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[Eigen]

Think they definitely work and could see them in-game with the screen going black and a line of text saying new season has started or something, to transition from season to season.

"What a horrible night to have a winter"

jk. Yeah, that's something I was thinking. We'll see, once I get around to doing this. The game saving/loading thing currently on the plate is taking up enough of my time right now.

[Ashkin]

Think they definitely work and could see them in-game with the screen going black and a line of text saying new season has started or something, to transition from season to season.

"What a horrible night to have a winter"

WINTER IS COMING

[Franklins Ghost]

WINTER IS COMING

 

[_Madk]

fall colors?

[Quarry]

Foseptic Ocean

[Eigen]

Time for dates that are up. This weekend I made a new map window/widget/thingy. It is rendered correctly, it's just that I haven't implemented the actual cartography side of it. As you can see, the accuracy is 100%. But it's a start. Only land, water and trees are shown on the map. Also the position of player characters, though maybe they shouldn't be, because characters are dynamic and this isn't that sort of map.




Then last night I made a small detail window for things that contains resources. Like trees, rocks and plants on the ground. You double click and this pops up. If the trees were cut down, a small hand icon would appear on the right of the items in the list. Click it and you choose how much to take.




I also have a small design issue. When you double click a plant on the ground, you at first don't know what it is. You need to identify it, so you'd know if it's poisonous or could be used to restore health or whatever. One of the skills in the game is Botany. Scholars have that. They can easily tell what's what.

What I want is other characters to be able to identify it as well but not automatically. I somehow need to leave that job up to the player ... so either I present the player with a small list of features/keywords of the plant or a description so the player would try to decide what it is. The plants will most likely be made up for the game. Hints could be given in the Help menu or something. Or not and you use the Scholar to identify it and remember the description for the next time. Or a minigame of sorts? What do you think?




Hoping to make a new gameplay video later this week.

[Quarry]

delicious

[IndieGamesDig]

Hmm, I like the idea of certain characters being able to immediately identify certain plants.

As for advice, I dunno. Maybe one option could be to perform the universal edibility test (http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/universal-edibility-test.htm) on plants that you don't know, and maybe that'd simply take up a couple moves...and it'd be worth trying, for instance, on a plant that you knew was in great abundance in the area, like when you'd use the universal edibility test in real life.

Although, some sort of minigame to identify or test plants could be cool too...can't think of any good ideas for it atm though.

[Eigen]

I'll think about the plant identifaction some more when I get better. I got some serious cold and I don't feel like living person anymore

Meanwhile, could I get some fresh ears, please. I started tweaking the 'sound' used for the music. I have three options so far:

Option 1 (the original):
http://soundcloud.com/eigen/journey-begins

Option 2:
http://soundcloud.com/eigen/journey-begins-v3

Option 3:
http://soundcloud.com/eigen/journey-begins-v2

At first, I was happy with the original tune.

Then I started thinking that maybe it's too real sounding to match the visual style. I then found a soundfont with very synthesized instruments. I liked it and thouht it really matches the graphics but the soundfont is very limiting in the variations of the sounds. I don't think I'd want to use it for everything.

Then I made a third option, still with somewhat real sounding instruments but it's more synthy somehow ... don't know how to explain it. So far, I like that one the best. It also dawned on me, that even with the graphical style I have, the music doesn't have to be 8-bit bleeps and bloops. I mean the music in computer games has always been more advanced than the graphics capabilities ... MT-32 vs. CGA for example.

So, my question is which one do you think fits the best.

[SuperSmithBros]

I havent played the game yet so im not sure how they fit with the graphics but option 2 gets my vote from pure audio point of view.

[Angrymatter]

You are truly an amazing artist. This looks and tastes awesome. I can't wait to see what it's like once it's actually done. God luck!

[Eigen]

Thank you very much! You are too kind I think

[Angrymatter]

I tried the demo. It feels nice. The micro management is a bit strange. Perhaps once a unit is out of turns the player shouldn't be able to control him any more? Also, you said only four colors right, I spy with my little eye more than four in those mockups. No problem with that. In fact, they look great. Just curious how that works.

[DustyDrake]

I tried the demo. It feels nice. The micro management is a bit strange. Perhaps once a unit is out of turns the player shouldn't be able to control him any more? Also, you said only four colors right, I spy with my little eye more than four in those mockups. No problem with that. In fact, they look great. Just curious how that works.

Which ones?
Cause I don't see more than 4

[Quarry]

I tried the demo. It feels nice. The micro management is a bit strange. Perhaps once a unit is out of turns the player shouldn't be able to control him any more? Also, you said only four colors right, I spy with my little eye more than four in those mockups. No problem with that. In fact, they look great. Just curious how that works.

I thought so too, but the outlines seem to make colors appear different