Worlds - History Simulator

Devlog

• Extended Hiatus
  October 23, 2022 by DrTardigrade

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  #Announcement, #Future

  Hi all, Starting today, I won't be able to continue working on this game for the foreseeable future. This is for several reasons which I won't be able to discuss here. However, I'll keep maintaining t... Continue reading
• Worlds 0.3.4.01 (minor update)
  October 03, 2022 by DrTardigrade

  15

  #0.3.4, #Progress Update, #Modding, #User Interface

  I just posted a new, but very minor, update for Worlds. This update addresses the highly outdated modding guide. It should now explain most if not all the elements of the new modding system, and remov... Continue reading
• Worlds 0.3.4
  August 22, 2022 by DrTardigrade

  11

  #0.3.4, #Acculturation, #Tribal Aggression, #Migrations, #Update, #Announcement

  Hi all, Finally here it is Worlds 0.3.4. (Sorry for the long wait). This version introduces many changes, most of which fall into the new, much more complex, mod system. I promise I will add post a vi... Continue reading
• Worlds 0.3.4 alpha 4 ready for closed testing
  July 27, 2022 by DrTardigrade

  17

  #Alpha 4, #0.3.4, #Discoveries

  Finally, I managed to complete all the changes for alpha 4 and, for that matter, 0.3.4. I will perform a closed alpha period of perhaps a month or two before finally releasing 0.3.4 to the public. But... Continue reading
• Done Migrating Discovery Mod Scripts
  June 05, 2022 by DrTardigrade

  13

  #0.3.4, #Discoveries, #Alpha 4, #Progress Update

  I finally completed the migration of all the old discovery script files to the new mod system. For this I had to add support for a bunch of new expression types on the mod system which is good. Though... Continue reading
• Halfway through Alpha 4
  April 19, 2022 by DrTardigrade

  9

  #0.3.4, #Alpha 3, #Alpha 4, #Discoveries, #Events, #Progress Update

  The work on alpha 4 is halfway done. For which the goal has been porting discoveries from the 0.3.3 moding system to the new one. The good thing about all of this is that by doing this I have been exp... Continue reading
• Closed Alpha 3 Start
  March 20, 2022 by DrTardigrade

  7

  #Alpha 3, #Closed Alpha

  Just wanted to let everyone know that the new Closed Alpha period has officially started and I just sent the first email batch with links to the 0.3.4 Alpha 3 build to those who have so far registered... Continue reading
• The Last Part
  March 15, 2022 by DrTardigrade

  7

  #0.3.4, #Progress Update, #Modding, #Closed Alpha, #Events, #Discoveries

  It has been a long time since the last update, but finally I can say 0.3.4 is near completion. Yesterday I launched a form for the next closed alpha which will start next week (see here ). This after... Continue reading
• Closed Alpha 3 Participation Form
  March 13, 2022 by DrTardigrade

  5

  #0.3.4, #Alpha 3

  Hi all, bellow you will find a submission form to become part of the list of participants for the closed alpha 3 of Worlds 0.3.4 https://forms.gle/tSAjh1Sp7ArffM8u7 A week from now, all people that su... Continue reading
• Relationship Improving Action Done...
  January 04, 2022 by DrTardigrade

  13

  #0.3.4, #Tribal diplomacy, #Actions, #Progress Update

  It took a long time, but finally got the relationship improving action to fully work: There were many unexpected hurdles that I had to go over to get this action to work from start to finish. First I... Continue reading

  
• Delays
  November 16, 2021 by DrTardigrade

  13

  #0.3.4, #Actions, #Modding, #Tribal diplomacy

  First, I want to apologize for the lack updates on the last four weeks. Progress has been going more slowly than usual and I didn't want to make a post with nothing substantive to talk about. So I dec... Continue reading

  
• Last Two Actions
  October 26, 2021 by DrTardigrade

  12

  #0.3.4, #Actions, #Tribal diplomacy, #Modding, #Progress Update

  As it is now becoming tradition, over the past two weekends, I spend the first just fixing bugs I introduced two weeks ago, then the second working on completing remaining items on my checklist. I cou... Continue reading
• Tribe Split Action
  October 12, 2021 by DrTardigrade

  8

  #0.3.4, #Actions, #Modding, #Tribal diplomacy

  The work on player actions continues. Two weekends ago I managed to solve the remaining issues with the influence demand action and in turn I improved the behavior of the counterpart AI event. The res... Continue reading

  
• Influence Demand Action
  September 28, 2021 by DrTardigrade

  8

  #Actions, #Tribal diplomacy, #Progress Update, #Modding, #0.3.4

  Over the last two weekends I finally managed to clear out all issues that I could find with a clan's tribe switching mechanic, and then I decided to take a quick break before starting implementing pla... Continue reading

  
• A Change of Plans
  September 14, 2021 by DrTardigrade

  13

  #0.3.4, #Progress Update, #Decisions, #Modding

  After another two very chaotic weekends I finally managed to get the clan tribe switching event decisions to (mostly) work. There's still one crash I have to look at but I hope it will be the last one... Continue reading

  
• No dev update this week
  September 08, 2021 by DrTardigrade

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  Sorry for the late notice, but my weekend was kind of hectic and I got stuck trying to fix some issues with the new decisions. I rather hold onto next week, once I get things under control again and I... Continue reading
• Complex Decision Mods
  August 31, 2021 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Decisions, #Modding, #Progress Update

