As the game engine and fundamentals have progressed into a semi-usable state now, it is time to start working on actual gameplay design. So this month has been about continuing engine work on missions and dialogue and also to start planning gameplay!

After a small hiatus in September, due to exam period at university and taking some time off afterwards, I’m back to game development. Let’s have a look at the exciting progress that happened in October.

Today marks the first public release of this game. Below is a download link for this very early development version.

This month has been all about AI & graphics, let’s get started.

How entities like enemies and NPC’s move from A to B is one of the key elements of game AI. For this project I have decided to use navmeshes.

As some of you might already know, there are already two playable super-duper early™ releases of the game ready to be played. Unfortunately these versions cannot simply be made public due to the fact that there might be copyrighted materials in them. I’ve been working on this project for quite a long time now and have not really cared about which (maybe copyrighted) files end up in the folders. That changes now!

Here’s a teaser of the current state of the game…