Fantasy World Simulation 2018.1.0

A Sketch Map

A Region Map

Fantasy World Simulation is a tool to generate maps for (and later simulate) fantasy worlds.

New:

• Added Sketch Map that is drawn by the user.
• Added Region Map that is interpolated from a Sketch Map.
• Added views that show different data (e.g elevation, terrain type) of the same map.
• Added loading & saving of maps.
• Added undo & redo.

Known Issue:

• #16: First time rendering the Region Map takes too long

Pyro Update

Some days ago I found working code of Pyro! Today I uploaded it to GitHub. Here is the link to the source code:

https://github.com/Orchaldir/Pyro

And a screenshoot :

Realm Building Prototype

Another project is a prototype of a realm building game like Civilization or Total War. The prototype concentrates on the map editor.

I choose hexmaps, because I like the way they look and I already used square maps with the roguelikes.

Features of the prototype:

• paint terrain types
• place roads and cities
• define realms(red border)
• rotat- and zoomable 3d camera

Lessons learned:

• don't use 3d cameras for 2d maps
• hexmaps are great for realm maps

Another map style.

Pyro(Python Roguelike)

This time I will talk about one of my old projects. It was a roguelike written in Python.

Here are some of the features:

2D pixelart

I always wanted to make a roguelike with images instead of characters, but where to take the art from? Buy? A friend?

In the end I decided to make it myself. I really liked the art style of Three Hundred Mechanics and started copying it. It was great fun and soon I started drawing completely new creatures.

Here are some examples:

single tile, multiple tiles and snake bodies

It was possible to have huge creatures(giants, dragons, ...) with a body of 2*2, 3*3 or even bigger bodies.

• They couldn't use smaller corridors.
• They had more adjacent cells.

Snakes had one head tile and many body tiles. Think of the old snake games.

behavior trees

Behavior trees are a great way of building your ai out of reusable building blocks.

I had behaviors for attack, flee, patrol, wander and investigate.

Villager: wander or flee
Skeleton: attack
Guard: patrol, investigate or attack

They always pick the behavior with the highest priority: Villagers normally wander around, but if skeletons are near they flee.

If you want to know more about behavior trees, go to http://aigamedev.com.

sensory system

Different creatures had different ways of sensing the world.

Seeing: distance, occlusion
Hearing: distance
Sense Life: distance

Villager and guard: Seeing and Hearing
Skeleton: Sense Life

I even had a wall type, where you could see through, but nor move through(the yellow wall):

I am really sorry that, I can't give more or newer screenshoots or even a playable game, but I don't have a functioning version anymore. I lost the newest version and now even my backups don't work. I don't know why, but hopefully it will run someday again!


Lesson Learned: I now use git, a version control system.