  The decision chain that allows a tribe leader to convince a neighboring clan to join them is done. I still have to properly test it. But so far things have been going more smoothly with this decision... Continue reading
• Relationship Fostering Decision Done
  August 24, 2021 by DrTardigrade

  7

  #0.3.4, #Tribal Aggression, #Tribal diplomacy, #Progress Update

  This will be another short developer entry, though not a negative one. I finally solved all the issues with the Event/Decision pair that allows tribes to improve their relationships with neighboring c... Continue reading
• Issues with Data Accounting within the Simulation
  August 17, 2021 by DrTardigrade

  7

  #0.3.4, #Events, #Decisions, #Progress Update, #Bug-fixing

  This was another slow weekend. I managed to implement the decision event that allows tribes to improve their relationships with the clans of neighboring tribes, which would eventually make them switch... Continue reading
• Fixing Bugs and Adding Decisions
  August 10, 2021 by DrTardigrade

  8

  #0.3.4, #Tribal diplomacy, #Bug-fixing

  This weekend was a slower than usual, but I managed to to fix a bug that has been annoying me for a while. Sometimes, unpopulated pieces of land that weren't adjacent to a tribal territory would be ad... Continue reading
• Clan Core Migration
  August 03, 2021 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Tribal Aggression, #Clan migration, #modding

  This past week I worked mostly on the clan core migration event/decision that occurs if a clan's core starts getting overrun by a neighboring tribe. The event gives the clan leader a chance to move th... Continue reading

  
• Collapsing Clans
  July 27, 2021 by DrTardigrade

  4

  #0.3.4, #Tribal Aggression, #Tribe Splitting, #Clan Splitting, #Modding, #Progress Update

  Last week was very productive. I finally got a hang of the extreme splitting and spaghettification of tribes. The current behavior is still somewhat janky but I can live with it for now. Here's a spee... Continue reading

  
• Community Disabled
  July 25, 2021 by DrTardigrade

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  #community, #forums

  Hi all, Unfortunately I had to disable the itch.io community for this game since currently its under attack by a dedicated spammer or bot. I'll reactivate the community once the problem is sorted out... Continue reading
• Territorial Chaos
  July 20, 2021 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Acculturation, #Tribal Aggression, #Tribe Splitting, #Progress Update

  My vacation trip is over. Through it, I managed to tone down the tribe splitting chaos quite a bit, although it still happens pretty often. Ironically though, the main reason the tribe splitting chaos... Continue reading

  
• Skyrocketing Administrative Load
  July 12, 2021 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Tribe Splitting, #Administrative Load, #Progress Update

  As I mentioned last week, I'm currently on a weeklong vacation trip. Though I knew there would be quite a bit of time during the trip where I would have nothing to do. So I brought my dev laptop to co... Continue reading

  
• Fixed Tribal Expansion
  July 06, 2021 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Tribal Aggression, #Progress Update, #Tribal Migration

  After some long hours I finally managed to get tribal expansion under control: It turns out there were many mini bugs still hiding within the migration code (Some of these bugs I had introduced myself... Continue reading

  
• Extremely Unhinged Expansion
  June 29, 2021 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Tribal Migration, #Bug-fixing

  Welp, things went a bit off the rail this weekend while trying to control tribal expansion: As you can see, tribes (or rather, the one and only tribe) end up expanding uncontrollably and at a ridiculo... Continue reading

  
• Unhinged Expansion
  June 22, 2021 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Progress Update, #Migrations, #Bug-fixing

  The new migration pressure overlay has proven to be extremely useful and it has allowed me to detect several issues with the migration algorithm. So I spent this weekend trying to tackle those. I ende... Continue reading

  
• Migration Pressure
  June 17, 2021 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Tribal Aggression, #Overlays, #Progress Update

  This was a loooong weekend... First of all, sorry for the delay with this devlog entry. I spent most of my weekend trying to fix three bugs that I put off from fixing during the second alpha. These di... Continue reading

  
• Progress update later this week
  June 15, 2021 by DrTardigrade

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  While working on the game this weekend I ran into multiple issues and critical bugs that I had to deal with. So I had no chance to make progress on the new feature. Nevertheless, I have some extra tim... Continue reading
• Performance Issues Fixed
  June 08, 2021 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Tribal Aggression, #Performance, #Progress Update

  The performance problems introduced by some of the aggression changes are now fixed. The cause wasn't really related to the complexity of the new code I added, but rather a bug that I introduced with... Continue reading
• Aggression and Performance Issues
  May 31, 2021 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Tribal Aggression, #Progress Update, #Performance

  This weekend, I implemented an algorithm to incentivize tribal and unorganized band migration due to aggression, so that more aggressive tribes/bands feel a higher pressure to invade lands occupied by... Continue reading
• Polity Core Regions Overlay
  May 25, 2021 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Progress Update, #Alpha 3, #Tribal Aggression

  The work on tribal aggression continues. This weekend was spent trying to figure out how to make tribes expand more aggressively into neighboring territories. To do that, I spent some time devising a... Continue reading

  
• Acculturation and Aggression
  May 17, 2021 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Progress Update, #Tribal Aggression, #Acculturation, #Sea Migration

