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Version 0.4.2

Sunward
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux

Added

  • The remaining buildings received their exterior lights: every structure now glows with its own light.

Changed

  • Building shadows now glide smoothly with the sun through the day instead of stepping.
  • A fresh boot splash featuring the new sun and deep-space backdrop.

Fixed

  • Alert badges (power, crew, oxygen, storage) always show on top now, never buried under lit windows or passing clouds.
  • The Warp Gate no longer raises a false no-oxygen alert.
  • Exterior lights fade out properly as a building's interior is revealed, instead of glowing through it.
  • The asteroid info panel no longer flickers.

Performance

  • A major optimization pass across the whole game: frame rates roughly double in most situations, from small outposts to sprawling late-game colonies.
  • Panning the camera around your base is dramatically smoother.
  • Fast-forwarding a large colony no longer drags the frame rate down.
  • The simulation itself runs twice as fast on big colonies, with behavior exactly as before.

Files

  • sunward-windows.zip 70 MB
    Version 0.4.2
  • sunward-linux.zip 66 MB
    Version 0.4.2
  • sunward-osx.zip 128 MB
    Version 0.4.2
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