Nic joins me this week to see the multiple ways a player can discover a monster lair: survival & deduction, stealth, combat & intimidation, and pure brute force searching.

This week we answer some fan questions, first one on my health by Will Sama and then one about race by Marc Schwartz.  Then we dive into the work I've done on monster patrols and how encounters work when they collide with the player.

In this special double feature episode starring Timo, I show the latest demo from the games convection at CGDC on how the various systems can be used to create Crime & Punishment experiences. Then I show the early work being done on monsters: how they recruit and patrol their territory.

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.