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# devdiary # indiedev Implementing seeds. Now plants are created from seeds and seeds are spreaded from plants. Seeds could be gathered and replanted or maybe eated.
1:48 pm - 5 Sep 2019
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Hold up ! That’s awesome !
Does that mean trees and flowers could grow inside our city and inbetween buildings ?
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liked the idea, at least it will reduce the amount of people asking about updates, that are regular
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New update 4hours ago.
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# devdiary # indiedev This week we have worked on “Services”, an abstraction for actor interactions with other actors, buildings, doors, objects, etc…This will speed up development of new behaviours and game features and it will wider modding capabilities.
12:54 pm - 13 Sep 2019
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# devdiary # indiedev Plant and tree production of fruits is also simulated. These could be harvested for food or be used as crop seeds.
3:05 pm - 18 Sep 2019
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# devdiary # indiedev Implementing a behavior fallback when tribe lacks of food supplies. Now tribe members will try to gather some food by themselves but they will get angry with the tribe. Maybe it is time to leave or to change the tribe leader?
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# devdiary # indiedev This week we are focused on improve work groups and related interfaces. Many original ideas has been implemented in order to let the player to organize the tribe in a powerful and easy way.
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# devdiary # indiedev Playing with the “role” concept inside groups so we can modelize leaders or specialists ( and many other interesting things )
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# devdiary # indydev This week we have work on attribute and trait interface. Names, descriptions and trait effects over attributes have been supported in tooltips so now almost everything in the UI is self explanatory.
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Our current goal is first version for backers in a few months. Date for public version on steam is to be determined.
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# devdiary # indydev During past week we have reworked resource piles and resource related behaviours : gathering, loading and unloading. Now these pieces of code are powerful and easily reusable. This will speed up gameplay development.
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# indydev # devdiary Hard working week solving bugs and polishing services system. Some bugs remains ( Tasks mysteriously disappearing, and other weird issues ). Good new is that the system is pretty powerful and very easy to add new services. Now corpses can be looted too!
12:34 pm - 6 Dec 2019
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# indydev # devdiary Another week fixing many small issues. Improving debug info and related tools so we can detect problems while developing and when running in player’s machines.
12:24 pm - 12 Dec 2019
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# indydev # devdiary Culture changes the appearance of clothes, buildings, portraits and many other gameplay aspects. For example, each culture has its own hair styles and body decorations.
6:48 am - 14 Dec 2019
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# indiedev # devdiary Returning to work after a short holidays. Resolved some core bugs and focusing again on polishing a small set of gameplay for mesolithic era. Objective: first version for backers.
12:41 pm - 2 Jan 2020
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# gamedev # devdiary This week we have focused on gameplay related to food gathering and storaging. People are consuming food while they migrate so be sure to accumulate enough supplies before starting your trip.
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And remember to store non-perishable food as a priority. Winter is long and dark.
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# gamedev # devdiary Polishing the FX system, now synchronized with animations and very modable. Many positional sounds & particles all around!
12:56 pm - 21 Jan 2020
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#gamedev #devdiary Refactoring sleep need and behavior. Each actor chooses the best available place to sleep. Maybe in a hut or around a campfire. Or maybe the only option is to sleep in the open.
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Sleep component is implemented in order to support traits, so a child could sleep more than an adult and an elder will wake earlier in the morning.
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Is very easy to mod a building in order to allow people sleeping inside. You only have to add the “sleep service component” and configure vacancies.
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#gamedev #devdiary Testing to deploy a development version on Steam & checking Steamworks integration while gameplay development is progressing faster. Heading to a first closed release version for backers this summer.
6:26 pm · 7 Mar 2020·Twitter for iPhone
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