  This weekend I resumed working on tribal aggression. I had already started working on it a long way back during a break while working on tribal migration, but I was not satisfied with the results. So... Continue reading
• Onto Alpha 3
  May 11, 2021 by DrTardigrade

  10

  #0.3.4, #Autosave, #Bug-fixing, #Closed Alpha

  This past weekend was the last one I planned to spend bug fixing the second alpha of 0.3.4 and this time around I focused on fixing small UI issues that often get forgotten while fixing the big issues... Continue reading

  
• Preventing Save File Corruption
  May 04, 2021 by DrTardigrade

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  #Progress Update, #0.3.4, #Closed Alpha, #Bug-fixing

  This weekend was mostly spent tracking down a nasty issue that would break core distance recalculations. This would lead to a variety of issues, including save file corruption. It took quite a bit of... Continue reading
• Extending the Closed Alpha
  April 27, 2021 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Bug-fixing, #Closed Alpha

  This weekend was spent trying to fix all of the issues with saving and loading worlds and I think I fixed most of them. At this moment it is possible to save a world and load it after in most circumst... Continue reading
• Fixing Save and Load
  April 20, 2021 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Bug-fixing, #Closed Alpha, #Progress Update

  The bug fixing process for alpha 2 continues. This time I fixed a very nasty bug that would crash the game very frequently after a tribe switched dominant clans a few times before splitting into two (... Continue reading
• Bugs, bugs, bugs!
  April 13, 2021 by DrTardigrade

  4

  #0.3.4, #Closed Alpha, #Progress Update, #Bug-fixing

  The first week of the closed alpha just passed by and now I have a list of 16 bugs reported by the alpha testers (Thanks!), of which, only two I was already aware of. I went thru the list and fixed 5... Continue reading
• Start of Closed Alpha
  April 05, 2021 by DrTardigrade

  8

  #0.3.4, #Closed Alpha, #Tribal Aggression

  As I mentioned last week, the closed alpha program starts today. I already distributed the first, and extremely buggy, version of the 0.3.4 alpha to the first applicants. I also started receiving quit... Continue reading
• Resolving Decision Race Conditions
  March 30, 2021 by DrTardigrade

  3

  #0.3.4, #Closed Alpha, #Bug-fixing, #Decisions

  I continue to hammer down the most obvious and pesky bugs in preparation to the start of the closed alpha next week. The biggest issue I fixed this time around was a weird race condition that occurs w... Continue reading
• Fixing Miscellaneous Bugs
  March 22, 2021 by DrTardigrade

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  #Progress Update, #0.3.4, #Bug-fixing, #Closed Alpha

  This weekend I continued to work on nasty bugs that prevent the game from progressing for more than 5 minutes. The last one I fixed was an issue with region access calculations, which are necessary fo... Continue reading
• Version 0.3.4 Closed Alpha
  March 20, 2021 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Closed Alpha, #Testing, #Announcement

  Hello all, Below is the link to the application form to become a closed alpha tester. Your email is required to receive the download link when it becomes available. Those who specifically want to test... Continue reading
• Fixing and Improving Mods
  March 16, 2021 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Modding, #Bug-fixing

  This weekend I mostly worked on fixing and revising all current mods to prepare for alpha testing (I don't want testers and modders to spend time reporting bugs that I can encounter easily myself). Th... Continue reading
• Tribal Migration Feature Done
  March 09, 2021 by DrTardigrade

  5

  #0.3.4, #Progress Update, #Tribal Migration, #Testing

  This weekend I finalized the AI event that lets it gain new core regions and expand into them and it seems to work pretty well, which means that the tribal migration feature is finally complete. In th... Continue reading
• AI Tribal Expansion
  March 02, 2021 by DrTardigrade

  8

  #0.3.4, #Progress Update, #Modding, #Events, #Tribal Migration

  This weekend I worked on making sure that tribes controlled by the AI could also trigger the Tribal Expansion Decision by creating a tribal expansion event that gets assigned only to AI controlled ent... Continue reading
• Full Tribal Expansion Action Loop
  February 22, 2021 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Tribal Migration, #Progress Update, #Actions

  Finally I got the complete Tribe Expansion Action loop complete, as you can see from the ugly gif below: So now, after triggering the action, selecting the target region, and choosing the decision opt... Continue reading

  
• Rewriting Simulation State Transitions
  February 15, 2021 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Tribal Migration, #Modding, #Actions, #Decisions, #Progress Update

  This weekend was weird. My goal was simply to make sure that when the player clicks on a target region to initiate the tribal migration process, a decision would spring up to confirm the choice as sho... Continue reading

  
• Working on Action UI transitions
  February 08, 2021 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Actions, #User Interface, #Progress Update, #Tribal Migration

  Not much to say this time around. I worked on handling a myriad of details that are necessary for the Region Selection part of the migration action to work, like making sure that most menus and shortc... Continue reading
• Region Highlighting and Instruction Dialogs
  February 01, 2021 by DrTardigrade

  10

  #0.3.4, #Actions, #Tribal Migration, #Modding, #Progress Update

  Another weekend working on the Tribe Expansion Action. This time I worked on adding region hover highlighting and adding a custom instructions dialog to let players know what to do when the action req... Continue reading

  
• Working on UI Interactions
  January 25, 2021 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Actions, #Tribal Migration, #Modding, #Progress Update, #User Interface

  This weekend was a messy one but I still managed to get some progress done. Like I mentioned last week, the focus right now is on adding the necessary UI elements to get the tribal expansion action to... Continue reading

