Tweet: Stairs and Castles
Stairs are now in dungeons. They are now fully walkable. I also activated the castle generator. Unfortunately I do not find the generated castles in the word :-).
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Tweet: New grass
I enabled the new grass. Another new version is already uploaded!
Winter Sale and New Version
For the first time we take part in the winter sale. So if you are interested in our game you can buy it now.
And I uploaded a new version. Here is the change log:
• Faster low end renderer for older computers (faster model rendering):
• Much faster renderer overall. Performance rarely drops below 30 fps.
• Complete new cave generator. They are now much more playable
• Cavern generator at the bottom of the world.
• Better resource distribution
• New plants (Leaf pad, sugar cane, hanging vine)
• Better Plant Generator in the 3D Editor
• New Plant LOD in the 3D Editor
• Plugin interface is complete (tested it with 2 little games)
• Lua and Java can be used as scripting languages
• Android GUI finished
• New font in the GUI
• Lava Generator
• Bug fixes
Other things we did that are not yet in the game:
• Speech synthesizer, Talk system
• Painted new grass (lots of different type)
• Created new trees
• „Painting“ on the ground: This means the engine can change the height of the landscape in a similar fashion how it is done in 3D landscape editors. This is used to make the boundary of a building fitting to the environment
• New tree system is finished but not active in the world generator. This version will be the last with the old trees system.
• Car lanes on street: As you might know if you followed the development, I added streets in the game which the engine can place. Now I added car lanes to the segments.
• Traffic lights, traffic lights logic
• Navigation network for cars and NPC
• Reflections (via Cube Mapping and Screen Based Reflection)
• Streets are now connected
• NPCs can have jobs: For example they can work in this warehouse
• Daily routine adapts to job and home. NPCs can have a home
• Erosion system for the world generator: I read a paper about artificial erosion, so I implemented it. Currently, I am thinking about how to integrate it in the world generator, because the speed is not fast enough.
• Cell based city simulation system (will be used in the city generator): This system can simulate ware transport in a city and so measure if the city is functional.
• Logic based reasoning system for the city generator
• Countries
• AI controlled ware transport system
• AI language nearly finished
• NPC simulation in the foreign landscape: This also took very long. I can now walk with an NPC out of the simulated landscape and it still works.
Future:
The cities work when someone places the buildings. So the next step is to finish the AI which does this. And of course I want to integrate the new plants.
And I uploaded a new version. Here is the change log:
• Faster low end renderer for older computers (faster model rendering):
• Much faster renderer overall. Performance rarely drops below 30 fps.
• Complete new cave generator. They are now much more playable
• Cavern generator at the bottom of the world.
• Better resource distribution
• New plants (Leaf pad, sugar cane, hanging vine)
• Better Plant Generator in the 3D Editor
• New Plant LOD in the 3D Editor
• Plugin interface is complete (tested it with 2 little games)
• Lua and Java can be used as scripting languages
• Android GUI finished
• New font in the GUI
• Lava Generator
• Bug fixes
Other things we did that are not yet in the game:
• Speech synthesizer, Talk system
• Painted new grass (lots of different type)
• Created new trees
• „Painting“ on the ground: This means the engine can change the height of the landscape in a similar fashion how it is done in 3D landscape editors. This is used to make the boundary of a building fitting to the environment
• New tree system is finished but not active in the world generator. This version will be the last with the old trees system.
• Car lanes on street: As you might know if you followed the development, I added streets in the game which the engine can place. Now I added car lanes to the segments.
• Traffic lights, traffic lights logic
• Navigation network for cars and NPC
• Reflections (via Cube Mapping and Screen Based Reflection)
• Streets are now connected
• NPCs can have jobs: For example they can work in this warehouse
• Daily routine adapts to job and home. NPCs can have a home
• Erosion system for the world generator: I read a paper about artificial erosion, so I implemented it. Currently, I am thinking about how to integrate it in the world generator, because the speed is not fast enough.
• Cell based city simulation system (will be used in the city generator): This system can simulate ware transport in a city and so measure if the city is functional.
• Logic based reasoning system for the city generator
• Countries
• AI controlled ware transport system
• AI language nearly finished
• NPC simulation in the foreign landscape: This also took very long. I can now walk with an NPC out of the simulated landscape and it still works.
Future:
The cities work when someone places the buildings. So the next step is to finish the AI which does this. And of course I want to integrate the new plants.
A philosophical question
We had here a lot of discussions if it is ok to replace stolen keys.
What are you thinking? Is it unfair towards the gamers which bought the game on Steam?
My main argument was that the gamers who bought stolen keys did knew it. On the other side I never received any money and if I would need the earnings to finance my company I would be bankrupt now (this is not the case as I also create non gaming products).
What are you thinking? Is it unfair towards the gamers which bought the game on Steam?
My main argument was that the gamers who bought stolen keys did knew it. On the other side I never received any money and if I would need the earnings to finance my company I would be bankrupt now (this is not the case as I also create non gaming products).
Stolen Keys from IndieGameStand
A lot of keys of this game were stolen. I suppose this happens after the shutdown from IndieGameStand. I now disabled all non-redeemed keys. There were also a number of keys which I never put for sale. They were completely disabled.
If you bought an illegal key from a reseller and you cannot play the game now, just contact me personally I will give you a valid key.
You can send me a friend request and then a message via Steam. Or you can simply send me an e-mail to: [email protected]
Please be aware that it can take up to 24h until you get a new key. So do not worry!
[Update]: I only have a limited number of keys left. And as Steam does not want to give me more as my last keys have been stolen, this is fixed.
[Update]: So, as the gamers which want a replacement key has declined much, I am stopping the replacement now.
If you bought an illegal key from a reseller and you cannot play the game now, just contact me personally I will give you a valid key.
You can send me a friend request and then a message via Steam. Or you can simply send me an e-mail to: [email protected]
Please be aware that it can take up to 24h until you get a new key. So do not worry!
[Update]: I only have a limited number of keys left. And as Steam does not want to give me more as my last keys have been stolen, this is fixed.
[Update]: So, as the gamers which want a replacement key has declined much, I am stopping the replacement now.