Yay! A new trailer!

We think it really reflects the atmosphere, the feeling, and the style of the game.
So please relax, sit back and enjoy it.

We hope you will feel how it is to live in Circadian City.




Another great news is that we will launch the Alpha this week!

Yes! It will give our Alpha riders some hints about the art, quests, and storytelling. Nothing completed, though, but it pushes us forward. We need to hear from those lucky ones because from day one, we believe this game is designed by all of us. But promise! Next time we will have more of you to participate!

So, If you want to learn more be sure to visit our (yes it is also renewed) web site:
https://www.circadiancity.com

Carpe diem and cheers!

Romance, as we all know, is a very complicated matter. So we try to bring it as simple, entertaining, and fun as possible. We try to cover that zone between “I am in love and don’t care about anything-mania” and “It is over, but I am hopeful for the next big thing” lies.
Believe us; it is very slippery area…

Back to the game… When you are casual friends with NPCs, your romantic possibilities will start to appear with a relationship bar. Not with all of them, but according to your choice, you may share romance with someone. There will be three main stages in romantic relations:

Crush

Date

Lover

When our character crushes into an NPC, we can invite him or her out to have a drink. At this point, our shared interests (both positive and negative) play essential roles in determining the future of our relations. If everything goes well, we can start to “date.” In which there will be some regular duties- sorry behaviors expected from us. The player must invest a lot of time, effort, and yes, money to a relation at the "date" stage.

After that, we come to the “lover” stage. Here we will have some quests to prove our love to our partners. You know all those little-stupid-things we do…

Most of the time, these romantic relations will give you happiness. Still, at the same time, they can raise your stress level with a multiplier, so if you are brave enough to date with two people, you have to bear the stress of more than two relations. Why? Because in a relationship, you always deal with more than one person; ex-lovers, idols, best friends, mentors, role models, disappointments, etc.

The more your relationship gets “serious”, the more stressed you will become.
But don’t worry if anything goes wrong, you can always have the option of “restoring a relation” quest. And yes they will probably cost you more time, more money and more effort. But we all know true love is hard to find and harder to achieve.

If our relation bar goes under a certain point, our romance will end. We are proudly cast a light of hope at this point: We can always start from the first scratch. The lovers are always dreamers. So, keep your eyes on the price (or prices) and charge!l

Cheers and smacks!

A human being is a selfish creature. We usually forget that we share this planet with other organisms like mushrooms, plants, and animals. Especially animals. For thousands of years, we hunt them for their meat, skin, and fur, enslave them and place them as small wheels of mass production.

Today this is about to change. Younger generations are more careful about environmental issues. They are creating strong bonds not only with cats, dogs, birds but also with wild animals. Older people, fortunately, begin to understand how years and years of wrongdoing to these animals harmed the planet (therefore their own lives). The movements for animal rights are raising their voices stronger than ever and spread throughout the entire world. That's good to have.

So, we decided to put this issue in our game.

Circadian City is a place where you can interact with birds, cats, dogs, and squirrels of any type. And instead of going to a pet shop to have an animal, you can simply find one on the street and decide to take possession of it.

Furthermore, we are thinking of giving our players a chance "to raise a new notice on animal rights and make nations sign under this notice" as one of our Life Goals.

Animals are not property or assets to humans. They are our partners in life (more likely that they are more loyal to us than our personal picks). So, you can't sell or buy an animal in C.C. simply taking them to your home will be enough. An animal will give you more happiness and make your home a less stressed habitat. If someday you want to leave them behind, well, it won't be that easy. There will be some consequences in your inner world. Your consciousness won't give you rest, your happiness will decrease, and your stress will rise for a time.
Maybe you won't focus enough on your work and will do some poor quality things, who knows...

Owning an animal means a great responsibility, and with great responsibility comes greater consequences.

One way or another, you should respect their existence.

Cheers.

*Animal rights! Now!

The movie Joker reminded us in a dark way how stress and mental health are essential, especially in city life where every individual is designated from each other but somehow effected by other's movements.

In our dream, we found different ways to coop with subjects of mental health like stress, anger even food.

The circle of the game will be; during day time, players will come upon different occasions like events, NPC's, quests, etc. These occasions will affect Player's mental health, and that will raise or lower the performance throughout the game.

If you are too stressed, then your performance in business meetings or presentations will be lower. Your craftsmanship will be poor. Even your romantic dinner can be affected by such a thing. So you have to find the ways that will keep your mental health stable. How? Well, there will be so many ways to do that; rare collectible items, like a tranquil painting of a sea view or a music list on a cloud full of Jazz songs, a romantic dinner, or a comedy show that you will spend a half-hour on TV…

But the most reliable way to coop with enemies of your mental health is in your dreams. After a hard-working day, when you go to bed and sleep, you will find yourself in a "dream-world." In the dream world, you can collect, seed, farm, craft, or pick items and decrease your stress level.

