For those who haven't heard of this thing, it's basically trying to recreate the way you can get such amazing stories in Dwarf Fortress and plop it down in a Victorian era Colony that follows steampunk aesthetics. It's been in development for roughly two years and now Gaslamp Games, the creators of this game as well as a certain product involving copious amounts of Diggles, are offering "Earliest Access". Essentially, the game has gotten in to a playable state and this is to get people who are effectively volunteering to bug test as the price to get in to this is $29.99 USD. They're estimating that they should have the game stable enough to release via Early Access on Steam about a month from now. They also provided a breakdown of all their progress so far through this link, http://clockworkempires.com/development.html.
I should note that if you decided that you try to buy in this, GG has said that it won't be up until 10am July 18 PST . Apparently they set this purchase system up two days before the release of "Earliest Access". As a person who's been following that project for 2 years and as PA is mildly inspired by DF I figured that others may be interested in the concept and at least start following the development.
edit: Corrected time and date.
