PROJECT EPOCH

The Demo Chronicle

Every update to the Era One demo, newest first

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MACWINDOWS Update 8

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UPDATE 8MACWINDOWS

One count for every journey

  • The map and the words agree. A route's arrival number on the map and its description now count turns the same way: 1 arrives this turn, 2 arrives next turn, and longer marches read as a 3-turn journey, 4-turn journey and so on.
  • Readable markers. Arrival numbers stay centered inside their destination rings as you pan and zoom. A tile's yield badges step aside to keep the numbers clear.
UPDATE 7MACWINDOWS

Pause and link

Stay in your game to change it, and march your armies as one.

The game menu

  • A pause, not an exit. The ☰ in the corner, or Esc, opens the game menu over your campaign. Continue comes first, then Save game, Load game, Settings, Exit to main menu and Exit game.
  • Settings in play. Change the theme, travel animation, narration and sound without leaving your campaign.

Linked units

  • The garrison, on parchment. Hover over a city to see its units stacked one above another, with a count of how many stand over the tile's limit.
  • Chain them together. The chain between two units links them into one group. It marches as one, at the pace of its slowest member, and strikes together in a single coordinated assault. A group holds up to three frontline and two support units.
  • Waiting together. If one member has already fortified or attacked this turn, the group waits for it, and your orders say which one and when the group sets out.
  • Break the chain. The broken chain between linked units splits the group there. A linked unit's orders also offer Unlink, and K links or unlinks from the keyboard.
  • Kept with your campaign. Groups are saved and restored with your game.
UPDATE 6MACWINDOWS

Windows catches up

  • Everything in Update 5, now on Windows. Settlers at home, garrison banners, ten named saves, a × on every screen, the ☰ menu and keyboard-only play.
  • A ring the moment you choose. A unit selected inside its city now shows its gold ring at once, whether you choose it from the header, a garrison banner or the map.
UPDATE 5MAC

The playtest update

Our first outside playtest spoke plainly. This update answers it.

Cities and armies

  • Settlers start at home. New settler parties and units now appear in their city, like every other unit, and set out from there.
  • No more stuck archers. A finished unit can join a full city. It is selected for you, and the turn waits until you move it, or another unit, out.
  • Garrison banners. Hover over a city to see a banner for each of your units inside. Click one to select it.
  • × Cancel on production. Stop what a city is building; the work carries over to its next project.
  • Quieter turns. Only a city with nothing to build interrupts you. A queued city just gets on with it.

Reading the map

  • Routes. A selected unit shows its whole route, its destination and the turn it arrives. Every other unit on the march shows where it is headed.
  • A selected unit you can find. A wide gold ring, a halo and a beacon above the unit. In a city, the ring circles the whole town.

Saves

  • Continue when there is something to continue. It appears only after you have started a game.
  • Ten named saves. Save from the game menu and name it. At ten, choose one to replace.
  • Continue is never behind. It resumes your autosave, which is refreshed every time you save.

Menus and controls

  • A way back from everywhere. Every menu and screen, the Atlas and the research tree included, has a clickable × that returns you to the game.
  • The game menu. The ☰ in the top-right corner opens settings, save, load and quit.
  • Mouse or keyboard, your choice. Arrow keys aim a move or an attack and Enter confirms; C opens your cities; + and − zoom; Esc opens the menu.

Main contributor: The Jacobian Pirate

The Jacobian Pirate in a plumed tricorn hat and a red-and-gold brocade coat, one hand on a cutlass and a yellow rubber duck on his shoulder
MAIN CONTRIBUTOR · UPDATE 5 The Jacobian Pirate Caldera Games
UPDATE 4WINDOWS

Narration comes to Windows

  • The Windows demo now narrates every page of the Atlas, matching the Mac.
UPDATE 3MAC

Every page of the Atlas, spoken

  • All 457 Atlas pages now have a narrator, on every view of the page. Before, 187 did, and only on their history.
UPDATE 2MAC

Project Epoch on the Mac

  • The Era One demo arrives for Apple silicon Macs as a signed disk image, notarized by Apple. Open it and drag Project Epoch Demo into Applications.
UPDATE 1WINDOWS

The Era One demo

The first public demo of Project Epoch.

  • Lead Greece or Persia through a complete Era One campaign: found cities, research twelve discoveries that change how you play, keep armies supplied, and meet your rival at the council.
  • Windows may ask you to confirm the installer: choose More info, then Run anyway.