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The Lonely Gorilla

Update 29/04/18
The latest update has corrected the bonding. Grooming now has internal cool down time. Turning has be increased for the player.

Fixed a calculation for volumetric light and moisture.

Along with ongoing improvements we are now working on the addition of offspring with any female gorilla who has achieved full troop loyalty and is in good overall health and silver-back bonding

Kind regards,

Andy

Update 27/04/18
We have added more leopards to test troop interactions. AI gorillas will now attack leopards to defend the troop/player.

Randomised some values for the gorillas so they act differently to each other.



New Update Live 25/04/18
Lots of features added under the hood for the female gorilla. She now has lots of possible interactions depending on status. They're three females nearby for testing. You can find them and change them from wild to troop member with interactions. The can be given food and made nests for.

The features are not all hooked up for example you can easily get them in the troop by repeating the interaction, this will not be the case in the game.

Even full troop member cannot have offspring at this time. These new features will be tested and fully integrated then we will move on to creating offspring.

After this the troop will be moved away and the game structure will be finalised as you are separated from your troop at the start of each game.

Update live.
I've added a signal effect to the nest to help locate them when you are close by.

A fix for the bamboo collider and some small changes to the animal AI.

Andy

Update 18/04/18. Improved physics and added tree collisions.
Interactions with animals improved and fixed going through trees.

Update Live 17/04/18
We have added the leaderboard to the game over screen. This now stores the best score you have and uploads the result. The scoring system will change a lot as we add features.

We have tweaked the animal settings so they should not die so quick.

Our focus is now the animals and their AI so they will be changing a lot over the next few days but should be closer to the final settings.

Update fix for bamboo roll 17/04/18
Hi, thanks for the report on the bamboo rolling away. This should now be fixed making it much easier to make nests for the gorilla. You will also see information displayed on the female gorilla showing her needs.

This is part of a bigger update that should be live today or tomorrow. This interface along with audio and animation cues from the AI gorillas will help the player understand what the troop need to increase bonding. High bonding is vital to keep the troop together and allow it to grow with mating.

Regards,

Andy

Update Live
A small update to adjust a few player animation speeds.

The leaderboard test was a success so we are now working on the UI to go with the score.

Playtesting the new map system and we hope to have the first live build of this next week. This will increase the map size a lot and begin showing the separate biomes for grassland, rain forests etc....


Andy

New Update 11/04/18
Evening all, there is a new update live which adds steam leaderboards for testing. Once the scores start showing we will update with UI. This is a testing leaderboard so will be subject to change.

Currently it just adds a score based on time survived but in future in will include number of offspring, size of troop achieved etc....

There is also a few tweaks to the Leopard AI with attack changes and sounds added.

Fight mode now automatically enables when a predator is nearby. This is a test and subject to change so please let us know which you prefer.

Andy

New Update 07/04/18
We've just pushed our latest update. As mentioned in the roadmap our first tentative steps with troop interactions. Female gorillas have new animations and audio to let you know what they require. More info to come on this. You can also affect their bonding level with one interaction (much more to come).

The Male Gorilla will also show aggression towards you if you hurt them. Please bear in mind fight mode is very early in development and is only really there for testing purposes currently and changing AI behaviour as some of it is linked to AI health.

EDIT:- We also changed the turn speed of the player as referenced by one of the user reviews. Thanks for the feedback on that and others it is really appreciated and helps speed up development and direction. Please keep it coming and let us know if this has improved the movement.

Thanks,

Andy
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