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No Feature Friday last week, and no Technical Tuesday either. Both went into getting the playtest ready, which is the first thing to cover. The playtest is open!! Anyone can sign up. There's no application, no form, and nothing to write. Access goes out in batches drawn at random
Welcome back to Technical Tuesday, the counterpart to Feature Friday where we pull back the curtain on how the thing actually works, and occasionally how badly it nearly didn't. Last week was the engine loop. This week is the thing the loop exists for: a few hundred AI merchants
This week was almost entirely one feature. The map editor has had tools for shaping coastlines, placing cities, and decorating the world with sprites. What it didn't have was a way to actually draw on the map - to put a pen to parchment, so to speak. That's what landed this week.
Technical Tuesday #2 - The Beating Heart Welcome back to Technical Tuesday, the counterpart to Feature Friday where we pull back the curtain on how the thing actually works, and occasionally how badly it nearly didn't. Last week I sketched the loop on a napkin: an ordered list of
1,000 Wishlists!!! Argosy hit 1,000 wishlists this week!! For a game that hasn't been announced with any fanfare, has no trailer yet, and is still in early playtesting, that number means a lot. Every one of those is someone who found the game, read what it was about, and decided
Welcome to Technical Tuesday, a counterpart to Feature Friday. Feature Friday covers what's going into the game each week. Technical Tuesday pulls back the curtain on how the thing actually works, and occasionally, how badly it nearly didn't. The goal is something worth reading w
This week was a bit excessive. I finished work on a lot of things which have been in the process of being done. There's a new legal system, a full economy overhaul, deed-based career progression, a trade route rework, an Event Director (lets see if it survives...), a Courthouse,
Feature Friday: Week of June 28 | Playtests, Politics & Ports It's been a busy week behind the scenes, and an even bigger one in the game itself. This is the first of what I'm calling Feature Friday : a weekly look at what I've been working on, what's changing under the hood,
Over 500 Wishlists.... Thats crazy... When i started this project it was more of a pet project than anything else. Now, within a very short time-span we just crossed 500 Wishlists. While I'm aware that this is small in terms of viral games on steam, this is a lot more than i was