Mental health will be the crucial point in Circadian City to achieve friendships, romantic, and life goal quests. Live a happy life, keep out of trouble (and maybe have a drink), and live a peaceful life.

Cheers

Actually, we are happy to witness the rise of healthy living trends and like to add, in Circadian City, we are not against genetically modified foods. There are so many things going on both on the organic and conventional markets.

But nowadays, consumers are looking for other possibilities. They really would like to know the producer of the goods they are consuming.

They don't like to talk to big brands anymore. They begin to close to simple, ordinary people who produce decent goods, just like they are...

That's why we create a farmers' market (known by commons as an "organic market") in the game. Every Sunday, the courtyard of Gateville is turning into this market that people sell products from their own land. So that customers may buy food directly from the producers!

This idea really excited us because, with it, we may have an alternative way for players who would like to consume commodities without any food giants, supermarkets, .etc. Plus, it will allow the player to spend less by surpassing third parties like retailers. in some cases, one may have organic food too.
So, save the date! It is every Sunday on Gatesville!

Welcome to the farmers' market!

It is a myth. Some say it is a symbol of wisdom, the clarity of the collective human consciousness. They believe that the one who rests under it will achieve enlightenment and has the control of his or her own fate. Others claim it as a modern-pagan runaway port. They say it is just another tool of escaping from reality. Either way, the brain tree is shaping our world and dreams throughout history.

In this issue, you will find a small interview, our reporter Nick Shean made with Prof. Beinroff with an illustration from claimed artist Ada Mcnoun.

Prof. Beinroff, what can you tell us about the brain tree?
We know that it is as old as human history. My guess is it started to exist since man first began to dream. Archaeologists met with some of the first images of the brain tree, in the caves of southern Africa, dated back to 10.000 B.C. We can say that when people started to see this mythical figure, instantly they captured by the feeling and carved it on cave walls so they could remember it.

Isn’t it fascinating that this tree has been seen in precisely the same way to all its viewers? I mean there is always a chest and the lamb. What is your opinion on this?
I think this tree is the design of all of the human race. From the beginning to this date, we shaped it, gave it reasons to be. I don’t know if we did that with conscious or not, but that tree resembles something both very human and divine at the same time.
It is also exciting that most of the viewers saw the brain tree from the outside and couldn’t reach it. Maybe because they were not ready and were not allowed to.

By whom?
By themselves of course! I believe that the tree is the place where you are under full control of yourself. Remember the strong roots it has and how people describe them: “hands like claws holding the ground, not letting it go.” The ground symbolizes reality. This is a notion of “the mind that builds itself over reality.” This is what the brain tree stands for.

And the chest? The lamp?
The chest is the treasure of the mind; dreams, goals, quests, ideas, utopias all those shiny gleaming things in your head. And the lamp... Well, when there is light, there is hope…

One last question: Do you ever sit under the brain tree Professor?
I see it every now and then, but no. I am afraid not…

From Circadian Globe

Hello Citizens,

Today we will talk about the systems that define the gameplay of Circadian City. Most of these systems will be enabled for modding as well but we will talk about the vanilla game on this post.


If you played other RPG's or Life Simulation Games you should be familiar with need bars you see on the mainscreen of these games. You need to refill these bars before they get empty otherwise you die.

We did this part a bit more complicated. We have need bars that you need to keep on the positive and we have status bars that you need to keep on the negative. Overall we call them mood bars / system

4 mood bars (positive) are: Hunger, Energy, Social and Happiness
1 mood bar (negative) is : Stress

These moods are further broken to sub-moods that have effects on their parent mood. For example Energy is broken into Phsyical and Mental Energy. Sleeping can refill both but working drains mental energy and running / exercising drains physical.


The image you see above is our first draft of the UI

Depending on the percentage of your mood bar there are also various states. If your character's happiness is full, he is in the "full of life" state so his crafting skills and socializing is improved for example.

You will be able to see on detail UI panel all the things affecting each mood stat and a log for the past 24h

We want to work on a more dynamic system for moods so you can create your own moods for your characters in modding if we can make it. That's just an idea right now. Let us first see the feedbacks to the current flow of the game.


We started on working on the quests as hard coded pieces but later on, it seemed like a very cool idea to develop a layer where the content team can write their own quests without the need of programmers. This seemed even more cooler when we realized this would be a great tool for adding their own content to their mods for our community.

