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Howdy! I'm pleased to announce that Governor of the West is now available on Itch, and to celebrate I've put it on sale for 30% off for the next week.

Governor of the West is a turn-based game of exploration, resource management, and outlaw placement set in the Old West. Choose a starting character, explore the West, recruit your gang, build up your town, and maybe -- if you play your cards right -- become the Governor! 

Get Governor of the West for 30% off on Itch

If you want a little more Civilization in your Red Dead Redemption, or you're a fan of turn-based simulations or worker-placement board games, you can read more about Governor over on https://birdworks.io/gotw. Before that, though, here's a quick screenshot to whet your appetite:

Give it a run through and let me know what you think -- it's still very much a work in progress!

This is a useful (easy!) guide that I follow for Unity builds, but if you just ignore the Unity bits it's generally a good step-by-step: https://gist.github.com/dpid/270bdb6c1011fe07211edf431b2d0fe4

Heads up: "some newer Mac OS have some issues with files downloaded, so you may need to change your security/privacy settings in system preferences" isn't really the case -- you'll need to notarise the mac build to make this problem go away (vs. asking players to disable system security settings which is kind of a turn-off). It's not that hard to do!