Author Archives: Krom

Sneak preview from new map in Alpha 9

Posted on December 27, 2017 by Krom

Took these screens while playing challenge map in Alpha 9 – you have to survive against incoming enemy hordes, where each new wave is stronger than previous one. I’ve managed to last for ~40min: P.S. You can try out Alpha … Continue reading →

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Experimenting on house building

Posted on November 25, 2017 by Krom

This week I’m experimenting with house building process. There were several ideas, simple and complicated ones. But in the end I’m aiming toward the balance between house building process that should look appealing and doable from technical and labor standpoint. … Continue reading →

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Discord server for the Knights Province

Posted on August 19, 2017 by Krom

I’ve been asked about making a Discord server for the Knights Province. So here it is: https://discord.gg/tqDCZzx Feel free to come in and say Hi! 🙂

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No SKU?

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Krom

Suddenly all site links got broken and started leading to an empty page with lone “No SKU!” text. I was afraid site got hacked. An hour of troubleshooting lead to the solution – Just go to Settings-Permalinks and hit “Save … Continue reading →

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Fixing Delphi project compilation time

Posted on August 14, 2017 by Krom

TL;DR: When compilation time goes out of hand – prune “uses” sections. Over the time the game`s EXE compilation time grew longer and longer. Today it clocked at 70sec! Of course codebase has also increased (~350kLoc now), but still it … Continue reading →

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Setting up AI army plans

Posted on August 11, 2017 by Krom

Here’s a post mainly intended for mapmakers: For the game I’m looking into setting AI army plans in a more convenient way. Typical aim is 75min session where AI gets an army of a few hundreds That’s roughly starting at … Continue reading →

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Alpha 9 plans

Posted on July 19, 2017 by Krom

I’m planning following major features for Alpha 9: aggressive animals (e.g. boars, wolves, bears) early army to fight those animals (e.g. militia hireable from School) warriors morale to prevent rushes (e.g. militia in enemy town is weakened by a factor … Continue reading →

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Alpha 8.2

Posted on June 15, 2017 by Krom

New Alpha 8.2 has just one critical bugfix. In Alpha 8.1 the game would crash upon warriors death. This has been fixed now. Download links:   Discussion forum: https://www.knightsandmerchants.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=35

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Alpha 8.1

Posted on June 13, 2017 by Krom

Fixed bugs: + Having selected a neutral unit that is about to be dead (killed) causes a crash + Camera changes height too noticeable on panning across mountains + Camera does not move smoothly when dragging over minimap + Desert … Continue reading →

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Bugfixing Alpha 8

Posted on June 6, 2017 by Krom

It has been almost 2 weeks since Alpha 8 release. There are many bugreports and suggestions – thank you for that! Bugfixing goes on. I’m also using a nice little tool called Runner, which runs the game without display (e.g. … Continue reading →

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