The Lonely Gorilla News

Latest little update adds the new water system, (No boundaries in place currently), also groom now works in basic way - it is auto grooming which will change shortly and fix alignment, I pushed this update as I found game breaking bug when eating from the ground which is now fixed. I should have the improvements to the other updates very soon.

A small update to show messages when stealing a nest occurs.

A little more activity on the nest building feature. You can now steal nests built by rivals and they can steal yours. Just the beginning of the competition between rival and player male gorilla. Much bigger update coming shortly with more notifications of the rivalry.

Players can now add a gorilla to their troop once they find them by increasing bonding/loyalty. You do this by giving them food, building them a nest. Next tasks are to give the player more information in game within the UI. Next up is improving the competition with the rival alpha male gorilla so he can steal your troop members. Following that there will be extra work on the non gorilla animals and AI.

Thank you for the messages and support since I announced work has continued on the game. There have been lots of updates to install and test, thankfully that is complete so now we are getting closer to our first update with the new systems. Initially it will be a simple animal simulator needing food, shelter etc.. while we test the new controller and basic AI of the non player Gorillas.

The environment is looking nice and running better than the old system even now, and the controller is much better with the ability to zoom out much further which will come in very hand when looking at the non player animals and performing troop tasks. I am hoping to add another programmer to help with UI integration and the non player gorilla camera system where the player can check out what members of the troop are doing and see their vitals at a glance.