Local Capital

A record of the days with big updates. Every screenshot was taken by running the game as it was on that day.

1. 5 November 2026Day 34

   Snow that settles by the centimetre

   Snow now settles to a depth. How much falls each day follows the climate normals of the Matsue Local Meteorological Office, and it melts as the temperature rises; a snowy winter is the same winter the snow-clearing bill is counted for, and about one in ten is a heavy one. At 2 cm it is a patchy cover with the furrows showing through, at 5 cm everything is white, and past 15 cm the roads are cleared to the plan chosen in November (at 10, 15 or 25 cm). Roofs carry a thick layer with snow hanging over the eaves, town roads show grey ruts, main roads are wet and black with the snow pushed to the verges, cars collect snow on top, the falling snow thickens with the snowfall, and once it stops the sunny side melts first. Crape myrtles, weeds and flower beds no longer stay green through the winter.

   

   

2. 4 November 2026Day 33

   The seasons come round in the town

   The 3D map now changes with the game's calendar, a little at a time. Cherry blossom comes out from late March into early April and the leaves turn in late November, a few weeks earlier up the hills. The paddies are flooded at the end of April, planted in May, green all summer, gold by late August and harvested in September, with the rice left to dry on racks. Peonies bloom on Daikonjima and buckwheat flowers in the fields. Snow falls and melts day by day, and in winter the sun sits low under grey skies. Carp streamers, New Year pine decorations and tundra swans mark the seasons too. The timing follows the climate normals of the Matsue Local Meteorological Office.

   

   

3. 3 November 2026Day 32

   Light on the towers and the water

   The towers were remade to match real aerial photos: their proportions, the spread of heights, their colours and the reflections in the glass. Glass towers and office blocks light up floor by floor at night. Lakes and rivers have rounded shores, waves, colours that follow the depth and reflections of the sky. Water from tsunamis, storm surges and flooding rivers now really flows into the town and pools in the low ground. Cars park at the factories, shipyards go up on waterside industrial land, and the shinkansen has proper tunnel portals. Around midnight the lighting was reworked too: the sun now comes from the upper left, shade gathers between buildings, the distance fades into haze, and the colours shift with the time of day.

   

   

4. 1 November 2026Day 30

   Railways and roads cross on two levels

   Where a road meets a railway you can now choose a level crossing, an underpass or a bridge over the line. New track crosses old track on a viaduct, ordinary roads can be raised on viaducts too, with ramps down to the streets at each end. The shinkansen runs on wide curves and gentle grades, passing through the hills rather than over them. Train cars now have couplers and gangway bellows between them. Zoomed far out, the map shows photos of the detailed blocks taken in advance, so you see the town rather than grey boxes.

   

5. 31 October 2026Day 29

   Traffic lights, signs and poles go up

   Traffic lights now stand at 3D junctions: the signals for cars on the far left corner, pedestrian signals on every corner, and a sign with the junction's name. The lights change on the same clock as the cars. Road signs, road markings and billboards went in, modelled on the real thing, and the utility poles and wires were rebuilt. There are gutters between the road and the plots now, and the plots reach right to the road's edge. Small shops with a family living upstairs go up too.