Category Archives: How things work

Trying out video recording

Posted on June 28, 2015 by Krom

This is the first Knights Province video and it is about one neat Map Editor feature called Map Resize.

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Tweaking Recast Navigation

Posted on February 6, 2015 by Krom

Recast Navigation is working better and better. It’s still far from being a replacement to our old and trustworthy Tiled, but major porting and rigging problems seem to be resolved now. What remains are inherent RN issues, one of which … Continue reading →

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Pathfinding and unit interaction

Posted on November 26, 2014 by Krom

Pathfinding and unit interaction (PUI) is a subsystem in the game responsible for most of the unit movements and interactions.

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School sketch

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Krom

Last few weeks I’ve been busy contracting freelancers to make us some more sketches. So let’s see how house design process goes on example of School.

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Camp sketch

Posted on September 13, 2014 by Krom

Since I don’t have enough time/skill to do everything by myself, from time to time I try to find someone to help. This time I’ve found a couple of sketch artists.

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Drawing icons

Posted on July 18, 2014 by Krom

Here I’ll try to explain how icons are being made for NG and why they are being made this way.

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Food role in the game

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Krom

Food plays major role in the game. Let’s try to understand why and what we can do about it:

Posted in How things work, Ideas | 8 Comments

Live progress #14 – tile picking

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Krom

With a help from Jery now we have a precise tile picking algo and a nice debug visualization of it, showing the bounding boxes underneath: We split terrain into quadtree of bounding boxes. When we need to pick a tile … Continue reading →

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How terrain works #2

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Krom

Last time we have stopped on basic terrain appearance. How mixing surfaces and transitions between them works. Today’s the second part of the terrain being explained – decals.

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How terrain works

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Krom

I have been asked an excellent question – how do terrain tiles and objects work in NextGame? NextGame maps are still created from tiles, but those tiles have taken an extra dimension and I’ll try to explain what does that mean. … Continue reading →

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