Third Stretch Goal Reached!

As we enter our final week, we have just reached our third stretch goal ($26k). This goal includes:

• New Room: Graveyard When your Dwarves die, their corpses remain on the ground. A worker may bury a dwarf corpse in a graveyard, where a tombstone will be left. Seeing the corpse of another employee will make a dwarf very unhappy indeed.
• New Creatures: Necromancers and the Undead Some number of “necromancer towers” will appear on the map. Necromancers are evil wizards who can raise corpses from the dead and send them at your colony as shambling zombies! Watch as your dead employees rise from the grave to feast on their co-workers. Necromancers will stop at nothing to protect their valuable research from grubby Dwarven hands.
• New System: Investments The stock market will be more fleshed out, and includes things like the prices of commodities and rich investors. You may, if you wish, invest directly in the stock market or in commodities trading as an additional source of income.

Wilson sketched up a quick Dwarf skeleton sprite in honor of this new, macabre stretch goal being reached.

We’ve also apparently been doing quite well on Steam Greenlight. We’ve gotten over 3,300 “Yes” votes in the past couple of days. Apparently, that puts us at “20% of the way to the top 100” according to Valve. Greenlight’s acceptance criteria are notoriously weird and arbitrary, so we’re not sure what all of this means for us — but we’ve been told the numbers are looking good!