Hey All,

Just to let you know I hope to release another few minor updates by Monday which will be purely superficial, it will contain lots of pumpkins, skulls, grave changes and spooky trees. After all it will be Halloween soon!

These will only appear in the game for a few weeks at which point everything will revert back to normal, well almost everything hehe.

So the first update will be going live in a half hour and with this update the graveyards will change more visually as more people are buried there. The soil will change and the trees and roses will die. I personally rather like this one visually so it may stay in the game long term.

Anyways hopefully you will enjoy this update.
Thanks again for playing!

Hey All!

Another new update will be going live in a few minutes. This update contains a UI update for the graveyards. The graveyards are now clickable and they will bring up a UI showing a list of how many people are buried here and of what gender/age. In time this aspect will be built on more, but for now the next few updates will concentrate on other features in the game.

Thanks again for playing! :)

Hey All!

Sorry for the delay getting this latest update out to you but hopefully I can become more frequent with my updates going forward. Having started a new job with a daily commute, it took some getting used to.

So what can you expect in this update?

• Updated to the latest version of Unity.
  
• There is a new graveyards tile associated with each location, it will grow in size as the game progresses and more people die at these locations.
  
• Another attempt at fixes the armies getting stuck. I rewrote a lot of code and hope this resolves the issue.
  
• Fixed a rare but potential crash when armies meet while mid siege.
  
• Fixed various other minor issues to do with UI alignment.

I hope to release another update within the next week which allows users to click the graveyards and show a simple UI detailing all who are buried there.

Now you may ask why I am adding in Graveyard tiles, well with Halloween approaching I thought it would be nice and festive. I also like the idea of exploring grave robbing in future and the possibility of royal burials at certain tiles, where you can run actions against in hope of buried treasure. This update is the first step towards grave robbing / tomb exploring.

Thanks again to all those who have purchased the game! :)

Hello Everyone!

So I just wanted to make you aware of what to expect with the next update for the game. In this I hope to do 2 things.

• Finish the new graveyards features.
  
• Fix the armies getting stuck issues.

As I have recently learned the armies getting stuck issue is still present sadly, so I will try to address this in the next update.

Thanks again everyone for trying out Tales of a Spymaster and hopefully in time with a lot of extra content and fixes it will become a great game 😊

Hey All,

You will all be happy to hear I am releasing a new update in the coming hour which focuses purely on bug fixes and fixes for crashes which users have been encountering.

• Linux - Crashes when failing to call the Steam API or missing dll
  
• Crash when going to events and certain conditions are met
  
• Crash during startup of campaign when assigning faction
  
• Crash when failing to put camera over location
  
• Crash when the rain is starting
  
• Crash at end of turn and a certain combination of actions are queued up
  
• Crash when advising action to a dead king before new one is appointed
  
• Crash when king dies mid negotiation of peace/trust
  
• Crash when granting a certain achievement
  
• Crash when going through the resolutions
  
• Crash when fetching the save files
  
• Crash when getting detailed info on a family member
  
• Crash when failing to load a localized piece of text for the UI
  
• Crash when creating a mercenary action
  
• Crash when assigning location names during startup
  
• Crash when triggering a revenge fund

Please note, some of these have the root cause of the crash fixed and others merely are a fix for the crash itself but the underlying problem still exists and I am in the process of fixing them.

Hopefully this update will bring a lot of long term stability to the game anyways for everyone :)

Hey All!

Been a bit since my last post but I have been busy with this latest update and hopefully it is an important one for a number of you.

• Added name tiles beside every location also saying the known population there.
  
• Added a new option to control the game audio level in the game options
  
• Updated to a newer version of Unity, hopefully resolving various issues.
  
• Added back support for the launch screen dialog, if the user holds alt.

• When someone become a traitor, their loyalty was not updating.

I shall keep the update coming slowly but surely! :)

Thanks again for trying the game out and reporting any issues you see.

Hey All!

I have got a lot of suggestions from players for features they would like to see. I am more than happy to try address all of these suggestions and with the next update I hope to address 2 in particular.

• Master volume control from main menu settings and in game options
  
• Tile identifiers for locations

Now that second item may be something new to some of you but very important to others. The approach I am taking can be seen below:

I am thinking of adding these tiles to every location in the map. That way you can see the name and general idea of the population size without having to click a location.

Anything about it you would like me to change? :)

Thanks for all your feedback!

Hey All!

Hope you are all well and you will be happy to know the update I spoke of is now going live. Took me a while longer than I expected. Hopefully there will be no issues anyways. So what can you expect with this update? :)

• No launcher when you click play
  
• Ability to change quality settings from within options
  
• Ability to change resolution from within options
  
• Ability to make game fullscreen or not from within options
  
• Removal of some more unused elements from various scenes

If you do encounter issues, please do post and let me know. All of these are based around the game startup mainly anyways.

Make sure to keep those requests and general bug reports coming. I shall fix everything I can as soon as I can :)

Thanks again!

Hey All!

So I am just finishing up on another update for a feature that has been requested by a number of you. Removal of the launcher and more controls in the options menu! :)

So what shall you expect overall with this update?

• No launcher when you click play
  
• Ability to change quality settings from within options
  
• Ability to change resolution from within options
  
• Ability to make game fullscreen or not from within options
  
• Removal of some more unused elements from various scenes

This update will hopefully release tomorrow to you all anyways!

Make sure to keep those requests and bug reports coming. I shall fix everything I can as soon as I can :)