According to my issue tracker, I’m currently 78% of the way to the Milestone 4 build (which is about the mechanics of creating roads and towns). That’s close to ready, but almost certainly not close enough to complete it by the end of this week. More likely, I’ll finish it up sometime next week. When…
On my way to the MS4 (“Towns”) milestone, I’ve been working on revamping the user interface for creating roads and paths. Since I’m a big fan of posting screenshots of bugs, here’s a screenshot of the output from the first version of the new road code. It’s supposed to just be a straight dirt road…
One of the big annoyances about working on MMORPG Tycoon 2 is the huge world which gets generated at the start of each new game. The release builds that I put up for people to test are fully optimised by the compiler, and when the game is started, the terrain typically gets built in a…
So in the end, it took me three weeks of vacation, rather than two, to get set to start on independent development. So after those three weeks of rest, I’ve finally started full-time development on MMORPG Tycoon 2 this week. For better or worse, this is now what I’m doing with my time until the…
Image unrelated. One of my pet peeves is games which need to quit and restart when some apparently trivial setting is changed. So when the original MMORPG Tycoon was released, I made an extra effort to make sure that you could change the game’s resolution while the game was running. It worked, but it was…