Author Archives: Krom

Parallelization

Posted on April 10, 2016 by Krom

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

Posted on April 2, 2016 by Krom

First look at terrain textures in game:

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Terrain textures

Posted on March 27, 2016 by Krom

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

Posted on March 19, 2016 by Krom

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

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Krom

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 →

Posted in Downloads, News | 18 Comments

Alpha 6.2 bugfixes

Posted on March 12, 2016 by Krom

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!

Posted on March 10, 2016 by Krom

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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Changing AA lead to a crash

Posted on March 9, 2016 by Krom

Alpha 5 has a bug that is responsible for almost half of its crashreports: For reasons, Windows does not allow to change windows pixel format more than once (something about it being more complicated than destroy and recreate the window). … Continue reading →

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Warriors got icons

Posted on March 5, 2016 by Krom

Spent today’s morning making missing icons for warriors: Citizen icons got tweaked a bit too. Shoulders got wider and pose became bit more self-confident.

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Experimenting with terrain

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Krom

Been experimenting with new terrain types and transitions yesterday: Not sure if they will stay like so though. I plan to update terrain rendering in next versions (to add support for textures among other things).

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