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[Alev]

URR opens flawlessly with wineskin, now time to play it.

Edit: Is there much you can do besides wander around the world? Most sites are inaccessible, ziggurats appear to be just buildings with nothing inside, and farms or people don't exist.

[coolio678]

URR opens flawlessly with wineskin, now time to play it.

Edit: Is there much you can do besides wander around the world? Most sites are inaccessible, ziggurats appear to be just buildings with nothing inside, and farms or people don't exist.

You didn't look hard enough at those ziggurats, then. The doors are only a single tile and can be a bit tricky to spot, but they're there. You can also open up the encyclopedia (forgot the hotkey) to read about your world's history.

[Alev]

URR opens flawlessly with wineskin, now time to play it.

Edit: Is there much you can do besides wander around the world? Most sites are inaccessible, ziggurats appear to be just buildings with nothing inside, and farms or people don't exist.

You didn't look hard enough at those ziggurats, then. The doors are only a single tile and can be a bit tricky to spot, but they're there. You can also open up the encyclopedia (forgot the hotkey) to read about your world's history.

E. Yes, the history and stuff is interesting. Is the entrance on the bottom level?

[Ultima Ratio Regum]

It is indeed - a white door. Currently the game is worldbuilding-focused - the core gameplay mechanic involves manipulating the world and the world's history, and as much as I'd love to get onto the gameplay immediately, you can't fiddle with a world without a detailed world in place! My full-time development year (starting ~October) is designed to totally finish the worldbuilding aspects of the game, something that should be easily achievable with a full-time year.

[Ultima Ratio Regum]

Now that's a nice fortress. Full version at http://www.ultimaratioregum.co.uk/game/files/2014/08/NewS.png

[Alev]

It is indeed - a white door. Currently the game is worldbuilding-focused - the core gameplay mechanic involves manipulating the world and the world's history, and as much as I'd love to get onto the gameplay immediately, you can't fiddle with a world without a detailed world in place! My full-time development year (starting ~October) is designed to totally finish the worldbuilding aspects of the game, something that should be easily achievable with a full-time year.

Ok, cool. But you can't really manipulate the world currently, right?

[Ultima Ratio Regum]

It is indeed - a white door. Currently the game is worldbuilding-focused - the core gameplay mechanic involves manipulating the world and the world's history, and as much as I'd love to get onto the gameplay immediately, you can't fiddle with a world without a detailed world in place! My full-time development year (starting ~October) is designed to totally finish the worldbuilding aspects of the game, something that should be easily achievable with a full-time year.

Ok, cool. But you can't really manipulate the world currently, right?

Nooo! Not at all, but that's only because the world isn't finished yet. I have actually implemented some of the appropriate data structures, but they're "disabled" and incomplete atm.

[Alev]

It is indeed - a white door. Currently the game is worldbuilding-focused - the core gameplay mechanic involves manipulating the world and the world's history, and as much as I'd love to get onto the gameplay immediately, you can't fiddle with a world without a detailed world in place! My full-time development year (starting ~October) is designed to totally finish the worldbuilding aspects of the game, something that should be easily achievable with a full-time year.

Ok, cool. But you can't really manipulate the world currently, right?

Nooo! Not at all, but that's only because the world isn't finished yet. I have actually implemented some of the appropriate data structures, but they're "disabled" and incomplete atm.

Ok. It should be fun when you can do that.

[Pwnzerfaust]

I've got a question. Will there be technological advancement? Obviously the game generates a whole solar system, including atmospheres for the various planets. Does that mean we will at some point have the means to visit them?

[xaritscin]

I've got a question. Will there be technological advancement? Obviously the game generates a whole solar system, including atmospheres for the various planets. Does that mean we will at some point have the means to visit them?

althought that would be really awesome, the scope of the game history seems to be locked to medieval background...unles the developer says it otherwise....

[Ultima Ratio Regum]

I've got a question. Will there be technological advancement? Obviously the game generates a whole solar system, including atmospheres for the various planets. Does that mean we will at some point have the means to visit them?

Technology won't be advancing; the planets serve a different important purpose, though one not yet implemented (once it is implemented, I look forward to seeing who first figures out what they do). It is set ~16th/17th century, scientific revolution time (which influences a lot of the themes of the game), and won't be moving from there. It's not quite medieval as there is gunpowder and the like!

[Neonivek]

Mmm love that Poise bar. I mean, it is one thing to be a warrior of legend... but if you can't do it while looking great in some fashionable clothes you might as well not bother.

[Ultima Ratio Regum]

Mmm love that Poise bar. I mean, it is one thing to be a warrior of legend... but if you can't do it while looking great in some fashionable clothes you might as well not bother.

Ah, took me a moment to figure out what you meant! The final bar is poison; that's one you DON'T want filling up...

[Ultima Ratio Regum]

I was planning to upload another non-URR post today, but Sunday has crept up upon me with alarming speed and I haven’t actually finished the one I was working on. So, instead, here is a very short and screenshot-heavy update for this week instead with a couple of things I’ve thrown together. As well as the fortress above, I also on a whim threw together some graphics for a future release, 2 or 3 down the line, once I start putting together ships and trade routes. These are just stylized graphics to denote the different classes of ship, military and transport, when you look them up in the Encyclopedia. Alongside them you’ll see information like the ship’s schedule, its armaments, what it trades in, its captain, etc etc.



Also did a little bit of work on making Upper Class Housing districts just that little bit snazzier (as ever, this graphic is generated, there’s over a hundred possible variations):



Next week I'll be back to non-URR updates on my blog for a little while, but around the start of October remains the target for starting the full-time year! See you all next week...

[Alev]

I was planning to upload another non-URR post today, but Sunday has crept up upon me with alarming speed and I haven’t actually finished the one I was working on. So, instead, here is a very short and screenshot-heavy update for this week instead with a couple of things I’ve thrown together. As well as the fortress above, I also on a whim threw together some graphics for a future release, 2 or 3 down the line, once I start putting together ships and trade routes. These are just stylized graphics to denote the different classes of ship, military and transport, when you look them up in the Encyclopedia. Alongside them you’ll see information like the ship’s schedule, its armaments, what it trades in, its captain, etc etc.



Also did a little bit of work on making Upper Class Housing districts just that little bit snazzier (as ever, this graphic is generated, there’s over a hundred possible variations):



Next week I'll be back to non-URR updates on my blog for a little while, but around the start of October remains the target for starting the full-time year! See you all next week...

Cool. Do you plan to let the player go on/captain a ship with that release?