Category Archives: Live progress

Live progress #9 – stones

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Krom

Irregardless of other features, I’m quite confident that there will be mine-able stones in the game. In the older days they were made as a special terrain type, but that approach had many pros. So how can they be made … Continue reading →

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Live progress #8 – unit picking

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Krom

Since NextGame moved to 3D all unit picking routines became outdated. So today I have implemented a new unit picking algorithm. It works by checking an intersection between ray cast from players view and units bounding boxes. Of course a … Continue reading →

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Live progress #7 – fast forward

Posted on April 6, 2014 by Krom

Here’s build menu sketch. Since we are going to get houses count increased a bit, I’ve decided to split them into 4 tabs – core, materials, food and military. These 4 domains have naturally formed: There’s no decision about menu … Continue reading →

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Live progress #6 – breeding pines

Posted on April 4, 2014 by Krom

NextGame has got some growing pine trees today. This was not a small bit, here’s why:

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Live progress #5 – tile overlays

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Krom

Today I’m going to explain how overlays are intended to work in NextGame. In NG terrain consists of 3D tiles that are morphed to follow the heightmap. Overlays are 3D models of special tiles “upgrades”. They are morphed too and … Continue reading →

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Live progress #4 – throwing old stuff away

Posted on March 29, 2014 by Krom

Today’s went under the “Throw away old stuff” flag. Since the code is our property and art assets are mostly not, they all have to go. The process has started a few months ago already, but today it was mostly … Continue reading →

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Live progress #3 – tile surfaces editing

Posted on March 28, 2014 by Krom

Tileset surfaces got some improvements. Now they are stored in XML instead of hardcode (which allows for handy editing in a Notepad). Of course XML is slower to parse, but for development we need it to be easy to edit. … Continue reading →

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Live progress #2

Posted on March 26, 2014 by Krom

Spent a few hours on refactoring the code to modern Delphi standards. The language has noticeably improved in last decade. New iterators, generics, lambdas, other fancy buzzwords. It appears though, some of them are very handy and speedier!

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Live progress #1

Posted on March 25, 2014 by Krom

With this short note I’m going to start posting updates on project development, big and small. Last week I was redoing the tile morpher algorithm (once again) and it seemed that this time it will finally work (not for the … Continue reading →

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