Changes in Akhenaten for 2025

Main Development Directions

• Major architecture refactoring
• Massive migration of logic from C++ to JavaScript configs — all buildings and figures now configured through JS configs
• Simplified data loading system from archives
• New scheme for registering enum tokens in JS
• Unified system for loading structures from configs

Refactoring of Building and Figure Classes

• Extraction of runtime_data from the common building class into specialized classes
• Migration of planner logic into building classes
• Simplification of the type casting system for buildings and figures
• Reorganization of figure system with base class extraction

Enemy and Invasion System

• Enemy figure types added: barbarian, hittite, hyksos, kushite, persian, roman, phoenician, nubian, libian, assyrian, seapeople
• Battalion system replacing legions
• Improved enemy army formation logic
• Invasion points system with support for sea and land invasions
• Enemy properties configured through configs
• Enemy strength grid system
• Improved archer logic
• Distant battle system
• Debug window for enemy armies
• City siege event handling

New Language Support

• German language support added
• Spanish language support added
• Migration of all localizations from C++ to JS configs
• Improved font system with Unicode support
• Tools for generating game fonts
• Loading localizations from .sgx archives
• Support for external language directories
• Improved Unicode font rendering

New Building Types

• Carpenter Guild with carpenter figure
• Stonemasons Guild with stonemason figure
• Tower Gatehouse
• Improved logic for Senet House
• Irrigation canals system with improved logic
• Garden system with decay logic
• Improved logic for Temple Complex
• Mastaba system with static parameters support

Resource Depletion System

• Depletion system implemented for all quarry types
• Resource depletion for copper mines
• Depletion system for gems
• Save/load resource state (copper, stone, gems grids)
• New city_resource_handle class for simplified resource handling
• Improved resource storage logic in buildings
• Mission resource configuration through configs

UI/UX Improvements

• Information window for trade caravans and ships
• Information window for gatehouse
• Information window for forts and legions with formation mode buttons
• Mod manager window
• Event history window
• Political overseer window
• Fixed top menu when resizing window
• Improved scrollbar system
• Dynamic text support for buttons
• Improved tooltips for buildings and figures
• Image centering support in messages
• Improved mission window

Graphics Improvements

• New deferred rendering system with Y-sorting
• Improved cart rendering
• Grayscale support for images
• Cloud system with settings
• Improved isometric texture rendering
• Texture caching for performance improvement

Mod Support

• Ability to download mods from GitHub
• Save/load active mods
• Texture loading support from modpacks
• Improved data loading from .sgx archives
• Automatic start index detection for images

Technical Improvements

• Build support for Bazzite Linux
• Build improvements for macOS (ARM and x86)
• Build improvements for Android
• Fixes for Emscripten/WASM
• System libpng support on macOS

Architectural Improvements

• New type system (typeid implementation)
• stable_array class for hash-sorted arrays
• Improved variants system
• New events system
• Improved routing system with amphibian support

Empire System

• Empire system redesign using handles instead of raw numbers
• Improved trade route logic for long intervals
• Fixed trader creation in cities
• Support for creating trade cities under siege
• Risk system now depends on difficulty and house value
• Improved tutorial system
• Support for multiple temple complexes and monuments (optional)
• New tax collection system (optional)
• Improved labor system

Developer Tools

• Sprite tool for viewing game resources
• Improved debugging tools
• Console commands for creating figures and game management
• Font generation tools
• Debug modes for routing
• Debug rendering for canals, gardens, enemies