  
• Input Request Functions
  January 19, 2021 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Actions, #Modding, #Progress Update

  The work on action scripts continues. This weekend I expanded the modding framework to accommodate a special type of functions that request user input. These functions, when executed, will interrupt t... Continue reading
• Action Category Mod Scripts
  January 11, 2021 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Actions, #Modding

  This past weekend I continued work on the implementation of the action toolbar and scripts. One thing that I decided to change from last week was the implementation of action categories, which are the... Continue reading
• Action Mod Scripts
  January 04, 2021 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Actions, #Tribal Migration, #Progress Update, #Modding

  The work on the action toolbar continues. This weekend in got the toolbar to load correctly within the simulation when a player picks faction to 'guide' it. Clicking the red Stop button on the toolba... Continue reading

  
• The Action Toolbar
  December 29, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Actions, #User Interface

  The core distance algorithm rewrite took more effort than I expected. Nevertheless I finally managed to get it to work. The biggest problem I encountered was that the code would frequently enter into... Continue reading

  
• Fixing Core Distance Issues
  December 21, 2020 by DrTardigrade

  9

  #0.3.4, #Progress Update, #Decisions, #Actions, #Bug-fixing

  This weekend I focused on reenabling all the events that I disabled while working on tribal expansion and territories, and tried to fix some issues that I left over from previous changes. I'm still wo... Continue reading
• Improved Territory Formation
  December 14, 2020 by DrTardigrade

  14

  #0.3.4, #Territories, #Progress Update

  This weekend I finished the improvements to the territory formation algorithm for the upcoming release. Here's a couple of screenshots with the before and after the change: The new algorithm detects a... Continue reading

  
• Reworking Territories
  December 07, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Territories, #Progress Update

  This past weekend I worked on territory formation changes. The intention is for territories to cover not just the cells occupied by tribal populations, but also any set of unoccupied cells fully enclo... Continue reading
• Improved Tribal Expansion
  December 01, 2020 by DrTardigrade

  9

  #0.3.4, #Tribal Migration, #Progress Update

  Finally, this weekend I got tribal territorial expansion to work as I wanted to. Tribal populations will migrate almost as quickly as unorganized bands, yet they will not migrate far beyond their init... Continue reading

  
• Migratory Mishaps
  November 24, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Tribal Migration

  This weekend I mostly struggled trying to fix the current problems with migrating tribal migrations. The new algorithm that I used to speed up unorganized band migrations made tribes behave very weird... Continue reading
• Migration Overlay
  November 17, 2020 by DrTardigrade

  8

  #Progress Update, #Tribal Migration, #0.3.4

  This past weekend I spend some time tweaking the effects of tribal encroachment on unorganized bands and then began working on fixing tribal migration. To aid in my analysis of these migrations, I add... Continue reading

  
• Faster Population Migration
  November 10, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Population Migration, #Progress Update

  After spending quite a bit of time on it, I got the general migration algorithm to spread population much faster than before. The changes involved a lot of analysis, simplification and tweaking of the... Continue reading

  
• Revisiting Tribal Migrations
  November 02, 2020 by DrTardigrade

  7

  #0.3.4, #Bug-fixing, #Progress Update, #Tribal Migration

  This weekend I spent some time wrapping the work I have doing the previous weeks and fixing issues and crashes I have encountered along the way. I started testing tribal expansion again now with most... Continue reading
• Done with Decision Mods, Again (for now)
  October 26, 2020 by DrTardigrade

  5

  #Decisions, #Modding, #Progress Update, #0.3.4

  Yesterday I finished converting the Tribe Merge decision into a mod script, and the performance improved a lot, for a while, then it dropped horribly again... sigh. Regardless, Im done converting deci... Continue reading
• Converting the Tribe Split Decision
  October 19, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Decisions, #Progress Update, #Modding

  The tribe split decision event has now been converted to a script file which is now part of the base mode. It took me actually less time than I expected to do so. This is because I didn't have to add... Continue reading
• Solving Technical Modding Issues
  October 12, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Progress Update, #Modding, #Decisions

  This weekend I fixed the issues with modding framework that I mentioned last week which weren't nearly as catastrophic as I first though they would be. Then I encountered a bunch of new issues that I... Continue reading
• Modding Framework Woes
  October 05, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #Modding, #0.3.4, #Decisions

  This weekend I added a bunch missing elements to the modding system that I will require to write the split tribe event replacement. In doing so, I discovered that my modding framework has a terrible f... Continue reading
• Continuing with Performance Improvements
  September 28, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Decisions, #Modding, #Performance, #Progress Update

  Last week I fully converted the "Foster Relationship" Decision from hardcoded to scripted, while also revising its trigger conditions, and managed to improve the performance of the game quite a bit. A... Continue reading

  
• Improving Simulation Performance
  September 21, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #Progress Update, #Simulation, #Events, #Modding, #Tribal Aggression

  The past week I dealt with that pesky issue I mentioned with cultural preferences dropping down in value over time for all polities. It turns out it was a very simple bug where I made an incorrect pre... Continue reading

  
• Preference Modding and Aggression
  September 15, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Tribal Aggression, #Modding, #Cultural Preferences, #Progress Update

  This past week I started work on tribal aggression . The first step I took was to add a new cultural preference to use as an aggression level reference parameter. Though, instead of just hardcoding t... Continue reading

