Ymir is a 4X multiplayer strategy game combined with a city builder where each player develops a civilization of pigmen starting at the stone age. On one hand you have to govern your state : colonizing new lands, securing resources, dealing with your neighbours, choosing civics, discovering technologies, waging war.. And on the other hand you have to organize your cities : creating fields, houses, industries, defences, managing your population, your resources and your armies... Ymirs relies on an economic simulation more than a set of abstract game rules. Your society is divided in social classes with a dynamic incomes and wealth, depending on the resources they produce and sell at dynamic prices based on offer and demand. It's also a game of diplomacy between players. With a wide range of diplomatic treaties, you'll be able form federations of players, or empires centralized around a single king. You'll be able to setup permanent trade routes, taxes, tributes and alliances.
All the building assets are now complete. Houses have also been redesigned to add details and a stronger visual identity.
I've added about 30 new types of buildings!
In total, i had to make more than 80 new building designs, as each type of building has up to 4 evolutions.
The buildings are not integrated in game yet, which will also require a decent amount of work.
As a teaser, here is a photoshop composition of some of the new buildings. This is not an in-game screenshot, but it gives a good idea of the new look cities will have.
New buildings include tavern, school, library, carpet and furniture workshops, magistrate, water infrastructures, commercial and trading buildings, butcher, bakery, theater, cattle ranch and more…
As other misc additions:
Metallurgy is being complexified. I’m adding ores and I split the mine and fundry in 2 separate buildings. I also added steel making buildings. I’m also adding tin, bronze, charcoal, coal and coke.
Modular wind and waterwheels will be available for various buildings as an annex, providing efficiency bonuses.