GameWarp

I rewrote the way in which the observe layouts work fully. The primary aim was visible to make curves, nicely, curves somewhat than sharp angles on the center of a hex. However as a aspect impact, it was now viable to permit tracks to cross. I initially thought that the constraint of not permitting such crossings would result in fascinating selections, however after some check video games I believe the additional freedom might be truly a plus. So it is staying in, despite the fact that that’ll imply some further work.

I attempted a few totally different approaches to producing terrain textures (dynamically in my very own code, externally with numerous node-based texture editors), and did not love both method. The outcomes clearly aren’t nice, however they have been sufficient for me to appreciate that the textures must be actually refined to not hurt readability of the sport state. The forest and the swamp have been the one remotely usable ones, and neither goes to remain. I will most likely want to take a look at outdated (board) wargames for inspiration on non-intrusive terrain textures, and determine easy methods to replicate them.

I would be actually thinking about any suggestions on good of ideas and methods docs or movies on utilizing procedural texture turbines.

On the gameplay aspect, I made some rule tweaks to make selections round when to construct observe much less random (and to make scheduling future observe builds simpler). Mainly within the recreation, a 7% curiosity in your debt is due each 10 seconds. Should you run out of cash, you mechanically take extra debt. What would occur is that you simply wish to construct observe that is going to price $50, and wait to your money steadiness to tick to say $53 so that you simply’re lined for not solely the price of the observe however the subsequent curiosity fee. Besides you needed to form of guess at how a lot over $50 you wanted to be, and guessing mistaken would simply imply a tedious undo and attempting a unique timing. So I modified the foundations such that in case you go to a (small) detrimental money steadiness as a result of an curiosity fee, it does not set off a right away mortgage.