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Summary of the 2nd Day Develop-a-thon!



Summary of the Dev-a-thon


In total the develop-a-thon is responsible for 258 new features and 511 bug fixes which blew my mind when I calculated it up, 769 total changes!

I did enjoy the develop-a-thon but as always it was a massive challenge and there were some moments where I almost couldn't keep up with the development pace, namely during making the delete a save game feature and the day spent developing the Goblin Jamboree (8am-10pm).

I couldn't be happier with how it all turned out though, the game is as with the last Develop-a-thon, much more improved now than it was before so thank you everyone who got involved and thank you all who provided feedback!

To name a few, some of the biggest changes to the game are the ability to name your kingdom anything you want, massive improvements on the Barracks, so many dead bugs you could feed half of the worlds lizards, the ability to delete save games, a huge celebration in Goblinwood, and so many new features you couldn't hope to experience them all in hours of playtime.

The Plan Now


So now that the develop-a-thon is over... thank god, I'm taking a brief break and working on clearing some bugs and scrubbing the entire game of any reference to Aslona (1000s of them). Then I will begin work on the Combat update.

Once the combat overhaul update is in place I plan to begin preparations for moving Warsim forward towards actually releasing instead of staying in Early Access infinite dev that we've been in for a while. Don't worry though I'll still update it post Early Access but I'd like to start clearing through all the unfinished parts of the game and make it a full and complete product.

By the end of this process I plan to rework a lot of Warsim's marketing material and trailer, to slightly increase it's price, and to try and promote warsim to more people and pull the game out of relative obscurity. (I will talk about these plans again soon in more detail)

I will however be rolling out a little update tonight to fix bugs and hopefully eradicate any mentions of Aslona when playing as a custom kingdom!

The full week's Changelog (Be warned, it's long)


WARSIM THE REALM OF... WHATEVER


Something I've been wanting to do for a very long time, it has been requested by so many players I've lost count, now you can name your kingdom anything you want not just Aslona. I've tried to scrub the game of references to Aslona if you are playing custom but I guarentee I've missed loads so if you find any in your Non-Aslona playthroughs share them with me and I'll sort them out!

* Added the ability to select your own kingdom name at game start
* Added the ability to generate a custom kingdom name at game start
* Added ability to rename your kingdom in the other laws screen

BARRACKS IMPROVEMENTS

The Barracks troop upgrade screens were abysmal and low-effort, now they have all been reworked and upgraded with graphics and a new sound effect.

* Added new screen for not having enough gold to upgrade goblins to berserkers
* Added new screen for not having enough goblins to upgrade to berserkers
* Added new screen and graphic for goblin to berserker main screen
* Added new screen and graphic for converting a goblin to berserker (with new text)
* Added new sound effect for troop conversion
* Added new costs to upgrading bandits and goblins in barracks
* Made training ground graphic smaller and worse looking
* Made grand barracks graphic bigger and more grand
* Added new screen for not having enough gold to upgrade bandits to soldiers
* Added new screen for not having enough bandits to upgrade to soldiers
* Added new screen and graphic for bandits to soldiers main screen
* Added new screen and graphic for converting a bandits to soldiers (with new text)
* Added new screen for not having enough gold to upgrade goblins to soldiers
* Added new screen for not having enough goblins to upgrade to soldiers
* Added new screen and graphic for goblins to soldiers main screen
* Added new screen and graphic for converting a goblins to soldiers (with new text)
* Added new screen for not having enough gold to upgrade bandits to peasants
* Added new screen for not having enough bandits to upgrade to peasants
* Added new screen and graphic for bandits to peasants main screen
* Added new screen and graphic for converting a bandits to peasants (with new text)
* Added new screen for not having enough gold to upgrade soldiers to knights
* Added new screen for not having enough soldiers to upgrade to knights
* Added new screen and graphic for soldiers to knights main screen
* Added new screen and graphic for converting a soldiers to knights (with new text)

CUSTOM GAME IMPROVEMENTS

A few improvements to the custom game screens, you now have an extra option to have the world explored a little but not fully and your chosen race pack will be shown before you continue on with your chosen game set up.

