A Thousand Years
Update v0.7.0
The highlight on pratically all elements of the UI turned out to be very useful to discover hidden functionalities of the game, for parts that are not yet covered by tutorial or hints. You just need to explore the user interface with the pointer to find out things you didn't know!
Also, a couple of critical bugs were fixed among other quality-of-life fixes and additions (like the map panning speed with keys and the bar on cities to show the upgrade progress).
The complete changelog:
v0.7.0
- Added highlight effect on mouse-over for all interactable elements
- Changed all references to "Shop" in "Upgrades" (to avoid confusion with pay2win mechanics)
- Main Menu, shows how many florins are available near the Upgrades button
- Move panel, city icon can be clicked to open the city panel
- Move panel, added "All right" and "All left" buttons (move all units/items in batch)
- Added progress bar on map when a city is upgrading
- Map panning speed with keyboard (WASD keys) increased
- Sandbox, rebalanced difficulty and portals appearance frequency
- Unit inspector, clicking zoom mini-button when zoom window is open closes the window
- Pause menu now can be closed with Esc
- Fix, campaign, after losing or surrendering, mission params were set to invalid values
- Fix, loading a scenario would result in new towns to have zero depots
- Fix, crash, editing a unit and pressing next/previous city buttons
- Fix, stats, won and lost battles not counted correctly in some cases
- Fix, restored aureole glow effect in unity previews
- Fix, wrong icon layout for lower buttons in battle screen
- Fix, notification title not shown when time for quest was over
Enjoy your time!
-Max
Update v0.6.9
Also, you can now obtain some "years" by completing quests. Since time is a resource like all others in the game (the most important one), you will now lose it while playing but you can also regain back some of the time lost!
Resources and items in loots received some major changes too. You will receive resources that are useful for the current phase of the game, hence you won't receive advanced resources in the initial phase of the game.
If you miss any basic resource (like wood or iron) it's more probable that you will receive them in loots.
Items (weapons, armors, etc), are now grouped by category. So, the items you'll receive can be a pack of magic items (scrolls + potions), weapons or armors + shields. No more totally random items like before.
Here is the complete changelog:
- Resources you find in loots reflect current cities development
- If basic resources are missing you have high probability to find them in loots
- The items you may find in loots are now logically grouped
- Added the possibility to obtain "years" in loots and quests (recovers time)
- Added the possibility to obtain units in loots and quests
- You can rarely find florins (coins) in loots and quests
- The loot category of a structure now may change when game is restarted
- Treasure window layout improved
- UI, city panel, changes in the city's faction owner display
- Added new city and unit names
- Fix, depot level wasn't correctly initialized on loading
Enjoy your time!
-Max
Working on a new faction
Until now, you had to combat against units of the opponent faction in order to capture the structures on map. This was a temporary solution, and the appropriate faction was planned to be made in the future.
The Rogues
So here they are! The rogues are bandits and outlaws. They are banished from cities and that's why they settled themselves in old temples, mines or near ports. They took control of the resources of the place they live in, so they will fight until death to keep them!
Unlike the units that you control, which are very generic, every unit of the rogues have a specific role: there are two warriors, a captain, an archer and a mage.
Finally, at least a new game mode will be based on this new faction. In this game mode you will have to hunt for rogue camps and defeat all of them, while they may have an active role in attacking your cities.
Update v0.6.8
Also, a very cool "blinking" effect has been added in battle when the units are hit. This is very useful in the mess of the battle to understand who is taking damage and who is not.
A lot of polishing and fixes have been done. In particular, a critical saving/loading bug that could cause issues with resources (making impossible to find the wood resource in some cases on map).
Also fixed some bugs related to camera movement while pausing the game.
This is the complete changelog:
v0.6.8
- New villager characters! They run in their homes when battle starts
- Units blink when they take damage by weapon, arrow or magic
- Fix, missing tile data loading maps, could lead to wrong resource generation
- Fix, battle, disappearing units cannot take damage
- Fix, could not zoom camera on map during pause
- Fix, camera intro was blocked in battles during pause
- Fix, battle icon could disappear on map and city panel during pause
- Tutorial, minor changes (added images to the final step)
- Some assets are now preloaded at start and not loaded during game
Have a good time!