  
• Tribal Expansion
  September 08, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Tribal Migration, #Tribal Aggression, #Progress Update

  This was another very busy weekend, but a much less stressful one. I was able to work on the game for quite a bit and managed to clean a lot of issues I found with the new migration algorithm. Migrati... Continue reading
• Fixing Migration Issues
  September 01, 2020 by DrTardigrade

  8

  #0.3.4, #Progress Update, #Tribal Migration

  This was a very slow weekend unfortunately. Many real life events (some good, some bad) combined together to rob me off most of my weekend. The bad news is that the next few of weekends are going to... Continue reading
• Moving Population Sets
  August 25, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Tribal Migration, #Progress Update

  This weekend I continued to work on the tribal migration feature by adding the migrating population selection process I talked about last week. Now, when a new migration event is generated, the cell g... Continue reading
• Splitting Populations
  August 17, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Tribal Migration, #Progress Update

  This weekend I finished the work on the unorganized bands migration event and made sure it worked correctly. From there, I started working on what would have been the tribal migration event. Though I... Continue reading
• Migrating Unorganized Bands
  August 11, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Progress Update, #Tribal Migration

  This weekend I continued working on tribal migrations. Though first I had to deal with tons of issues that I introduced last week with the polity prominence rewrite. Everything is mostly back to norma... Continue reading
• Polity Prominence Changes
  August 04, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Polity Prominences, #Tribal Migration

  To start work on the new tribal migration mechanics, I decided to revisit one of the integral parts of the group migration, which is polity prominence transfer. Polity prominences are an abstraction w... Continue reading
• Splitting Regions
  July 28, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Regions, #Progress Update

  This weekend I finished the work on super regions and implemented region splitting. To showcase the later, lets see how regions looked before splitting (Note: this a screenshot from three weeks ago):... Continue reading

  
• Entity ID Revamp
  July 21, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Entity Framework, #Progress Update

  The task of fully revamping the entity ID system has been completed after several hours of going through possibly more than 50 source files and handling many unexpected implementation details. My hope... Continue reading
• Super Regions and Expanded Simulation Time
  July 14, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Regions, #Dates, #Simulation Framework, #Progress Update

  This weekend I started adding super regions, which will are just regions that are composed of other regions, or subregions. This is in part needed to be able to partition the bigger biome regions into... Continue reading
• Improving Region Borders
  July 07, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Regions, #Progress Update

  This weekend I continued working on the region border generation algorithm, and I managed to get it to a decent state. For reference, here's an image from the previous weekend showing how things where... Continue reading

  
• Covering Holes
  June 30, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Regions, #Progress Update

  This weekend I worked on the new region generation algorithm. I started by cleaning up the old algorithm and disabling most of the code I rushed in during the last steps of the last release to try to... Continue reading

  
• Redefining Regions
  June 23, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Progress Update, #Regions, #Tribal Migration

  This weekend I spent some time working on how to approach the development of tribal migrations. The current idea is to make migration patterns goal oriented. So, for example, a tribe that prefers livi... Continue reading
• Tribal Migrations
  June 16, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Decisions, #Modding, #Tribal Migration

  Finally I can say the Decision Mods feature is done (for now). I ran the simulation multiple times this last weekend and found a bunch of new bugs that I managed to fix before Sundays' end of day. The... Continue reading
• Fixing Decision Mod Bugs and Planning Ahead
  June 09, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Modding, #Decisions, #Stances, #Migrations, #Progress Update

  I have been testing the demand influence decision mod for most part of the weekend by running the decision within the simulation and fixing bugs as I find them. The biggest bug I fixed this weekend ha... Continue reading
• Finishing up Decision Mods (for now)
  June 02, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Decisions, #Modding, #Progress Update

  Almost done with the clan demands influence decision set. I completed the response decision and fixed a bunch of bugs along the way. Though there's still a pesky bug remaining. Plus I need to do some... Continue reading
• Demand Influence Decision
  May 26, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Decisions, #Modding, #Progress Update

  Still working on the clan demands influence decision set. I already converted the decision that lets a clan demand influence from the dominant clan on a tribe, or avoid doing so. Making the demand wil... Continue reading
• Translating Hardcoded Decisions
  May 19, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Decisions, #Events, #Modding, #Event Messages, #Progress Update

  The event that triggers the clan demands influence decision chain is more or less complete and I have already started working on the first of the two decisions involved. I hadn't visited the old cod... Continue reading
• Not so Successful Tests
  May 12, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Modding, #Decisions, #Progress Update

  The plan this weekend was just to do some tweaking on the clan split decision mod and then start working on the rest of the decisions. But right away some big issues related to mod properties popped... Continue reading

  
• Successful Tests
  May 05, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Modding, #Decisions, #Progress Update

  Testing of the decision mod feature continued this week and things are looking good so far. I managed to fix a bunch of issues and stabilize the the simulation now running with the fully integrated cl... Continue reading

  
• Testing Decision Mods
  April 28, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Progress Update, #Modding, #Decisions, #Events, #Testing

  The integration of mod events and decisions is basically done. All the code needed is in (without counting subsequent code fixes). Though to confirm everything works as expected I need to do a lot of... Continue reading
• Mod Versioning
  April 21, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Modding, #Events

