Author Archives: Krom

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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Farmer artwork

Posted on July 4, 2014 by Krom

New artwork – the Farmer:  

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Live progress #21 – Fog and performance

Posted on July 1, 2014 by Krom

The biggest hit from the last weekend is an improved render, but lets maintain the order of events and start from top. Firstly there was a lot of work on the water shader and overall rigging of it with the … Continue reading →

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Live progress #20 – Water

Posted on June 24, 2014 by Krom

Last 2 evenings I’ve spent researching into water rendering tutorials, looking for a nice water effect shader. It is quite hard to find one. Most of the times the result is less than satisfactory and older OpenGL functions are used, … Continue reading →

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Builder artwork

Posted on June 20, 2014 by Krom

Another week has passed without major news.. It seems there are no news at all.. How about some more artwork then? The new artwork comes from a freelance artist. Meet the builder: This guy is a core of the Next … Continue reading →

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Live progress #19 – tiles morphing, again

Posted on June 11, 2014 by Krom

Last week was low on progress. What has been done: I have finally overhauled tiles morphing algorithm into something that is not hacky. The old method was relying on many assumptions about tiles and heights, that were not always true. … Continue reading →

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Camp-Wagons

Posted on June 6, 2014 by Krom

Here’s another idea mentioned by TheDarkLord in the previous ideas topic: Camp-Wagons (CW for short). CWs could enrich the game by allowing the player to choose where his town will start. It could be an interesting addition to the game.

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Live progress #18 – icons, bows and tiles

Posted on June 3, 2014 by Krom

Revisiting icons – tweaked some old ones and made some new ones:                 Wood ware icon got a deeper shade, new repair icon (might be used for Build menu instead?), and a Quarry icon … Continue reading →

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