* Added ability to have the first region of each direction pre-discovered in custom game (credit defender)
* Added tag showing which race pack is active during custom game set up screen (credit Defender)
* Fixed text issues with exploration screen in custom game settings

REFUGEE CAMP OVERHAUL

I ended up with a refugee camp in my test world and noticed the whole system was a bit lacking, So I spent quite a large portion of the day working on completely evolving the camps and making them much more dynamic, now there are better screens for actions with them as well as a large personality based system where you can speak to the leaders of the camps. Refugee camps are more likely to appear in game when a kingdom is destroyed than before and they include a ton of depth that wasn't there before. I would say this system has recieved a massive evolution.

* Added troop tree screen to refugee camps
* Fixed refugee camp screen kicking you off after viewing a camp
* Added new cheat code 7049 (turns each kingdom into refugee camp)
* Added new sound effect for destroying the last of a refugee camp
* Added troop tree screen to refugee camps
* Added ability to ask independent leader of refugee camp 5 different questions
* Added 15 dialogues for friendly leaders in refugee camp (dynamic)
* Added 15 dialogues for hostile leaders in refugee camp (dynamic)
* Added 15 dialogues for Mercantile leaders in refugee camp (dynamic)
* Added 15 dialogues for Stupid leaders in refugee camp (dynamic)
* Added 15 dialogues for Neutral leaders in refugee camp (dynamic)
* Added 15 dialogues for Strange leaders in refugee camp (dynamic)
* Added dynamic screen for not having enough gold to hire refugees
* Added sound effect to unable to hire refugees screen
* Added new different refugee camp screen for savage hostile kingdom
* Added new different refugee camp screen for savage kingdom
* Added ability for taking all troops from savage refugee camp if diplomat skill 120+
* Added chance that refugee leader heads out to travel the world after you hire his people
* Added chance that refugee leader joins your army as elite unit after you hire his people
* Added chance that refugee leader offers to become a champion (if space) after you hire his people
* Added dynamic screen for not having enough land to re-establish refugees
* Added dynamic screen from leader for re-estblishing refugees
* Added re-establishing kingdom of a friendly or stupid leader will make them your vassal
* Added new reworked screen for re-establishing refugee kingdom
* Added savage leaders who's units are hired will always join you as an elite unit of their ex-kingdom
* Added ability for helping re-establish kingdom in savage refugee camp if diplomat skill 180+
* Made refugee camps forming a 50/50 chance instead of 1 in 3 chance

MAKE A WISH

The wishing well has been improved a lot more in it's layout and function!

* Added throwing your last coin into the well significantly increases odds of getting a wish
* Fixed menu option for throwing a coin into the magic well still showing if you have no gold
* Fixed 25 Wishing well text and grammar bugs (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Reworked text layout of Wishing Well (new gold loss indication and new text for successful wishes)

BLACKROW SLAVER IMPROVEMENTS

Was passing through the Blackrow slaver and found ways to improve it a little bit in how it's laid out.

* Added new screen for not having enough gold for Blackrow Tavern slaver
* Added new screen for asking for too many men Blackrow tavern slaver
* Added new screen for buying slaves from Blackrow tavern slaver
* Fixed Blackrow tavern slaver hire screen text bugs

MONUMENT OF KINGS IMPROVED

Was fixing some monument of kings bugs and noticed the destruction screen was a little lacking, now it's improved!

* Fixed 6 Monument of kings text and grammar bugs (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Rewrote text for destroying monument of kings
* Added destruction sound effect to Monument of Kings

BLACKMARKET LAYOUT IMPROVEMENTS

Now you can see your gold in more screens in the Blackmarket, it's annoying not knowing your gold when you're trying to buy things!

* Added new layout for hiring goblin scum from the market (including seeing your current gold)
* Added kingdom stats bar to each blackmarket district main screen and district selection screen
* Added new layout for hiring slavers from slums slaver post (including seeing your current gold)

SLUM GOLD SYSTEM IMPROVED

Now the slum gold system is far more logical and has better layout and a new option!

* Fixed slum gold donation screen doesn't close when you donate enough gold
* Added new indicator of exactly how much gold is needed for the slums on the main donation screen
* Added ability to donate exactly the amount of gold needed to upgrade the slums

GAMING DICTATOR'S NAME SUFFIX IDEAS

A couple of new name suffixes thanks to u/theGamingDictator, I'm surprised we didn't have the Brave as a suffix already but now we do!