  The integration process continues. This week I mostly worked on the integration of event mods and event generators into the simulation. For that I tried to repurpose a great deal of the code I created... Continue reading
• Resolving Decisions
  April 14, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Decisions, #Modding, #Progress Update

  The integration process is more than halfway done, with most of the biggest hurdles already being taken care off. This weekend I worked on the code that allows the AI, or a human player, to pick a cho... Continue reading
• Triggering Decisions
  April 07, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Decisions, #Modding, #Events, #Progress Update

  The work on the integration of modded decisions is still ongoing. This week I worked on the way events are going to trigger decisions. This involves making sure that an event passes all appropriate pa... Continue reading
• Assigning Splitting Faction Core Groups
  March 31, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Modding, #Decisions, #Faction Splitting, #Progress Update

  The start of the integration process for decision mods has been more complicated than I could have anticipated. There are a bunch of aspects of the original hardcoded implementation of the split clan... Continue reading
• Refactoring
  March 24, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Decisions, #Modding, #Progress Update

  This weekend I was working on exposing faction properties through the modding framework so that they could be accessed through scripts. In doing so I noticed it took me a quite a lot of time just to... Continue reading
• Decision Mods Integration
  March 17, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Decisions, #Modding, #Progress Update

  The decision mod loader is almost done. The last two missing parts, descriptions and options , are finished, and I started running a load test for the split clan decision to iron out any remaining i... Continue reading
• Dealing with Descriptions
  March 10, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Progress Update, #Decisions, #Modding

  The work on Context Properties is more or less done. I ended up adding one extra type of property which is just a value property. These properties are designed to resolve directly into values of any o... Continue reading
• Context Properties
  March 03, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Decisions, #Modding, #Properties, #Progress Update

  The work on decision mod parsing has started. I had to do a few redesigns to my original test mod on account of some of the constraints I found while working on event modding, but nothing too major. I... Continue reading
• Decision Text Parsing
  February 25, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #Decisions, #Events, #0.3.4, #Modding, #Progress Update

  The work on event generators is basically done and I created a basic unit test to validate that event mods are loaded and that event generators are properly created from them. I still have to integrat... Continue reading
• Event Generators
  February 18, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Events, #Modding, #Progress Update

  This weekend I worked on, and finished, the event loader that will be used to read and parse event mods. From there, I started working on 'Event Generators'. These are unique simulation objects whose... Continue reading
• Clan Split Event
  February 11, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Modding, #Decisions, #Events, #Cultural Preferences, #Progress Update

  This weekend was spent working on the 'Clan Split Event' mod file and implementing the needed components to get it to work in game. It seems that it's going to take more time than I expected since the... Continue reading
• Done with Expressions (for the most part...)
  February 04, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Expressions, #Progress Update, #Modding, #Decisions

  This weekend I finally managed to implement the last feature for mod expression parsing which was function attributes. It turned out to be much more complicated than expected, having to rewrite quite... Continue reading
• More Expression Parsing...
  January 28, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Expressions, #Progress Update, #Modding, #Decisions

  This will be yet another short quick update. I'm almost done with expression parsing but there are still a few cases that I need to cover... This weekend I added both function parsing and entity attri... Continue reading
• Parsing Expressions
  January 21, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Modding, #Decisions, #Expressions, #Progress Update

  Sorry in advance for the very short and somewhat unexciting dev update. But this was a weekend focused entirely on writing implementation code which doesn't yet produce any interesting results unfortu... Continue reading
• Improved Expressions (Modding)
  January 14, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Modding, #Decisions, #Progress Update

  This weekend I continued working on the prototype for decision modding. There's isn't much to talk about it. Nevertheless, I wanted to spend a few paragraphs explaining a major change to modding comin... Continue reading
• Decisions and Events
  January 07, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.4, #Decisions, #Events, #Progress Update, #Modding

  This weekend I started working right away on the first feature of 0.3.4 which is 'Decision Modding'. For those who haven't read anything about it before, decisions are the main mechanism, though not t... Continue reading
• Worlds 0.3.3.1
  January 01, 2020 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.3.1, #Mac version

  This the public release of version 0.3.3.1 of Worlds - History Simulator. As you can see, the biggest change is that for the first time there's an official (but still experimental) macOS build! Beside... Continue reading
• Almost Done with 0.3.3.1...
  December 25, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.3.1, #Bug-fixing, #Progress Update

  First of all, sorry for the long delayed devlog update. I had some serious technical difficulties while working on the game this weekend that I wanted to solve before writing this. I also wanted to as... Continue reading
• Start Speed Options
  December 17, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #0.3.3.1, #Bug-fixing, #Tweaks

  This weekend I continued working on fixing issues and doing minor tweaks in preparation for release 0.3.3.1. A few of those things I can't talk about yet. But not everything is a "secret". Here's a ve... Continue reading

  
• Density Overlay and Shipbuilding Tweaks
  December 10, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #Bug-fixing, #Progress Update, #0.3.3.1, #Graphics, #Shipbuilding

  This weekend I continued the work on 0.3.3.1 by fixing some UI issues and improving some overlays and behaviors. Here's a short summary: Fixed: “Set initial population” dialog appearing on loaded... Continue reading

  
• 0.3.3 Hotfix 1
  December 03, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #Bug-fixing, #version 0.3.3, #Hotfix, #Update

