All of the sudden, Retro-Pixel Castles feels a lot more godlike! Introducing InDev 15 Stable, the long awaited influence update.
This build is a huge landmark, introducing the groundwork to a lot of Retro-Pixel Castle's future features, and finally starting to blend elements of godlikes and village simulations together into one cohesive unit. The influence system is far from completed, this update is just the beginning, but I hope you all enjoy the great new features!
Another major change in this patch is the AI system, the entire AI system was gutted and completely rewritten from the ground up. The new AI is somewhat smarter, more dynamic and overall easier to work on. This new system will allow me to work on much more complicated behaviors in the future that will make them all feel a lot more natural. I've already added many more branches to the AI, and the unstable build testers have already reported it has been a great improvement, so I hope the rest of you enjoy it too!
You can report bugs over at the official website's Support and Bugs Forum, or on the Steam Discussion Board. :)
InDev 15 Change Log
- Added a the new "Influence System", that allows the player to manipulate the game world with various godlike abilities. An influence bar has been added to the top GUI, you will gain Influence (mana) based on how happy your villagers are and you can use the influence points to cast various godlike spells and abilities.
- New Spell: Fire Blast - Will rain down hellfire on the target, aim carefully!
- New Spell: Motivate Land - Will encourage natural resources to rapidly grow in the targeted area.
- New Spell: Flame - Will ignite the targets in the area on fire.
- New Spell: Dissolve - Will dissolve crystals, turning them into essence.
- New Spell: Healing Aura - Will heal all friendly villagers in the target area.
- New Spell: Distract - Will get villagers attention, making them curiously walk over to the target area. Will also do superficial damage if you accidentally hit one of them.
- New Spell: Recall - Teleports villagers or harvested resources in the target area to a safe location inside the village.
- New Spell: Banish - Teleports all the hostile monsters in the area somewhere randomly on the map.
- Mobs can now catch on fire.
- The Fire Bolt tower will now ignite targets it hits.
- Fixed a minor bug detecting buildings and objects in range of a mob returning incorrect values, causing mobs to ignore buildings on occasion.
- Destroying crystal, rather than harvesting it, will now release a little bit of essence.
- Increased the tool tip delay.
- Completely new AI system, rewritten from scratch.
- Villagers who have no home will now attempt to sleep near buildings or walls instead of open fields.
- Villagers now only do work on the range map when building, dismantling, repairing, delivering resources.
- Villagers can now be confused, wandering around not knowing what to do for a little while.
- Villagers can now chat with each other when they're idle.
- Villagers now find mates by chatting with other villagers.
- Villagers who go to visit their mate will now automatically start talking to them.
- Completely rebalanced the happiness system.
- Child birth, coitus, working, being pregnant, carrying resources and many other tasks now consume additional energy and hunger.
- The effects of being stunned are now accumulative and stack.
- Lowered the maximum pack size of skeletons and zombies.
- Reduced the aggro range of all mobs.
- Optimized the combat search behavior.
- Fixed a bug where villagers were incorrectly detecting what building they were near.
- Children now attempt to live with their parents.
- When villagers look for a home they will now visit the home first before claiming it, and then go inside.
- A mob's current task is now displayed in their bottom GUI.
- A mob's current walking path is now displayed when you click on them.
- Flipped the default keys for "Brush up" and "Brush down".
- Updated map "Altaria" and added map "Loom" by Kingroka
- Added map "Captain Cal" by Primoslate
- Added maps "Ocriana" and Treacherous Lands" by Joris De Reus
- Added the unimplemented White Rock terrain.
- Added new resource artwork to match the various terrain colors.
- Added new graphical category tabs for the left and right GUI, replacing the old text-based ones.
- Added some particle effects to the GUI buttons.
- Added a bunch of new mouse cursors.
- A "pause" icon now hovers over paused buildings.
- Added a new music track, "Night is Coming" and "Hereafter Faith".
- Remastered tracks "Pixel Village", "Main Theme" and "Main Theme Piano"