Max
Update v0.6.7
I finally introduced a new curve trajectory for arrows and fixed a ton of bugs that were on my backlog for a long time.
Also a critical bug was fixed that was giving units with shield and armor quite unlimited protection...
v0.6.7
- Improved battle UI layout
- Arrows, on launch they make a more natural trajectory
- Game balance, reworked how unit speed works in battles
- Game balance, reworked parry system, rebalanced parry bonus values for items
- Game balance, parry should be more frequent for units with high agility
- Game balance, reviewed weapon damage and protection values for armors
- Game balance, increased city capture speed
- "How to play", added a progress bar
- Fix, character had glitches opening game setup screens (campaign and single mission)
- Fix, when collecting a treasure it would include items owned by the party
- Fix, skeletons were not using correct shader/fx when appearing or disappearing
- Fix, strange behaviours when retreating a party but no city was reachable
- Fix, fixed a bug when pausing a game during battle
- Fix, using shield + armor could have made a unit invincible (!)
Update v0.6.6
- New appearing/disappearing effect for units in battle
- Retreat, units now must reach the battlefield border in order to retreat
- Battle, added notification on unit when ammo is depleted
- Battle, unit level-up is now displayed with a new cool text and rank icon
- Battle, added the name of the city in the UI
- Map, units retreating are now semi-transparent
- AI, improved behaviour with "exclusive" actions
- Added hints with wepon/armor/shield info on mouse over
- Improved bullets handling and damage
- Added protection values to shields
- Rebalanced items parry and protection values
- Fix, retreating units won't stop fighting anymore
- Fix, fixed disappearing fx on shield
- Fix, fixed a potential problem on units when hiding a battle
- Fix, ammo damage was not counted
- Fix, a cancelled and a suspended mission are now treated in different ways
Enjoy your time,
Max
Update v0.6.5
- Fix, survive waves mode freezes once the mission is over
- Florins won cannot exceed the max unlockable items cost
- Fix, now party banners overlap correctly
- Fix, Demon, was too slow in battle
- Sceneries, optimizations and small fixes
- Sceneries, enabled instancing for many materials
- Sceneries, small changes to Woodcutter and Mine
- Darker shadows for main light in sceneries
- Tutorial, new steps, changed some texts
- Tutorial, fixed camera glitch when pointing a city
And a personal note: last year I was so lucky working almost full-time on this project. It was a fantastic year and I was able to make huge progresses on the game. This year things have changed and I had to start a new job as a freelancer. This is why updates and new content will come at a slower pace.
Anyway, the project won't stop and will always keep it's special place in my heart!
Enjoy your time!
-Max
Update v0.6.4
v0.6.4
- New tutorial that explains the basic game mechanics
- Support for aspect ratio resolutions different from 16:9
- "How to play" is not automatically showed anymore on first mission (but is still available in the menu)
- New intro clip scene
- Fixed a bug that was generating too small maps in some mission modes
Game balance
- Now is more hard to get only one depot at the start of the game
Roadmap
https://trello.com/b/tXiJBnBk/a-thousand-years
In the roadmap I defined all the important tasks for the next two main releases (v0.7 and v0.8 in this case) with some info and what is currently in progress. On the roadmap you can find out what is coming next and what is planned for the future.
One of the most interesting things, that is planned for the v0.8, is the introductoin of the heroes and the evocation room.
It's one of the biggest things that still need to be added to the game. I can't wait to start working on that but first we have to fix a lot of other aspetcs of the gameplay and we have to add other contents (like new magic scrolls, the golems, the villagers...) that will come first.
Cheers,
Max
Update v0.6.3
v0.6.3
- parties movement are now more reactive to commands
- defenders in structures are detected from distance (no need to explore them anymore)
- parties now reach and leave from the center of cities
- fixed duplicated depots in enemy cities
- added new map size (tiny)
- added surrender button (system menu)
Game balancing
- more resource randomness added to starting cities
- map size increasing in campaign stages is more gradual