Thank you everyone who participated in the Hanoi Old Quarter Challenge by submitting and voting on their favorites in the Dystopika Discord[discord.voidswithin.com].

This week's selected highlights were submissions by: thefuriouscat, JiEndo, asakn.

There was a break to the challenges while we developed a new Discord bot to handle submissions and voting.

Community Challenges will also now be running MONTHLY, to create more time for more players to submit, share ideas, and iterate.

Let's get festive, it's time for Tis' the Season.

To learn more about the challenges and how to submit, please swing by our Discord[discord.voidswithin.com]. Submissions will be open until December 31 in the #dys_challenges channel.

(Cover image credit: Brazil, 1985)

Thank you everyone for an incredible 2024. From Next Fest to Launch through the ongoing updates and community challenges, it has been an absolutely joy. There's much more to come in 2025 including Mod Support, which I'm working on busily behind the scenes.

Please consider nominating Dystopika for the Steam Awards in the Sit Back and Relax category. I tried to show a darker, noir side to the cozy game genre and it's been incredible to see the response.

As always, I'm grateful to the community and all the love and support you bring.

- Matt

It was a chilly week for Community Challenge creators with the Ice Moon Colony theme. Thank you everyone who participated by submitting and voting on their favorites in the Dystopika Discord[discord.voidswithin.com].

This week's selected highlights were submissions by: rogler, Gracias Kim, OatsOatsOatsOats.

Journey to one of my favourite areas in Asia: Hanoi Old Quarter.

To learn more about the challenges and how to submit, please swing by our Discord[discord.voidswithin.com]. Submissions will be open through Saturday in the #dys_challenges channel.

(Cover image credit: Elric Pxl via Unsplash)

We returned to some industrial sci-fi vibes with this past week's theme: TERRAFORMED. Thank you everyone who participated by submitting and voting on their favorites in the Dystopika Discord[discord.voidswithin.com].

This week's selected highlights were submissions by: Ryantalebz, AsdruPR, and JiEndo

Winter is coming: Ice Moon Colony.

To learn more about the challenges and how to submit, please swing by our Discord[discord.voidswithin.com]. Submissions will be open through Saturday in the #dys_challenges channel.

Just a quick update to add City Naming and the Bulgarian language. This patch is also preparing some under-the-hood changes in preparation for mod support.

• Bulgarian has been added to the game, store page, and achievements. Courtesy of I. Kodzhanikolov in the Discord.

• You can now give your city a name in City Settings.
  
• City name (if applied) now appears in the Load City screen.
  
• An .xml is now present for each new city save, in preparation for mod support.
  
• There are now two Steam News slots in the menu so that weekly challenges are visible alongside patch notes and other announcements.

• City screenshots in Load Menu no longer appear faded.

We decided to shake things up with some more colourful vibes with this past week's Rainbow Valley Community Challenge. Thank you everyone who participated by submitting and voting on their favorites in the Dystopika Discord[discord.voidswithin.com].

This week's selected highlights were submissions by: ReiSherry, rogler, OatsOatsOatsOats, and Hamster (we had a tie this week).

New week, new theme, and back to some sci-fi vibes: Terraformed.

To learn more about the challenges and how to submit, please swing by our Discord[discord.voidswithin.com]. Submissions will be open through Saturday in the #dys_challenges channel.

Hey everyone! I wanted to share an update to Dystopika's post-launch roadmap.

Firstly, Mod Support is being prioritized over the planned Photo Mode enhancements. This will be a big project, but I feel will be more exciting for the community.

There is demand for so many new buildings, props, and districts that it is far bigger than anything I could make on my own, so I want to put that into modders hands as soon as possible.

Secondly, I'm adjusting the release cadence. Packing many new features developed over several weeks into a single release created a lot of friction in the testing.

As a result, I've re-organized the roadmap into approximate timelines rather than grouping by version number. I'd like to return to smaller but more frequent, focused updates where small features can ship when they are ready instead of waiting on being bundled with a "big update".

I'm really excited about these changes and some of the work happening behind-the-scenes right now (like dynamic sky).

As always, I'm grateful as hell to this community, the things you create, and the kindness you have shown me and each other.

Let's keep this update train rolling!
Matt

Things got Moody in the Discord with this past week's Shadow District challenge. Thank you everyone who participated by submitting and voting on their favorites in the Dystopika Discord[discord.voidswithin.com].

This week's selected highlights were submissions by: +蚊, rogler, and JiEndo.

We're kicking off the week with a new theme: Rainbow Valley. Is a fruity loops dystopia possible? We're going to find out.

To learn more about the challenges and how to submit, please swing by our Discord[discord.voidswithin.com]. Submissions will be open through Saturday in #dys_challenges