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[Sentientdeth]

Should have spring done pretty soon.  I have the main theme of the track put together, just need to flesh out a few leads.

[Lord Dullard]

Awesome! I'm really excited to hear it. 

I have made some more progress on the game, although this is a busy week for me, so I probably won't get too much done until after Thursday/Friday.

[Sentientdeth]

Yeah, I've had a pretty busy week myself.  Should be able to finish the solos this weekend, as long as I can get some uninterrupted alone time and don't get distracted by the shiny new DF release too much.

[Lord Dullard]

Just finished listening to Sentientdeth's new Spring track. It is AWESOME. 

I am crazily lucky to have such a talented composer helping me out with the project. Can't wait for all of you to hear the music in-game.

ETA:
As long as I'm posting to exult over Sentiendeth's great music, I may as well also do a quick progress update.

I've spent quite a bit of time optimizing code. World maps load considerably quicker now, as a result, due to my removing/reworking some very inefficient drawing algorithms where, for some bizarre reason, I had been using list-based rather than dictionary-based searches. I think I'm going to go back through all of the code in the Creatures worldgen section and clean it up as well, since I suspect the same inefficient list searches are bogging it down.

Also finished coding up clickable scroll bars and a message log, and did extensive testing on them.

Also coded up a flood-fill method for the pathfinder that prevents it from going through needlessly long searches to get to unreachable areas.

I've started work on world map travel. So far, so good. We'll see how much I can get done today before I have to go in for a shift tonight.

[Sentientdeth]

Well soundcloud seems to be having a pretty slow time encoding, so I'll just give you guys a direct link for now.
http://www.mediafire.com/?t1h5srhazdzg5qb

[nenjin]

Dude.

First 8 seconds in I already knew I was going to like it. I like how it's got discordant notes that kind of give it an anguished sound. Got a lot of variety in it too. It was not what I was expecting at all.

If this is what we can expect out of everything you're doing for Cult, between LD's ASCII art and your music, and the premise of the game itself....you guys will turn some heads.

It's good enough it's going into my RPG music file.

Small critique. The intro is perhaps the best part to me. My first image when I heard it was "desolate church yard, bell tolling." It felt very medieval there right at the beginning. I'd try and incorporate a little more of it, maybe to bring the track full circle.

[Sentientdeth]

Thanks bud!  I was thinking about making the intro longer, but I don't really like looping the lead tracks, so it would involve writing more leads, and there's no telling whether I could write anything else that would fit well in there.

[nenjin]

Just for my own edification...don't you kind of need to loop it if it's going to be dominant background music? I mean there's no law that says you have to, but the restart of the track is pretty noticeable. Maybe you could blend it just a little bit more.

Either way, one tiny quibble in an amazing track.

[Sentientdeth]

Yeah, it loops better in Guitarpro, I'll give you that, I'll see what I can do about cleaning up the loop.

[Mephansteras]

Very nice, Sentientdeth. I'll have to add this to one of my playlists!

[Sentientdeth]

Updated the track to loop better:
http://www.mediafire.com/?t1h5srhazdzg5qb

[nenjin]

Nice, that's feels like it closes.

[Knight of Fools]

Sounds great.

Between you and OCRemix, I'm almost tempted to break out the music making software I bought forever ago...

[Sentientdeth]

Thanks a lot guys!

[Lord Dullard]

Well, back to work! Crusader Kings II swallowed me for a couple of days (I couldn't resist seeing if it's as addictive as its predecessor - it is), but I'm now back to full-time focus on code. I've made several changes to worldgen, but I won't be showing them off until my next video, which will be a lot more in-depth than any of the short preview shots I've put together so far. I think it'll be a sort of practice run for a Kickstarter campaign, so I can finally get that rolling; there are several major code hurdles I want to get over before I go through with that, but in the meantime perhaps some of you kind folks can help me to polish up my admittedly nonexistent video-producing skills in preparation for the project.

I'll be tossing up some pictures and info tidbits out within the next few days. I think I may also be adding a development roadmap section to the blog, which I'm beginning to realize is woefully inadequate for the future.

ETA:
Oh, and an important note, for some of you: while I haven't actually set up the init.txt file itself (relatively simple, and it'll be incorporated into the next release), the game's screen size is now completely adjustable. For those of you running on old Cold War-era laptops, yes, you can now lower the resolution. The lowest I've tested it on myself is 80*60 (i.e. 800 x 600, since each tile is 10x10 pixels), but theoretically it should work with even less tiles than that. You can also expand it as desired; I'm running it on 140x90 tiles right now, myself.