{"id":1535,"date":"2016-02-04T13:22:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T13:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lofigames.com\/?p=1535"},"modified":"2016-02-04T15:24:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T15:24:14","slug":"dev-blog-13-hive-villages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lofigames.com\/ja\/dev-blog-13-hive-villages\/","title":{"rendered":"Dev Blog #13: Hive Villages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we had some server issues with our website, apologies for the inconvenience, but all is fixed and now we&#8217;re back with another progress update for you! The last week or two has mainly involved tweaks and adjustments all round, starting with the environmental stuff&#8230;<\/p>\n<h4>Environment<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Last week we were unable to take many screenshots due to a problem with the lighting &#8211; Sam&#8217;s spent the week balancing this and it&#8217;s\u00a0mostly running nicely now, although water reflection still needs some fixing.\u00a0Oli&#8217;s mostly been\u00a0making minor adjustments to the road terrain, Artery biome foliage and adjustments to the collision on the storm buildings. Other than smaller tweaks and fixes we&#8217;ve finished adding\u00a0and texturing roof cover awnings&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/lofigames.com\/dev-blog-13-hive-villages\/town-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1540\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1540 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/lofigames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Town.jpg\" alt=\"Town\" width=\"698\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lofigames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Town.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/lofigames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Town-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lofigames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Town-1024x560.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lofigames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Town-538x294.jpg 538w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 698px) 100vw, 698px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Plus we now have Hive villages in-game, with their own building types:<a href=\"http:\/\/lofigames.com\/dev-blog-13-hive-villages\/hive-interior\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1537\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1537 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/lofigames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hive-interior.jpg\" alt=\"hive interior\" width=\"701\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lofigames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hive-interior.jpg 1902w, https:\/\/lofigames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hive-interior-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lofigames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hive-interior-1024x530.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/lofigames.com\/dev-blog-13-hive-villages\/hive-village\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1538\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1538 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/lofigames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hive-village.jpg\" alt=\"hive village\" width=\"701\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lofigames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hive-village.jpg 1902w, https:\/\/lofigames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hive-village-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lofigames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hive-village-1024x530.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">At this point we&#8217;ve\u00a0finalized most of Kenshi&#8217;s creatures in game now, this week we finished animating and adding in the Gorrillo:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lofigames.com\/dev-blog-13-hive-villages\/gorillos\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1556\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1556 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/lofigames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gorillos.jpg\" alt=\"gorillos\" width=\"699\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lofigames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gorillos.jpg 1902w, https:\/\/lofigames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gorillos-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lofigames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gorillos-1024x530.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 699px) 100vw, 699px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next up we&#8217;ll be working on another new &#8216;scary&#8217; biome\u00a0and the\u00a0new GUI player map (the first section we&#8217;ll be releasing in our next update is shown in the rectangle area):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lofigames.com\/dev-blog-13-hive-villages\/gui_map\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1541\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1541 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/lofigames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/GUI_Map-e1454585021571.jpg\" alt=\"GUI_Map\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Industry<\/h4>\n<p>Programming-wise, we&#8217;ve mostly been fixing bugs and balancing, however this week Maykol&#8217;s almost finished with the <a href=\"https:\/\/trello.com\/c\/etEyph3U\/250-crafting-bench-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">crafting bench update<\/a>.\u00a0The changes for the latest include saving partial used items for crafting, improving the layout so the item names appear properly, adding an image of the item and changing the item&#8217;s crafting requirement to the specific item.<\/p>\n<p>As a new enemy for farmers, we&#8217;ve also added pest AI for Swamp Raptors to destroy and eat crops &#8211; these walking trash cans will eat just about anything, from rotting corpses to cotton plants!<a href=\"http:\/\/lofigames.com\/dev-blog-13-hive-villages\/kroone\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1539\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1539 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/lofigames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kroone.jpg\" alt=\"Swamp raptor\" width=\"699\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lofigames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kroone.jpg 1902w, https:\/\/lofigames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kroone-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lofigames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kroone-1024x530.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 699px) 100vw, 699px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Better keep on your toes and protect your crops \ud83d\ude09<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we had some server issues with our website, apologies for the inconvenience, but all is fixed and now we&#8217;re back with another progress update for you! The last week or two has mainly involved tweaks and adjustments all round, starting with the environmental stuff&#8230; Environment Last week we were unable to take many screenshots due to a problem with the lighting &#8211; Sam&#8217;s spent the week balancing this and it&#8217;s\u00a0mostly running nicely now, although water reflection still needs some fixing.\u00a0Oli&#8217;s mostly been\u00a0making minor adjustments to the road terrain, Artery biome foliage and adjustments to the collision on the storm buildings. Other than smaller tweaks and fixes we&#8217;ve finished adding\u00a0and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[35,80,98,11,45,117,118,119,41,39,85],"class_list":["post-1535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progress-announcements","tag-3d-design","tag-bestiary","tag-biomes","tag-buildings","tag-crafting","tag-creature-design","tag-farming","tag-map-gui","tag-progress","tag-town-building","tag-world-map","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lofigames.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lofigames.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lofigames.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lofigames.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lofigames.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lofigames.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lofigames.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lofigames.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lofigames.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lofigames.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}