Author Archives: Krom

More sounds

Was working on more sounds today and made this Sawmill video: There are 8 separate saw sounds that get uniquely combined each time.

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Sounds

I have a perfectionist bit in me that always tends to halt whatever is being made in favor of “making it perfect”. All in all “making it perfect” is a great idea, but it very often means that nothing is … Continue reading

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More dirt and grass and sand

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Parallelization

With more content in the game (units, houses, terrain textures) the game loading got noticeably slower. Being able to launch the game and check the changes as quickly as possible is critical for early development. It disrupts the workflow a … Continue reading

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Grass is coming

First look at terrain textures in game:

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Terrain textures

Past two weeks I have been experimenting with terrain textures for Alpha 7. I have a special tool to preview just one terrain tile – it makes experimenting and tweaking much simpler and faster. For example I have taken 4 … Continue reading

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Town Tutorial challenge

Thimo has posted a challenge on the forum – who can beat his time in Town Tutorial: topic

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Alpha 6.3 bugfixes

Thank you for reporting bugs! Following bugs have been fixed: Crash on startup caused by terrain shaders (“const vec2 poissonDisk[16] = vec2[](“) Fixed Cidermakers and Brewery offsets Crash on ending missions with captured wagons Sorting SP maps by title and … Continue reading

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Alpha 6.2 bugfixes

List of bugfixes in Alpha 6.2: Crash when placing Fishermans near right/bottom edge of the map Crash when entering selected wagon into Camp Selecting Wagon in MapEd caused a crash Builders won’t repair damaged houses Fighting Back mission victory condition … Continue reading

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Alpha 6 is out – shadows and skirmish!

I’m happy to announce that Alpha 6 is out! Alpha 6 features improvements both in graphics and gameplay. Along with usual expansion of graphics content, the game has got quality improvement – dynamic shadows. Gameplay got improved with introduction of … Continue reading

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