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Dear players of Dawnmaker,

First, thanks a lot to all of you who reported the performance problems you encountered with Dawnmaker on Mac since the last update. Second, my apologies for taking so long to fix the issue! But here it is: Dawnmaker should now be running as smoothly on Mac as on all other platforms. If you want to know more about what happened, read on, otherwise, go play Dawnmaker! :D

So, here's the long-form story of what happened and why it took so long to fix.

I do not own any Apple software and am not familiar with development on that platform. I initially released Dawnmaker on Mac because it was possible to do so from my hardware (Linux user here :) ) and it seemed to be running fine. However, for a reason unknown to me, after the March update it started running… not fine, not fine at all, on recent Mac hardware. It was reported to me, but having no Mac available at the time, I could not investigate.

Luckily, as part of my work on the mobile port of Dawnmaker, my publisher Acram Digital provided me a Mac. I was able to reproduce the issue, and I could feel the pain of Mac players. The game was lagging everywhere. Even the title menu, which is a very simple view of an image with text on top of it, and nothing more, was slow as hell. However, I had no clue what was going wrong, as it happened exclusively with the Steam version. If I launched the game through any other means, everything was fine.

It took me a while, reading documentations and trying different things, to understand that the root cause was (probably) that the build was using the x86 processor architectures, and recent Mac computers use the arm instructions set. My assumption is that, for some reason, x86 builds of Electron (the tool I use to distribute Dawnmaker as a native app) stopped working well on arm hardware.

From then, I had to figure out a way to build for both x86 and arm platforms. That took another while, figuring out the correct way to use my tools, setting up a build platform (to make sure I could continue building updates after I've sent back the Mac to Acram) and going back and forth with the Steam tools to test. And I'm happy to report that I've finally succeeded, and from now on I will be able to make universal builds for Mac. This performance issue should not come back for Dawnmaker on Mac! 🤞

Again, I apologize for the time it took to resolve this problem, and I wish you great fun with Dawnmaker, whatever platform you're running it on!

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• Added an option, when picking a character, to enable infinite retries. This option allows you to replay regions you lost as many times as you like, and prevents losing a run.
• Reworked a bunch of interfaces (as part of our work on the mobile version). For example, the Character selection screen has been completely revamped, and buildings in the market are now in a separate column and with miniatures instead of the full card.
• Enabled the Steam Overlay.
• And a bunch of small bug fixes!

Gameplay

• Made sure the Recycling house will not stop triggering when activating adjacent buildings.
• Made the first draft after each Aerostation level up offer Eclairium-producing buildings.
• Added an option, when picking a character, to enable infinite retries. This option allows you to replay regions you lost as many times as you like, and prevents losing a run.
• Prevented unlocking the third character when finishing the tutorial.
• Prevented having the same wonder as a reward for multiple regions.

Quality of life

• Moved the market into a separate column to the right of the screen.
• Changed how buildings look in the market, to show them with a bigger illustration and name but no rules or types.
• Reworked the Character selection screen to make it prettier and better organized.
• Fixed the wrong font being used for character names in the Character selection screen.
• Reworked the Settings screen and made it accessible via a button from everywhere in the game.
• Made your hand be highlighted when targeting a card.
• Added a counter in the tooltip of buildings that care about the number of cards played during a turn.
• Added a setting to change the font size.
• Enabled the Steam Overlay.
• Hiding a modal only hides the latest opened one instead of all the modals.
• Added buttons to buy buildings and cards in the Airship.
• Moved the "No building" button when drafting a building to the bottom bar.
• Prevented activating the main action when pressing Enter while a modal is open.

Content

• Updated the rules of the Automated field building to make it clearer that it always adds 1 🌱 even if there are no adjacent fields.

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Gameplay

• Prevented unlocking the third character when finishing the tutorial.
• Prevented having the same wonder as a reward for multiple regions.

Quality of life

• Added a counter in the tooltip of buildings that care about the number of cards played during a turn.

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Changelog for the Characters Update - 2024-10-07

Gameplay

• Added 2 new characters with their unique starting deck and roster. Choose the character you want to play with at the start of a run. Win a game with one of the two first characters to unlock the third one!
• Added buttons to refresh the buildings or cards in the Airship market. You can refresh each content once per region, for a cost of 5 gold.
• Fixed activations of the Aerostation, Ruins and Shipwrecks not triggering adjacent "on activation" effects.
• Put more ruins in early regions to allow for more opportunities to discover buildings.

Quality of life

• Added an undo button! You can roll back all the way to the last action that revealed new information, by pressing the button in the bottom left corner or by hitting Ctrl + Z. Actions revealing new information or including some randomness cannot be undone: drawing cards, refreshing the market, exploring a ruin or a shipwreck, etc.
• Added a dialog to confirm that you want to start a new game when you already have one going.
• Improved text rendering for cards with long rules.

