Macrocosm

Devlog

• Engine Update
  March 30, 2024 by kwgames#Bug Fixes, #Engine development

  This update addresses a major issue in the stability and performance of the procedural generator. There was a flaw in the way memory management was being handled in the procedural map generator and it... Continue reading
• New year update
  January 14, 2024 by kwgames

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  #Future Plans

  Update for the new year Two years have passed since I began full-time work on Macrocosm. From the start, Macrocosm has been a bootstrap project with myself as the sole developer. Throughout this time... Continue reading
• A small update with some UI changes
  December 13, 2023 by kwgames#UI, #Game Engine

  This is a small update to the engine that adds some quality of life changes and UI improvements and fixes some bugs. Features Controls Menu Now you can look up at the hotkeys and mouse controls on the... Continue reading

  
• NPC Behaviour AI and some bug fixes to the engine
  November 22, 2023 by kwgames#Engine development, #AI

  Summary This latest build fixes a number of bugs in the engine related to rendering and makes some cosmetic changes to the UI. The big change in this latest build is in the NPC AI. I will discuss the... Continue reading

  
• Engine improvements and improving fog of war
  October 19, 2023 by kwgames

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  #Engine development, #Quality of Life, #Art

  A major update to the engine and working on the art A couple of major fixes to the game engine and revisions to the art are introduced in this build. Here are the major changes below. In addition, I w... Continue reading

  
• Adding elevation and caravan system
  September 03, 2023 by kwgames#Engine development, #Gameplay Mechanics, #New Release

  The latest build is (finally) up. Some major changes: Engine now accommodates "2.5D" tiles, entities can now move in elevation with all the associated consequences. A caravan upgrade system has been a... Continue reading
• Adding elevation
  August 04, 2023 by kwgames#Engine development, #Art

  Since the last update I have been making some small content update to the contract system and tweaking the UI. But this isn't what I wanted to discuss today. Underneath the hood there has been some si... Continue reading

  
• Cleaning up the UI and smoothing out the jank
  June 28, 2023 by kwgames#Bug Fixes, #UI

  A solo project has a lot of bugs and a lot of jank. These are the facts of life I have come to discover. So here is the latest iteration. Gameplay Food now spoils over time. Add more variety of food... Continue reading

  
• Developing caravan mechanics
  June 15, 2023 by kwgames#Gameplay Mechanics, #Brainstorming

  Survival Management Gameplay There are four basic attributes that your caravan needs to manage in the game world: Food - your company requires subsistence daily. Currency - you buy and sell goods in c... Continue reading

  
• Bug fixes and quality of life
  May 26, 2023 by kwgames#Bugs, #Quality of Life

  Bug fixes Fixed an issue where the map tiles would not render when moving orthogonal to the map edge. Fixed an issue with fog of war not rendering when moving near the edge of maps. Fixed issue where... Continue reading
• Updating the engine
  May 19, 2023 by kwgames#Engine development

  TLDR: I updated the game engine to separately render the user interface and game world to better handle different screen resolutions - this should allow smoother graphics and sharper fonts in-game whe... Continue reading
• Initial Windows prototype is up
  May 16, 2023 by kwgames#Windows version

  After fiddling around and getting my hands on a Windows 10 machine I managed to compile and build what is hopefully a viable Windows build. The executable should launch from cmd or directly by double... Continue reading
• An introduction and first prototype release
  May 09, 2023 by kwgames#Engine development

  When I started this project about one and half years ago with madman ambitions I was adamant from the beginning that I would roll my own engine. Therefore, a big part of the development of Macrocosm h... Continue reading
• The webpage launches!
  May 02, 2023 by kwgames#Launching the website

  It's a long time in the coming but after 1.25 years of work at 1 FTE/year - I am finally launching the public website for the game that I have worked on. I will try to post to this blog regularly to h... Continue reading