To address some concerns I had that the environmental aspects had been being neglected while I worked on fundamentals for the city building mechanics, I spend lunchtime improving the terrain.

As well as working on expanding flora variety with more proc-gen plants, there is now explicate ecotone support, creating more variation in behavior based on terrain height, particularly around tree coverage at altitude and proximity to water.

https://microstate.neocities.org

#indygame

Create cities! Burn them to the ground!

Lament that fire stations haven't been added yet. (Sorry.)

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What other disasters are worth including?

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Added a fire to https://microstate.neocities.org to allow Trogdor #Burninating roleplay which makes it an RPG now, I guess?

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Je ne sais pas si vous saisissez la subtilité de la dinguerie que c'est de pouvoir GRIND en train...

#denshattack #iliketrains #indygame

Every so often i always circle back and try to work on environments. This is a few previews of a appartment scene i was working on a while ago. Abandoned for now, but might return to it #Blender #IndyGame #3DModeling #apartment #envrionment #indie #gamedev

#blender #indiegame #indy #3dmodeling

Last night I finished adding batching / chunking, for a huge performance boost on https://microstate.neocities.org

Even with managing canvas and memory usage, it's easy to cause Chrome on Windows and Chromebook to crash (literally, the entire tab will visibly crash and silently, but visibly, reload, with no errors or warnings) and not sure what to do about it yet.

It doesn't come up as an issue on Android because the view portal is smaller, and Chrome and Safari on Mac are rock solid.

#indygame

We've mostly been focused on moving house this week, after being derailed a bit by getting norvovirus and being out of action for a few days.

I did manage to spend some time fixing up touch device support (gestures for pinching and zooming, panning, dragging, etc) on https://microstate.neocities.org though.

It's much easier to test and play with on a phone or tablet now - though I have only tested it on Windows, Mac, Android with Firefox, Chrome, Safari - not tried it on iOS yet.

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