Day-To-Day Work Logs and Woot! Engine Stuff!

Thanks for the new blog post on sounds.

Question Time. How does the engine decide which sounds the player hears? I assume it is based what is on screen, but what about stuff immediately off screen? Does it fade based on distance? Does the engine allow you to zoom out (if so that opens all sorts of sound questions).

And finally only tangentially related, but I remember reading about having the player BE the bureaucrat in the game. Is this still how it works? Do you ever hear what the Bureaucrat hears? if you can scroll around the screen like in most strategy games, does that mean you aren't fixed to your bureaucrat? Does the player have a Bureaucrat they are tied to such that if they die the game over?

 

I think when they say you are the bureaucrat, its more like you are the "commander" like most rts, but with a metagame avatar like Tropico. I might be wrong but that was my impression.

Nice questions about sounds aswell, if some poor folk is being slaughtered off screen i do want to hear about it, and i want to know where it is so i can react! And with the inevitable failure of most colonies , i assume you'll get a lot of "off-screen-slaughtered-citizen" sounds running at the same time.

 

A nice little State of the Empire address. Some good updates to be found in here. I particularly like the part about "Two-player simultaneous play is in our sights for February." I do a lot of gaming with my wife and this sounds like a perfect game for long, fun and utterly disastrous games.

 

Yeah, I really like seeing all the modules you can put in buildings (They've been on my mind if nobody's noticed ) I'm a detail person so I like all the customization available.

 

Wow!

Context, what context?

 

The game is really coming together by the looks of it, really awesome

 

Man I love these blog posts! Thanks!

 

So ... are those "rare circumstances" for CE crashing something quasi-normal, or is stuff like “crashes at 1:12 AM on the night when the moon is full, but only if it hasn't rained the previous day”?

 

@Wootah
Thus far I have not heard or seen that you are literally a character in the game (as in tropico). In this way it is more like a traditional RTS (TA and such not withstanding). I think the game could use a in game meta character to its advantage; but there are challenges to both approaches and I'm sure the team will figure out what makes sense.

 

Hats? Really? Hat Statuses? I know Valve takes them seriously, and Dredmor had some great hats, but the characters should be enfatuated with all sorts of stuff, not just hats. Idols? Amulets? Rings? Fanny Packs? Maybe magical, winged shoes? Alright, Maybe shoes touches to close on modern times, with people forming lines and killing eachother over them.

I am just surprised that the status window will have something exclusively for hats.

 

I hear if you buy the season pass you get the next 50 hat DLC's

 

Shit, we come with sarcasm detectors? Will there be a sarcasm detector tab too?

 

I'd like to point out that resources have already been spent on hats.
AND when steam started doing hats... including building a trading system around them (and weapons), I think people were incredulous.

 

Didn't you know? We're not allowed to criticise Valve, Steam or Gaben. Ever. If you do then the Combine get dispatched to your house.

 

I'm not afraid of that, I've got a crowbar.

And a sword—albeit no longer sharp—above my bed. And an axe in the kitchen.

 

Found a picture of this forums sense of humor guys

 

Not nearly enough in this latest blog post about hats. I want to learn more.