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Hi, I'm Stefan Valentin.

This is the development blog for the game I'm working on called Ripple. It's a 2D turn based simulation/strategy game that draws inspiration from Majesty, Dwarf Fortress, and the Sims.

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Changelog from May 10th 2015 to July 31st 2015

Der Changelog

232 commits in about 3 months.

  • Sun, 10 May 2015 22:07:56 Commented some newer code
  • Mon, 11 May 2015 19:04:35 Got rid of a bunch of stuff that shouldn’t be in the repo
  • Mon, 11 May 2015 20:14:04 First attempt at 3rd layer functionality for subContainers.
  • Tue, 12 May 2015 15:26:13 Fixed sprites so they’re positioned relative to subcontainers
  • Tue, 12 May 2015 15:39:57 fixed camera being broken due to subcontainers
  • Tue, 12 May 2015 16:06:29 Pixi example uses new tilemap api
  • Tue, 12 May 2015 18:27:00 Fixed tilemap adding subcontainers in wrong order
  • Tue, 12 May 2015 19:41:44 Now rendering background of map to single texture
  • Wed, 13 May 2015 20:15:49 Rewrote the minimap to use a canvas element.
  • Thu, 14 May 2015 12:27:16 Move/remove/cleanup some things
  • Thu, 14 May 2015 12:34:52 Cleaned up MoveActionSequence
  • Thu, 14 May 2015 20:32:07 Added a bunch of docstrings to agent code.
  • Sat, 16 May 2015 11:07:31 Rewrote the way the game clock handles the timer
  • Sat, 16 May 2015 11:19:44 Got minimap view window working again
  • Sat, 16 May 2015 11:35:40 Changing the sprite’s row/column also updates the x/y coords
  • Sat, 16 May 2015 12:25:47 Fixed some calculations with select service
  • Sat, 16 May 2015 12:52:01 Reimplemented status sprites for citizens
  • Sat, 16 May 2015 13:00:43 Fixed citizens not being fetched properly cause id change
  • Sat, 16 May 2015 13:13:11 Fixed timer not actually working.
  • Sun, 17 May 2015 12:10:24 Fixed removeChild method for tilemap code
  • Sun, 17 May 2015 12:52:15 Testing out using perlin/simplex noise to generate the map
  • Sun, 17 May 2015 17:04:54 Mapgen now mix of perlin noise, clustering, clearing
  • Sun, 17 May 2015 17:10:36 Make citizens stand adjacent instead of on top of harvested rsrc
  • Sun, 17 May 2015 17:30:20 Fixed a bunch of old references to sprite creation. Added shadows.
  • Sun, 17 May 2015 18:51:20 Hopefully fixed some stuff with sprites and buildings.
  • Mon, 18 May 2015 19:00:21 Sprites now tween in between tiles
  • Tue, 19 May 2015 10:53:58 Bushes now gathered by new gatherer profession
  • Tue, 19 May 2015 16:17:58 Fixed sprites jumping when tweened between subcontainers
  • Tue, 19 May 2015 18:03:34 Fixed tweening causing sprites to tweak on high speed
  • Tue, 19 May 2015 18:17:05 Fixed profession selector for citizen card
  • Tue, 19 May 2015 18:18:52 Fixed citizen cards closing when they shouldn’t.
  • Tue, 19 May 2015 18:30:16 Got farms placeable/growable again
  • Wed, 20 May 2015 21:31:08 Subcontainers now have multiple layers.
  • Wed, 20 May 2015 21:46:13 Fixed crops not appearing properly for farms.
  • Wed, 20 May 2015 21:51:57 Fixed issue with trees having wrong resource count.
  • Thu, 21 May 2015 12:22:10 Agents now face the resource they are harvesting
  • Thu, 21 May 2015 12:57:42 Fixed trees having multiple shadows.
  • Thu, 21 May 2015 13:15:40 Added buildings to minimap
  • Fri, 22 May 2015 12:22:31 Working on extending the tooltips
  • Fri, 22 May 2015 12:32:17 Building now updates tooltip with progress of completion
  • Fri, 22 May 2015 12:48:23 Farms on minimap. Buildings list closed on escape.
