Author Archives: Krom

Making House more data-driven

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Krom

Today’s houses got more data-driven. Now it’s XML that governs which units can be trained in School/Fort/Barracks. Neat when you want to rebalance it 🙂

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Sidenote on wares

Posted on October 19, 2014 by Krom

Spent this weekend coding the new wares handling for the houses. Now all the houses (except Market) store their wares in the same manner. This allows to experiment with Store/Barrcks/Camp/Fort wares set much more easily then before, without need to … Continue reading →

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1k Anniversary addon

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Krom

There’s one item I forgot to include into the “1k anniversary” post. I did not made it to the previous post date, but now, a day later, it is ready.

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1k Anniversary

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Krom

NextGame was born around a year ago. It’s time to summarize a little.

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Praise to automatization tools!

Posted on October 9, 2014 by Krom

Search files by mask and contents with Agent Ransack Open 326 text files in Notepad++ at once Replace tool working on all opened files Save all Commit!

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Painting stones

Posted on October 4, 2014 by Krom

Been doing Sawmill textures this whole week by evenings and I must say – painting textures is my new passion 🙂  

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What level of graphics will NG try to achieve in the end?

Posted on October 2, 2014 by Krom

TL;DR: It’s hard to say. I don’t think there’s a game which style I could name a 100% reference.

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Painting textures is a hard work

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Krom

Spent around 8 hours drawing these painted wood planks for the sawmill roof (or some other roof if we change it to be thatched).

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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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