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Category Archives: Live progress
How does one fix AI starvation?
Knights Province AI opponents in Skirmish have a known occasional issue of not producing enough food for their servants, resulting in citizen starvation and early collapse of their town economy due to that. Let’s look into what it takes to … Continue reading
Posted in How things work, Live progress, Tools
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HUD redesign – work in progress
So I’ve been working on the Knights Province HUD redesign lately. It is a two-fold endeavor – design and programming. Here’s how it goes: Some terminology first – typically, HUD is a short for the Heads-Up Display – GUI elements … Continue reading
Posted in Live progress
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Players list
Alpha 11 release is coming soon and I’m not adding any big changes to the game to not cause any new bugs. I’m getting less and less crashreports, which is a good sign of version becoming stable. To keep myself … Continue reading
Posted in Live progress, Sidenotes
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Let’s have some fences!
Fences have been long on the game’s todo list. Being a really neat feature described by a single word, it comes with a lot of problems to solve. How does one approaches a feature like that? First the “wants†had … Continue reading
Posted in Live progress
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Cinematic controls
Cinematic controls are being added to the Knights Province. These are commands that allow to block the player input, do the fade out to black, move the camera and change its setup, fade in from black at new location and … Continue reading
Posted in Live progress, News
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New things in recent Alpha 11 wip builds
Alpha 11 is still in works, but I wanted to share a couple of new interesting things about it. Firstly, there is a new map made by Klassix that takes advantage of new game features and dynamic script commands. Namely … Continue reading
Posted in Live progress, News, Sidenotes
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More player choice comes to missions in Alpha 11
A long ago requested feature from mapmakers and player is to have a choice in missions. It is coming to Knights Province Alpha 11. With this new feature missions can ask player in a convenient way to make some choice. … Continue reading
Posted in How things work, Live progress, News
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Fish count display
Some time ago I was reworking fishing mechanics. Biggest flaw that had to be fixed – unnatural fish depletion. Now fish slowly regenerates. To make it work, waterbodies had to be made to keep track of their fish reserves. One … Continue reading
Posted in How things work, Live progress, Screenshots
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Hotkeys
Been working on hotkeys for the last week: The system is hierarchical – there are top-level “Global” hotkeys that work everywhere (e.g. opening dev menu with F11), lower level hotkeys that work in the game/maped and lowest-level ones that work … Continue reading
Posted in Live progress
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Misty Mountains
There’s a new map being made for Alpha 10 of Knights Province. Called Misty Mountains. Giving word to map’s author Klassix: “Mainly this map is for the future multiplayer, but of course AI handles it too, but surely it won’t … Continue reading
Posted in Live progress
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