Tuesday, August 1, 2023

August, 2023


Testing the new fog of war and destruction tiles and how they look.  Reactivity to battles on a map is important in strategy games.  The tile set has grown so big.  Not only does it include normal and fog of war tiles (which looks better than a tilemap-on-tilemap fog of war) but also destruction tiles, flood tiles, damage tiles, and enough variation in tile types to create cities, towns, settlements, industrial zones, deserts, tundras, arctic, jungle, grassland, etc. etc. etc.  Well over 2000 tiles if not more.  I forgot how much I enjoyed art.

Moon rising hot July 2026

  Another night of testing, modifying, tinkering.  The animation manager is a little wonky in maintaining global animations (like dropped or...