{"id":1908,"date":"2019-04-05T16:07:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T16:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrdesigns.net\/?p=1908"},"modified":"2019-04-05T16:07:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T16:07:55","slug":"shadow-empire-design-snippet-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrdesigns.net\/?p=1908","title":{"rendered":"Shadow Empire Design Snippet #29"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Snippet #29: Finished up the graphics and UI phase<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally I wrapped up work on all the icons, sprites, windows and even a few explosions for Shadow Empire. The next months i’ll embark on the last phase before starting a beta test. This phase will touch on two major aspects of the game. The first aspect is the AI. The game needs to become more challenging and a more aggressive AI that is putting more demands on you and is harder to beat on the battlefield will help a lot here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second aspect I am scheduling is an improvement of the current Decisions and Events system. Development goals here are to make the systems less complex and have more decisions that are really important. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Choosing option B and denying president Hubeiber will result in a relation loss with Zandstein. It might be more prudent to forget about your support for democracy in order to avoid a war… no?<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The above example is actually a Decision that is quite good. But there need to be more of these, with even higher stakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also I am going to simplify the Profile model I did. At the moment it has 22 fields, including the “democracy” and “special interest” ones mentioned in the screeny. I am going to cut them down to 9 spread over 3 groups. The political group: democracy-meritocracy-autocracy group will preserved, but the others will be melted into 2 groups, one society group and one psychology group. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main goals for this last phase before beta is to improve the comprehensibility and challenge factors of the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll present the new Profile model in a next post. Thanks for following the development!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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