Hi guys,

Long time no see, the last update was 5 months ago... Sorry for the long wait, let me tell you what happened... ^^

First, I "just" wanted to add a huge feature: choosing your next island! It wasn't just a quick feature, so it took some time. Thus as the weeks went by, unfortunately, I got out of the habit of releasing and iterating quickly. So when I finished the feature, seeing that I was already a bit late, instead of releasing, I thought: why not add another feature as a compensation? And everytime I finished something, I still had this mentality so I started developing the next feature. Well... and that's how 5 months quickly flew by! 😅

Without further ado, here are the major changes:

Deckbuilding

• Instead drawing cards from an "infinite deck", now you have a "regular" deck which in the beginning only contains the basic cards.
• Collect cards, adapt to your luck and build synergy.
• Each time your deck is out of cards, reshuffle it, select a new card and fill your hand to 5 cards!
• Added a 6th tutorial level to teach the deck mechanics.

Choosing your next destination

• After completing an island, you can choose your next destination!
• Choose from 3 islands, all having random card rewards and affixes.
  • Maybe you'll find an island with cool cards but the affixes make it really hard... Or maybe you find a perfect island with both awesome affixes and great rewards!

New resource: Gold

• Build Gold Mines or sell resources to get some gold! (new cards)
• Once you acquire a card requiring gold, your town's level up grants you increasing amounts of gold.
• You can buy resources or spend your gold to use some other cards. 

New cards

• Fill water tiles with soil, turning it into land! (even if there's a fishing hut on it)
• Get some free supplies from the capital!
• Claim tiles for your settlements without building a thing!
• Plant forests! (even if the tile already has a building or some other resources)
• And some more! (also don't forget the cards mentioned in the other sections!)
• Feel free to suggest some card ideas!  And keep in mind that some has placeholder art. :)

Better card drawing and starter hand

• Drawing a card now lets you choose from 3 cards, but it costs more!
  • Previously you had to frequently spam card selling and then card drawing. With this change it feels like it's no longer case.
  • Spending resources just to draw a bad card wasn't really good. This way most likely you'll be happy with at least one of them.
• Rather than starting with just a single Town Hall, you now begin with 5 cards. One of these is a Settler's Wagon, which essentially functions as a free Town Hall.
  • This way you can see your initial cards, therefore you can make a better decision regarding your first settlement.

Other Changes:

• Cards when selected are now attached to your cursor, instead of just being higher in your hand than the rest of the cards. While holding a card, the cursor is also highlighted with some visual effects.
• New loading screen! It's been 2 years, so it sure needed to be improved.
• Tile hovering is enhanced for the sake of better readibility: now highlighted hexes also rise from the ground!
• Card drawing algorithm improvements, less chance to be unlucky! :)
• If there aren't enough resources for something, the missing resources also flash on the resource panel. Also now only the missing amount is displayed in the error message.
• Existing tutorials got a more immersive look and they teach the mechanics better.
• Various other smaller fixes and polishes.

Once again, sorry for taking this long, I'll try to release 0.34.0 a bit quicker! ^^ (Though a new WoW expansion has just come out, so who knooows... :| )

Feedbacks, bug reports are always welcome, good luck and have fun!

Cheers, Tibor a.k.a. Tudvari a.k.a. Portgate Studios

UPDATE:

• August 29th: v0.33.1 is out with 2 hotfixes, sorry!