Category Archives: Live progress

Greek localization underway

Posted on May 2, 2024 by Krom

Decided to take a small detour from major Alpha 13 features (separate post on that matter is coming later). New localization is being added into the game (credits to Absinthe for translations): Game font used on buttons and big captions … Continue reading →

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New food mechanics

Posted on November 7, 2023 by Krom

In the old system, units would eat everything they can in the order it is available in the Tavern till they get to 90% satiety. This had several drawbacks: It would look odd to see units consume both Ale and … Continue reading →

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In-house animations for every home!

Posted on October 1, 2023 by Krom

Animations are super important in Knights Province. The game is meant to be playable in different styles, but one of the bigger focuses are – chill, laid-back experience where players can enjoy building their towns and interact with others towns … Continue reading →

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How does one fix AI starvation?

Posted on December 16, 2021 by Krom

Knights Province AI opponents in Skirmish have a known occasional issue of not producing enough food for their servants, resulting in citizen starvation and early collapse of their town economy due to that. Let’s look into what it takes to … Continue reading →

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HUD redesign – work in progress

Posted on April 27, 2021 by Krom

So I’ve been working on the Knights Province HUD redesign lately. It is a two-fold endeavor – design and programming. Here’s how it goes: Some terminology first – typically, HUD is a short for the Heads-Up Display – GUI elements … Continue reading →

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Players list

Posted on May 30, 2020 by Krom

Alpha 11 release is coming soon and I’m not adding any big changes to the game to not cause any new bugs. I’m getting less and less crashreports, which is a good sign of version becoming stable. To keep myself … Continue reading →

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Let’s have some fences!

Posted on January 11, 2020 by Krom

Fences have been long on the game’s todo list. Being a really neat feature described by a single word, it comes with a lot of problems to solve. How does one approaches a feature like that? First the “wants” had … Continue reading →

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Cinematic controls

Posted on November 17, 2019 by Krom

Cinematic controls are being added to the Knights Province. These are commands that allow to block the player input, do the fade out to black, move the camera and change its setup, fade in from black at new location and … Continue reading →

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New things in recent Alpha 11 wip builds

Posted on November 14, 2019 by Krom

Alpha 11 is still in works, but I wanted to share a couple of new interesting things about it. Firstly, there is a new map made by Klassix that takes advantage of new game features and dynamic script commands. Namely … Continue reading →

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More player choice comes to missions in Alpha 11

Posted on October 13, 2019 by Krom

A long ago requested feature from mapmakers and player is to have a choice in missions. It is coming to Knights Province Alpha 11. With this new feature missions can ask player in a convenient way to make some choice. … Continue reading →

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