Category:  Dev

By Mak, July 11, 2015 Comments Off on Docking Complete! Books, Design, Dev, General, News

Phew! It’s been a big week for development in Dominium, so bear with me… Firstly, Insurmountable Odds is now back from it’s guaranteed-honest-guv last proof read. Wendy has spotted more minor errors which I’ll now clean up. I’ve also done… Read More »

By Mak, July 3, 2015 2 Design, Dev, General

I admit I have derailed myself somewhat from the NPC work of getting them to dock en masse, but trust me it’s worthy and with the best intentions at heart 😉 It’s all aligned to getting back to the NPC’s… Read More »

By Mak, June 19, 2015 Comments Off on Never fear, the NPC’s are here… Design, Dev

… well, they are on the way at least 😉 So the past week or so has been about the Non-player Character behaviours. The NPC’s are controlled by Finite State Machines at present, with basic state controllers which will grow… Read More »

By Mak, May 22, 2015 1 Dev, General

Ok, so it probably won’t look quite so ‘awesome’ when you view the video I’m afraid – but it’s helped me out no end already 🙂 I bring you… Buttons! There’s also a brief glimpse of one of the internal… Read More »

By Mak, May 15, 2015 Comments Off on New ‘Articles’ Section! Articles, Dev, General, News

As promised, I’ve knocked out an article on the recent Nebula experiment, complete with pretty pictures, and a video to boot, which is now available in the brand spanking new Articles section! I’ve listed the planned articles, and the one’s… Read More »

Gassing Away…

By Mak, May 6, 2015 Comments Off on Gassing Away… Articles, Design, Dev

Another progress ping… I’ve pretty much stopped doing GUI ‘dev’ for the time being, it’s working as I’d hoped (barring a few minor issues) and it’s now a solid framework to build the rest of the game’s GUI on moving… Read More »

By Mak, April 17, 2015 1 Dev, General

Not much in the way of ‘super-features’ progress, but this past week or so I’ve made great progress with the little time available. I’ve tidied up a number of issues I had with the Map system and the GUI over… Read More »

By Mak, April 6, 2015 Comments Off on Mini Update : GUI, GUI, Gooey… Design, Dev, News

I’m afraid the dullness of the updates continues as I get immersed in the mire of GUI… I’ve worked on many GUI’s in the past, and that experience told me that two rules apply to GUI design/development… 1) you will rarely… Read More »

By Mak, March 25, 2015 Comments Off on Mini Update : Buttons Design, Dev, General

Another progress update on the GUI work of late… The Local Map is in place, and it’s inspired some more design choices which I’ll reveal when I get them in place in a video to show it all off. So far… Read More »

By Mak, March 14, 2015 2 Dev, General, News

Just a quick update – having realised the dev/debug value of plotting routes in the GUI map system in-game, I decided to bring implementing the local system map forward. This will be the ‘RTS’ like tactical scanner/map for the immediate… Read More »

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