You’ve just finished school. All your friends have gone off on different journeys. Starting degrees, internships, and their own businesses; heading toward bright futures.

What about you? What are you going to do?

Well, get off the couch for starters. Consider your options, make a decision, and get moving. The world’s not coming to you.



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Mizan is a game of life where players use cards to grow towards being ready for their dream job. Different cards develop different aspects of your life.

• Legacy (impact on the world)
  
• Knowledge (learning and skills)
  
• Wellness (emotional and physical wellbeing)
  
• Gold (material goods and funds)

It’s not all smooth sailing. There are costs, there are bills. There are random events that will change your fortune, and there are other players to contend with. The first player who builds the points needed for their goals wins the game and takes the first step in their career.

Hello Rafters! Summer is here and we are happy to announce that The Renovation Update has just launched and is ready to play! With the previous chapter updates we have put a lot of focus on the story and adventure side of Raft, so we felt it was time to show some love for all the people who like to spend time building, painting and making their rafts look absolutely amazing! Over the years we have seen you build everything from pirate ships, yachts and oil tankers to skyscrapers, cathedrals and even large city areas. With this update, we hope to give you a lot more freedom in what you can create, and how much you can personalize your own rafts. This is a great time to hop on your Raft and get it nice and tidy in preparation for new future adventures!

For everyone wondering about Chapter 3, do not worry, the Renovation Update has not been our only focus since the release of Chapter 2. A lot of work has been done on the next part of the Raft story, and we’re excited to show you more of that soon. We cannot give you a time of release for Chapter 3 yet, but we can tell you that it is going to be even bigger and better than the previous ones, and we believe it is going to be worth the wait!

But now, let's get into all the new stuff for decorating your raft!

This new set of fancy building blocks will surely make your Raft look more robust and luxurious, if that is what you are into! With their tight fit, finer wood and straight angles, these blocks will surely take your Raft to the next level! They will be available from your hammer menu as soon as you jump into the game, but at a slightly higher cost.





There are also some new shapes to help fill in those weird angles and turns!





With this update comes over 65 new decorations to craft for your Raft! There’s sofas, bathtubs, beds, candelabras, paintings, cupboards, trash cans and a whole lot more! Many of them will provide different variations of the model depending on whether you place them on walls, ceilings or floors!





These decorations will be unlocked via packages that can be found via the metal detector, in floating barrels and in crates on islands. Will you find them all?



We have overhauled the paint menu to allow for much more interesting painting options! First of all, you will now be able to paint the different sides of walls, ceilings, and floors separately.



Walls, ceilings and floors can also be painted with eight different patterns for additional cozyness!



In order for you to match your building blocks, we have added the option to paint almost every decorative and functional placeable object on your raft with two different colors! This is a toggle option.



Alongside all of these new options, we have added some features to help you build and paint effectively!

First out is swatches. In the paint menu, you will be able to easily pick recently used colors, colors combos and even patterns!



With both the paintbrush and the hammer, you are now able to simply aim at an object, click the middle mouse button, and that building block or color palette is instantly selected. This is tremendously helpful when building complex rafts.




Have you ever tried chopping down a floor or ceiling, and instead managed to break a supporting pillar sneakily hiding behind? Well, no more! When the axe is equipped, you now get a clear visualization of which block you are actually about to chop down. Very nice!



Since there’s a lot of new painting options, and you do not want to waste your paint, you will now get a preview of what you will be painting as you aim at an object with the paint brush selected.



To make the world of Raft more immersive and alive, we have added more wildlife to the game! Once in a while you will be visited by whales, turtles, dolphins, sting rays, jellyfish and bird packs! They are all friendly and just want to hang around.






This was planned to come with Chapter 3, but we have heard your requests and here it is! With the Engine Controls, you no longer need to run around managing the Engines separately! From this piece of marvelous engineering you can control the on/off state and direction of all your Engines from the comfort of wherever you want! Maybe the loo?



A lot of the old models have had a refresh in their graphical appearance. All the older building blocks like walls, stairs etc have gotten softer edges to catch the light better and cleaned up wood patterns, and most of the placeable objects have had their textures adjusted to match the style of the rest of the game!

Good luck and have fun Rafters!

//Raft HQ

P.S. Don’t forget to follow us on our social media to follow the development and to get a heads up when we have a new blog post out!

