Devlog 4 - Tutorial, New Challenge and UI Changes!

Thank you everyone who has been playing and supporting 10 Year City. 

This time, I'm introducing some quality-of-life improvements and also new content

Update 0.85 New Features:

• New challenge
  •  "Lakeside Resort" introduces new type of map, where you cannot use water tiles, making placing buildings more difficult.

• Visual toggle for building types on map
  • All buildings can now be hidden, showing only their footprints on the map. Footprints are color-coded by building type.
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• Tutorial 
  • The tutorial is now mostly complete, introducing the main mechanics of 10 Year City.

• Merge updates

  
  

  • Buildings that are part of Merging buildings are now visible on map and there is visual line between them.
  • Merging buildings now only need to be adjacent to a building with the "Merge" keyword. They no longer need to be placed in specific areas, making the mechanic easier to understand.
• Building preview
  • When building, buildings already on map that match with building preview bonus area building type are now highlighted.
• Roads
  • Roads are now checking adjacent roads and connecting with each other

• Stats panel update
  • Stats progress bars UI is updated, making clearer thresholds system and how stats provide population increase
  • "Housing" is now new keyword for how much population your city can have.(Previously "Population max")
  • There is now alert when your city does not have enough housing for incoming population next turn.
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• UI Theme rework
  • New buttons in UI
• Game Music
  • Music is now looping and added extra tracks
  • All music currently from "Abstraction"  https://tallbeard.itch.io/music-loop-bundl

New Buildings and art:

• New buildings: Villa

Minor changes/fixes:

• UI Theme rework - New buttons in UI
• Level unlock animation
• New building SFX
• Population amount fixed (previously in float)
• Save system rework

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