Age of Pixels
Christmas Update!
<*> Added the Christmas Tree prop.
<*> Reduced the amount of pink trees.
<*> You can no longer see information about things covered by the transparent fog of war.
<*> Workers and Rejects now move slightly slower.
<*> Rejects now work as fast as Workers.
<*> Slight performance improvements.
<*> Bugfixes.
The work on campaigns has started!
The end of Early Access is nigh my friends!
Stay tuned and Enjoy!
Final touches!
- Added Comments to Map editor, text that can only be seen in the editor and won't be shown ingame, useful for advanced maps.
- Triggers marked with "Starts Active" != 0 will now be activated after "Starts Active" seconds.
- Added move camera trigger (controlled).
- Added Discover trigger, it clears out the Fog of war in it's area (controlled)
- Added more resource color/sprite variants.
- Improved and optimized resource generation.
Enjoy!
Control
- Added activator trigger, it can activate controlled triggers by ID.
- Added Controlled triggers.
- Added Door trigger.
- Added Spawner trigger.
- Improved trigger control clicking
- Small performance improvements.
- Bugfixes
Also, the story has been written, expect the main campaign SOON™
Efficency & polish update!
With this pretty hefty update the Engine level stuff is all done, also almost all the planned triggers have been added along with other improvements to a lot of stuff.
Also, We have a main theme now! Yay!
Anyway, here's what changed:
- Added an option to set the AI difficulty in the gameplay options.
- Added sound for dialogue triggers.
- Major trigger performance improvements.
- Greatly expanded active trigger capabilities by implementig a sort of "Permission" System and a Reset system.
- Greatly increased the possible amount of triggers in a map, they are now based on a draw budget.
- Added Armor, weapon and Stalagmite props.
- Added 2 new types to the AI: Aggressive (2) and Defensive (3).
- If set on Normal or Hard, the AI will now contextually use unit and hero abilities.
- Made the AI smarter. It will now for example conduct naval invasions and build farms when it can't find any Berry bushes.
- War rafts can now explode.
- Added resource set trigger.
- Added resource add trigger.
- Added resource sub trigger.
- Added unit set stats trigger.
- Added unit add stats trigger.
- Added unit sub stats trigger.
- Added end of level trigger.
- Added parallax effect to main menu.
- Berry bushes can now spawn on the main menu.
- Added main theme.
- Improved the sound quality of all the songs.
- Added a new cursor sprite.
- Minor perfomance improvements.
- The Editor menu now shows unit IDs [(unit_id)].
- Added a Randomize grass option to the Editor.
- Fixed map loading issues.
- Bugfixes
Have fun!
Triggers, Titles & Undeads
Here's what changed:
- Completely remade the triggers system. It is now a lot more powerful and versatile than before.
- Added Text "triggers", they do nothing and don't interact with units, they just show text.
- Rebuilt the tutorial map using the new Triggers system.
- Added Map Title and Subtitle, big text that appears at the start of a map.
- Added Map options to the editor, lets you change the title and the subtitle of the map.
- Added the Undead soldier, a weak barbarian melee type unit that slowly regenerates hp
- Added the Necromancer, a powerful barbarian unit that can harvest the souls of enemy fallen units to create undead soldiers.
- Added the Undead Colossus, a very strong melee barbarian unit that loses hp over time, unless it kills something.
- Added the Occult Temple, a barbarian building that spawns Necromancers and Undead colossuses.
- Added the Oracle stone, the laboratory for the Barbarians.
- Added the Necromancy ability to hero active abilites.
- Explosions now shake the screen.
- Added a visual representation of the researched upgrades.
- Added the possibility to kill your own units / destroy your own buildings by pressing Delete while hovering on an unit/building
- Optimized ability system.
- Changed some ability descriptions.
- Added a new Hero weapon, the Great hammer.
- Slightly increased the Train time for the Royal Academy.
- Added 2 new tiles: Blue and Red.
- Added 2 new songs to the soundtrack.
- Added coordinates of the cursor on top of the minimap in the level editor.
- The colors of ingame menus are now less Eye-hurting.
- Slight performance optimizations.
- Editor performance improvements.
- Bugfixes.
Enjoy and take care!
Stay tuned for more updates SOON™ !
The game is on sale!
A small patch
- Added control clicking: press control to copy the attributes of the entity the cursor is hovering on.
- Added 2 new songs to the playlist.
- Pressing 'M' will now allow you to change the currently playng music.
- Water effects from enemy boats covered by the fog of war can no longer be seen.
- Fixed tutorial not working.
- Fixed camera starting position to be where the obelisk/king/Warlord/Hero is.
- Engine Bugfixes.
Gotta go fast update!
- Improved the look of ingame menus.
- Optimized shadow rendering (it's 20% more efficent now)
- Major performance improvements due to changes to how the Fog of War is rendered (it's 2 to 3 times faster than before).
- Unit performance optimization when loading maps.
- Made the fog of war slightly darker.
- Increased population limit to 120.
- Added the stone tablet prop
- Bugfixes.
Have fun!
Patch 1.1.1
- Minor performance improvements.
- Bugfixes.
- Removed the triggers editor, in it's place there is sneak peek of what's coming next ;)
Sp00ky update!
<*> Added The Pumpkin prop.
<*> Added The Skull prop.
<*> Added a new hero skin, the headless knight.
<*> Added some new particles effects.
<*> Added loading tips.