{"id":3606,"date":"2015-01-16T20:35:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T10:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=3606"},"modified":"2015-01-18T20:20:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T10:20:25","slug":"mmorpg-tycoon-2-milestone-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2015\/01\/16\/mmorpg-tycoon-2-milestone-8\/","title":{"rendered":"MMORPG Tycoon 2 Milestone 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATE: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/2015\/01\/18\/milestone-8-1\/\">An updated Windows build has been posted<\/a>.\u00a0 Please use that build instead of this one.<\/p>\n<p>Here it is, a day early;\u00a0 milestone 8, the &#8220;everything outside the game&#8221; milestone.\u00a0 Mostly what you&#8217;ll find in this build is an outside-of-game structure including a startup sequence, a title screen, credits, a loading screen, etc.\u00a0 The Windows build has also received a lot of love, including a fixed application icon, an installer (and uninstaller), and saving files into OS-correct locations.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Notable changes:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Now have a brief (and rather placeholder) startup sequence. (Skippable by mouse click)<\/li>\n<li>Added a title screen, where game modes can be chosen.<\/li>\n<li>Added an options dialog, which provides *some* options.\u00a0 (Note:\u00a0 video options require a restart.\u00a0 Not yet providing access to resolution options.)<\/li>\n<li>Simple credits scroll, accessible from the title screen.<\/li>\n<li>New loading screen and transition into the game.<\/li>\n<li>First-pass at a system for supporting game tutorials. Very simple example tutorial in place now, accessible through the Scenarios interface.<\/li>\n<li>Game camera now behaves more reasonably in tricky situations while zoomed in.<\/li>\n<li>Quest editing interface now opens and closes automatically as NPCs are selected\/deselected.<\/li>\n<li>No longer intentionally drops to 10fps when the game window is moved to the background. (We do still intentionally drop to 10fps if the window is actually minimised)<\/li>\n<li>Now supports disabling HighDPI\/Retina rendering, on HighDPI\/Retina screens.\u00a0 (Often useful if the device&#8217;s GPU can&#8217;t quite keep up with its actual number of pixels)<\/li>\n<li>As a test, when placing a building the mouse wheel is used to rotate the building, instead of zooming the view.\u00a0 The &#8220;click and drag&#8221; interface to set a building&#8217;s facing works as well, the same way it worked in Milestone 7.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Fixes:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Removed the visible &#8216;selection circle&#8217; which used to be visible when a region was selected.<\/li>\n<li>Support for non-animated cursor.<\/li>\n<li>Towns can now be destroyed after having been placed.<\/li>\n<li>No console window on Win32.<\/li>\n<li>Game icon now works on Win32.<\/li>\n<li>Window title is now set properly.<\/li>\n<li>When a build tool is active, its building outline is no longer drawn in the world when the cursor is over a GUI item.<\/li>\n<li>First &#8220;End of day&#8221; summary now correctly reports that it was Day 1, not Day 2.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a lot of crashes and other issues around destroying buildings which were pointed to by quests, or destroying NPCs which had given PCs quests.<\/li>\n<li>NPCs can&#8217;t be placed in a region which has no respawn point. (With no active buildings int he region, they would end up in an infinite loop trying to generate their initial set of quests)<\/li>\n<li>Fixed spurious &#8220;and return&#8221; string in the quest editing interface, for quests which don&#8217;t require returning to the quest giver to turn in.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Technical changes:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Now using PhysFS for file loading\/saving<\/li>\n<li>All water ripples are now drawn using a single instanced draw.<\/li>\n<li>All clouds are now drawn using a single instanced draw.<\/li>\n<li>Initial game map generation now runs in a background thread;\u00a0 all still runs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Otherwise, this build is very much like the Milestone 7 build.\u00a0 It is not yet a fully playable vertical slice, but it&#8217;s getting close.<\/p>\n<p>If this is the first build you&#8217;ve looked at, you can use the in-game tutorial to learn some of the controls, but mostly you&#8217;ll need to rely on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/2014\/12\/07\/mmorpg-tycoon-2-milestone-7\/\">the first-time instructions from Milestone 7<\/a>;\u00a0 they all still apply.<\/p>\n<h2>Download links:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><del>Win32 build<\/del> (updated build available:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/2015\/01\/18\/milestone-8-1\/\">see here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/downloads.vectorstorm.org\/MT2_MS8_OSX.dmg\">OSX build<\/a> (requires OS X Yosemite)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Have a play, and I&#8217;d be quite grateful if you&#8217;d let me know how well it works for you, either in a comment here, or directly via e-mail.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, everyone!\u00a0 Now it&#8217;s time for me to start thinking about what&#8217;s coming in MS9.\u00a0 I&#8217;m thinking that save game support is a pretty big requirement, so that might be next.\u00a0 Also, I have some big improvements in mind for how towns and grinding zones are created.\u00a0 More details on that in the next day or two, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: An updated Windows build has been posted.\u00a0 Please use that build instead of this one. 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