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June 28, 2016 0

Graphics: Beaches revisited, with Rivers pt1…

Fixing the beaches At the end of my long post on adding beaches, we ended up with this: It was simple and very high performance (low poly graphics, will run fine on 7+ year old computers) and looked ...more

June 14, 2016 0

Demo: A* tester

A* is a very famous algorithm for games-programmers which efficiently finds routes from one point to another, intelligently avoiding obstacles and looking for the shortest possible path. Using ...more

June 10, 2016 0

Path-finding: For players, for AI, and … part of game design?

Where does this fit in the game? I desperately needed path-finding for two places: Moving AI across the map without them getting stuck the moment a sea or mountain lies in their way Automatically ...more

June 10, 2016 0

Progress: intelligent path-finding with tweakable settings

Notable features added: Path-finding is working (although this vid has units walking on water :)) First draft of a special GUI for Alpha-testers / playtesters to alter the game-rules live during the ...more

June 6, 2016 4

Design: Movement, travel, and distance

One of the fundamental moment-to-moment gameplay decisions of Civ games is movement. The first game had no pathfinding, and you had to do everything manually. Later games used the increase in CPU ...more

June 3, 2016 0

Graphics refresh 3: Unit banners

Last time I spoke about the squeakiest wheel being the terrain graphics, and how big a difference it makes to improve them even by small amounts. Now the squeaky wheels became: GUI graphics: ...more

May 28, 2016 1

Graphics refresh 2: Adding beaches

I’ve got AI working, conquerable Cities, and a winnable game. Now the biggest problem (again) is the graphics: time to upgrade them. What do we need? Beaches! Beaches: Innocent, relaxing, ...more

May 23, 2016 0

Progress: simple AI that walks around, multiple players

Notable features added: Units and cities auto-coloured to match Player colour Added turn management supporting multiple players In other players’ turns, popups + map tiles are disabled so you ...more

May 23, 2016 0

Implementing AI efficiently in Unity

There are two kinds of efficiency in programming: Computer efficiency: use less RAM, use less CPU time, run faster Human efficicency: reduce develoment time, reduce difficulty of ...more

May 21, 2016 0

Learning from the most popular Civ4-mods: Fall From Heaven to Master of Mana

Background (skip this if you’ve played Master of Mana) As a child I played to death the early RPGs and MMOs – Ultima series, Diablo series, Everquest/Ultima Online/etc. Years later I was ...more