Sapiens

Sapiens

majicDave  [developer] 12 Dec, 2023 @ 12:31pm
Progress Update - 13th Dec 23 - Player names, text navigation
Good Morning, sorry it’s been a while since I’ve posted an update, I’ve been working hard, but it’s just not very interesting work mostly.

Here’s a few things I’ve achieved in the past week:
- New plan scheduler for AI tribes. Orders will now be given to gather food items if an AI controlled tribe starts running out of food.
- Support for multiple dynamic tribe centers, so markers for other tribes can split and move, and you can now click on them as a shortcut to the tribe relationship panel
- Worked on allowing you to select any of your own tribes from the tribe selection map view.
- Added game-wide support for text navigation via the arrow keys in text entry boxes and clicking to change the text entry cursor location
- Made it so that tribes will settle around you over time, and ensure that there are near by tribe locations to choose in multiplayer
- Worked a bunch on the hibernation system with player-owned tribes, testing and bug fixing
- Started working on support for player names, so your Steam name will be associated with you and your tribes in multiplayer, with support for overriding that too.

As you can see in the screenshot[majicjungle.s3.amazonaws.com], this is the map view for choosing another tribe, which you can now use even if you already have tribes in the world. The game knows that the tribe is owned by me, but I’d like it to render the tribe in that view, and if it’s yours, you need to be able to load it from here too. Seems simple, but this stuff is more complex than you might think, especially given backwards compatibility and multiplayer. It also needs to work perfectly, or you might lose a tribe, so it needs a lot of testing too.

So I’m still making good progress, and getting a fair amount of time coding, despite the time of year. Literally top of my list now is the grievance system, so I should be getting back to that again later today or tomorrow, once I finish off tribe selection from the map view.
Last edited by majicDave; 12 Dec, 2023 @ 12:31pm