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[GalenEvil]

Since you have sunlight implemented are you planning on having lights that are turned on during the night cycle such as fires and oil lamps? It probably wouldn't be super bright but it would make a nice pixel lighting effect if larger cities had a slight red-orange glow added at points along in-city roads and buildings. It's more of a stylistic choice, but would make it easier to determine at a glance during the night cycle where larger populations are located if the player doesn't want to have the city name labels visible.

[Killjoy]

So no non-earthly materials like Squashberries?

Have not really decided on that yet. Depends how much work I end up putting into this.

Since you have sunlight implemented are you planning on having lights that are turned on during the night cycle such as fires and oil lamps? It probably wouldn't be super bright but it would make a nice pixel lighting effect if larger cities had a slight red-orange glow added at points along in-city roads and buildings. It's more of a stylistic choice, but would make it easier to determine at a glance during the night cycle where larger populations are located if the player doesn't want to have the city name labels visible.

Should not be too hard to implement. Yeah, I am adding this, but as I said I am probably not doing more graphics work before some gameplay is added.

[Siquo]

PTW, jealous of your productivity

[GalenEvil]

Sounds good to me Can't wait to see an indepth gameplay demo ^_^

[Valtam]

Right now my concerns are getting some gameplay up and running.

I don't want to sound beggy, but as you implement gameplay, are you keeping it as a closed beta? or will you expect some input from your dozens of eager-to-be players?

The low-fantasy setting sounds great, like Mount & Blade without combat and with fleshed out economy, politics and character interaction.

[Killjoy]

I don't want to sound beggy, but as you implement gameplay, are you keeping it as a closed beta? or will you expect some input from your dozens of eager-to-be players?

As soon as I deem there is some basic level of gameplay, I will release it to the masses (and let them tear it apart).

[GreatWyrmGold]

Always the best way to do it, IMHO. That way, you can catch the little issues that wouldn't be caught until release otherwise. (Playing your own game renders you vulnerable to bugs and such which happen when people push your system to the limit.)

[Minstrel]

As soon as I deem there is some basic level of gameplay, I will release it to the masses (and let them tear it apart).

Can't wait.

[Killjoy]

Can't wait.

Might take some time, as I have been a little busy. And yesterday, when I technically could have worked on it I was struck with a weird fascination for studying the newest Java security exploit and building a program that can parse java class files.

Either way, here is the current state of the game. If anyone interested in an update.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I added view fog, console, and a few more buttons.

[Valtam]

View fog, as it seems, is just limited by it's radius but not by topography. Are you planning to leave it this way? Or would it be a pain to change it? And so, when fog is active, stuff won't update until you get by there, right? Even buildings?

Overall sweetness.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Map looks awesome.

[Killjoy]

View fog, as it seems, is just limited by it's radius but not by topography. Are you planning to leave it this way? Or would it be a pain to change it? And so, when fog is active, stuff won't update until you get by there, right? Even buildings?

View fog is limited by topology. It is a little hard to see on the screenshot I posted.
The AI is doing mostly abstract things, so I can afford to update everything all the time. The AI that is implemented right now (Breed and Marriage) only attempt to execute themselves about once or twice every ingame day.

[Mephansteras]

Sounds neat. I'll have to watch this to see where it goes.

[stickadtroja]

what is happening to this?

[Killjoy]

New big project at work happened.
I will have to put this on hold for now.