Version 0.17 release notes and some thoughts about the next game

Version 0.17 is here. It is a complete overhaul of everything Hawatia with more than 70 new never seen before animations and more than 100 re-renders of stills where I thought the old ones could use improvements. Additionally, I added music and sound effects all over the place. This applies to:

• The Hawatia infiltration quest (Zuri, Lady Zuma, Yuki, the Red Arena combatants)

• All of Queen Sumia’s palace content

• Queen Sumia’s Act 2 (+ Zuri)

I had a lot of fun returning to Hawatia, I’m sure you’ll enjoy the revisit as well!

Additionally, for the first time, we’ve added a new language (Portuguese) you can choose in the Settings. Next is Chinese and then we’ll add more languages.

Next we have a minor quality of life feature: in the Fiefdoms screen, we have added a little dot in the buildings boxes to indicate that a building is under construction. Now you will not have to click on a fiefdom to find out what’s being built.

I’m also working on the next game with my other partner which will probably be in Unreal. We’re currently looking for ways to reduce the size of characters in the game. Vae Victis - Khan has ~180 characters! When all they take are lines of code and pre-rendered images and vids, the number of characters is insignificant. But when they are rendered in real time on your computer, we need to make sure each character takes as little disk space as possible. 

New challenges!

I hope you enjoy this update. If you didn't get to review the game yet, please do so. Every Thumbs Up helps!