Version 1.2.1: dark theme, an installable app and a truer history

The second round of changes before the official opening on 25 October.

Light or dark

• A dark theme for the game, the home page, the news and every other page. It follows your system setting, and the sun-and-moon button switches it by hand.
• The pencil lines in the game redraw themselves in the new colours.

Chorin as an app

• Install the game like a normal app: its own icon, full screen, and it works offline after the first visit. Chrome, Edge and Opera offer the install button right away; on iPhone, iPad and Mac the home page shows how to add it.
• A house button in the game header takes you back to the home page.

After 1542 the abbey is an estate

The monks leave at the Reformation, and now the game knows it:

• Offices become posts of the estate: steward, sexton, foreman and host instead of cellarer, sacristan and the master of lay brothers.
• You hire workers instead of admitting novices, and the village church bells ring instead of the hours of prayer.
• The wandering pilgrim becomes a traveller, and in our own time a visitor.
• New events and choices: painters at the ruin, villagers who want its bricks for their houses, tour groups and a school trip from Eberswalde.
• Margraves of the Ascanian line, fever among the brothers and novices no longer appear in the wrong century.
• Buildings of an era leave the build list when their time is over: no wooden chapel in 1800, no stables after the restoration.

Weather that fits the place

• No sun, moon or stars behind rain clouds.
• In winter the mill wheel stops, the solar ferry stays in harbour and no fish jumps out of the ice.
• The island has its own events for Lake Parstein, and the spring flood only turns a mill that exists.

History, checked again

• The abbey bought Groß Ziethen in 1320 from the knight Redekin (Riedel, 1857).
• The Choriner Musiksommer has filled the church with music since 1964.

Small things

• Every notification has its own small picture.
• The tutorial starts on the very first visit.
• The settings icon is no longer squeezed in Opera.
• The blessing now really multiplies everything by five, Faith included, and the tooltip on each resource lists every factor.
• On the island the fish come from boats and nets on the lake; fish ponds are dug only after the move to Chorin.

Thank you for playing. If you notice anything odd, write to support@choringame.com.