Quick Update About Walls!

So, I've had a couple of people ask me about walls.  And it's one thing I very much wanted in the game.  It's hard to have a decent "medieval" game without walls right?  So, I've been working quite a bit on trying to complete a system that will allow players to build walls.  As of today, I think wall building in this game will actually be a reality.  But since this is my very first Indie game I've ever made.......don't quote me on that lol.

The wall building system is somewhat simplistic compared to a few of the AAA title games out there on the market right now.  BUT, I think being able to build walls is better than not being able to build them.  And personally, I think they're a good addition.

Let me know what you guys think.

Close-up in-game picture of a new unit

Look guys, it's a new unit!  I didn't want you to think the game was defunct or anything, so I decided to show one of several new units that have been added to the game recently.  It's a "zoomed in" close-up shot of the unit standing on a small plateau in the game :)

I'm not going to give all the information about it right now, but as you can see it's a "rider" from a certain faction that remains nameless.  That time will come.  The beast that it's riding is a viciously cool animal (at least in my opinion).  ;)  

Game on!   

Tooltips have been added finally

In previous versions of the game, I already had tooltips taken care of.  However, I upgraded my game project to using the new Unity "uGUI" system (GUI stands for Graphical User Interface).  Which is a new GUI system that Unity has transitioned to with the release of 4.6, and now Unity 5 as well.

Unfortunately, Unity 5 (as of this date) does not have tooltip functionality with its new GUI system.  For people like me that causes a large sigh and a some rolling of the eyes in disgust.  But not all is lost.  Fortunately there are some really cool people on the Unity forums.  And one of them shared with me some code in order to get a basic tooltip system working.  As you should be able to see from the pic I posted, I did get it working finally! 

I love tooltips.  They allow the player to gain information extremely quick.  And guide the player in the use of the GUI (of course).  So, there ya go.  Tooltips are back in my game now, and I like it a lot.  For those of you who may be wondering if the game is still in development, the answer is yes.  Cheers for now!  I hope to see you guys in game some day :)

Workers causing lag and adventures in walking across large maps

So it's update time again  :)  Here are some recent things I've been working on in the game.  I noticed that everytime a worker chopped down a tree in my game, there would be a very large lag spike happening.  It turns out that workers were calling a path update function that was largely not necessary (at least I think so lol).  Once I fixed that, the lag spikes disappeared -- which is excellent.

My most recent work has been on finding a way to have a large group of units move across a large-ish map without taking 6 years to calculate a path (yes I'm exaggerating a little, but you know).  The system I came up with to resolve this is not perfect, but I think it works okay.  I decided to use "waypoints" and essentially break each unit's path up into smaller (more manageable) paths along the way.  It took a bit of thinking in order to make this happen, but the good news is that it works for the most part!  Here's to hoping.

Chow for now.

Some current "state of the game" information

Hi all,

Well just wanted to give a little information on how the game is going.  The main thing is:  It's going!  lol.

During the last month, I've been working more on the building construction system I currently have.  I've also been adding more buildings to the game.  As are most things with game development, it can be tedious at times.

In addition, I've been tweaking shaders, adding one or two more characters/units into the game, adjusting attack system behaviors etc.......  There's so much that still needs to be done though, like unit selection icons and adding another resource system (but that's just two out of probably a thousand more things that need to be done).  It's challenging, but a lot of fun.  

Until the next blog post (hopefully)

Velo (a.k.a. the developer of this game, of which the name has not been released yet)

Welcome to the website! It's fresh off the press.

Hey look!  It's a brand new website, about a brand new game!

I hope it turns out to be decent at least.  Mainly because I'm the developer.  And usually the people making the game want their game to be good.  Or at least, not be bad.

So here in the "developer blog" portion of this site, you can check back periodically to see if I've made any major updates, or if there's any more information.  I hope to make some posts every now and then with some new information.  Or I might just drabble on about nothing, or engage in a deep philosophical discussion.  Who knows!

So, above, I posted another picture from the game.

Welcome!  (I posted this on 12-26-2014).