Category Archives: Sidenotes

Sneak preview from new map in Alpha 9

Posted on December 27, 2017 by Krom

Took these screens while playing challenge map in Alpha 9 – you have to survive against incoming enemy hordes, where each new wave is stronger than previous one. I’ve managed to last for ~40min: P.S. You can try out Alpha … Continue reading →

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Discord server for the Knights Province

Posted on August 19, 2017 by Krom

I’ve been asked about making a Discord server for the Knights Province. So here it is: https://discord.gg/tqDCZzx Feel free to come in and say Hi! 🙂

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No SKU?

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Krom

Suddenly all site links got broken and started leading to an empty page with lone “No SKU!” text. I was afraid site got hacked. An hour of troubleshooting lead to the solution – Just go to Settings-Permalinks and hit “Save … Continue reading →

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Fixing Delphi project compilation time

Posted on August 14, 2017 by Krom

TL;DR: When compilation time goes out of hand – prune “uses” sections. Over the time the game`s EXE compilation time grew longer and longer. Today it clocked at 70sec! Of course codebase has also increased (~350kLoc now), but still it … Continue reading →

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Alpha 9 plans

Posted on July 19, 2017 by Krom

I’m planning following major features for Alpha 9: aggressive animals (e.g. boars, wolves, bears) early army to fight those animals (e.g. militia hireable from School) warriors morale to prevent rushes (e.g. militia in enemy town is weakened by a factor … Continue reading →

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Bugfixing Alpha 8

Posted on June 6, 2017 by Krom

It has been almost 2 weeks since Alpha 8 release. There are many bugreports and suggestions – thank you for that! Bugfixing goes on. I’m also using a nice little tool called Runner, which runs the game without display (e.g. … Continue reading →

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A dozen of ways to loose a unit

Posted on May 13, 2017 by Krom

I’ve been categorizing and refactoring unit deaths in the game. Made this comment block in the code. Might be interesting for you to see it too: // Killing of a unit is done in 4 big steps // 1. KillUnit … Continue reading →

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Terrain Triggers – another feature into Alpha 8

Posted on April 17, 2017 by Krom

There’s one more feature I want to include into Alpha 8 – terrain triggers. Terrain triggers are special zones placed in MapEd, that trigger dynamic script events when a unit enters into the zone. This is very helpfull for story … Continue reading →

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All notifications together

Posted on March 12, 2017 by Krom

Made these notifications and updated the games’ code to show them in appropriate situations:

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GUI improvements

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Krom

The game’s GUI just got nicer with new “fade in” and “fade out” animations. They are short and subtle, but make the menu hints appear much nicer. Fort and Barracks UI got improved and now looks alike School’s: I also … Continue reading →

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