Author Archives: Krom

Live progress #11 – stonemining

Posted on April 24, 2014 by Krom

Taking advantage of 3D and stone deposits being decals, now stone can be mined from any direction and from any terrain type underneath: P.S. Meanwhile School and Store got a little sketching progress.

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Live progress #10 – refactorings

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Krom

Last week has been rather busy, so most of the time spent was in shorter session and aimed at refactoring. Redoing rendering approach. Now houses and units do not draw themselves, like they used to. That allowed to put all … Continue reading →

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How terrain works #2

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Krom

Last time we have stopped on basic terrain appearance. How mixing surfaces and transitions between them works. Today’s the second part of the terrain being explained – decals.

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Neat thing about modern Delphi

Posted on April 12, 2014 by Krom

We have a custom type – TKMPoint. That type is basically a pair of values X and Y. In older days when we wanted to add two points together (for example defense position and unit position within the group) we … Continue reading →

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How terrain works

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Krom

I have been asked an excellent question – how do terrain tiles and objects work in NextGame? NextGame maps are still created from tiles, but those tiles have taken an extra dimension and I’ll try to explain what does that mean. … Continue reading →

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Live progress #9 – stones

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Krom

Irregardless of other features, I’m quite confident that there will be mine-able stones in the game. In the older days they were made as a special terrain type, but that approach had many pros. So how can they be made … Continue reading →

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Live progress #8 – unit picking

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Krom

Since NextGame moved to 3D all unit picking routines became outdated. So today I have implemented a new unit picking algorithm. It works by checking an intersection between ray cast from players view and units bounding boxes. Of course a … Continue reading →

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Walking units

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Krom

Making a new game from scratch is a huge deal, but what about redoing an existing 2D into 3D? Game logic remains 2D, most of the internals don’t change that much either. Still it is a huge deal when it … Continue reading →

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Live progress #7 – fast forward

Posted on April 6, 2014 by Krom

Here’s build menu sketch. Since we are going to get houses count increased a bit, I’ve decided to split them into 4 tabs – core, materials, food and military. These 4 domains have naturally formed: There’s no decision about menu … Continue reading →

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Tech tree plans

Posted on April 6, 2014 by Krom

Let’s temporarily switch away from technical side of development and take a look at planning. Over initial course of planning we had several iterations over tech-tree plans. Here is how it looked like: First plan was rather short and based … Continue reading →

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