It's time for an update on what we're doing! This was supposed to be posted yesterday as an end of the week, beginning of a new week thing, but there was a lot of editing happening.
A Big Thank You
First off, I would like to say thank you to all who has wishlisted our game. It feels good! That being said every week we're going to try and post a news update. This way all of you are still in the loop and don't feel discouraged about us and how we operate.
Update #1
In this update we've hired a sound artist for in-game sounds and GFX artist for the Store Page and our company logo. With new sound additions, I've also been doing optimizations and a bit more polishing to the audio for a better experience!
Side note: I forgot all about adding the different Dwarf body types. This was supposed to be added before store page went public. I do apologize! This has been added and in the video below you can see all the new additions!
I most definitely believe in first impressions and I'm trying to deliver on them!
Sound
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Additions
- Added Dwarf Walking Sound
- Added Dwarf Mining Sound. There's four unique sounds for both soft materials and hard materials.
- Added Dwarf Attack Hit Sound.
- Sounds created for: Background Music, Furnace, Crusher, Fusion Machine and enemy hit. These are still in the works but they're in! In-Game Audio Let's face it. I've muted idler sounds because they aren't needed, right? Or just plain annoying. To counter this annoyance I'm looking for ways to make it.. well, not annoying.
- When Dwarves are out of camera view it will lower the audio. If far away it will mute the audio for that Entity. More updates to this in the future.
Optimizations
These weren't a major issue, nor a big impact on gameplay. I wanted to polish this so everybody can have a great experience when progressing further.
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Additions
- Added if tiles and entities are out of camera view it will unload those tiles and entities. This was tested with a crazy amount of floors to test performance.
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Fixes
- Fixed Dwarves causing lag due to their collision. This lag was tested with a lot of dwarves in the game to see how performance would do.
- Fixed potential lower framerate when there's a lot of textures being rendered.
- Optimized code for performance.
AI
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Dwarf
- Random Dwarf body type will be randomly selected on spawn.
- Increased Stamina gain to 0.5 per mouse click when clicking on a dwarf as they are resting.
Enemy
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Additions
- Added World Loot to enemies.
- Slimes now drop slime items.
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Fixes
- Fixed error when trying to retrieve enemy's Current Area
General Quality of Life (QoL)
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Additions
- Added hover image so you know what tile you're hovering.
- Made UI buttons bigger and more "Hey, click on me!"
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Fixes
- Fixed Placeable Objects placement.
The video below will show the new sounds and the camera position rendering & audio lowering.
Wishlist Now!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2220570/Dwarves_Mining_Idle/