Hi all!
Ive been working on a lot of new things and I would love to share them with you.
One big thing Ive been working on is the the layout of the new Research Overview Screen.
Each row contains one of the "categories" (Settling, Gathering, Improving) of buildings, while the tasks and research items for each building type is set out around it. Locked items are greyed out, currently researching items are marked with a thicker frame, and all research progress is indicated in the frames of the icons. Whenever any of this updates, the icons, frames and greyed-out status update automatically.
The research items under the Research Hub are "realm wide". Each building type can either work on its own research items, or direct its efforts towards the realm-wide research (which can thus be boosted considerably at the expense of the building-type-specific research). Whenever something else is selected at the Research Hub, all the icons at the other buildings are also updated and the research changed for those that are set to realm-wide research.
Heres a quick peek at what I have so far for the Research Overview Screen - Ill be adding more later so stay tuned!
I know that its different than how games generally do it, but I really don't like the system where you "gather" a bunch of research points beforehand, and then select what you've supposedly researched when you have enough points built up. I also don't like the "only one item is researched at one time by everybody", so I wanted to bring in building-type specific research and an overall tree. Thats why I landed on this!
Second, the first elements of a "Water System" has been added.
Water will have to be supplied to buildings from time to time. At first, only unsafe water sources will be available (from lakes), which will negatively affect Meep health, but access to safe water can eventually be secured. By constructing Water Towers and Wells and by extending the reach through Water Points, the amount of effort the Meeps need to assert to cater for all their Water needs can be reduced over time. In the screenshot, the range of the Water Tower (to where Water Points can be commissioned) is indicated - this is dependent on the elevation level of the water tower as well as the contours of the surrounding terrain.
Heres what filling up the water tower looks like!
Another thing I added is that you will also be able to prioritize resources to be cleared (for example to create space for buildings). Any Meeps close-by that can harvest that resource type will ignore all other priorities set at their building and focus on clearing these resources, before going back to their set task priorities.
Areas set to be cleared will be indicated by small icons above the terrain, and the specific hexes will be highlighted when you hover over the main hex like in the screenshot below.
Lastly, here is how youll be keeping track of the water supplies!
Once again, thank you for all of your support, encouragement, and excitement throughout develpment. I cant wait to share more about World Turtles with you!
If you want to be more a part of the journey, feel free to join our Discord where you can hang out with myself and the community.
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Gideon
[ 2022-10-27 22:54:19 CET ] [ Original post ]
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Gather Some Meeps and Develop a Realm
Is there anything more exhilarating than your first move on a fresh map? A small band of Meeps have gathered together with enough supplies to construct a basic resource gathering outpost. Expand their skills, improve their efficiency and guide them towards guilds, societies and more advanced structures. They, and their children, are going to need these to have a fighting chance of saving their Turtle.
Explore, Examine and Cooperate
Find and cooperate with other bands of Meeps scattered on the map. Work with the environment to improve negative situations and affect progress without destruction. Learn about your world and push back the boundaries of physics in order to advance.
Save Your Turtle, Save Your World
Space can be a harsh and unforgiving place, especially to an enormous Turtle. Like the Meeps, their World Turtle also needs your guidance to stay safe and nurtured. And while you’re at it, maybe you can save some others as well…
Background and Vision
I am a solo Indie developer. I joined the Game Dev party quite late in life, and got my first glimpse of Unity almost exactly 2 years before making the first demo of World Turtles, my very first game, available. I'm amazed at the progress I’d been able to make during these two years and owe a great deal of gratitude to various tutorial channels, plug-ins and artists whom I leaned on during the development. None more than Catlike Coding, whose brilliant Hex Map tutorial series kickstarted this entire endeavour.
I have spent a lot of time polishing the task queueing and progressive construction systems, utilising different threads, UI and more and I feel the basic foundation and technical mechanics of the game is ripe for branching off into various promising directions. The free demo is a small vertical slice designed to exhibit the commitment I have to developing a good-quality game and hopefully pique some interest.
I have a good idea of the general direction I want World Turtles to head in, but there’s a myriad of possibilities available for the execution. For now, I’m focusing on a single-player sandbox-type environment. This will hopefully be followed by a small campaign and a map editor. Having some sort of multiplayer capability would also be wonderful, but there’s a lot to be done before then.
I would love developing World Turtles further alongside a group of enthusiastic real-world Meeps. Please, join me and be a part of the journey!
- OS: 64bit Linux
- Processor: Dual-Core 2.4 GHzMemory: 2 GB RAM
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 or ATI Radeon HD 6XXX or higher
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- OS: 64bit Linux
- Processor: Dual-Core 2.4 GHzMemory: 4 GB RAM
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 or AMD R9 280
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