Shamefurrrrl dispray…
sad though because this does indeed look awesome!
It’s…it’s…not dead!
Before I dig into the details let me assure you that you will have your hands on That Which Sleeps in the next few months. Now that I’ve completely gutted the prior ambitious simulation we’re left with a much more tried and true solution to robust AI needs - meaning that at worst case we’re looking at the AI making some dumb decisions as opposed to the entire simulation collapsing. The silver lining is that in the time that has passed I’ve spent a lot of time refining some of the other components as well as continuing to cram the game full of content.
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Alright, that’s all for now. It’s been a rocky ride but it’s coming to an end soon - I’ve worked myself to the bone making this as great a game as it can be so I hope you all find that the anxiety we’ve all experienced has been worth it.
I have only a vague idea what is going on in any of these, but it still looks amazeballs!
Strategic View: Nations:
Main UI:
Base Character Personality:
Ancient Powers
I was shocked to see the email update this morning, I figured it was going to be a “sorry we failed” update.
I mean a good chunk of the opening was, more or less “So the insane AI system we’ve been toiling away on for years and talking up most of that same time actually doesn’t work because it is, in fact, insane. We’re recoding in a normal AI now that sometimes does dumb shit. Sorry :-D”
Which is fine, btw. But the project’s undergone a pretty significant rescope. Which is probably even for the better. Simulating an entire world in the way they were talking about for awhile there was just. . . nutballs.
But if they can manage to scrape all the awesome art assets and procedural stuff they’ve always had together with a halfway entertaining AI to string it all together, I’m still 100% in!
I would love to believe this. I truly would.
Unfortunately, this developer has been telling flat out lies for years. We were told of the delightful emergent gameplay experienced by the alpha play testers. Who did not exist. We were told in 2014 they had a working game - which did not in fact exist.
One of the two partners has left, and I address his comments in my article -
Listen, guys. This game is never, ever happening.
Yes, it is- and has been from the very start- 100% fetch.
And as a surprise twist, there is a game that is happening.
You see, one of the guys waiting for this game, a forum-goer in SA, got fed up and decided to make his own little game with the same theme.
And now he has done a KS
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1677505065/shadows-behind-the-throne/description
The big difference, apart from looking much more “amateur indie” and like a smalle scale/less ambitious game, it’s that it’s playable already, he has a demo
Heh, I was just considering posting about this. Have you tried the minigame, Turin?
I have, and despite a manual, (written) tutorial, and starters guide, I was totally baffled by what I should be doing and why. From the description it sounds like it could be a decent game, but they definitely need someone not so close to the game to go through everything and make it more approachable.
That said, once my show is over next week and I’m not quite so busy/stressed I may take another crack at it.
Maybe discussed elsewhere, but I’ve been gone for the last week.
Claims they will be posting videos every week until the undisclosed release.
Yeah seems we have 2 threads for it… :p