Author Archives: Krom

New house/location concept – Stash

Posted on May 15, 2014 by Krom

Let’s start a new category of posts, called “Ideas”. Here I will post ideas about the game. Here’s the first one – a new house called “Stash”. Goal. This is a non-player structure placed on the map which can hold … Continue reading →

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Food role in the game

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Krom

Food plays major role in the game. Let’s try to understand why and what we can do about it:

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Live progress #15 – or the lack of it

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Krom

There are not many news since 07/05, there were long weekend holidays dedicated to WWII victory which I spent in Belarus, seeing locals. Besides, the weather is so nice, that concentrating on programming is really hard now 🙂 Anyway, what’s … Continue reading →

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Artwork 2

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Krom

Looking at neighbor sketch I took a try at making one of my own. Yep, I can draw a thing or two, although not as easily. It’s time to remember how it’s done after years. Hardest part is choosing the … Continue reading →

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Artwork

Posted on May 6, 2014 by Krom

Good news everyone – we have first real artwork made specially for NG! Blacksmith is one of my favorite characters in the game, for he has this unique combination of working with cold steel and burning hot fire, creating tools … Continue reading →

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Small anniversary

Posted on May 5, 2014 by Krom

It’s been 500th commit into NG repository right this moment 🙂

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Live progress #14 – tile picking

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Krom

With a help from Jery now we have a precise tile picking algo and a nice debug visualization of it, showing the bounding boxes underneath: We split terrain into quadtree of bounding boxes. When we need to pick a tile … Continue reading →

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Live progress #13 – archers

Posted on May 3, 2014 by Krom

Experimenting with adding new kinds of towers and projectiles required to make the projectiles to work in the first place. So here is the core of any distant attacks – the arrows, now in 3D: Colored circles below units are … Continue reading →

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Live progress #12 – Stones, roads, cursors, AI

Posted on April 29, 2014 by Krom

The funny thing about AI, is that once you let it loose it starts living on it’s own. So I was poking around, fixing various bits and pieces and added a second player to the Lake map.

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Thoughts about military

Posted on April 28, 2014 by Krom

I’ve been thinking about organizing troops in NextGame. This post is a snapshot of my thoughts, incomplete and fragmented, so please allow enough room for later changes and details to be added. Firstly we would want to keep the Rock-Paper-Scissors principle, … Continue reading →

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