  • Fri, 22 May 2015 13:16:48 Broke apart dirt tiles and added them to map spritesheet
  • Fri, 22 May 2015 13:56:02 Added goblin spamming event
  • Fri, 22 May 2015 15:07:50 Fixed bug where sprites weren’t destroyed if in the first subcontainer
  • Fri, 22 May 2015 15:31:22 Made some minor improvements to the “combat” system
  • Fri, 22 May 2015 16:04:59 Citizens now go to defend each other if they’re attacked and nearby
  • Fri, 22 May 2015 16:38:48 Fixed cleanup on game game destroy for citizens.
  • Fri, 22 May 2015 21:52:27 Skeletoned out weapon class. Refactored the way items are created.
  • Sat, 23 May 2015 11:42:45 Added camera buffer to all sides.
  • Sat, 23 May 2015 12:00:39 Fixed some parts of ui going off screen
  • Sat, 23 May 2015 15:07:02 REmoved badge on active notifications button
  • Sat, 23 May 2015 16:38:48 Citizens now equip weapons/armor they start with
  • Sun, 24 May 2015 13:30:22 Added inventory section to citizens panel
  • Sun, 24 May 2015 13:47:23 Added basic stats to citizens panel
  • Sun, 24 May 2015 14:01:42 Fixed citizen panel not being updated when citizen switches aactions
  • Sun, 24 May 2015 14:11:46 Fixed citizens not eating
  • Sun, 24 May 2015 17:06:29 Skeletoned out a spawn trader event.
  • Sun, 24 May 2015 17:20:32 Added a market stall building.
  • Sun, 24 May 2015 17:31:38 Trader now goes to the market stall when he’s spawned
  • Sun, 24 May 2015 17:42:30 Trader spawns a bunch of items on the ground when he spawns
  • Sun, 24 May 2015 18:49:04 Fixed horrifying pathfinding bug.
  • Sun, 24 May 2015 19:33:49 Trader emits ‘trader-arrival’ event when he gets to market.
  • Sun, 24 May 2015 20:27:05 Hacked up a trade button and trade menu
  • Mon, 25 May 2015 14:26:26 Improved trader screen. Added sprites for swords/armor
  • Mon, 25 May 2015 14:58:01 Made sure counts for items are affected by claimed state
  • Mon, 25 May 2015 15:00:24 Resources that are harvested are claimed
  • Mon, 25 May 2015 17:40:51 Hackily got inventory of town displayed on trade screen
  • Tue, 26 May 2015 17:51:42 Trader side of trade screen iterates through same list of items
  • Wed, 27 May 2015 14:53:43 Added merchant and merchant stall assets
  • Wed, 27 May 2015 16:55:53 Market switches to active sprite when merchant arrives
  • Thu, 28 May 2015 18:57:18 Market occupies space where merch stands.
  • Thu, 28 May 2015 19:57:08 Fixed buildings list. No longer uses resources-service
  • Thu, 28 May 2015 20:22:15 Improved layout of trade menu some more using tables
  • Fri, 29 May 2015 20:27:31 Improved trade menu styling a bit
  • Fri, 29 May 2015 20:47:08 Trade menu updates when resource count changes
  • Fri, 29 May 2015 21:24:52 Fixed wealth service calculating items/buildings incorrectly.
  • Fri, 29 May 2015 22:21:36 Produced goods have values inside the resources service
  • Fri, 29 May 2015 22:47:06 Added buttons for buying and selling to trade menu.
  • Sat, 30 May 2015 12:42:31 Improved styling of trade menu screen a bit
  • Sat, 30 May 2015 12:54:02 Jshint appeasement. Fixed circular dependency
  • Sat, 30 May 2015 14:29:27 Expanded trader service to handle keeping track of gold/items/etc
  • Sat, 30 May 2015 15:15:35 Handling bounds for trade. Only display button when can make trade
  • Sat, 30 May 2015 15:27:41 Improved styling of gold count in trade menu
  • Sat, 30 May 2015 15:34:45 Added color highlighting for diff for counts of individual resources
  • Sat, 30 May 2015 16:43:19 Added basic trade button that does nothing
  • Sat, 30 May 2015 22:58:18 Got rivers being generated on map
  • Sun, 31 May 2015 00:16:08 Started switching out water tiles based on neighbor tiles
  • Sun, 31 May 2015 00:35:17 Fixed bug with resources spawning messing with water tiles
  • Sun, 31 May 2015 01:09:09 Fixed animals sometimes being spawned in water
  • Sun, 31 May 2015 13:14:43 Got code to find all the islands generated on map gen
  • Sun, 31 May 2015 14:02:15 Got basic bridge being generated between first island and second
  • Sun, 31 May 2015 14:21:38 Widened up bridge a bit
  • Sun, 31 May 2015 14:48:44 Bridges are now generated between all islands
  • Sun, 31 May 2015 15:14:04 Made rivers way less massive
  • Sun, 31 May 2015 15:52:18 Made bridge creating code more efficient
  • Sun, 31 May 2015 16:39:53 Rivers have proper tiles for corners
  • Sun, 31 May 2015 16:42:22 Map.getRandomTile properly handles finding only accessible tiles
  • Sun, 31 May 2015 17:41:41 Got rid of nubs created by bridge spawning code.