  This weekend I finally got back into the code full time by trying to fix one of the most reported issues for 0.3.3. The issue itself was a bug in the Base Mod, where I mistakenly defined a particular... Continue reading
• ​The 0.3.4 Feature Poll
  November 28, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #version 0.3.4, #feature poll

  The feature poll for version 0.3.4 of Worlds History Simulator is on (find it here ). Here you'll get to choose what will be the last feature to be added for that particular release. The list consists... Continue reading
• 0.3.4 Plan Details
  November 26, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #version 0.3.4, #Planning

  It has been a week since the release of 0.3.3 and things are looking good so far. There are many issues that I need to address before the end of the year though. From application crashes to modding li... Continue reading
• Post 0.3.3 Plans...
  November 19, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #version 0.3.3, #Planning

  0.3.3 is fresh out of the oven. So I'm going to take a few extra hours to relax this week to catch up on some gaming on my own (I have been enjoying Kingdoms and Castles quite a bit during breaks). Th... Continue reading
• Worlds 0.3.3 Release!
  November 18, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #version 0.3.3, #Drainage Basins, #Rivers, #Modding, #Discoveries

  Worlds 0.3.3 is finally public! The game is still currently only available on Windows. But now there's a 32 bit version for those who can't run the 64 bit version (still, 64 bit is the recommended one... Continue reading

  
• Last Tweaks and Fixes
  November 12, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #Bug-fixing, #version 0.3.3, #Progress Update

  This last week I spent time tracking down and fixing a bunch of nagging issues. My main goal was to eliminate a bunch of sporadic game crashes that have been reported by players in the past. Unfortuna... Continue reading
• Modding Bugs and Fixes
  November 05, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #Bug-fixing, #Discoveries, #Map Editor, #Localization, #Modding, #Simulation, #version 0.3.3

  The editor rework needed to fix drainage regeneration was finally completed early this weekend. With that, I moved ahead and fixed the other big issue plaguing this release which was a localization bu... Continue reading
• Drainage Regeneration Woes
  October 29, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #Bug-fixing, #Drainage Basins, #Map Editor, #version 0.3.3

  As I mentioned a few weeks back, this weekend I made a trip that cut my dev time by a lot. Nevertheless I tried to compensate by working a few extra hours mid-week. Though I ended up spending most of... Continue reading

  
• Bugfixing the UI and the Editor Again...
  October 22, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #Map Editor, #Bug-fixing, #version 0.3.3, #User Interface, #thodogantu

  This will be a short log entry even though a lot of work was done the previous week... A bunch of bugs were fixed but another bunch of new ones appeared to replace them, keeping things rather balanced... Continue reading
• Fixing Map Editor Bugs
  October 15, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #Map Editor, #version 0.3.3, #Progress Update, #Bug-fixing, #User Interface

  This weekend I mostly worked on fixing issues within and around the Map Editor. There were a bunch of issues that I introduced when working on drainage basins that I didn't previously had a chance to... Continue reading

  
• Animated Textures and Bug Fixing
  October 08, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #Drainage Basins, #Shaders, #Progress Update, #version 0.3.3, #Graphics

  This week I managed to solve all the issues I had with the Unity3D Editor(s). That involved switching back and forth between editor versions until I settled with the latest Unity3D beta, which, ironic... Continue reading
• Technical Difficulties
  October 01, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #Drainage Basins, #Secret, #Progress Update, #version 0.3.3, #Technical Difficulties

  This time I wanted to showcase a very minor secret feature I have working on for the past few weeks. But this weekend I had to deal with some annoying technical difficulties within Unity3D. It's proba... Continue reading

  
• Some Discovery Changes, and "Glaciers"
  September 24, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #Modding, #Rivers, #version 0.3.3, #Progress Update

  What a weekend. Thanks to a very funny video by GrayStillPlays that shocases many of the features (and shortcomings) of the game, I got an unexpected amount of attention from the internet and a lot o... Continue reading
• River Region Attributes and Elements
  September 17, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #Drainage Basins, #version 0.3.3, #Terrain Generation, #Regions, #Rivers

  This weekend was spent working on multiple things at the same time. I tweaked both the terrain generation algorithm (again) and the rainfall generation algorithm so that high mountains have a larger c... Continue reading

  
• Editor Brushes and Rivers
  September 10, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #Drainage Basins, #Terrain Generation, #Rivers, #version 0.3.3, #Map Editor, #Progress Update

  Late again with the weekend update, but this time I made some extra cool content to show: Most of the weekend was spent trying to get rivers to work with the altitude and rainfall brushes. It was a pa... Continue reading

  
• Improved Terrain Generation and River Strength
  September 03, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #Rivers, #Progress Update, #version 0.3.3, #Terrain Generation, #Map Editor

  As I mentioned last week, this time I tried to improve terrain generation with hopes that river flow would improve. The most relevant thing that I did was to tweak the continental mass generation form... Continue reading

  
• Better Rivers
  August 26, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #Drainage Basins, #version 0.3.3, #Rivers, #Progress Update

  Last weekend I said I was done with the river generation algorithm... I wasn't. I couldn't help myself and went back to it. I was deeply unsatisfied with the algorithm in multiple ways. It was too slo... Continue reading

  
• Rivers, Lakes and Erosion
  August 19, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #Drainage Basins, #Rivers, #Progress Update, #version 0.3.3