Discord: https://discord.gg/raft
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Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/RaftTheGame/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/redbeetinteractive/

• New item: Over 65 new decorative items
  
• New item: New tier of building blocks
  
• New item: Multiple new building blocks shapes in building hammer menu
  
• New item: Engine controls
  
• New item: Trash can
  
• New item: Decoration package
  
• New feature: Some blocks built by the hammer can be mirrored (default key Z)
  
• New feature: Paint brush menu has two colors (primary and secondary)
  
• New feature: Paint brush supports patterns
  
• New feature: Paint brush shows a preview of what is about to be painted
  
• New feature: Paint both sides of walls with different colors/patterns
  
• New feature: Aiming at a block with an axe displays a highlight
  
• New feature: Some items have variations in the crafting menu
  
• New feature: Control settings to choose between toggle/hold to sprint
  
• New feature: Button to automatically run forward with sprint
  
• New feature: Block pick (select the block you are aiming at as the item to build)
  
• New feature: Color pick (select the colors of the block you are aiming at)
  
• New feature: Whales
  
• New feature: Turtles
  
• New feature: Dolphins
  
• New feature: Stingrays
  
• New feature: Jellyfish packs
  
• New feature: Fish packs
  
• 1 new achievement
  
• Improved models and textures of numerous items and building blocks
  
• Ladders can now be built on top of another ladder
  
• Pillars now have a direction indicator at the bottom to help when painting one side
  
• Building hammer menu has been reworked to support the new set of building blocks
  
• Screechers despawn time increased
  
• Removing a placeable by holding ‘X’ will now give you back all other placeables that resulted as unstable. (Removing a table with a chair on top will give you back the table and the chair)
  
• Pressing the unstuck button while in the ocean will now teleport the player to the raft instead of a nearby island
  
• The language dropdown now displays the language in their native names.
  
• Water pipe blueprint location changed on Tangaroa, it can now be found in the room directly after the crane/crate challenge
  
• Giant clams now stack to 20 instead of 5

• Joining a friends world that is really big causing the client and/or host to freeze during loading screen
  
• Domestic animals end up in water due to a number of reasons (This has been improved but possibly not entirely fixed)
  
• Seagulls sometimes attack cropplots that are hidden behind walls/roof
  
• Beehive sound continues to play in main menu
  
• Some bees are uncatchable due to them flying too high
  
• Drinking water and getting attacked by Warthog results in player getting stuck
  
• Harvesting a seagull body does not return all arrows in the body
  
• Lots of typos and other localization related issues
  
• Hats disappearing when swapping them with other hats inside a full chest
  
• Eggs can’t be picked up if laid on a collection net
  
• Changing FPS limits when language is Portugués-Brasil shows empty selections
  
• Could not place cooking recipes on some parts of the cooking pot wall
  
• Dead friends could sometimes not be revived because they were invisible to other players
  
• Placing a lot of cooking recipes on walls caused bad performance

This is not a drill! Industries of Titan is officially out NOW, and we're celebrating with a 20% launch discount!

Strike down your enemies, design powerful factories, and stake your claim to the industries of Titan.



And this is just the beginning. We have a lot in store for the months to come, and we're excited to have you on this Early Access journey with us. If you want to see what we have planned, check out our roadmap below.



Don't forget to type ‘!contest’ into our Steam stream broadcast chat for a chance to win a $100 Steam Gift Card every 10 minutes.*

*Conditions apply! Please see full contest rules for details: https://braceyourselfgames.com/contestrules/

See you on Titan, Founders.

- Maddie and the Brace Yourself Games team

Make sure to follow us on social media to stay up to date on the latest news!

Discord: https://discord.com/invite/braceyourselfgames
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We have a GIVEAWAY of 15 Steam Keys, for the incoming Hotel Renovator Prologue. All you have to do to have a chance of getting one of those is to play the demo version of Hotel Renovator and share your interior design screenshots 📷 on your social media! It can be Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, or Instagram. Just make sure that you add a #HotelRenovator hashtag to your post and we will find it and review it! 😃

The GIVEAWAY lasts until Wednesday 23.06, so hurry up and post your screenshots! 💪💪💪

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1214470

Hi! I'm Simon, the solo developer of Pale Night, and tonight I'll be live with my friends from Affectus and Aveliana both solo developers themselves! Join us live, and you'll be able to ask us anything about our games and how we make them.

The first live we did with Zenibuka, the composer of Pale Night, was a real success. We reached a peak of 952 viewers and a total of 12,464 unique viewers! I still can't believe it!

I'm so excited to renew the experience, this time with developers of Aveliana and Affectus. We'll be playing each other's games and discuss our creative process, gameplay, storyline, art style, making games and more!


Play the demo (and wishlist!) right here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1631550/

See you on the 21th!

Simon from PrettyFrenchGames

Hey hey, Builders!

As the Steam Next Fest comes to an end, we are here with our final dev stream of the event. Join us on Tuesday, 22nd June 2021 at 9 AM PDT. Set the reminder and let's build some stuff!