Content

• Thoughts sanctuary
  • Cost 5, Level 4
  • Build → Gain an Ingenious approach card. Storage: 1 📖
• Ingenious approach
  • Cost 2, Level 4
  • Double your 📖
• Destructor
  • Cost 6, Level 5
  • Build → Gain an Overexploitation card. Storage: 1 🪨
• Overexploitation
  • Cost 1, Level 5
  • +1 🪨 per industrial building in your city. Gain a Global warming card.
• Global warming
  • Cost 1, Level 5 (Curse)
  • Exile this card. When you draw this card → -2 ✨
• Explorers society
  • Cost 3, Level 2
  • Whenever you build a building adjacent to this one → Gain a Lucky expedition card.
• Lucky expedition
  • Cost 0, Level 2
  • +2 🪨, +1 📖, Exile this card.
• Architect's bureau
  • Cost 2, Level 4
  • Build → Choose a new building.
• Architect's agency
  • Cost 6, Level 5
  • Build → +1 ✨, then choose a new building twice.
• Fungal colony
  • Cost 5, Level 4
  • Production → +1 🌱. Whenever you play your 5th card in a turn, increase production by 1 🌱.
• Forum
  • Cost 9, Level 3
  • Build → Gain a Unity is strength card.
• Unity is strength
  • Cost 2, Level 3
  • +1 ✨ for each 5 cards in your full deck.
• Fair
  • Cost 4, Level 3
  • Build → Gain a Trade route card. Storage: 1 🪨
• Trade route
  • Cost 1, Level 3
  • +1 🪨, then improve this number by 1.
• Gathering
  • Cost 0, Level 0
  • +1 🪨
• Work sharing
  • Cost 1, Level 2
  • +1 🪨 for each 5 cards in your full deck.
• Fruitful breakage
  • Cost 2, Level 0
  • Destroy target building. Choose a new building.
• Formalized review
  • Cost 1, Level 0
  • +1 📖 per Aerostation level.
• Promising study
  • Cost 1, Level 0
  • -3 📖, +1 ✨
• Administration
  • Cost 0, Level 1
  • Draw a card.
• Team's labor
  • Cost 3, Level 4
  • +9 🪨
• Exhibition
  • Cost 2, Level 3
  • +4 📖
• Creaming
  • Cost 0, Level 5
  • Exile a card from your hand, then draw two cards.
• Scheduling
  • Cost 1, Level 0
  • Draw two cards.
• Conservatoire
  • Was: Draw 2 cards
  • Now: Draw 1 card
• Library
  • Was: -1 📖 → Draw a card
  • Now: Build → Gain an Inspiration card. Storage: 1 📖
• Inspiration
  • Cost 1, level 1
  • +1 📖, draw a card
• Distillery
  • Was: Cost 1 🪨
  • Now: Cost 1 📖
• Transmutation workshop
  • Was: Cost 3 🪨
  • Now: Cost 3 📖
• Transmutation studio
  • Was: Cost 6 🪨
  • Now: Cost 6 📖
• Transmutation plant
  • Was: Cost 10 🪨
  • Now: Cost 10 📖
• Builders’ chamber
  • Was: Give +1 🪨
  • Now: Give +3 🪨, storage: 2 🪨

Changelog for version 2024.07.29

Gameplay

• Added a link to another region from the first region. Losing the 2nd region won't mean the end of the run anymore.
• Added wonders as a reward for 3 regions.

Quality of life

• Added a new FX around the aerostation when it can be activated to win.
• Added an option to switch from fullscreen to windowed.
• Made the Airship tab be open by default after securing a region.
• Added a delay after the end turn button becomes usable again, to avoid accidental double-clicking.
• Made sure that buildings are sorted by level in the buildings roster view.
• Fixed a missing translation when exploring a ruin.

Content

• The Aerostation does not require action points to be activated to win anymore.

Changelog for version 2024.07.29

Gameplay

• Locked some buildings. They cannot appear in the building draft until you have found them in a ruin or bought them in the airship.

Quality of life

• Added new frames for all the cards! So shiny!
• Added an icon next to the "gain" keyword on all buildings that have it.
• Made it harder to lose in the tutorial.
• Showed the Luminoil output preview on the Abundant reaping card.
• Building tooltips cannot appear outside of the screen anymore.
• Disabled cards zooming when hover while playing a building.
• Fixed the map becoming misplaced when zooming out too much.

