Anyone got an update on this company?

[druebey]

Last update i saw was in 2012... other than that, it seems that the company went defaut. Anyone got information to show differently?

[samuelh73]

Well, the company website (tiltedmill dot com) is still up, but it's mighty quiet. The last forum entry is a 2017 NYE post and that's it. The last game they were working on (Medieval Mayor) says "Coming in 2013" (Wikipedia states it is listed as "development paused/permanent hiatus", but the forum thread discussing that status is no longer available). Just about everything posted on the company site is from 2002-2008, and there is a header for a Twitter feed with nothing under it.

There's nothing to indicate the company has dissolved, but it seems like it has, which is a real shame.

[Davypi]

They haven't dissolved but they are effectively in permanent limbo. The company also made an online version of CotN called Nile Online which a few hundred people still play. The servers are up and taking money, so the company still exists. However, earlier last year there was a problem with the site's message forum getting hacked and a bug causing the game to freeze. The forum hack took about month to get fixed and the game bug took three months to repair as the issue had something to do with the timer on the server and not the code itself. The company really is only one person now who was not a main programmer, so he has to get help when a problem comes up. I could be wrong on this, but I think I saw a comment from somebody that he is still in contact with some of the programmers and they could, in theory, reform to work on a project. However, they all have other jobs now and there would have to be a significant incentive for them to reform. Just as an aside, it is important to note that nearly all of Tilted Mill's games were city builders and city building is a near-dead genre as far as computer gaming is concerned. Such an incentive seems to be on the edge of impossiblity.

[IfThenOrElse]

It's a shame, games like Banished are getting all this love and when you look at it mechanically, it's an inferior product to games like this.

[Nat3ski]

I think the city buiilder genre is wide open for the taking once more, Tilted mill are one of the few i would trust to do it.

Banished iis the perfect example of the market that remaiins for such games.

[Panahasi]

Yep, unfortunatly the demand for City Builder games is not large enough to finance a development team. Tilted Mill did quite a lot and even started a indy project but it never really took off and now Chris Beatrice (founder of TiltedMill) is focusing on his art work rather than gaming. As the op said, the rest of the team have moved on to paying jobs.