Hello Everyone! We are thrilled to share that Laysara: Summit Kingdom is part of TactiCon 2023, which means that... [h3]Our first-ever public demo is now available for everyone to check out![/h3] In the demo you’ll get familiar with the basics of the game: citizen caste and satisfaction mechanics, resource transportation, expanding to new sections of the mountain and maybe, just maybe you can glimpse what avalanches in our game are capable of. [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41623538/0974b386230ba64e415167cad2b6eb7f746615ee.png[/img] [h2]TactiCon 2023[/h2] TactiCon is a festival here on Steam dedicated to fans of all kinds of strategy games. As organizers are saying: [quote]The second edition of TactiCon gathers over 106 recent and unique strategy games by long-established studios to solo indie game developers. This hand-picked selection tries to embody the broad plurality of the genre, from revisited Grand Strategy to unique Deckbuilding, innovative Turn-Based Tactical and inventive Base Builder and Management games.[/quote] We are honoured to be a part of such a great lineup - be sure to check out, you’ll most certainly find some astonishing games in there 🙂 [h2]Development progress[/h2] We didn’t share many development updates recently, as we’re working full steam to make this demo happen. Fortunately, all of this work will benefit the whole game, as working on the demo allowed us to iterate over many elements and immediately test the results. Let me give you an example: for an embarrassingly long time we used simple 3D models created by definitely-not-an-artist-person for indicating building statuses. [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41623538/c83c6b3ebf229bff285677d92db9ddbba7149910.gif[/img] But no more! Just recently we’ve switched to displaying nice and neat widgets, which you actually can see and understand instead of wondering “What the heck is this red blob rotating above my building”. [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41623538/47f1bfbd7c9135e3371ab2d9e272f216c0e77681.jpg[/img] This is one of many things that has changed in the game during recent months, but there is no point in describing all of it here: just play the demo and see with your own eyes the current state of the game :) Of course, the work for us doesn’t end here, we’ve got a ton of things to implement, improve and tweak before the Early Access release later this year, so with your permission, we’re gonna do exactly that :) Have a great day! - Quite OK Team