Content

• Added a Japanese localization of the game.
• Automated field / Champ automatisé
  • Was: +1 🌱 per adjacent field.
  • Now: +1 🌱, +1 🌱 for each two adjacent fields.
• Tank / Réservoir
  • Level 2, cost 3 ✊
  • Build → +3 🌱 per adjacent building.
  • Storage: 1 🪨, 1 📖
• Breakage / Casse
  • Now has: Storage: 1 🪨
• Greenhouse / Serre
  • Was: Build → Gain a Harvest card.
  • Now: Build → Gain a Harvest card if you have no other Greenhouse.
• Large farm / Grande ferme
  • Now has: Build → Gain a Harvest card if you have no other Large farm.
• Windmill / Moulin à vent
  • Was: Build → Gain a Harvest card.
  • Now: Build → Gain a Harvest card if you have no other Windmill.
• Foraging / Cueillette
  • Was: Harvest agricultural buildings.
  • Now: Harvest all your buildings.

Changelog for version 2024.07.02

Gameplay

• Added mountain, lake, river and sea tiles on the maps. They cannot be constructed on. Each region has its own map.
• Added a Collection view, where you can see all the buildings you've unlocked in the game. Gotta catch 'em all!

Quality of life

• Made cards and building show an effect when giving action points.

Content

• Added new sound effects for actions in the world map and others that were missing.
• Regal gardens / Jardins régaliens
  • Was: Cost 8, level 3
  • Now: Cost 7, level 2
• Festival hall / Salle des fêtes
  • Was: Cost 4, level 3
  • Now: Cost 3, level 2
• People's square / Place du peuple
  • Was: Cost 6, level 2
  • Now: Cost 9, level 3
• Granary / Grenier
  • Was: +3 🌱 whenever you gain a card
  • Now: +2 🌱
• Architect's office / Cabinet d'architecte
  • Was: level 2
  • Now: level 3
• Benefits of serenity / Bienfaits de la sérénité
  • Was: +1 🪨, +1 📖, +2 🌱
  • Now: +1 📖, +2 🌱

Gameplay

• Added a shortened version of the World Map (only 2 regions available). Travel from region to region, gain gold, and spend it in the Airship market to improve your starting deck, starting roster and starting resources.
• Added a new type of vestige: shipwrecks. Explore them and find out what they do! 🙂

Quality of life

• Added an interface to see the content of your current deck, full deck, starting deck and discard, while in game (click on the deck icon or discard pile).
• Improved controls to allow playing a building by clicking it then clicking the tile (along with dragging and dropping it on the tile).

Content

• Improved the world map illustrations.
• Royal feast / Festin royal
  • Was: -10 🌱, +10 ✨
  • Now: -5 🌱 and +2 ✨ per Aerostation level
• Church / Église
  • Was: Build → +7 ✨
  • Now: Build → +5 ✨
• Transmutation workshop / Atelier de transmutation
  • Was: -3 🪨 → +4 🌱
  • Now: -3 🪨 → +7 🌱
• Transmutation studio / Studio de transmutation
  • Was: -6 🪨 → +10 🌱
  • Now: -6 🪨 → +15 🌱

Changelog for version 2024.05.17

Gameplay

• Lighthouses now repel the Smog when they are repaired, allowing for a little bit more space.

Quality of life

• Allow setting the volume of sound effects in settings.
• Save sound settings between sessions.
• Make the buildings gained FX faster when there are a lot of them.
• Allow cancelling playing a card or a building with right-click.
• Improve showing cards in hand when there are many of them (now supports up to about 15 cards in hand).
• Improve the tutorial by adding some new tooltips to explain the context of the game, the turn structure, and market controls.

Gameplay

• Allow the player to not choose a building when drafting.
• Change the Smog ambiance to increase its oppression based on the Smog level instead of the Aerostation level.

Quality of life

• Add a new form to send feedback or report bugs directly from the game, available anywhere by pressing F8.
• Change the icon for action points, using a number followed by the icon instead of repeating icons.
• Show that a card will be played if dropped using a growing glow instead of a vibration.

Content

Quality of life

• Added a feedback when you gain a new building.
• Improved the controls to play cards to allow both drag&dropping and just plain clicking a card.
• Added the number of remaining lighthouses to repair in the Eclairium tooltip.
• Added the number of remaining turns before running out in the Luminoil tooltip.

Tutorial

• Moved the tutorial goals into a more visible box, added a bunch of small effects on them.
• Added a tooltip to explain the Smog.
• Added many tooltips all around the tutorial to explain the less intuitive things.

Cosmetic

• Refactored the end game screens into a single screen.
• Added fireworks around the city when you win a game.
• Added a button to watch your city after you’ve won.
• Added a custom cursor.