Sub-areas

Started working on the sub-areas…

One of the problems with building tools is that you then want to use them everywhere… Some weeks ago, I was content in generating all the maps with procedures (with the exception of the ship, so I did a XML-based system for that):

But it’s boring generating content this way, but only for the ship or some very specific story stuff it was enough… then I made the voxel editor, and I suddenly have a lot of fun creating small scenarios, so I’m pushing it further and further… Initially I just created one simple temple, now I wanted to add something special for the third temple, namely the idea of a sub-area… The player will go into a cave that will have a whole map inside, and that’s awesome!

But it required me to build a lot of new code to support this, but I think it will be worth it… I already have some ideas to add some longevity into the game based on this: exploration goals, which are special areas that might or might not be present in the galaxy… The player will be able to run around the galaxy searching for these (and maybe he’ll get something out of it, I’m not sure).

Anyway, today I finished the outside part of the temple and added the action node and logic to go into the cave (which doesn’t work yet, of course).

It’s much more interesting than the temples I constructed through code…

Next step is building the temple, which will have some different gameplay (not too different, but different).

Now listening to “Elect the Dead” by “Serj Tankian”

Now playing “The Banner Saga”. I finished today “Halo: Spartan Assault” and it was a good experience, not ground breaking (has some similarities with Chrome Hunter, but the targeting is way simpler, since all of the gameplay takes place in a flat plane). “The Banner Saga” is a gorgeous tactical game. I’m just getting started, so nothing really to ‘review’ yet…

Link of the Day: I wasn’t very much into the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie (nor any Michael Bay movie after Transformers 3…), but this trailer got me excited about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwXFsrp6WBs&feature=youtu.be. Still skeptical, though!