Update on ai. The workers now listen to orders and go to work on the tile you select. Otherwise they get bored and wander around

Slight update on grass tiles:

This game looks awesome!

I am working now on creating more life happening in the village.
Now the workers spawn at houses when they are recruited and start to wander around. The amount of villagers now strictly depends on the number of workers and houses

Since last update I have worked hard to finally implement some more life to the game.
I have implemented A* pathfinding from Aron Gronberg to the game to control the movement of villagers and animals.
I have used the Unity Finite State Machine tutorial to help me with creating a state controller.

First steps were hard.
I made a default idle state anim for a bird:


Then I worked on crating simple pathfinding ai based on the solution from a* implementation:



Unfortunately due to my idea to have colliders - not all of them were scanned by A* Grid, so for now I had to turn them of, or the birds tended to get stuck:




Finally the villagers and birds are walking around






Behind the scenes view of the system:
Blue gizmo means that the character is idle
Yellow Gizmo means it is moveing or looking for target.
The target for now is a randomly selected tile

Different variants of forest layouts generated from the same map.
I tried to create a probability matrix for each tree based on the neighbouring tiles. If there are no other forest tiles near then the chance for a tree being generated is lower. This should result in more trees in bigger forests and less in smaller tile groups.

small updated on game look:

Looks interesting! Keep it updated!

I like the various plants
I would love to see some gifs that show how this works together

I have worked a bit more on forest generation.
Now the tree and leaves are separate objects to allow for leaves animation:



I have also added road building to the game:

Thanks, gonna be handy when I will start implementing weather system!
For now I picked up road creation, I hope to post some gifs today

So after farms I picked forest. I managed to do a randomized tile sprite generation. Now I need to add more different trees to make it look better

I am a fan
Too bad I could not find You yesterday at Pixel Heaven, wanted to try the game :D
Congratulations on the awards!

I am planning those exact elements but adding graphic together with making it a little proceduraly random (you can see it on the farms now) takes time :D so in next coming weeks/ months (more realistic) expect diverse foliage

I am making each tile not from a single sprite but from set of objects and each tile has a script for randomization. For now it works nice on farm (and You can see slight variations on gold mines, bushes, grass and forest but the differences are hard to spot now)

The solution with the larger blocker tiles is a nice feature.
It improves the look of those mountains. Gonna note down this trick

The Village

Wow, the aesthetic aspect of this game is amazing.
Really like the minimalism in this

wow this looks really interesting.
Really like the water effect, I need to do something similar and I really like the appropach with puddles (actually did not see them often in games I think??)

Looks amazing!
Especially the collected twitter posts from different months are really inspiring. Looking forward to see more progress!

Ok I will check out shaders - for now these are all sprites
Updated gameplay gif:

Yes of course. I rather meant the amount of graphic work to add the effects and that I need to develop smart solution
I am working on a short actual gamplay gif - will post it soon