We decided to use a console to quickly create these quests, place objects on the map, create items, define the behaviour of these items and create dialogues + dialogue options. We don't know when this system will be available for modders as it's still on development but it will be available somewhere during the Early Access.



Items in Circadian City are classified regarding their behaviours. There are item classes like trees, ores, vegetables, tools etc.. You can for example use an axe on a tree type object or harvest a grown vegetable with hand. Furthermore we can apply tags to these items for other uses. For example we can create an item that will have an effect on "blue" items. A blue item can be from many classes.

Crafting tables are built for making a list of items, in that sense, the cooker in your home is a crafting table where you can craft food items and the expected behaviour of food items is their edibility. Thank you Mr. Obvious.



When we will enable the crafting system to modding, we expect the universe to explode.


Upcoming in Later Posts

Some other systems that will be explored on later posts are:

- Character system (Now you can customize your pixel art characters yay!)


- Interest / Skill System
- Emotion System
- World Generation in Dreams
- Day/Night and Seasonal Cycles

Stay well citizens, we're gearing up for Early Access !

Hi everyone,

This was a fabulous week for us. We had some beautiful results from the development, we continued to write new quests and created new zones, equipment, and items...

So, between all the work, meetings and several chaotic agenda we received some great news too!

First, we have been told that we reached 10K Wishlists here, on Steam. YAY! We didn't start doing any PR for the game, and we have some famous influencers that will help us get bigger for the first week of our Early Access. So we are expecting to have a much bigger community here and around the game.

Secondly, we translated our page here to our new languages: German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Chinese. It is fascinating that from now on, we can share our process with more people in their own language. We can say that more languages will join in the future.

We closed the alpha applications as they will start very soon. But you can still apply for the beta branch that will take place after the game is public. The release date is not set yet. But after a few weeks of tests, we think we will set a date for the first months of 2020.

Thank you for all your support. We really do appreciate that and although we have a great responsibility on our shoulders, no problem! Because (unlike Spidey) we know what to do; just have to work harder.

Thanks and cheers.

The Opera House's history goes back many years. It is said that singers and entertainers used to give performances there at nights, by the firelight.

In 1899, to honor their memory, the town council decided to raise the new opera house on the same ground.

It was created by one of the most skilled architects of days; Julius Fainfold. An artist generally known by his conceptual designs… For this project, Fainfold followed his habit and use 4 towers of the building as the four pillars of design and named them after for main elements: fire, air, earth, and water.

Sadly, misfortune shadowed this beautiful building from the beginning. After one month from the opening gala, flames danced and burned nearly all of the tower of fire. One year later, during the wild winter, storms blasted all the windows of the tower of air.

Then, of course, people started to talk. Every day fewer people came, and at some point, singers and artists refused to step up to the stage. They said the place is troubled, uneasy.

The building was abandoned after 5 years. For a long time, occupants were street animals and homeless people. During the 2000s the reconstruction of the city began, and mayoralty decided to use the building as a performance hall.

They opened up a small contest on naming it. The jury decided on "OH!". They said, "It is an onomatopoeia on people's surprise and excitement. It also serves as a reduction to the old name; Opera House."

A week later, newspapers wrote about a young man who suggested the name; Thomas Fainfold. He was the grandson of the architect.

And people raised their eyes from newspapers and said just one word: "Oh!"

Nowadays, more and more come to visit C.C, and they mostly surprised by the game culture among the citizens. In this city, man and woman from all ages spend at least an hour in games daily.

Sure, these days it is more about mobile, console or computer games. But before that, when there was nothing but the radio, or even before that, people loved games. They used to play in their houses with their neighbors, gather around the fireplace, and played games. It was funny, entertaining, social!

Most elder people says that this behavior comes from the early days of the foundation when there were 7-8 families at most. Back then, during winter times, each household used to play games among themselves. That was how they spent those long, cold winter nights. 

The spring was the time of the finals.  Each house champion competed in final games. 

In the end, the winner and his household were congratulated by every family. Throughout the years, the games they played changed, the rules changed, sometimes there were players, sometimes there were teams to play. But the only thing that stayed constant is the will to play and the smiles on the faces.

Now, in modern times, the city's population is high. On the streets, everybody is a stranger; people close themselves in their little friend and family circles. The basketball team may be the strongest bond between these people.

Yet, with the rise of technology and the gaming industry, people began to return their old habit. You can see some old lady playing Tetris on her cellphone, while youngsters play FRP at parks, some couples gather -like the ancient times- for game nights. During the last elections, one of the candidates promised "city game nights" in his campaign. That raised his numbers a few. (Sadly, he couldn't win)

This is the game-city, the place where you can learn how to win the last boss fight from your grandmother or how to lose a match in FIFA to your math teacher. Here, the game is the culture.

Cheers