* Added new name suffix 'the Brave' (+29 battlescore) (can mix to make 50+ other suffixes) (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Added new name suffix 'the Impaler' (+39 battlescore) (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Added new name suffix 'the Walker' (+5 battlescore) (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Added new name suffix 'the Braver' (+34 battlescore) (can mix to make 50+ other suffixes) (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Added new name suffix 'the Bravest' (+37 battlescore) (can mix to make 50+ other suffixes) (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Added new name suffix 'the Unready' (-5 battlescore) (can mix to make 50+ other suffixes)
* Added new name suffix 'Lionheart' (+30 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'Longshanks' (+10 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'Redtooth' (+19 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'Blacktooth' (+6 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'Bloodtooth' (+10 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'Sharptooth' (+19 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'Greentooth' (+10 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'Stonetooth' (+29 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'Glasstooth' (+7 battlescore)

TOURNAMENT IMPROVEMENTS

A few tweaks to tournaments, now the npc initiated tournaments have speeches before them!

* Added new screen for tournaments held in arena (not started by you)
* Added screen with speech from arena owner now includes their face
* Fixed 'an 16-man tournament' text bug (Credit 71)

KNIGHTLY ORDERS IMPROVED

Having a recent look at the knightly orders screen it was a little strange compared to other menus, I decided to update it again and have added lots of new screens and sounds where there previously were none. You can rename your knightly order (thanks u/TheGamingDictator) and now the leader of the knightly order has a face, a full plated armour image mixed with whatever procedurally generated helmet you have.

* Added new screen with sounds for forming knightly order
* Added new screen and graphic for introduction to leader of new knightly order (with sounds)
* Fixed wrong colour used for knightly order hall graphic on some screens
* Reworked knightly order name screen
* Reworked knightly order screen and split into 3 sub screens
* Added ability to rename knightly order (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Added ability to speak to knightly order leader about orders directly

LET THE PEOPLE DRINK EXTENDED

The main bulk of this update is expansions on the let the people drink update, while adding to the tavern dialogues I discovered I'd actually missed a tavern off when I was adding drinking to each tavern, the Lone Arrow tavern found in the far west in Huntsman's Rest had no ability to drink, I added 2 new drinks one of which gives you the ability to hit bullseye each time in the Huntsman's Archery, there are also new sound effects, bugfixes and tons of new dialogues for the various taverns across the world.

* Altered vomit hole graphic to be bigger
* Added ability to drink in Lone Arrow Tavern
* Added new drink 'Sap of the forest' (25 gold) to Lone Arrow tavern
* Added Sap puke event
* Added 4 random sap drinking events
* Added 5 new dialogues to lone arrow tavern
* Fixed lone arrow tavern dialogues not appearing in the tavern
* Added sap of the forest makes you perfect at archery in hunter's rest
* Added new sound effect for goblin hitting head in bar
* Added new sound effect for goblin dropping tray of drinks in bar
* Added 5 universal Northern tavern dialogues
* Added 5 Pitside Tavern dialogues
* Added 5 universal Artifact Market tavern dialogues
* Added 5 silverstaff tavern dialogues
* Added 5 three blades inn dialogues
* Added 5 new rusty dagger inn dialogues
* Added 5 new humans toe tavern dialogues
* Fixed punching staring goblin drunk event broken
* Added 5 new generic tavern dialogues and rumours
* Added 5 new icewatch tavern dialogues
* Added 5 universal goblin tavern dialogues
* Added 5 universal Blackmarket tavern dialogues
* Added 5 Blackrow Tavern dialogues
* Added 5 Dragon's Kneecap Tavern Dialogues
* Added 5 Thickblood tavern dialogues
* Added 5 dialogues to Blackrow tavern
* Added 5 dialogues to thickblood tavern
* Added 5 dialogues to Three blades inn
* Added 5 dialogues to silver staff tavern

PROSPECTING REWORKED

Defender suggested having a sound effect for prospecting, when I went to put it in I noticed just how bad the prospecting 'screen' was, it was a single line of badly formatted text, so now there are new graphics and screens.

* Added new graphic for prospecting in mines
* Added new sound effect for prospecting in mines (credit Defender)
* Fixed prospecting text-wrap bug
* Rewrote mine prospecting text layout
* Made prospecting 50/50 instead of 1 in 3 chance
* Reworked not enough gold for prospecting message
* Fixed Hlok mine prospecting and collapsing options not showing if unfilled
* Added gold loss indicator to prospecting

YOU'RE FIRED

Firing staff has always been a screenless part of the game, you click the button and they're gone without a word from them, now your staff will have parting words pooled from a big load of possible farewells and goodbyes

* Added new system for random responses when firing your staff (credit Defender)
* Added 5 generic firing dialouges
* Added 5 diplomat firing dialogues
* Added 5 Spymaster firing dialogues
* Added 5 Jester firing dialogues
* Added 5 General firing dialogues
* Added 5 Steward firing dialogues
* Added 5 gamemaster firing dialogues
* Added 5 Bard firing dialogues

DRINKING NAMES

Kind of a belated follow up to the let the people drink update, some more drunk name suffixes for characters in your world!

