Devlog

• 5. Decoupling from Unity — October 2026

  In this devlog, I am going to cover how (and why) I decoupled Kārum from the Unity engine. The main benefit is that I can now run the simulation $64\times$ faster in headless mo...

• 4. Our Age of Bronze is Collapsing — September 2026

  This devlog explores trade between cities, and how resource nodes and trade route topology can lead to different city specializations. The Crown can’t control whether raw coppe...

• 3. Dear Bread: Spiking Grain Prices for Profit — August 2026

  This devlog will look inward, and explore some of the city production and inter-estate conflicts that arise in Kārum’s early game. As a reminder, you are playing the Crown, one ...

• 2. The Silver Must Flow — July 2026

  Resources in Kārum live physically in the world, and merchants are key to moving goods through it. Each city develops resources based on its environment – a copper-rich city mig...

• 1. How About the Price of Grain in Mesopotamia? — June 2026

  I am building a strategy game with a materialist core. Each city produces grain in the Private market and Temple/Crown estates at harvest time. The supply trickles down through ...

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