  • Sun, 31 May 2015 17:58:20 Jshint appeasement/cleanup
  • Mon, 1 Jun 2015 17:30:43 Water on tilemap layer 1. Agents face right direction when row=1
  • Mon, 1 Jun 2015 19:52:57 Water generated on first layer. Fixed 24x44 map sprites looking bad
  • Mon, 1 Jun 2015 21:15:01 Fixed trees sometimes spawning where bridges were placed
  • Mon, 1 Jun 2015 21:18:13 Bridges are dark blue on minimap
  • Tue, 2 Jun 2015 18:42:27 Fixed some bridge edge cases. Randomized interior bridge tiles.
  • Tue, 2 Jun 2015 20:36:08 Got hills being generated (without corners)
  • Tue, 2 Jun 2015 21:06:21 Pulled out shared method for normalizing water/hill tiles
  • Wed, 3 Jun 2015 20:45:38 Added proper corner tiles to hills.
  • Thu, 4 Jun 2015 19:01:21 Added getRidOfHillNubs method to comabt shitty hillgen
  • Thu, 4 Jun 2015 20:11:00 Refactored a bunch of the Resource code to try and modularize it
  • Thu, 4 Jun 2015 20:18:40 Pulledout Harvestible/Desctructible classes. Jshint appease.
  • Thu, 4 Jun 2015 21:30:58 Hills are now harvestable
  • Fri, 5 Jun 2015 21:38:32 Hill sprite is destroyed when hill is destroyed
  • Sat, 6 Jun 2015 12:34:23 When a hill is destroyed its neighbors are updated properly
  • Sat, 6 Jun 2015 12:47:39 Properly handle queueing up a swath of hill to destroy at once
  • Sat, 6 Jun 2015 13:02:24 Hills update corner siblings as well when destroyed
  • Sat, 6 Jun 2015 13:04:58 Improved some code around destroying hill/harvestible sprites
  • Sun, 7 Jun 2015 14:43:37 Hills randomly generate ore that spawns on destruction
  • Sun, 7 Jun 2015 15:21:15 Got basic ore showing on hills (copper doesn’t update)
  • Sun, 7 Jun 2015 15:25:58 Added iron ore sprites to hills
  • Sun, 7 Jun 2015 15:32:19 Hills are updated when neighbors destroyed for ore as well now
  • Sun, 7 Jun 2015 16:00:26 Fixed some redundant code in citizen code
  • Sun, 7 Jun 2015 16:20:57 Building reports resource gathered. Undid change to citizen queueToEat
  • Mon, 8 Jun 2015 14:22:23 Highlighting resources for harvest colors in their sprite too
  • Tue, 9 Jun 2015 14:13:22 Highlight whole hill area properly
  • Tue, 9 Jun 2015 20:45:54 Made a method to remove hill tiles near bridges
  • Wed, 10 Jun 2015 16:03:23 Stopped spawning agents in water/hills/etc
  • Thu, 11 Jun 2015 15:57:16 Added check to see if islands exist after hills are placed
  • Fri, 12 Jun 2015 16:24:47 Should fix random tiles at edge of map.
  • Sat, 13 Jun 2015 13:34:34 Bushes drop seeds now. Changed syntax for declaring resource drops
  • Sat, 13 Jun 2015 13:38:53 Fixed hill tiles being accessible
  • Sun, 14 Jun 2015 13:55:18 Skeletoned out farm menu for selecting seeds for a farm plot
  • Sun, 14 Jun 2015 14:16:14 Farms only plot as many tiles as there are seeds
  • Sun, 14 Jun 2015 14:37:05 Seeds are used up when a farm is planted
  • Sun, 14 Jun 2015 14:43:49 Crops yield food based on the seed type
  • Mon, 15 Jun 2015 18:06:28 Farms drop seeds when harvested
  • Mon, 15 Jun 2015 18:12:18 Items/resources have tooltips again
  • Tue, 16 Jun 2015 18:20:16 Farms are way more work intensive
  • Wed, 17 Jun 2015 17:03:41 Fixed goblin spawning
  • Thu, 18 Jun 2015 17:53:45 Skeletoned out a profession select menu for citizens
  • Thu, 18 Jun 2015 18:12:22 Citizens now have a list of professions.
