{"author_name":"chaotikZA","cat":"October Challenge 2010","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"October 8, 2010 10:22 am","epoch":1286551320,"text":"A strategy to meeting the deadline would be to focus on core game-play features and post-pone the rest until later. There is no reason you can’t get the game up and running, start selling it and make improvements down the road. You might pick up a fan in the process who brings good feedback to the table.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1286524380,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"69147","p_author":"chaotikZA","p_authorkey":"505014","p_urlkey":"104950","p_title":"Airship Traders: Progress Update 1","p_cat":"October Challenge 2010","p_event":"LD18","p_time":"1286524380","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"505014","us_name":"chaotikZA","us_username":"chaotikZA","event_start":"1282262400","event_key":"4","event_name":"LD18"},"text":"

I’m still going along rather slowly, but I think I’ve made enough progress in the last couple of days to justify an update again :). I failed to stick to the promise I made myself that I won’t add graphics until the gameplay is working, so here’s the much nicer 2nd screenshot:<\/p>\n

\"Towns,

Towns, Terrain, Basic Trade Goods, Basic Town Simulation, Basic Random Map Generation, Loading data from file - all working :)<\/p><\/div>\n

Gameplay isn’t really happening yet, so the priority list of features to implement next are:<\/p>\n

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  1. Airships (essential for gameplay)<\/li>\n
  2. Trade Interface (essential for gameplay)<\/li>\n
  3. Better Town Simulation (essential for sustainable gameplay)<\/li>\n
  4. Better Map Generation<\/li>\n
  5. Fog of War \/ Exploration<\/li>\n <\/ol>\n

    This project is probably more than I can do in a month, but I’ll be happy if I can manage about 60-80% completion, I can always still polish after October and then start selling it (it’s at least designed to have enough gameplay to be salable ;-)) . Still having lots of fun with this project! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>","time":"October 8th, 2010 2:53 am","title":"Airship Traders: Progress Update 1"}