Hey everyone!

Thank you for all the positive feedback on the Demo! It’s great to see everyone enjoying what’s to come at the full release.

We have deployed a small patch to the Demo (1.10.0.5.1216) to fix and update a few things. The changes can be found below:

Fix

• Royal Book: Book tooltip was not showing its key-bind
  
• Royal Book: Clicking on Monthly Budget notification now opens Royal Book at Budget page instead of last opened page
  
• Walls: Some visual errors with walls during editing
  
• Fortifications: Some fortifications were not active after a reload
  
• Main Menu: Social Media buttons remain selected after being clicked once
  
• Various crashes including a crash when switching parts using part switcher gizmo (left and right arrows)

Update

• Stonecutter Camp: Add entrance
  
• Tax Office: Increased worker ratio
  
• Manor House: Increased small rooms capacity
  
• Lumber camp: Removed iron cost in additional part
  
• Onboarding: Added an edit monument onboarding event when the market is built

We are aware of issues with some Intel GPUs as well as Steam Deck/Proton we are investigating and will update you all once we have more information about the issues.

We are also looking into some random performance issues. Whilst we investigate further:
If you are finding a particularly low framerate when starting a new game try switching off and on grass in the video settings (or on then off depending on the current state).

The Polymorph Games Team

Hello City Builders,

After spending over 5 years in Early Access, we are excited to reveal the release date for Foundation, along with a playable Foundation Demo!


Foundation's Full Release will introduce an extensive array of new features, content updates and improvements that will make Foundation feel almost like a new game. Here's a taste of what's to come:

• Choose Your Ruleset: Customize your new games using a selection of adjustable rules, perfect for players who want a more relaxed and creative vibe or those looking to challenge themselves further.
  
• Revamped Aspirations: Discover new ways to play by selecting an Aspiration, which will challenge you to construct a different type of village. Will you focus on building a prolific priory? Or perhaps a magnificent stronghold to please the King?
  
• New Villager Residential Tiers: Expand your city further with the highest density and quality residential tiers, allowing for more village customization options.
  
• Improved Progression System: Unlock content in a smoother and more rewarding way via a refined progression system that adds depth and strategic planning to your city-building journey.
  
• New Military System: Take on new challenges with a refreshed military system that will have you create Companies that you can send abroad and have them bring back precious resources.
  
• Heraldry System: Create and customize your village with the new coat of arms editor.
  
• Paved Roads: Meet the needs of high-tier housing with our new paved road mechanic, tailored to support your most developed areas.
  
• Improved Walls: Walls are now fully integrated into the building system, some of which will add fortification coverage to your village.
  
• Enhanced UI and Quality of Life Updates: Benefit from a significantly streamlined user interface, including a massive overhaul to the Monument design experience, implemented to improve gameplay and enhance your city-building efficiency.
  
• New Onboarding Experience: Whether a new player or a veteran, the updated onboarding quests and visual aids are now easier to follow, helping everyone find a perfect start to their village.

• Dynamic Environment Overhaul: Experience Foundation in new ways with enhanced maps, updated map edges, refined lighting, and immersive environmental changes that add more depth to your city-building experience.
  
• Revamped Art and Assets: Discover updated visuals, including an elaborate new Manor House and the brand new Castle Monument, bringing more detail and realism to your cities.
  
• New and Improved Animations: Enhanced animations bring your villagers to life, adding even greater immersion.
  
• Extendable Buildings: Some workplaces, such as the Woodcutter Camp, Warehouse, and Stonemason, can now be extended with new parts.
  
• All Buildings Have Been Revamped
  
• Cosmetic Time of Day Switcher: Switch between night and day to see your village come to life during the darker hours.
  
• Photo Mode: Capture in-game moments with the new photo mode to keep for yourself or share with the community.
  
• And So Much More! This is just the tip of the iceberg. Countless other improvements and surprises await you in the full release!

As Foundation approaches its full release, we are announcing a price increase from December 18, from 29.99 USD to 34.99 USD.