  • Thu, 18 Jun 2015 18:23:00 Citizens retrieve actions based on their list of professions
  • Thu, 18 Jun 2015 18:25:45 Get rid of the citizen profession selector for now
  • Fri, 19 Jun 2015 17:56:47 Professions are prioritized by citizens
  • Sat, 20 Jun 2015 17:24:53 Make individual trees harder to cut down and drop less resources
  • Sun, 21 Jun 2015 18:13:21 Made hills way harder to mine
  • Mon, 22 Jun 2015 07:53:30 Inaccessible hill tiles are queued properly
  • Tue, 23 Jun 2015 10:33:59 Added bubbles. Skeletoned out method for cycling through bubbles
  • Wed, 24 Jun 2015 12:36:11 Bubble sprites are now properly cycled through
  • Wed, 24 Jun 2015 15:19:13 Created janky basic node webkit app
  • Thu, 25 Jun 2015 13:28:16 Actually including game code in the node webkit app
  • Thu, 25 Jun 2015 19:20:48 Tasks have bubbles associated with them.
  • Fri, 26 Jun 2015 22:46:30 Make deer far more hearty so they aren’t massacred
  • Sat, 27 Jun 2015 11:38:56 Make one of the starter citizens a miner
  • Sat, 27 Jun 2015 12:16:58 Implemented nub tiles for hills
  • Sat, 27 Jun 2015 12:36:23 Added blacksmith shop building to game
  • Sat, 27 Jun 2015 13:47:14 Created graveyard/lair that spawns monsters on an interval
  • Sat, 27 Jun 2015 13:54:00 Added zombies. Graveyards spawn zombies now.
  • Sat, 27 Jun 2015 14:15:53 Generalized the aggressive behavior of npcs
  • Sat, 27 Jun 2015 14:20:50 Moved the hunter logic from the wolf into the agent class
  • Sat, 27 Jun 2015 14:35:03 Lair position is based off game seed
  • Sat, 27 Jun 2015 14:52:09 Added animal lair to game.
  • Sat, 27 Jun 2015 15:06:50 Lairs can spawn from a list of monsters.
  • Sun, 28 Jun 2015 14:11:49 Some balancing. Fixed bubbles dissapearing every cycle.
  • Mon, 29 Jun 2015 18:03:51 Working on skeletoning out the actual trade action
  • Tue, 30 Jun 2015 19:51:31 Got basic trading of items when trade button is hit
  • Wed, 1 Jul 2015 20:10:02 Jshint appeasement
  • Thu, 2 Jul 2015 19:12:32 Items in trades are properly claimed/unclaimed
  • Thu, 2 Jul 2015 19:20:36 Add build bubble to working citizens
  • Thu, 2 Jul 2015 19:25:35 Citizens regain 25% health after sleeping
  • Thu, 2 Jul 2015 19:40:10 Zombies now wander much farther than their spawn zone
  • Fri, 3 Jul 2015 12:56:11 After a day, trader leaves town
  • Fri, 3 Jul 2015 13:46:13 Added notifications panel to right side of screen.
  • Fri, 3 Jul 2015 14:31:29 Trades can now be completed using gold
  • Fri, 3 Jul 2015 14:43:00 Add town gold count to resource display at bottom of screen
  • Fri, 3 Jul 2015 14:59:18 Added iron and copper sword to game
  • Fri, 3 Jul 2015 16:45:41 Traders arrive on a weekly basis by default
  • Fri, 3 Jul 2015 16:57:51 Fixed exact even gold trades not working
  • Fri, 3 Jul 2015 17:11:43 Balance the market stall a little bit more
  • Fri, 3 Jul 2015 17:17:57 Get rid of trader’s items whne he leaves
  • Fri, 3 Jul 2015 17:31:41 Improved the professions checkboxes
  • Fri, 3 Jul 2015 17:49:56 Added trade all buttons to trade screen
  • Sat, 4 Jul 2015 15:03:44 Spawn trader on the edge of the map
  • Sat, 4 Jul 2015 15:58:55 Added a hide cursor class
  • Sun, 5 Jul 2015 13:13:05 Fixed items not being removed properly when trade
  • Sun, 5 Jul 2015 13:33:55 Citizens can start with multiple professions.
