This week I finally finished Big Task #2 of 3 in Build 11 getting the supply/demand trading economy working. I worked on it for 2 months and i’m so happy it’s off the list. It needs some balancing, but it works.

I also fixed/added 25 other things since the last update which you can see in the article if you are interested.

In this update we show lots of improvements to the internals of the game allow the revised merchant trading interface to work.  It is the culmination of a lot of previous work. Then we show something that has been in the works for months: NPC desire fulfillment.  When an NPC has nothing to do they will decide for themselves what to do. 

This week I’m joined by superfan Timo Meijer as we discuss the challenges of multilingual support and progress on the economy simulator. It’s almost done!

I came, I could see, I wrote some wicked AI.

This week I give a health update (they found something), welcome a new fan, then we dive into this week’s release of the FREE Conclave PDF, and Nic may or may not make fun of my weight.

In this update we welcome the return of the original glasses-wearing-bearded-sidekick Nic!  

After a short-ish health update, I then show two small improvements to the game inspired by Port Royale 2.

Don Bloomfield in Australia, another bearded glasses wearing friend of mine, joins this weeks update. While working on the economy I had to come up with a new way of handling NPC state and actions. This week is a design explanation of the AI Task system and what that means for the game.

This week we are joined by a different bearded glasses wearing friend of mine on the West coast, Michael Herrera, where I give a small health update (I can see again!), announce who is on the Small Council, and then dive into the new design of the economy.

This week Thomas raises the question about a real or unreal supply/demand economy, provides a health update, and talks about the plan if he becomes unable to finish the game.

This week I continue to struggle with the economy of the simulator. But I also share a recent personal struggle.