Odd Realm Dev Tracker

Hey everyone!

I have some news for today's dev log that I'm so excited to share with you all.

A lot of people have requested that they be able to change two settings for the game:
-Overworld map size.
-In-game map size.
I had held off changing the game to allow this because the defined map size was deeply tied to so many integral systems. This means that changing anything even remotely tied to this would result in adding a lot of work to my plate and further pushing out the update release. As well, increasing the map size introduced problems with the cost of pathfinding which, at the time, I didn't have a solution for.
I had planned on tackling this change in the next update because I've made you poor souls wait almost a year for this update and you've all been so patient with me. However, one issue with me changing the map size is that I can't easily maintain backwards compatibility for your save files. Players would have to start a new game...

Humans will have access to magic in the next update through a new tech tree system. :) It's just harder for Humans to unlock it, whereas Ancients have it from the start.

There are plans to let players have multiple races in one settlement. :)

I still need to fully implement the other race mechanics, but once I've done that I'm going to let players have the ability to utilize them all in one settlement through a couple different methods:

-They ask to join you. This will be rare and likely dependent on your relationship with the race. But if you're on good terms with another race, it will be possible.

-You capture the other race and convince them to join your settlement.

The only reason you can't do this sort of thing yet is because I'm finishing off lots of other cool things. But it's definitely planned! :)