Recovering from our trip to UK was tough, we had an amazing time at EGX but it was truly exhausting. We sat down, put in order all the notes we took while watching players try the game, discussed our roadmap and starting assigning new tasks.

One of the big improvements that the project will be getting in the next milestone is the inclusion of more interior maps.

Buildings, houses, shops. Our streets are filled with these and they’re no mere decoration. You will be able to set your foot in many of these spaces, though don’t expect to move around freely entering any place you want, some doors will only open after earning the trust of a certain character, others will remain shut forever.

But there will also be public spaces, gathering points such as the theater, the hospital, the police station or the church (though the list doesn’t end there). So far we’ve only showed a couple of them in here (the house you own in the rich quarter and Harriet’s shop) as we’ve been focusing on making streets, but we’ve already started coming up with more interior maps to explore.

Most of them are still drafts, concepts and sketches. We’ve been working hard to create interesting and diverse environments. The messy book shop owned by good old Lucas Weston (filled with books up to the roof). The gentleman’s club where those from the upper class meet and discuss business. The theater where “The King in Yellow” will be played (something you might choose to attend). The council, plagued with bureaucrats leaded by no other than Wallace Zimmer, the mayor. The hospital, that dreaful place everybody would like to avoid. These are a small teaser of those environments we’re creating and, as it happens with the rest of the city, they hide dark secrets and tangled lies within them.

We have established a new milestone due in two months and, as on earlier ones, we’re trying to make the city feel more alive with each new addition. In two months we should have routines and quests/events already working (in a more structured way than the one we currently have), that along these new interiors we talked about in today’s update will keep getting us a little bit closer to the city we had in our heads when we started working on this project.

And that’s it for now! We’re back to work, we have many new tasks we need to start with soon and we’re really excited to see how more and more pieces are getting added to this great collage. We’ll be back in two weeks, telling you about our progress, but you know we’re always around, answering comments and emails. Let us know if you have any suggestions for future updates (in case you’re interested in specific parts of the development).

See you in two weeks! :-)