  This weekend I mostly focused on improving the drainage basin generation algorithm and adding river and lake biomes, plus I ended up adding "erosion" as terrain generation mechanic. Here a bunch of sc... Continue reading

  
• Drainage Basins
  August 12, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #Progress Update, #Drainage Basins, #Rivers, #version 0.3.3

  I managed to use a bit of free time during the week to add some extra event conditions and complete the discovery modding feature for the next release. So this weekend I started working on the last fe... Continue reading

  
• Rudders, Keels and Fishing
  August 05, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #Discoveries, #version 0.3.3, #modding, #Progress Update

  This weekend I added two shipbuilding related discoveries: Rudders and Keels . The rudders discovery acts pretty much in the same way as sailing in that it increases the progression limit for shipbu... Continue reading
• Terraced Irrigation, Slash-and-Burn, and some Extras...
  July 29, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  I added this weekend two new discoveries: terraced irrigation , and slash-and-burn . The first increases arability in hilly terrain and the second does the same in wood covered terrain. Both depend... Continue reading

  
• New Discoveries and a Change of Plans
  July 21, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #Progress Update, #discoveries, #version 0.3.3, #Modding

  This weekend I completed the implementation of the tribalism discovery as part of the base mod and did a code cleanup of all discovery related code within the simulation, compacting 12 discovery-relat... Continue reading
• Plant Cultivation and Tribalism
  July 15, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #Progress Update, #version 0.3.3, #Modding, #Discoveries

  This weekend I finished the base mod implementation of sailing and also added the mod implementation of plant cultivation . I'm halfway through the implementation of tribalism , which is the last of... Continue reading
• Successful Runs, Redesigns and Sailing
  July 08, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #Progress update, #Discoveries, #version 0.3.3, #modding

  Discovery modding is progressing with just a few hiccups here and there. This week I managed to make the first crash-free simulation run using a modded discovery (boat making) and, thankfully, the sim... Continue reading
• Messing up Discoveries
  July 01, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #Progress update, #modding, #version 0.3.3, #discoveries

  This progress update is going to be a little bit rushed since I have to deal with many real-life issues this week. So sorry in advance for the lack of details. I'm still working on integrating modded... Continue reading
• Modding Discoveries (part 3)...
  June 24, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #Progress Update, #version 0.3.3, #Modding, #discoveries

  Finally, after multiple tries and rewrites, I'm finished dealing with terrible regular expressions and was able to parse a sample discovery mod file. There will be some limitations on how to write val... Continue reading
• Modding Discoveries (part 2)...
  June 17, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #Progress Update, #modding, #discoveries, #version 0.3.3

  I spent a great deal of my free time this weekend working on parsing discovery mod files. Still, though I wrote quite a bit of code, I'm not completely done with this. One of the drawbacks of using JS... Continue reading
• Modding Discoveries...
  June 10, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #Progress Update, #Modding, #Discoveries, #version 0.3.3

  This weekend I have been mostly spending time thinking and writing event modding design documents. I still managed to write quite a bit of code but nothing I can brag about yet. The main thing is that... Continue reading
• Toward Event Modding
  June 03, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #Progress Update, #version 0.3.3, #Events

  Finally I can declare the 'Layers' feature to be done for 0.3.3. There are still many things that can be done to add functionality to layers but these will come over time as part of improvements in ot... Continue reading
• Layer Brush
  May 27, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #Progress Update, #version 0.3.3, #Map Editor

  Turns out adding a brush to paint 'layers' was much more troublesome than I expected it to be. The biggest complication came from the fact that, internally, layers are a completely different beast tha... Continue reading

  
• Layers, and the 'Weird Biomes' Mod
  May 20, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #Progress Update, #Modding, #version 0.3.3

  This weekend I focused on finishing up the 'Layers' mini-feature and also creating a mod that would allow me to test not only layers but all other moddable components added so far. First lets talk a l... Continue reading

  
• Activating Mods
  May 13, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #Progress Update, #Modding, #version 0.3.3

  The mod support framework is basically done. In the next version it will be possible to load multiple mod folders into the game before a new world is created through a modified generate world dialog:... Continue reading

  
• Modding Region Attributes and Elements
  May 06, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #progress update, #modding, #version 0.3.3

  This week I had a bunch of extra time and ended up doing a lot of work on the mod support front for biomes. The attached images are a preview of what can be done with them. Though with this particular... Continue reading

  
• Modding Biomes...
  April 29, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #Progress Update

  I have, more or less, started working on implementing biome modability for the next version. Though I went on a long tangent at the beginning of the weekend that culminated on the release of hotfix 0... Continue reading
• Hot-Fix Update (ver 0.3.2.2)
  April 28, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #Update

  This is a minor update that tries to improve a couple of things in Worlds 0.3.2.1: UI scaling: A new option has been added to the settings which allows players to rescale the UI on resolutions larger... Continue reading

  
• Onto 0.3.3...
  April 22, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  #Progress Update, #Planning

  Now that 0.3.2 is out of the way it is time to start working on 0.3.3. For those who are unfamiliar with my development schedule, I mostly work on the project during the weekends. Though I take some t... Continue reading
• Preparing for public release
  April 20, 2019 by DrTardigrade

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  Just updated the release version to 0.3.2.1. Functionally, there's no difference. But I managed to compress the Milky Way skybox and now the download is just 30MB. I also updated the game page and upl... Continue reading