Author Archives: Krom

Live progress #25 – Grain growth

Posted on August 29, 2014 by Krom

Okay, this took longer than I expected. It’s almost 3 weeks since last LP report. I was busy with many different things and not all of them are done yet. But, here’s something self-contained:

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Signs of life

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Krom

I’ve been busy with many things in NG, ones that are not easy to describe without writing a big post, which I’m lazy to do, because that distracts from coding xD So anyways, follows just a sidenote pic: I’m not … Continue reading →

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Live progress #24 – Terrain got some Fog Of War

Posted on August 8, 2014 by Krom

Since we are now in fair 3D, it’s time to use some clever tricks. One of such is terrain Fog Of War (FOW).

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Live progress #23 – GUI changes

Posted on August 7, 2014 by Krom

I’m a bit lazy to write news, but the coding and drawing goes on. Want to see some GUI improvements – proceed inside:

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Drawing a button

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Krom

Here’s an excerpt from last 1,5 hours that I’ve spent designing a button for NG. This button to be exact:

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Drawing icons

Posted on July 18, 2014 by Krom

Here I’ll try to explain how icons are being made for NG and why they are being made this way.

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Preliminary wares icons done

Posted on July 14, 2014 by Krom

Just as planned – are all wares icons done. So far they are just preliminary sketches, but some are already looking nice. Proceed inside!

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Yarn, Cloth and Cider

Posted on July 14, 2014 by Krom

New wares ideas: Yarn, Cloth It has bugged me a lot to have skilled citizens cost the same as serfs – one gold chest. We can add new ware – Cloth. So that low-skill units (serfs, builders) cost just the … Continue reading →

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Working on ware icons

Posted on July 11, 2014 by Krom

Developing a game without graphics is hard. For example, opening Storage house and seeing set of empty squares with numbers below – what are these invisible wares? That was irritating me for a long time, so at last I got … Continue reading →

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Live progress #22 – Distilling water

Posted on July 7, 2014 by Krom

Here’s what’s new from the last week: Multilevel water support has been added. So far it is quite limited – only 2 water bodies, but that can be easily upscaled to 4. On the screenshot below you can see there’s … Continue reading →

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