Mod packs

Voice/sound packs for in-game download. Assets can be replaced with gh release upload mods file.sgx --clobber without changing the tag.

RA 0.27

Major Features

• Script migration wave — main menu, scenario selection, all advisor screens, build menu, hotkey config, victory/defeat logic, and every city overlay moved to MuJS
• BIK video playback — intro and briefing movies from original .bik files
• Road construction in script — drag preview with correct junction sprites; statue preview and rotation (R); copy-build hotkey (Q)
• Windows self-update from GitHub releases
• Integral test framework in CI — automated JS-driven game tests

Gameplay

• Player legions work in on-map and distant battles again
• Monument rating matches Pharaoh.exe weights (mastabas, pyramid variants)
• Resource depletion for gold, stone, sandstone, copper, gems, and clay
• Irrigation via water lifts and ditches; meadow farms; unified floodplain placement
• Seth and Osiris curses; temple complex upgrades; police station, mortuary, festival logic restored
• Hyenas hunt ostriches; figure phrase sounds overhauled
• Early campaign missions aligned with original; Selima/Saqqara win criteria fixed; intro popups restored
• Empire disabled in missions 4/5 (as in OG); campaign victory advances reliably

UI & Quality of Life

• Optional save prompt on Alt+F4
• Redesigned sound settings (per-channel volume)
• Hovered tile highlight; empire map fixes
• CLI: --no-logo, --no-resource, --log-sound, --config:NAME=VALUE

Scenario Editor & Debug

• Land/sea invasion, entry/exit, earthquake, and predator herd points persist correctly
• Debug terrain paint brush (land, water, floodplain, rocks, ore, dunes, meadow)

Platforms

• Windows (self-update), Linux (zip + Flatpak + Bazzite), macOS (ARM + x86_64), Android, browser (Emscripten)
• itch.io distribution; German localization; expanded player wiki

Modding

• Hot-reload scripts with --mixed (macOS/Linux)
• Building configs in src/scripts/building/; city systems in src/scripts/city/
• Custom overlays via [es=city_overlay] — no recompile needed

Full release notes: https://dalerank.github.io/Akhenaten/devblog/ra-027-release-notes.html

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RA 0.26

Major Features:

• New localization system (German, Spanish, etc)
• Transltations migrated from hardcoded C++ to scripts
• Improved Unicode font rendering system
• Support custom font and texture packs via .sgx archives
• Rendering: Implemented deferred rendering with Y-sorting
• Cloud Shadows: Configurable cloud rendering system
• Better MacOS support

Gameplay changes

• Restored enemy system (Assyrians, Hittites, Nubians, Kushites, Libyans, Phoenicians, Persians, Romans, Sea Peoples, Hyksos, Canaanites)
• New crocodile ai and amphibian routing mode for water creatures
• Improved information windows for all building types
• Enhanced advisor screens (health, finance, empire)
• Mission briefing window improvements
• Better financial screen with detailed information

Tech:

• Migrated tons hardcoded values to configs and scrits
• Tons fixes and improvements
• Moved debug options to ImGui windows
• Empire path visualization

Modding Support:

• Unpack scripts directly from mods window
• Hot-reload scripts with  and extensive config-based customization

RA 0.25

• health: fixed apothecary service coverage
• city: house_decay_services() logic moved to house class
• city: resources: add calculate_available_food() in class
• win: app: added update update script and logic for binary files
• ui: info window for library/academy moved to own class
• scenario: rescue_loan logic moved to config
• scenario: house_tax_multipliers moved to config
• sounds: redesigned music manager
• game: add logic to load game setting from .conf (js) file instead .ini
• buildings: support build towers on thick walls
• support loading textures from modpack
• ui: advisor trade window moved to own file
• and more...

RA 0.24

What's Changed

• Fix build on macos by @Amlor in #160
• Experimental implementation of clouds, off by default by @Amlor in #185
• Sdl2 bump by @Amlor in #189
• [wasm] build target web by @ololoken in #191
• added city event manager
• added walls and redesigned logic for them
• improved renderer, simplified a lot of functions
• redesigned tutorials, added new tutorials events, added victory checkers
• ui: redesigned window info for building and figures
• overlays: show plagued houses on health overlay overlay
• ui: top menu widget moved draw logic to class
• fixed house update logic, now it properly handle house grow
• fixed shrines count update
• fixed setup basic options for raw_material buildings
• and more...

New Contributors

• @Amlor made their first contribution in #160
• @ololoken made their first contribution in #191
• @tomkidd made their first contribution in #204

Full Changelog: ra0924...ra0325

RA 0.23

What's Changed

• advisor screens updated and moved to js config
• opengl mode added filters
• sidebar widget redesigned and made more configurable
• minimap render improved and redraw 2 times per frame
• storage yard orders window moved to js config
• sidebar split for two classes expanded and collapsed
• display options moved redesigned and moved to config from c++ code
• restore logic for hold festival window
• restore city coverage statistic
• restore plots for city history
• make window template which loads options from js config
• update tooltip render scheme
• add info window for booth building
• walker play phrase when open info window
• possible to select walkers info window over buildings and terrain
• restored info window for caravan donkey
• restored granary orders scheme widget
• restored logic for work camp building
• restored festival square logic
• add base logic for crocodile
• restored info window for weaver
• add debug window for religion, building, walker properties
• improves for animation system

RA 0.22

What's Changed

• Dock fixes, now it works and handle ships
• Add class and base logic for figures: governor, trade ship, hippo, shipwreck, constable, librarian, dentist, ostrich hunter
• Add class for empire logic, restored fucnionality for trades and trade ships
• Add class and base logic for buildings: granite quarry, reed gatherer, henna farm, copper mine
• Improves configs for scribal school, lamp/paint workshops
• Improves for common ui, simplify and bloatfree code style for elements and logic, based on imgui ideas
• Restored elovle/devolve logic for houses
• Improved minimap renderer, partialy item color moved to config
• Building menu and submenu options moved to config
• Add some debug layers: desirability
• Improved animation system
• Restored tutorial for 5 and 6 missions
• And more...

Other Fixes

• fix: Add missing string header by @tintou in #143
• Add flatpak build in CI by @tintou in #145
• Fix sound access case sensitivity by @kamaradclimber in #150

New Contributors

• @tintou made their first contribution in #143
• @kamaradclimber made their first contribution in #150

RA 0.21

figures:

• fireman/water_carrier made as custom classes
• fixed alg for extinguish

building:

• fixed draw firehouse
• update logic for recruiter building
• restored fort logic
• restored weaponsmith logic
• improved algorithm for select access road tile

windows:

• add advisor buttons to granany window

RA 0.2

• base functionality
• mission 1-5
• mastaba and statues
• tutorial
• water crossing, ferries