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Development Update
Michael has been doing more great work on city building AI. It will now reinforce its walls in response to attacks, and it places towers in a natural and very functional way. Here's a screenshot of a town the AI was able to build and defend using the new tower placement algorithm:
Meanwhile I've been revamping the ship route UI to be more intuitive and streamlined. Now you'll be able to see the shipping routes visualized in the world and the UI on the right should read more clearly. You will also be able to drag and adjust the ship's path however you wish. It used to take more than 20 clicks to set up a route between two docks, now it will take less than six (I had to split this gif into 2 parts to get around steam's size limit):
Another reason we wanted to change the shipping route UI is to support player controlled merchant ships. You'll be able to build your own merchant ships and use them to sell your resource to AI controlled kingdoms. We're reworking the merchant ship models as well:
Until next time! -Pete & Michael P.S. We're also working on mod support. We'll have more to announce on this very soon!
[ 2020-03-05 20:57:27 CET ] [ Original post ]
Hi Everyone, We've been working hard on the upcoming AI Kingdoms update, here's what we've been up to:
AI Defense
Michael has been doing more great work on city building AI. It will now reinforce its walls in response to attacks, and it places towers in a natural and very functional way. Here's a screenshot of a town the AI was able to build and defend using the new tower placement algorithm:
New Shipping Route UI
Meanwhile I've been revamping the ship route UI to be more intuitive and streamlined. Now you'll be able to see the shipping routes visualized in the world and the UI on the right should read more clearly. You will also be able to drag and adjust the ship's path however you wish. It used to take more than 20 clicks to set up a route between two docks, now it will take less than six (I had to split this gif into 2 parts to get around steam's size limit):
Player Controlled Merchant Ships
Another reason we wanted to change the shipping route UI is to support player controlled merchant ships. You'll be able to build your own merchant ships and use them to sell your resource to AI controlled kingdoms. We're reworking the merchant ship models as well:
Until next time! -Pete & Michael P.S. We're also working on mod support. We'll have more to announce on this very soon!
[ 2020-03-05 20:57:27 CET ] [ Original post ]
Kingdoms and Castles
Lion Shield, LLC
Developer
Lion Shield, LLC
Publisher
2017-07-20
Release
Game News Posts:
60
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
Very Positive
(27711 reviews)
The Game includes VR Support
Public Linux Depots:
- Kingdoms and Castles Content (Linux) [567.42 M]
Available DLCs:
- Kingdoms and Castles - Decorations Pack
Kingdoms and Castles is a game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle.
Your kingdom must survive a living and dangerous world. Do the viking raiders make off with your villagers? Or are they stopped, full of arrows, at the castle gates? Does a dragon torch your granary, your people dying of starvation in the winter, or are you able to turn the beast back? The success of your kingdom depends solely on your skill as a city and castle planner.
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Strategically layout your town to improve your peasants' happiness and to attract new residents. Tax them just enough to fund your castle. Make sure your peasants are fed in the winter and healed of plagues. Build churches to keep them from despair and taverns to keep them happy. You can even throw festivals if you've built a town square! Send out wood cutters to collect wood, set up stone quarries to build your castes, and farm the land efficiently so your town can grow and thrive.
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The new land you're settling is at risk of viking invasion. These raiders seek to kidnap and kill your peasants, steal your resources, and burn your town to the ground. Use a powerful castle building system where castles are constructed using blocks which can be placed anywhere. Towers and walls are dynamically created based on how you stack and arrange them. Archer towers and other weapon emplacements have longer range the higher their tower. Try different layouts to best protect your kingdom and express your glory as a king or queen.
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And it all takes place in a beautiful dynamic world with a stylized procedural cloud system and season cycle from summer to winter. A realistic tree growth algorithm simulates the forests. Depending on your needs, wood cutters can clear cut or responsibly manage your forests.
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Your kingdom must survive a living and dangerous world. Do the viking raiders make off with your villagers? Or are they stopped, full of arrows, at the castle gates? Does a dragon torch your granary, your people dying of starvation in the winter, or are you able to turn the beast back? The success of your kingdom depends solely on your skill as a city and castle planner.
Strategically layout your town to improve your peasants' happiness and to attract new residents. Tax them just enough to fund your castle. Make sure your peasants are fed in the winter and healed of plagues. Build churches to keep them from despair and taverns to keep them happy. You can even throw festivals if you've built a town square! Send out wood cutters to collect wood, set up stone quarries to build your castes, and farm the land efficiently so your town can grow and thrive.
The new land you're settling is at risk of viking invasion. These raiders seek to kidnap and kill your peasants, steal your resources, and burn your town to the ground. Use a powerful castle building system where castles are constructed using blocks which can be placed anywhere. Towers and walls are dynamically created based on how you stack and arrange them. Archer towers and other weapon emplacements have longer range the higher their tower. Try different layouts to best protect your kingdom and express your glory as a king or queen.
And it all takes place in a beautiful dynamic world with a stylized procedural cloud system and season cycle from summer to winter. A realistic tree growth algorithm simulates the forests. Depending on your needs, wood cutters can clear cut or responsibly manage your forests.
MINIMAL SETUP
- OS: Ubuntu 14.10 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo. 2.0GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+. 2.5GHzMemory: 4 GB RAM
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: nVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 256mb or ATI Radeon HD 5670 256mb or Intel HD Graphics 4600
- Storage: 1 GB available space
- OS: Ubuntu 14.10 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i5-3470. 2.7GHz or AMD FX-6300. 3.2GhzMemory: 4 GB RAM
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: nVIDIA GeForce GTX 660. 1gb or AMD Radeon HD 7870. 1gb
- Storage: 1 GB available space
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