The Evolutionary Boid – Part Three

More combat/gameplay development! If you can’t stand my drawl, then read on… This episode sees improved ‘target awareness’ and predictive firing, so now these pesky NPC pilots are becoming a bit more of a challenge/threat. The entire system is proving… Read More »

Design & Development Delights

Man, I am so enjoying Dom Dev at the moment 🙂 Rounding off the initial Pilot / NPC AI, Collision detection and basic combat has spurned on a lot of changes to the UI which have been long planned, or… Read More »

The Mounts Return

Just a tiny update – but a momentous one, for me. Vessel mounts (turrets) are now back up and running! Whilst I had resolved the pilot/vessel orientation logic, I had unwittingly broken the turret orientation logic 🙁 For now, rather… Read More »

Game of Progress

Some good progress this past few weeks… Gameplay: The ‘Pirates’ game scenario is proving invaluable for ironing out kinks in the Pilot AI, and also highlighting UI concerns which will need addressing (such as the scanner depiction of how near… Read More »

Cue Gameplay…?

It’s been hard to find spare time for Dom Dev of late, hence the dry spell of updates here, but good news… With the collision detection now in (and not perfect, but well engineered and adequate to the task) gameplay… Read More »