Hi all, Thanks for being patient. This has been the longest we have gone without updating the game. So I’ll keep it short as the change list is quite long. One thing: We are still working on the Steam integration stuff. A lot of time has gone into that, but we’re not done yet.
The most important new features are the Mayor’s Tips where, for a small donation, the Mayor will help you with a top tip. It’s all functional now, but the art is not final yet. We’ll work on that in the coming weeks. Other notable changes: building animations and underground art polish. It all looks a lot better underground right now. Enjoy! New

• Mayor’s Tips – Get the hottest tips from the Mayor, for a small fee.
• New underground art – We’ve redone Rock, polished pipes and joints and smooth it all out with shading.
• Profits screen – Bar graphs say Profits much better than numbers ever did.
• Buildings under construction are now animated.
• New hotkey -- Spacebar to Pause the game.
• Statistics – We’re now tracking total statistics and showing them to the player after the campaign.

• Adjusted Wagon AI to better account for the amount of Oil flowing into the
• Rig. This will help when large amounts of Oil are flowing into the Rig.
• Closing the Valve on the Rig now costs $150, just as the other valves.
• Improved the end of the game experience and transition to Expert Mode.
• Changed the way the world map shows the amount of oil in a plot.
• Thermal colour will now change with each upgrade.
• Rig Joints in an active field now pulse when pumping Oil.
• New text buttons in Town.
• New clouds during the game.
• Numerous text changes.
• New images for Joshua.

• Fixed a number of overlapping UI issues and a few aspect ratio issues.
• Added ambient audio slider (but not working properly yet)
• Added options to hide Tutorial messages and end of level profits screen.
• The Dollar amount on a scan is now near the scan, no longer above ground.
• Loaning money from the bank in the Village is ‘cleaner’ now.
• Several small in-game HUD fixes.
• At the end of the game the world map is cleaned up: removed player portrait and text window.
• Better price indications when upgrading Silo, Rig and Wagons.
• Clicking on the calendar will now open up the Finances window again.
• Changed the money counter.
• Changed the spots that a few of the Town inhabitants walk to.
• Moved the boards next to the portraits exactly 1 pixel to remove a gap.

• Fixed a bug where the Rock drill upgrade would be ‘given’ to a player when hitting Rock.
• Fixed the Expert mode Jim-Bob special power. Other dowsers will not point at the same spot as the start of the level dowser does.
• Fixed NPC’s buying upgrades even after they left the game.
• Fixed an issue with the Stock auction where multiple players could win the auction.
• Fixed a crash that sometimes happened when activating the Thermal upgrade.
• Fixed the wagon upgrade sound going off when you could not pay for the upgrade.
• Fixed windows showing up underneath pipes at the end of a level.