Status update August 8, 2014 news - Hearthlands

It has been a crazy week, so let's get to the news first:

First of all, we've released Hearthlands version 0.1.0. It is available for Windows, Mac and Linux via Humble Widget on our web-site. Download it here.

For Windows users: make sure you read installation instructions. Hearthlands requires Java, which may not be properly configured on your system. If you (re)install Java using links from installation instructions, everything works fine.

You can get Hearthlands via Humble Widget with a discount for 9.99. If you purchase the game now, you will get all of the updates as well as a Steam key when we get greenlit. There is not a lot of people who have heard about Hearthlands yet, so every purchase makes our day:)

Also, we've got on Steam Greenlight (yay!).

I'm looking forward to writing an article called "How we got greenlit", which would probably be quite interesting, but for now, after 2.5 days on Greenlight it's mostly emotions and not enough actual information. Quite a lot of people liked the game and we didn't expect that much attention in the first couple of days. As we go down in "Recent submissions" list the number of votes we're getting drops though, so we're finding ways to promote the game to keep the pace. It's mostly up to you right now, so please vote for us! (Ask your friends, parents, children and pets to vote for us as well — we gonna need it!).

If you want to get a free copy of Hearthlands to showcase the game on your YouTube channel please contact us at info@hearthlands.com.

As for the development, we continue working on World Map and trade. Here's how the World Map looks at the moment:

Trade routes screen:

New building — Marketplace

Roadmap for the nearest future:

- Trade
- Military
- Monsters on the Local Map
- Better trade and Diplomacy

As always we would like to get as much feedback as possible, so please comment and send your thoughts to info@hearthlands.com. If you become our watcher on Indie DB, that also helps a lot! Don't forget to subscribe to one of our social network pages or YouTube channel. Currently we no longer accept donations, so if you want to support the development — you can just purchase the game now.

And, please, do vote for us on Steam Greenlight!

Thank you,
Sergio