] Adding some panels to get an overview of your city such as your citizens, items and buildings. [*] Reworking the advertisement panel to become more useful giving you tips and informations based on realtime events. Plus you can now access to its history. [*] Improving building placement. [*] Proofreading and correcting labels. [*] Adding a general settings menu. [*] Improving mouse controls. [*] Improving performances. [*] Fine tuning the tutorial and creating better alpha demos. [*] Expanding the map size from 10 000 to 22 500 square meters (the goal for early access is 90 000). [*] A lot of other fixes. [/list] [h2]September[/h2] Using all the feedback I will have gathered at the Gamescom to improve the game so I might slightly adjust my roadmap by this time. The alpha testing will be approaching for some Kickstarter backers! I will be contacting you by Kickstarter to deliver keys. [h2]Gamescom 2023[/h2] I'm super exited to announce you that I'll be at the Gamescom 2023 in Koln Germany in the Indie arena booth! [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/42690766/29a591b77a24934a68157fc40f0e5cffb32dadbb.png[/img] The game will be available to test on a laptop with the very first public demo. The goal is to gather as much feedback as possible. I can't wait to meet some of you IRL! Please tell me if you are going! [h2]Video summary of July-August[/h2] [previewyoutube=eMnZ5CQ6Iss;full][/previewyoutube] If you like to see a more day to day progression about the Earth of Oryn I invite you to [url=https://twitter.com/EarthOfOryn]follow me on Twitter[/url]. Cheers, Elivard