* Added new name suffix 'the Ale-Gobbler' (+13 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Ale-Chugger' (+11 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Ale-Slammer' (+10 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Aleblood' (+5 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Blackout-Drunk' (-30 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Mead-Guzzler' (+9 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'Alebreath' (+3 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'Aleblood' (+5 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'Meadblood' (+4 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Meadblood' (+4 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'Boozeblood' (+3 battlescore)

AEHLANS IMPROVED

While passing through here on a report of a grammar bug I noticed how sorry looking the book buying screens were, now each book has it's own book graphic and a special screen with sound effects for when you do buy the books!

* Fixed 4 Aehlans rare tomes grammar bugs (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Added new sound effect to buying books from Aehlans
* Added new book graphic and buying screen for 'The Centaar'
* Added new book graphic and buying screen for 'Blackmarket management'
* Added new book graphic and buying screen for 'Legend of the iron hills'
* Added new book graphic and buying screen for 'Zeberfan the magic man'
* Added new book graphic and buying screen for 'The Black Bank of Azrukh'

SEER OF MINDS IMPROVEMENTS

Same as Aehlans, another few tweaks and fixes for an overlooked part of the Blackmarket!

* Fixed seer of minds grammar bug (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Fixed seer of minds conversation grammar bug (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Added new screen for seer of minds refusal to see you
* Added new screen for seer of minds too broke for a reading

MINER PROBLEM

Title pun, Another nice find by u/TheGamingDictator on reddit, It's an oversight in allowing mines to be prospected in when dead but no code to then tell the game the mine is working again after telling it the mine is dead, now this is fixed and a new screen has been put there to show this event happening!

* Fixed unable to resume mining after discovering new vein of ore in a dead mine (credit u/TheGamingDictator)
* Added screen for mining operations kickstarting again for each of mines (credit u/TheGamingDictator)

THE GOBLINWOOD JAMBOREE

I wanted another wholesome event in game and opted for the friendly goblins of the western settlement of Goblinwood, now provided you have all the positive goblin laws and stances. The goblinwood jamboree contains music, feasting, lots of chatter, a drinking contest against a bunch of goblins and random events, so be nice to goblins and head west!

* Added Goblinwood Jamboree (a goblinwood festival every 10 years if you have goblin celebration active and ban goblin slavery and have discovered goblinwood)
* Added goblin trumpet sound effect
* Added new description for goblinwood intro during jamboree
* Added goblin jamboree messenger end of turn event
* Added two goblin guard intro to castle Kolok
* Added 5 dynamic text intros for Bgax the guard captain
* Added 5 dynamic text intos for Geks the advisor
* Added 5 dynamic text intos for the king
* Added 5 dynamic text intos for Gmek the rich
* Added 3 dynamic texts for celebration start toast by king
* Added a toast by Bgax
* Added a toast by Gmek
* Added 2 dynamic texts for no toast
* Added dynamic applause response to toasts (but always a toast if the king speaks)
* Added goblinwood chariot song
* Added Chef goblin screen
* Added random feast meal system (gives you one of 4 different foods)
* Added 3 random reactions to eating mystery meat covered in Rteka seeds
* Added 3 random reactions to eating mystery meat on it's own
* Added 3 random reactions to eating rat meat skewers
* Added 3 random reactions to eating dog meat on the bone
* Added option to join or ignore goblin drinking competition (100 gold prize)
* Added dynamic system of drinking, quiting or drinking automatically
* Added drinking competition with dynamic eventualities for winning, losing or no winners
* Added dynamic graphic for the round of the drinking contest
* Added goblin glass window small sound effect
* Added goblin fall through window random jamboree event
* Added bgax breaks up brawl random jamboree event
* Added king donates gold to poor random jamboree event
* Added nobles donate gold to king random jamboree event
* Added 5 new warriors random jamboree event
* Added assassination attempt random jamboree event
* Added goblin hits head random jamboree event
* Added 3 random end of the night text descriptions
* Added 3 random sends offs from Geks the advisor
* Added 2 new alt dialogues for Gmek the rich announcing the drinking competition
* Fixed goblinwood celebration settlement graphic not showing in district screens
* Fixed goblinwood invites for celebrations after the initial celebration not going out

