Hot of the presses, there's a fresh update of Neongarten ready to roll! I've been shaping things up to get ready for the Steam Next Fest that's happening NEXT WEEK, so there's a lot to this update.

First and foremost, I juiced the game to heck and back. There's new animations for the UI, some idle building animations, new sound effects, and lots of particles effects and lighting effects. (I wish I knew how easy Godot's animation player was at the start of the project - it would have changed the game design. Then again, I can't be too hard on myself. This is my first game in Godot, after all.). There's better sound, better widescreen support, and tons of controller bug fixes too.

Lots of balance changes while we are gearing up, too. I tried to make all the buildings that I didn't use more powerful, haha.
- The Factory no longer gives a penalty to neighboring residential buildings.
- The Refinery now gives a +2 income bonus to all industry in row, column, or stack.
- The Corp HQ and Executive Retreat now count 'inferior' corp buildings, or buildings directly beneath them. Their layer restrictions are gone. The Executive Retreat gets +5 per inferior corp building instead of +4.
- Coffee Shops now double their income for every 3 residential buildings (down from 4).
- Toxic Waste Dumps give +2 to neighboring industrial buildings.
- Fancy apartments get +1 per neighboring basic apartment, and +2 per neighboring fancy apartment or penthouse suite.
The perks Corporate Centers and Corner Networks now give +3 to center corp and corner illegal buildings, respectively.
- Lowered the number of same-layer shanty or basic apartments needed to trigger the Security Forces bonus from 4 to 3.
- Each Common building is only placed in the draw pool 8 times instead of 10 times. (The other rarities are x4 for Uncommon and x1 for Rare.)

If you enjoy the game, please wishlist the game on Steam! Check out the demo during the festival, even though it's the exact same thing as the one on itch!

One last little thing - I made a new game called Godo Kado that's freely available. It's the classic game of go, but played with marbles. Check it out at https://joshuagalecki.itch.io/godo-kado.