Join us here! - https://steamcommunity.com/broadcast/watch/76561198981129860

Make sure you join our Discord server to be a part of the community discussions! Link - https://discord.gg/UPxnDeD4TV

We post regular updates on Instagram and Twitter and we have some exciting content planned for the upcoming weeks. Make sure to follow us on both platforms through - https://www.instagram.com/tentworks_interactive/ and @CityBlockBuildr

• Complete (visual) redesign of the map, various optimizations and preparation for the implementation of new features;
  
• Clicking on an empty space on the map deselects the selected agent;
  
• Modification of the inertia values for the movement of the map;
  
• Display of black hole names;
  
• Removal of the fog of war;
  
• Modification of radars;
  
• Modification of systems.

• Systems under siege continue to produce credits, technology and ideology points. Only production (buildings and ships) and the assignment of agents is impossible.

• Added 8 agent (outstanding and exceptional) illustrations.

Hello everyone.

First of all, let us wish you a nice summer, we hope that you enjoy your vacations and holidays wherever you plan to go.

It has just been two weeks since the last update and although we want to maintain the current schedule to one significant update every month or two, we didn't want to delay this update. Since the release of "Transparent diplomacy" update (version 1.1.5.) we have focused our work entirely on diplomacy balancing and tweaking.

We developed some new tools for evaluating the AI changes in diplomacy and identified several places where the calculation could be improved. It was mostly a matter of one factor (considered in the calculations) having too big an impact on the overall result (or vice versa). We also implemented several new parameters that impact the relationship now. Especially confederations, federations and absorptions should now be way more interesting and predictable.



Apart from that, there have been some minor changes:

• Viewing political map of another player is now more informative. It contains tooltips showing the attitude between factions and their treaties.
  
• Confederation members are now fully informed about political changes made by their masters (for example, when you choose to play as a satrapy of Achaemenid Empire).
  
• Impact of influence action performed by a confederation member was improved. It deteriorates the relationship between those factions (and with the master of the state union, too).
  
• Issue in graphs was fixed (some factions were not displayed in the graphs).
  
• Couple of issues with the new transparent diplomacy mechanic were fixed.
  
• Couple of very rare CTDs fixed.

We hesitated to make this a regular update because the list of changes is quite short, nevertheless, we consider this to be quite a significant change in the gameplay (no matter that the change is "invisible" to the player) and thus deserves a proper article :)

We are going to focus mostly on finishing the Age of Alexander DLC in the coming weeks. Most of the new stuff is already implemented and works well, some mechanics are still to be tweaked yet and the overall balancing is still ahead of us.

Enjoy the summer. Ideally before Alexander DLC is out:)

Yours,
Kube Games team.

Halcyon Frequency is playing Wildermyth multiplayer! More by them can be found here:

https://www.twitch.tv/team/halcyonfrequency

It is a generally known fact that about seventy-one percent of Earth’s surface is covered by water, and that is why it would be unimaginable to talk about the upcoming Wyoming DLC without ever mentioning the local water bodies! Without any hesitation, let’s dive into what you can expect.



Even though the local environment of Wyoming may not consist of the same proportion of water as Earth itself, passing by some of the reservoirs may in fact create such an illusion. The Glendo, Boysen and Palisades reservoirs are not mere ponds; they are vast water-filled areas, which are capable of creating extraordinary scenery in conjunction with the surrounding hillsides and mountains. Palisades Reservoir is also located along Snake River, which has one of the oldest place names in the area - reportedly derived from the S-shaped hand sign made by a Native American tribe.






Man-made reservoirs cannot exist without their dams. You will have the opportunity to witness the Boysen Dam, which has a unique look to it, being a rockfill dam. Additionally, not only will the Flaming George Dam be a part of the game, but you will also be able to drive on the road built across the top of it and there will be a viewpoint included as well! Trust us, despite the dam’s name, there’s still plenty of water around.






Furthermore, there’s also going to be a chance to pass by a couple of lakes. These are namely Bear Lake and Wind River Lake. Bear Lake (actual bears not guaranteed) is a popular destination for tourists and it is no wonder, that you will be able to enjoy this beautiful scenery with an included viewpoint. Wind River Lake is an alpine lake found at a high altitude, and even though you will not be able to visit its frequently visited picnic area, you can always take that one perfect screenshot and enjoy a snack or two looking at it afterwards!





If you are excited for the release of Wyoming DLC, do not forget to bring your swimming trunks and add Wyoming to your Steam Wishlist. Well... You will not be able to swim in the water bodies so just focus on delivering goods and basking in the glory of Wyoming’s natural beauty.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1415692/American_Truck_Simulator__Wyoming/