The main feature of this release is smooth real-time fog of war (FOW). Unlike previous version, this FOW is computed on GPU and is updated every frame, syncing back to the games logic every now and then. You can clearly see its benefits in smooth revelation circles, which are looking especially smooth in motion. Screenshot can show only a fraction of it:
Since this new FOW is a brand new feature I’m especially interested in bugreports and feedback about it.
Knights Province Alpha 2
Alpha 1 receives yet another update. The biggest change (apart from many bugfixes) is temp display of unit types icons:
Once again larger portion of changes is dedicated to bugfixes. Here’s the list:
+ Units are not visible along right/bottom map edges
+ In the map editor u can’t rename the map, u can write new letters but you can’t delete letters
+ MapEdit: Player Settings -> Reveal Fog -> Reveal All option does not store state or does not read the state
+ MapEdit: Village planning -> AI Defence options -> AI defence position crashed the game
+ MapEdit: Player Settings -> Reveal Fog -> Reveal a portion of the map causes game crash (ERangeError)
+ Empty list of savegames in game
+ Unit selection breaks up after linking one group to another
– MapEdit: Extra -> View Pass-ability slider crashes game (could not reproduce)
Download: Knights Province Alpha 1.06
While there are no proper unit models, temp solution is to overlay the unit icons and assest they carry (or armed with):
Thank you everyone for sending in crashreports and contacting me on Skype/Facebook/other media. Knights Province is coming along nicely. There are many bugfixes, but so far none of them are blockers AND hard to fix at the same time 🙂
Current bugfixes for the Alpha 1.05 are:
+ Game freezes after AI builds a School
+ Crash when units eat last food in the Tavern
+ Crashreports would not include savegames
+ Severely updated XML handling to fix the dense fog bug
+ Crash on exit due to Resolutions = nil
+ House UI wont show up after house is built
+ Leather icon was missing
+ Game would not report sufficiently low OpenGL version on start
+ few more minor ones
And the most important update. Now the game includes the music track written specially for it by Andre Sklenar!
Download: Knights Province Alpha 1.06
Alpha 1 is finally here.
After several hours of unexpected bugs popping up and emergency bugfixing the game has stabilized at Alpha version 1.04. Please try the updated package:
Download link: Knights Province Alpha 1
For a change I was playtesting the Knights Province Alpha tonight. Here are some actual screens from the game:
View on the town center
Woodcutters district
Food production
Training more people for new houses
Birds-eye view
Still lake
Uploading new video with progress report over the past 2 weeks:
Small anniversary for the Knights Province repository – 2001 commits!
Took me less than 2 years to make, which is quite fast.
2001 commit is nothing spectacular though:
The test map mentioned above:
Sunday is a great day – here’s another video showing off stone deposits placement and mining:
As always – comments and critics are welcome!
This is the first Knights Province video and it is about one neat Map Editor feature called Map Resize.
