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[Lord Dullard]

Old English names... in!

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@Fniff: Finish fleshing out creatures, then begin work on the interactive game engine.

ETA: Updated the dev blog.

[Mithras]

Name generator? Yay.

[Lord Dullard]

A generic dwarven base name set is also now compiled and in. Some examples of names generated by it:

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'Dain'
'Hagnaring'
'Grikaz'
'Barim'
'Modricki'
'Korgolda'
'Gakkim'
'Grag'
'Drimdalli'
'Gumindi'
'Frikagith'
'Homrimbul'
'Halinn'
'Thegarek'
'Grimlik'
'Kundri'
'Jazind'
'Mazram'
'Grim'
'Karri'
'Skagrika'
'Gorri'
'Drri'
'Gorin'
'Hungron'
'Brrikaz'
'Grgindi'
'Rarakki'
'Kregazri'
'Bumdimgor'

[Acanthus117]

This looks mighty awesome, milord.

Wish I could donate, but I'm as broke as can be.

[Lord Dullard]

I've been pumping at least 1-2 hours into code a day, as work and life spares me. The start of creature dispersal is now working correctly. In addition, I've fixed several annoying bugs and added glaciers to world generation (I did this as part of setting up all possible creature biomes; I realized glaciers were missing from arctic biome types, so I added them in).

I need to flesh out morphological generation for non-terrestrial creatures. It'll take me a bit.

I'm posting two screenshots (one of the updated worldgen with the new name generator (this one generated with the pseudo-Finnish language set) and one of the early creature dispersal process).

I'll be working on things a bit more today.

Worldgen with glaciers:

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Creature dispersal:

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[Hugehead]

We understand, hatching an egg and getting ready to move.

[x2yzh9]

Where's a download? I love to just generate worlds in this program.

[Frajic]

This is a placeholder page. An updated alpha version of the Cult engine should be available soon (posted 1-17-2011).

Might want to rectify that as soon as you release 0.16.

[Lord Dullard]

I probably won't be making a downloadable release until creature generation is finished and (possibly) I've started on the game engine. But I suppose that will largely depend on how quickly I can get something playable and interesting thrown together.

[Fniff]

Hey, spirits, do you have anything going on with them?

[Lord Dullard]

Spirits are just a placeholder now until creatures are done and work has begun on the game engine.

Okay, folks. I need advice. How's this for a Kickstarter video? I can still edit it at this point, so input is more than welcome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qskU6XIY-3Y

Michelle tells me that she absolutely hates the black/white transition between world map images, so I may end up changing that depending on whether everyone else directs hate at it as well.

[Neonivek]

First thought: You may want to alter the audio on your kickstarter video to remove the background noise.

Especially since it actually make any scene where your speaking outside much more difficult to hear you. It also makes the video feel cheap when you hear excessive outdoors noises.

Well it is sad that this is probably one of the last times we will be seeing eachother until the kickstarter time limit is over. I wish you luck Lord Dullard.

[Frajic]

And yeah, change the transitions.

And did you just say first-person? Isn't the game going to be bird-view roguelike style?

[EagleV]

That is an interesting video. I don't mind the black/white transitions, but I can see how some may find them annoying, it's simply too big a contrast in only a few frames, you might try something a bit more fade-y with softer colors.

One (serious) issue in my opinion is the sound of your voice. It's completely different depending on where you shot the movie, and not great quality (especially the outside parts). That's obviously a hardware problem - I don't expect you to spend a load of money on a video camera - but you could, for instance, record the voice that explains the game outside, and paste that audio on the ingame images, that would at least keep the voice on the same level during the whole video.

As for the interference, programs like audacity have an interference filter, though I have no idea how well it works. I'm going to fiddle with it for a while now, I'll let you know if it's an improvement.

E: Nope, doesn't work well. At all. I guess you'll have to find another way to get a little better audio.

[Lord Dullard]

Hmm... Thanks for comments. Posting on mobile so I have to be quick. Clearly the audio needs some kind of fix. As for first-person, I was referring to character rather than visual perspective, but I can see where it would be confusing.

That said, is the video awful to the point where I should just scrap it and start over?