VR Development Update

It’s been very quiet for a while, so I want to take the opportunity to communicate that I am still alive and kicking. Its been quite a busy year in my personal life with family enlargement taking much of my time and also buying a new house (and moving into it and selling the old one) was rather straining. However things are getting back to a semblance of order and work productivity is picking up again. We are at about 75% efficiency compared to 2023.

Shadow Empire work is continuing and we saw new beta updates during August as well as September, the latter adding Housing Assets. Note that this concerns special housing and if you don’t build any of these the Populace will improvise as they have always done. The rationale behind this new feature is to allow the player to make sure that either Workers or Population stay in a specific Zone as they have a real interest to so with either the apartments or social housing offered to them.

Development of the next Decisive Campaigns is getting more time allocated as well, which will cause temporary lower productivity for Shadow Empire. I hope in early 2025 we’ll be able to present the next title in the DC series.

As for the Shadow Empire future: I am working hard on advanced politics (and hopefully also advanced trade if I can squeeze that in) and some major upgrades of the core engine. To be released together somewhere in 2025, the politics part very probably as a paid DLC. And yes I decided to keep pushing Shadow Empire forward, instead of only doing smaller updates. So my current efforts are going into “Republica DLC” which will expand the politics in SE enormously, including stuff like votes on Laws and among others even the installation of a Syndic Computer. Once I get closer to testing we’ll reveal more.

So summing up, yes I am still working hard, its just there is less updates because I am working hard on two releases: next DC title and the SE Republica DLC.

Very best wishes, Vic