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- HARWELL: Mars Industries
New Publisher Announcement!
Mars is open for business! Developer Caleb Houlding is partnering with publisher Aquila Interactive to announce Harwell: Mars Industries, a sci-fi economic strategy game set on Mars, coming 2027. This is the start of an…
Store5 changesBalanceGameplay - HARWELL: Mars Industries
v0.20.4 Patch
New Features Friends system with Steam and Nakama integration — add friends, see their status (online, in-game, in-lobby), and invite them directly to games. Beautiful Shadows toggle in Graphics settings for the new lig…
Event24 changesFixGameplay - HARWELL: Mars Industries
v0.20.2
New Features Cosmetic delivery ships now fly between your HQ and distant buildings with smooth arcs, steering, and dynamic shadows. You'll now get a daily notification when you don't have enough workers to keep up with…
Store10 changesFixServer - HARWELL: Mars Industries
v0.20
New Features There's a brand new sabotage system with 17 cards across five categories: destruction, disruption, finance, intelligence, and labour. The black market menu lets you browse, buy, and manage sabotage cards to…
Patch notes17 changesFixGameplay - HARWELL: Mars Industries
Fanciful Constructions
Hello! Just a post about a relatively small feature that I think will make a large impact to gameplay: construction time. Building instantly is no fun, so Harwell now has a fancy new construction shader which dynamicall…
Patch notes4 changesGameplayPerformance - HARWELL: Mars Industries
v0.19.3 Patch
TL;DR Players should now see HUGE performance improvements, up to +150% on low-end devices, and there's MOAR graphs. New Features Market multi-threading for improved performance Centralized ProfitCalculator class for co…
Patch notes14 changesFixPerformance - HARWELL: Mars Industries
v0.19.2 Patch
TL;DR The visuals won't be quite as glitchy, tooltips will consider inventory goods, and multiplayer will work a bit better. New Features Disabled tooltip for HQ building preview Disabled physics interpolation for build…
Patch notes6 changesFixGameplay - HARWELL: Mars Industries
v0.19.1 Patch
TL;DR The AI is a bit more competent, and there should be a bit more polish. New Features Added housing and labour icons Added auction scenes and UI (for upcoming updates) Added sparks particle effect Improvements AI be…
Patch notes12 changesFixGameplay - HARWELL: Mars Industries
Nakama
Greetings! I'm Caleb, developer of Harwell. As part of update 0.18 Harwell got a huge update - actual, functional multiplayer, and it involved an ever so slight complete rework of the multiplayer system in the game. Her…
Store16 changesGameplayPerformance - HARWELL: Mars Industries
v0.18.5 Patch
New Features Added icon graphics for uranium. Improvements Tidied up the market entries. Re-organised the UI controls panel and labelled it. Balance changes for Power resource. Updated the clock & day counter to use Sol…
Patch notes9 changesFixGameplay - HARWELL: Mars Industries
v0.18: Multiplayer!
New Features Added Sulfur and Uranium map textures ready for implementation Added Sulfur, Concrete, Explosives, and Soil icon graphics Redesigned admin menu/pause menu and moved them from the bottom right (now bound to…
Event36 changesFixMaps - HARWELL: Mars Industries
v0.17: Building Modifiers
New Features Implemented a new system to dynamically adjust building performance based on terrain and proximity. Added for real-time evaluation of placement conditions. Modifiers are now fully integrated into production…
Patch notes12 changesFixPerformance - HARWELL: Mars Industries
Building Modifiers II: Electric Boogaloo
Hello! It's Caleb, developer of Harwell. I decided to write a part two to my last development showcase, Building Modifiers. I've made some improvements and added some polish so this one is going to be much less technica…
Patch notes6 changesGameplayMaps - HARWELL: Mars Industries
Building Modifiers
Development Showcase: Modifiers Hello, it's Caleb, developer of Harwell. It's been a little while so I thought I'd write a festive write-up of what's been going on, and the most recent implementation in the game - build…
Patch notes10 changesGameplayMaps - HARWELL: Mars Industries
version 0.16: Building a Better Tomorrow (Without the Lag)
Performance & Optimization Improved base_building and player_manager to fix performance issues from buildings Created the building_manager to oversee building purchases and perform batching & queueing Optimized the buil…
Patch notes16 changesFixPerformance - HARWELL: Mars Industries
AI-Controlled Companies
Development Showcase: AI-Controlled Companies Hola, it's the developer of Harwell - Caleb - here! In this development showcase, I'll be covering the implementation of AI-controlled players and how they'll interact with…
Security14 changesGameplayCompatibility