  • Sun, 5 Jul 2015 14:07:29 Added a janked up adventurer agent to game
  • Sun, 5 Jul 2015 14:19:50 Adventurer has monster-hunter behavior and kills monsters
  • Sun, 5 Jul 2015 16:11:43 Citizens now enter taverns as a part of their idle tasks
  • Sun, 5 Jul 2015 16:13:22 Made sure citizens are actually removed from occupants list
  • Mon, 6 Jul 2015 20:26:07 Citizens properly wait in the tavern when idle
  • Mon, 6 Jul 2015 20:40:43 Further generalized some of the behaviors for agents
  • Mon, 6 Jul 2015 20:46:19 25% of wolves are aggressive
  • Tue, 7 Jul 2015 19:40:09 Food is now determined by the properties list of items
  • Wed, 8 Jul 2015 17:02:28 Taverns can now store items as well
  • Thu, 9 Jul 2015 07:26:12 Commented some methods in the trader service
  • Fri, 10 Jul 2015 19:17:55 Comments minor fixes
  • Sat, 11 Jul 2015 14:00:28 Add adventurer sprites
  • Sat, 11 Jul 2015 14:51:17 Agents following other agents are more intelligent
  • Sat, 11 Jul 2015 15:31:53 Things are properly stored in buildings (again?)
  • Sun, 12 Jul 2015 13:35:01 Traded items are properly removed from storage
  • Sun, 12 Jul 2015 14:20:28 Storage can now be restricted to types of items
  • Mon, 13 Jul 2015 06:06:12 Commented new storage method
  • Tue, 14 Jul 2015 07:43:12 Added a destroy method for buildings
  • Wed, 15 Jul 2015 21:01:42 Commented some building methods
  • Thu, 16 Jul 2015 23:39:08 Adding a building.damage method
  • Fri, 17 Jul 2015 06:31:12 Added new inn sprite and adventurer corpse sprite
  • Sat, 18 Jul 2015 14:27:03 Added music to game and options menu with volume controls
  • Sat, 18 Jul 2015 14:30:49 Escape/options menus can be closed by hitting escape
  • Sat, 18 Jul 2015 14:39:52 Fixed bug where items not stored were being unstored
  • Sun, 19 Jul 2015 12:55:03 Immigrants arrive based on fixed conditions now
  • Sun, 19 Jul 2015 13:14:42 Fixed resources not clustering properly
  • Sun, 19 Jul 2015 13:48:07 Fixed bushes not growing back properly.
  • Sun, 19 Jul 2015 13:53:08 Fixed clearing all notifications not actually working
  • Sun, 19 Jul 2015 14:12:17 Types of lairs spawned on map determined by seed
  • Sun, 19 Jul 2015 14:35:28 Goods menu only lists items that can be crafted
  • Sun, 19 Jul 2015 15:21:51 Working on fixing crafting tasks.
  • Mon, 20 Jul 2015 21:10:43 Made craft tasks better able to find the appropriate building
  • Tue, 21 Jul 2015 19:35:35 Items are spawned by craft task again.
  • Wed, 22 Jul 2015 21:12:29 CraftTask ready state is determined on initialization
  • Thu, 23 Jul 2015 17:07:02 Make sure craft tasks are marked as not ready if building doesn’t exist
  • Thu, 23 Jul 2015 17:23:26 CraftTask only ready if ALL the required resources exist
  • Fri, 24 Jul 2015 23:12:25 Wrote music player that can play multiple tracks after one another
  • Fri, 24 Jul 2015 23:17:41 Make sure the player loops end to end
  • Sat, 25 Jul 2015 14:49:04 Craft tasks can become ready after resources appear
  • Sun, 26 Jul 2015 15:51:20 Changed immigrant requirements
  • Sun, 26 Jul 2015 17:32:37 If a targetted agent is in a building, the building is attacked
  • Mon, 27 Jul 2015 14:31:12 Buildings actually use the floor sprite properly
  • Tue, 28 Jul 2015 16:27:02 Citizens can now eat food that is marked to be stored.
  • Wed, 29 Jul 2015 15:27:27 Commented some methods
  • Thu, 30 Jul 2015 20:18:58 Jshint appeasement
  • Fri, 31 Jul 2015 23:36:10 Fixed keybindings for citizens/agents lists.