GOBLIN SETTLEMENTS EXPANDED

A while ago the goblin settlement upgrade was added, something you can grow from a goblin hut all the way up to a megacity, well many people wanted it expanded and now it has been. Now once you have a goblin hut you can visit it in the other buildings tab on the main screen and upgrade it through there, each of the 20 or so different tiers has it's own graphic so you can watch the settlement grow before you!

* Added new system for goblin settlement (new screen in other buildings)
* Added ability to upgrade goblin settlement within the screen
* Added 20 different graphics for the stages of the goblin settlement

SAVE MANAGEMENT

A suggestion by RTT which is a good one, took a bit of work but I've got it sorted, now you can go through and type the name of a save file you want to delete to clear it and all its extra files away, helps if like me you have lots of different saves and test saves that get a little much, now spring cleaning is easy!

* Added ability to delete saves (credit RTT)

BOOKRAGE

For those who don't know, Bookrage has been involved in the Warsim community for quite some time over on Audiogames.net (specifically this thread) and has come up with I would say somewhere in the range of 500+ ideas over the years, frequently dropping a big list of concepts and ideas whenever I was brainstorming with things like the race system or name prefixes, some notable members of the Warsim community have been featured in the game and Defender suggested that Bookrage be added, why not! Now you'll find a place called Raging Book Shop in Blackrow where you'll find him!

* Added Raging Book Shop to Blackrow in Blackmarket
* Added Bookrage from Audiogames.net as a character (Defenders Idea)

JUST JOKING

Added 8 jokes that can appear being said by in game jesters and comedians

* Added yes knight joke (Level 1 joke) (credit u/Dtyn8)
* Added No good knight joke (Level 1 joke) (credit u/Dtyn8)
* Added fat knight joke (Level 1 joke)
* Added meat eater knight joke (Level 1 joke)
* Added cursed turnip man joke (Level 1 joke)
* Added peasant and a knight on a bridge joke (level 3 joke)
* Added knight in cannibal village joke (level 1 joke)
* Added Footless knight joke (level 2 joke)

MORE NAME SUFFIXES

Tons of new name suffixes, starting with tooth related ones but then I branched out, the best one is the Warmaker with +45 battlescore, my thought was if this character can make wars happen they are a probably tough, the weakest is the overdramatic with -10 battlescore!

* Added new name suffix 'Beartooth' (+16 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'Wolftooth' (+14 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'Dogtooth' (+4 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'Curvetooth' (+3 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'Bucktooth' (-1 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'Ogretooth' (+29 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'Glowtooth' (+15 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'Squaretooth' (+3 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Lifestealer' (+41 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Wallbreaker' (+25 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Boulder' (+30 battlescore) (can mix to make 50+ other suffixes)
* Added new name suffix 'the Tombstone' (+21 battlescore) (can mix to make 50+ other suffixes)
* Added new name suffix 'the Warforger' (+29 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Warchaser' (+34 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Warmaker' (+45 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Overdramatic' (-10. battlescore) (can mix to make 50+ other suffixes)
* Added new name suffix 'the Firebringer' (-25 battlescore) (credit Catrin)
* Added new name suffix 'the Joker' (-1 battlescore) (credit Catrin)
* Added new name suffix 'the Mouse-eater' (-5 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Mouse Heart' (-3 battlescore)
* Added new name suffix 'the Mouse-like' (-5 battlescore)

HERO ORIGIN STORIES

A couple of additional origin stories, I will keep adding these because eventually we will get to the point where it'll be more or less unique and each hero will have a completely different origin story to the next

* Added 'Assaulted jester' hero origin story
* Added 'My past? No' hero origin story
* Added 'Sweet roll seller' hero origin story
* Added 'Adventuring writer' hero origin story
* Added 'Adventurer cliff village' hero origin story

BUGFIXES

511 Bugfixes... you'll just have to imagine them because I've hit some kind of steam post cap! imagine that.

Thank you


If you've made it this far I'm impressed, thank you everyone for your constant support and feedback, I still can't believe Warsim has gotten as far as it has and I'm honoured :)