This price increase marks the end of Foundation's Early Access, reflecting years of development and investment into the game, an expanded team, and the need to adapt to inflation. We are committed to providing high-quality updates and support after the release and are excited about the future.

If you've considered joining us, now is the perfect time to jump into Foundation before the price change!


We are very excited to present you with a glimpse of the Full Release version of Foundation via a Demo! This demo allows you to play endlessly with a selection of first-tier content, providing an exclusive preview of certain features, including Housing, Trade, Fortifications, Patrols, Environment overhaul, a vastly improved UI, and many more improvements.

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/3256650?utm_source=steam&utm_campaign=demo&utm_medium=announcement

This demo will give players a taste of what's to come in the Full Release.
Note that it does not reflect what's in the Early Access version of the game.

Enjoying the demo? Don't hesitate to wishlist the game to get notified once it releases!

We’d like to end this announcement with a special thanks to our fantastic Foundation community that has supported us over the years. Your contributions have been instrumental in shaping Foundation into what it is today, and we couldn’t be more excited to finally share this next chapter with you!

Thank you once again for your amazing support. We're so excited to share this new chapter with you. Stay tuned, and we'll see you in Foundation on January 31, 2025!

The Polymorph Games team

Hello everyone!

We have a new patch out to address changes to the mod.io API as well as fixes for a few issues that have been reported by the community.

Update:

• mod.io API

Fix:

• Fix villager's job experience bar not showing correct progression for job
  
• Some resources were incorrectly showing double the amount stored after placing Village Centre during onboarding quests
  
• Masterpiece build menu tooltip listed the optional effect twice
  
• Promotion window was always showing "Must have reached max level in current job" even when not necessary
  
• Officinal Garden would unlock when you had 10 wounded soldiers at one time instead of 10 all-time wounded soldiers
  
• After a promotion, the promotion button in the villager window would not update
  
• Changing the function of a workplace to one that produces a taxed good would not have been taxed until a reload
  
• A rare case where a building could be stuck in ‘Resources Missing’ state
  
• Crash on reload when a Great Hall was left in preview whilst completing a separate Bailiff Office
  
• Crash affecting some older GPUs when loading game to ~50%

Hello everyone!

We've just launched a bundle that combines the best of city-building and colony-building RimWorld x Foundation!

Dig into RimWorld for an immersive story experience as you grow your colony and survive! Relax in Foundation as you create sprawling medieval cities with free-form tools and watch as your villagers live organically in their world.

The bundle runs from September 13 - 26, 2024. Get 20% OFF with the bundle! And if you already own one of the games, get 20% off the other!

RimWorld:
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Foundation:
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

The Polymorph Games team

Hello everyone!

As the summer draws to a close and we see the first glimpses of autumn starting to show, it’s time for us to bring you some development news on Foundation!


We are sure this is a question on all of your minds and we’d first like to note that the game’s development is on track for our target release date.

Development is moving at a great pace and a lot has happened since our last Devlog:

• Most gameplay features have been integrated such as Patrols, Walls and Fortifications and a new Military gameplay iteration.
  
• We have worked a lot on the overall art direction of the game, including the lighting, vegetation and building revamps.
  
• We are still hard at work on more technical features, like high density housing and paved roads.
  
• We had a Community Private playtest where 150 players were invited to test and provide feedback (more on that later)

We will make further announcements as soon as we have integrated all that we feel needs to be in the game before publicly showing it. We are specifically working hard on the high density residential and the new environmental vegetation.

In the meantime, here’s a sneak peek of our work on the environment. This is in-engine stuff but please keep in mind that it’s work in progress.


As we mentioned above there have been many changes since Devlog #18 and these changes and features have been integrated into the game. Players were invited to sign up for a private playtest on Discord so that we could gather feedback and make further improvements where necessary.

150 players took part in the private playtest and had a chance to test out the changes and work so far. The playtest ran from July 4 to July 15 and 98 of those playtesters completed the feedback form.

Of those 98 playtest responses, over 40% of them tested the game for more than 20 hours. 10% of the playtesters were totally new to the game, which gave us valuable insight into the learning curve for new players.

