The cavemen can build themselves little houses now, and find their ways around holes in the ground. There’s also a new way of generating rivers, much faster terrain generation and a bunch of other little tweaks and fixes. (Read More...)
This week we can finally build houses! They're still very simple, but they have floors, walls, doorways and a roof, everything a caveman needs to stay warm and dry under the everlasting sunny skies (one day I'll add rain!) (Read More...)
This week I worked on grass and rivers. Initially I just wanted to automatically remove the grass when you build floors. But once I got that working, I got a bit carried away tidying up the grass code and added new grass types, as well a... (Read More...)
Kia ora! This is the first weekly update in 5 weeks. I know. Sorry! I went on a big surfing holiday in Indonesia, and when I go away, everything stops. But I'm back to work now, and I've made some good progress this week. (Read More...)
After finding some music that fitted the game, I realized the UI looked terrible, and gave it a makeover. I also implemented a snapping mechanic for building floors, added new stockpiles, and some new grass. (Read More...)
This week I've mostly been working on stockpiles. One thing I'm keen to avoid in Ambience is any kind of inventory management. So instead of stacks of items in UI slots in chests or baskets, the resources you find, grow, or craft will al... (Read More...)
In this video I show the new mammoth models, changes to the digging and order queuing interfaces, and the new particle engine and light sources. I’ve also added the concept of a selected person, to make it easier to direct them around in... (Read More...)
In this video I show the new interface for modifying the terrain by digging and filling, and show the new experimental dirt floors and branch walls. (Read More...)
In this video I show the new morph target based random face generation, the new concept of hunger, and picking and eating apples from trees. (Read More...)
I’ve been working on the terrain generation again, and this video shows off the new rivers. I’ve also got the cavemen building campfires, one rock/branch at a time. (Read More...)
