This week has been productive, and I’m continuing to learn something about game development every day. I’m also doing a lot of work planning for what the final game will be like. There will be strategy. There will be action. And there will be what I think is humor.

Now, and in upcoming posts, I’ll go over what I’ve completed this week, and what I would like to complete by next Tuesday.

Completed Goals:

Multiple Crop System

I had said I would implement a few more crops, but decided against it, and only added one more. I figure if I get the base down with two, the others can easily fall into play. The crop quota is evaluated every month, and now it works when multiple crops are at play. Here’s a look at what the game looks like with corn and wheat in action. And with this extra crop, I needed to make a UI change for planting.

With the planter tool, a popup comes up when a tile is selected.



Enemy Behavior

Previously, the enemies could only come from the east direction, but can now come from all sides. For each month, the amount of days between attacks gets shorter, and the number of enemies that come at once get bigger. Here you can see in Month 5, the enemies are soon going to overrun the farm, and are coming from every direction. ( I know they all appear the same )

Fence Tool Fences actually have what I promised. They are created on farmed tiles, doubles the maintenance cost, and increases the chance of an enemy attack failing. Here you can see two enemies approaching two farmed tiles.

Here you can see that one tile was destroyed, while the other was protected by the fence.



Next Week’s Goals:

Tool Upgrades

-Act on adjacent tiles

-Lower cost of use Tile Upgrades

-Auto Replant

-Auto Harvest The upgrades will be something the player needs to obtain to succeed and simplifies farming gameplay as enemies become more active. New Enemies Unique attacking styles, art, and animations.

I’d like to keep these as a surprise for now. They will be impressive when the art and animation is in place.

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-Ben