HS: sidebar and personnel

Another long hiatus -- Dev Diary has been busy at work and concentrating on other projects. But quite a lot of progress has been made recently. Here's the new screen you're presented with when starting a new game:

As you can see there's a nice translucent sidebar with some buttons on it. Don't worry! None of them really do anything yet. However, clicking on Washington and selecting "Offices" and then pressing the "Personnel" button will give you this:

Yes! It's starting to look something like an XCOM soldier equipping screen, and indeed that's the point. Obviously I still have to add in some items to drag into those boxes. And then I think I should probably start thinking about savegames, since there'll be some meaningful information to save and reload.

I've also got a cheapass investigations screen fully working now, so another area for exploration is how to connect artifacts discovered through investigations to research projects. More soon, I hope.