The feedback we gathered from the playtest was very positive and we received a lot of constructive comments. Some general conclusions from the playtest:

• Safety, Patrols and Fortification were much appreciated, and we identified areas of improvement.
  
• We had the new iteration of the Military system tested. A lot of interesting feedback was received, but that showed us there’s still some further iterations to do on this system.
  
• Playtesters told us how much they love to build and customize their cities which has further focused us on the creative aspect of the game.
  
• There was a lot of feedback on the UI/UX which will be a top priority for the full release.

Probably yes.
We expect to do one more playtest before the full launch. If you would like to take part in any future playtests please join us on our Discord[discord.gg] server for further playtest information.


On top of all the improvements and refinements based on the above playtest we are also focusing our work on:

• High density housing
  
• Environment overhaul
  
• Road handling and paved roads
  
• Full art revamp of all remaining buildings
  
• Improving the overall monument creation experience
  
• Polish, polish, polish!

We will be back with further news once the last planned elements for the release version are ready to show. Stay tuned and thank you for your [more than we should be asking] patience!

The Polymorph Games team

Hi everyone and welcome to Devlog #18!

We would first like to say a big (belated) welcome to 2024! This year the game marked its 5th year in Early Access and we have come a long way in those 5 years. There have been big changes to the game and we are powering through the final stretch to the full release of Foundation!


What are we working on is always the question we like to answer. The answer to this is nearly everything! The main theme of course is getting the game and all the planned content complete and ready for the full release and end of Early Access.

Some of the things we are currently working on include:

• Map Edges - time to remove those hard-on-the-eyes map edges
  
• The Castle - We know this is the one you are all waiting for!
  
• Walls and fortifications - Walls will have a cost to build like everything else but will also be part of the wider gameplay mechanics
  
• Military gameplay improvements - Tied into the walls and fortifications, several changes are being worked on, such as setting patrols and creating “companies”
  
• The whole art direction - including fully overhauled buildings as well as major environmental improvements
  
• Monument Design Experience - Adding capabilities such as the ability to replace parts and move an entire monument, as well as a full user interface revamp

Oh! And of course Housing and Residential improvements and changes. A lot of work is going on to get the Housing visuals where we want them to be, as well as bring in the 3rd tier high-density residential. The biggest factor is having the housing look authentically medieval within our style setting but ultimately give housing that wow factor!

Residential concept art:
Due to the work-in-progress state of current development, we aren’t quite ready to show too much of what we have been working on, partly to not spoil a bigger reveal announcement but also due to things just not being polished and ready quite yet.

We are aware that you want to hear more and you will soon! Look out for a big announcement coming in the next few months!


Some of you may be wondering when the game will receive a new update. As previously announced, the next major update will be the end of Early Access and the Full Release of the game. We do not plan to release any more updates between now and the full release.

With the final development at full steam ahead, the whole team is dedicated to completing the game, polishing the rough edges and presenting to you the Foundation that we imagined and that you want.

We can’t wait to show you the result of all the hard work and share the date of the full release.
Watch this space!


If you haven’t got the game yet why not take advantage of the Steam Spring Sale?! Get Foundation with a 25% Discount, right now!


In a first for us, we are proud to announce our first-ever Bundle offer in the form of the Medieval Foundation Bundle.

We are honored to collaborate with the team behind Medieval Dynasty to offer an additional 10% OFF when you buy the bundle or complete the set.

That’s all for now but we’ll be sharing more news in the coming months and in the meantime please keep sharing any feedback and bug reports right here on the forums or join us on our official Discord[discord.gg] server.

The Polymorph Games Team

Thanks for your bug reports everyone. We have just identified, fixed and released a patch for the following issues.

Fix

• Stuck Miners - Some map resources were not being gathered
  
• Mods were preventing the “Advice: Fulfilling Villager Needs” quest from completing
  
• Crash when changing function for Dorm
  
• Rare Crash when starting construction of a building

Update

• Localization (translations)