Hi all, We are back with a working updatable game!
The first of the 3-4 updates rewriting the Gorilla AI and social interactions are live. It is now much clearer the effect on the female gorillas of achieving tasks like feeding, making a nest, achieving loyalty.
A couple of important bug fixes have also been added. Branches for making nests were occasionally disappearing under the terrain, this should no longer happen making it much easier to find branches to build nests.
rescaled the minimap so it is less cluttered and easier to see items close by.
Added nest icon (home) so no longer need the smoke signal on nests.
A couple of nice improvements along with the fixes:-
The terrain is now twice the Size at 4 square kilometres.
Certain errors that have fixed have resulted in a huge increase in frame rate along with denser vegetation. My test machine now runs at an average of 90fps from 60fps
Couple of ideas I am testing:-
Adding icons to make even clearer regarding the troop needs.
Adding a sense button which will then add an outline to items of interest within a radius. Potentially, animals, food, branches, nests. to help locate them.
Adding a call button to any nearby female gorillas.
There is still more progress to be made in regard to player feedback and more interactions. The infant gorillas have a lot more work to be done once you have gotten to the mating stage and they will be the focus of the last AI update once the female Gorillas are finished.
Andy