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[Xantalos]

Looking good! Though I'm still wondering what exactly the game is, beyond what the title tells me.

[Viken]

Aaaah.  A good answer, Lord Dullard.  Hopefully after this, your knowledge of similiar subjects will be on par with his own, if not more so, given the advanced strategic elements being written into Cult.

@Xantalos: I'd suggest looking up Cult: Awakening of the Old Ones Kickstarter in google for a comprehensive idea of what the game is.

[Xantalos]

Yadadadedeee...what's this? Hmm...'about Cult'.
Hmm.
HMM!
If I could donate money, I would. As it stands, I like the concept and it looks like the process is going along fine - in essence, awesome.

[tootboot]

No real updates in the month+ since he promised to be better about updates

Any word on whether he at least kept his promise to fulfill the kickstarter rewards?

[Neonivek]

No real updates in the month+ since he promised to be better about updates

Any word on whether he at least kept his promise to fulfill the kickstarter rewards?

There were some issues.

[chaoticag]

Starting to get the distinct feeling that Lord Dullard is not the best communicator. Also, I can't quite recall; what will we and won't we be seeing as backer rewards. I put my money in this to see it done, but I would like to know if there's been a change regardless.

Or were the backer rewards not affected, just the stretch goals?

[forsaken1111]

He's still working guys, I spoke to him today. He's working through and getting the game visually converted from the old ASCII looks to the new system, tweaking the GUI for combat, etc. I'll throw up a few screenshots he shared with me later today.

[Brotato]

He's still working guys, I spoke to him today. He's working through and getting the game visually converted from the old ASCII looks to the new system, tweaking the GUI for combat, etc. I'll throw up a few screenshots he shared with me later today.

New screenshots?! I've gotta see them.

[Zangi]

Considering how the bloodhounds are... maybe he could just find 1 or 2 people to talk to and give random strings of 'updates' and 'comments' to.  They could do the write up in his place so he wouldn't have to.

[chaoticag]

He's still working guys, I spoke to him today. He's working through and getting the game visually converted from the old ASCII looks to the new system, tweaking the GUI for combat, etc. I'll throw up a few screenshots he shared with me later today.

I don't doubt he's working, I've been following the project since it was a creative projects thread, and he's taken time, but come out with amazing stuff. I'm mostly wondering if I should tone down my expectations given the technical difficulties encountered.

Considering how the bloodhounds are... maybe he could just find 1 or 2 people to talk to and give random strings of 'updates' and 'comments' to.  They could do the write up in his place so he wouldn't have to.

I'm not actually sure if this is a good idea. On one hand, we'll get updates, on the other, it'd be a hotbed for mis-communication, and would cause Dullard to lose some control on what he wants to share, and what he doesn't.

[nenjin]

He's already made it clear a couple times he wants to retain control of the release of information. I think at least one person offered to play community manager for him, but he wanted to keep a handle on it himself.

[Descan]

Though he might have changed his mind, considering the result of that decision so far.

[Dutchling]

Though he might have changed his mind, considering the result of that decision so far.

You mean him having all the moolah from a succesful kickstarter campaign ?

[forsaken1111]

Here's the update/pictures I promised.

From LD:

Most of the progress after my last update has been graphical. This is mostly just because I spent so much time prior to that update overhauling the way that I'm using the libtcod library to visually display the game, and it was necessary to start over from scratch in terms of the look and feel of things (also, to teach myself a good deal about the more artsy side of game-making, which has been a process in and of itself). Since Cult is pretty much the only game (as far as I know, anyhow) that's really attempted to use this sort of 'true vertical' top-down perspective, it's been necessary for the most part to create all of the graphics from scratch. Luckily, at this point, now that I'm a bit more proficient with the whole ordeal, every day progress seems to be made at a quicker pace.

Currently there are somewhere around 12,000 color characters being loaded into libtcod upon instantiation of the console. It's very likely that I'll eventually end up with ten times that total (or more).

Today I set up an algorithm that 'fuses' together different biomes when multiple main and sub-biomes are detected in the same area by the region generator. For the sake of organization biomes are separated into 'main' and 'sub' biomes (where sub-biomes can appear in many main biomes, but not vice versa). In areas where biomes border each other or where multiple main biomes could or should be found, the region generator now combines them into a conglomerate biome that contains some elements of all applicable areas. This also applies to creatures, so that they'll spawn in 'mixed' biomes, and they can now spawn in biomes that border their own rather than being stuck in (in some cases) very small areas.

http://imgur.com/a/UVIC3#0

[freeformschooler]

Wow. Looking beautiful.