The hope is to get a playable Alpha ready for download in late Novemeber, that will hopefully feature basic systems for a reasonable number of areas of the game:

1) Building

2) Farming

3) Combat

4) Gnome motorbikes... maybe

Update! Have been working away, setup a development blog to talk about some of the things I'm doing with the game.

I'm using C#, so hopefully lots of interesting C# stories/snippets will be up there,

http://miscellaniadotnet.wordpress.com/

wondering if 4 is a joke...

Me too.... the idea of motorbikes is more centered around the concept of oil extraction...

So in the world, the idea is that there will be large pockets of oil deep in the earth, that your men/goblins/dwarfs can extract and bring to the surface in barrels to use for lighting/powering engines/ or something else??