Ruin
Ruin V0.0.11α
The game now has a game over screen for when the player falls to ruin. The update also includes various changes and improvements, such as updated icons, and adjustments to screen size to fit different screen sizes.
Other changes include decreasing the frequency of skeleton attacks, making units face their current target.
Quality of life improvements include binding the camera to only player-owned units and settlements.
Additionally, the update includes several bug fixes.
What's new?
○A game over screen has been added, when you fall to ruin.
What's changed?
○Quite a bit of work to help on my end with testing (developing tools)
○The change log has been updated
○Updated some icons
○Some adjustments, hopefully screen size should adjust better to fit different scren sizes
○Skeletons will now attack less often
○Units will now face their current target
Quality of Life
○The camera will now also allow you to fully explore your own settlement instead of being bound only to units
Bug Fixes
○The camera is now bound to only player owned units
○Trees will now be planted when the seed has been used
○Units should now fight back when attacked
○Wall will now display a percentage of current health instead of a point value
○Gates now remember their health when saving and loading
○Research tables now save their own data!
Ruin V0.0.10α
- Updated the load game window, should work better now and not cause any freezing.
- Console will now save data like binds
- Updated some icons
- Added a new slot for pets!
- -Expect to see more on this in future patches
- Started work on the settlement system.
- -The island senses your presence, upon founding a settlement, you will find yourself being periodically attacked.
- Walls are now destructible
- Some fixes and minor improvements
- Fixed a bug with the standing torch, no longer a bloomery
Ruin V0.0.9α
Your feedback and suggestions are incredibly valuable to me. Whether it's a bug report or a new feature idea, I want to hear from you.
From now on, I'll be releasing weekly updates to the game. Some of these updates will be small, while others will be much larger and more significant. But regardless of their size, every update will be designed to make the game better.
The price of the game has also increased, not by much but it will continue to increase as more and more content is added!
As always, I'm open to any and all feedback and suggestions. I want to make sure that the game is the best it can be, and I can't do that without your help. So please, keep the feedback coming.
Thank you for your continued support, and I can't wait to see you in the game!
Now for the changelog…
- We've added a countdown timer to the next planned update, so you'll always know when the next release is coming.
- We've also added a developer console, allowing users to tweak settings and make changes to the game. (More commands will come)
- Support for books has been added, so you can now read in-game.
- We've started work on language support for multiple languages, making the game more accessible to players around the world.
- We're working on a UI update to make the game easier to use and more intuitive. Stay tuned for more details!
- Some building options have been temporarily disabled while we work on improvements to the system.
- The camera system has been updated to give you more control and a better view of the game world.
- We've made some improvements to the trees in the game, but a visual update is still pending.
- New options have been added to the game, giving you more control over your gameplay experience.
- We've fixed an issue with tooltip scaling, and tooltips will no longer disappear after dragging an item.
- The change log will no longer appear on the main menu automatically, but you can still access it at any time.
- We've changed the color space from Gamma to linear, which should improve the game's lighting.
- The load and save windows have been updated for a better user experience.
- We've added new options for starting a new game, giving you more control over your starting conditions.
- We've implemented a proper version manager, making it easier to keep track of updates and changes to the game.
- Game time now passes faster!
- We've made some improvements to how units work, but further work is needed.
As always, we appreciate your feedback and suggestions. Thanks for playing, and we can't wait to see you in the game!
Changes incoming!
Progress on the next update is well underway, however It's going to take a bit of time, here is why.
Current state of the game
The game is currently in the Alpha stage of its development, these updates are quick, and were meant to get a feel for the game and mechanics.
Over the next two updates the game will transition to beta, which it will remain in for quite some time, these updates will take significantly longer, each update will require more polish and work.
This is why version 9 of the alpha will take longer than the rest, and because it is two patches merged into one.
While developing version 9, the mechanics being developed would mostly be utilized by the next patch to come after it, and it just made more sense to combine the two patches.
Oh, I should mention this will break saves again sorry!
Pricing
The plan has always been to increase the game price, up to a maximum, when new content comes out that justifies its new cost, you should pay what the game is currently worth, not what it will be worth!
That being said... the current price is $4.99 which is going to increase to $7.99.
(The price change won't occur till after the next update launches!)
Multi-Language support
Just a quick note, the next update will include the option to change the game to a different language, although this will be machine translated, it should open the game up to more people, leave a comment of any languages you would like to use or see in the game.
I hope you are as excited as I am to see the future of Ruin!
Update for Ruin - Alpha (V8)
The models are work in progress, and so is the animations, you can expect more animations and updates to the graphics in later updates.
The next update will be primarily focused on gameplay.
Some other changes this update:
- Added some lines of code so the camera should no longer be able to go into objects
- Changed how much you can zoom in, so you can see your characters better!
- Improved the lighting on some objects and items!
- Some code improvements, but need to do a full recode of some stuff.
New year, new looks!
- Misery island should hopefully look alot better, with improved graphics!
- Updated some objects visually
- Optimized some code
- Added fog of war, if your units cant see them, neither can you!
- Trees get a change to give them different sizes, hopefully making things look a little more interesting.
- A way to get new survivors?