September 9

Started the day by doing the usual: Placing tiles and assets. Finished making the meadow edge and after that jumped into making Second Strategic Fortification. It's the remaining 1/3rd of the new area. The fortification was built by Berelem during the War to halt the Kingdom's advance to the south - it's one of the biggest military installations in Kayos. After the War, most of the fortification's crew was moved to other places. Later a swarm of demons roamed in from the burning ruins of the Fallen Kingdom and the fortification has been taken over by them. Since then it was not reclaimed - doing so would require too many resources, plus it's not that important in the current times. Anyway, I spent most of the day making new assets:
Here they are in action - exterior:
And interior:

September 10

Today's progress:
Living quarters are now complete! What's left is the main hall, mess hall, training hall, armory, commander's office, manufacturing, and map room.

September 11

Today I was a bit busy with non-game development related stuff, so I couldn't work as much. Still, I made-and-placed-new-tiles-and-assets, finished one of the rooms, and began working on the main hall.
The wall banners bear symbols of Berelem. The symbol of the tree gold coins is from a popular story about Berelem. It is said that the land on which the city was founded was bought from Erquarian colonists for only that much.

September 14

Wasn't at home for two days because I was in an event. But now I'm back and I have already done the main hall, mess hall, and training hall. Here's how training and mess halls look:

September 16

After taking a day off, I've returned fully rested and managed to work the full day. The fortification is now complete and I am already working on the final pieces of the area.
Map room.
The final look of the entrance.
Rogue camp behind the fortification. For some reason, I love the lonely atmosphere of remote and neglected places - the locations behind the fortification are just that. Currently, I only need to make an archer training site and the iron mine to be graphically done with the Eastern Trilith area. Soon I'll be working on the characters and gameplay of the area. I need to add a new enemy type - demons, add door unlocking mechanic for the door inside the fortification, optimize spike traps.

September 17

The iron mine.
Legate's office now has a clock spire! The clock isn't animated yet - I still haven't coded something that would let me have animated elements on buildings. Yes, I absolutely NEED an animated clock. Anyway, all tiles and assets are placed now. I have also done some optimization work today - spike traps no longer spawn hundreds of damage objects attempting to deal damage to whoever is on them and prop objects like rocks are now deactivated when not in the player's view. Hooray to a slight FPS boost! I'm very close to finishing the Eastern Trilith area now - unless demons are harder to make than I anticipated and I'm actually three weeks away from the completion. <<< Epic foreshadowing >>> That's all for this entry, thanks for reading, and until next time =]

[ 2020-09-17 15:30:41 CET ] [ Original post ]