Woha this has been a very busy month! I added a lot of new buildings and effects. Let's check them out!

Building Robots Animation

I did not like that the buildings would pop out of nowhere, especially when your buildings would upgrade! So I came up with a giant building robot that will upgrade and build your buildings. The whole process went from pen and paper, to Blender to Unity:
I then proceeded to animate it and this is how it looks:
I also created a Devblog video about this creative process! You can check it out below. Make sure to subscribe to the Youtube channel if you did not do that already [previewyoutube=knkqpTySCz0;full][/previewyoutube] I'm really satisfied with this as it gives your cyberpunk city a gritty, alive feeling. I will probably create some variations and other types of robots in the future.

Events

I implemented an event system. You now have a City News panel that will keep you updated about what is happening in your city. For example, you get notified when a new building becomes available, or when something important happens in the city. I'm really excited about this become it's very flexible and it will allow me to add a lot of random news in the game, as well as add additional mechanics. To test it out, I added a new event, which is occupation! If you leave the dissidents in your city unchecked, they will occupy buildings and streets, taking over. You can leave them be - you will get some bonuses out of this as well - or you can remove them by force by placing lots of self-driving police tanks and vans. This is how an occupied area looks like:
At night, you will be able to see the fires burning in that area:
I'm planning to add more events in the future - I want to add an Android Revolt event, where the androids in your city will gather somewhere and try to start their own, closed community. I will also add an organized crime event, that will create an organized crime structure out of normal street gangs. Please leave a comment if you have any ideas about future events!

New Buildings

As always, I've added a bunch of new buildings and variations of existing buildings to the game. In particular, I focused on special buildings. I added the Darwin's Island park - a public parks for your wealthy citizens:
As well as the Electric Sheep Zoo - a zoo that displays electric animals such as sheep and turtles:
I also added more evil buildings, like the Self-driving Police van station. It will curb the local street low-level crime:
This is how it looks in-game:

And the secret service listening post. It will remove dissident citizens and bring them to secret jail locations:
As well as the secret service black interrogation site:


That's it for this devblog! I will publish another one as soon as the last addition is complete. Don't forget to add Skid Cities to your wishlist if you did not do that already! Please let me know what you think in the comments below.

[ 2020-10-29 18:53:54 CET ] [ Original post ]