Howdy Parkasaurus Warriors. 2018 has begun and both MT and I hope you’re doing great. One of us got the flu but has fully recovered. Alrighty, down to business.
Alpha Version 2
Everything looks to be on track. We might take an extra week to reach Alpha Ver 2 in order to give a thorough pass on Dino logic. Specifically carnivore behavior – we’re looking to make their demeanor more personable; ie. more like lions at the zoo as opposed to berserk monsters from the movies. (don’t worry, they still eat people)
Update 003 Topics
- Bio-Diversity
- Preview Tool
- Upgrade Sets
Bio-Diversity
We’re hoping players create beautiful diverse exhibits for their Dinos that include a range of fauna and decoration. The earlier version of bio-diversity tried to reward players to achieve the perfect balance between trees : rocks : plants. After designing a few exhibits we quickly found this system stifled the creativity of players. Not cool! Instead we reward players for bio-diversity, but don’t punish players if this is not their prime focus in Parkasaurus. Much better. The bars shown in the image now indicate the amount of each fauna / decoration type in the selected exhibit, and also how many of level 1 types versus level 2 types. Level 2 exhibit type items are researched and give bonuses to Dino happiness among other cool benefits.
Preview Tool
This maybe isn’t the most exciting picture to show – but it is the most exciting for me to work with! We created a tool to create awesome preview pictures (right) for the in-game build menu based off the original 3D models (left). What this means for Parkasaurus is 1) beautiful preview images 2) keeps us on pace to get the game into your hands.
Upgrade Sets
In Parkasaurus you can upgrade a whole range of park buildings and important functional items. This past week we’ve created all the models for these upgrade sets. For example, the admissions booth can be upgraded to Level 2, Level 3. Every upgrade comes with both a visual change AND an increase in park performance. The increase in performance depends on what is being upgraded, so in the case of the admissions booth you can imagine increased performance means serving customers quicker, and having additional booths to accept MORE customers (not shown).
Parkasaurus Warriors!
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Disclaimer: Any crazy features we write about might change by the Early Access version