Dwerg Saga

Devlog

• Release 0.23.0.3
  November 07, 2023 by haikuinteractive

  Fix audio on Windows... Continue reading
• Release 0.23
  July 01, 2023 by haikuinteractive

  New features, improvements and fixes: Responsibilities, Characteristics and Skills are graded, i.e. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, relative to others in clan. New World UI: Seed input field changes cursor correctly w... Continue reading
• Release 0.22
  February 15, 2023 by haikuinteractive#release, #Dwerg Saga

  New Features and Improvements: Move Tool works more like other tools Reduce the amount of repetition in tutorials taking into account what the player has done Show progress bars for jobs that take tim... Continue reading
• February 2023 - Weeks 165-180 - Contracting
  February 14, 2023 by haikuinteractive

  Contracting On Patreon... Continue reading
• November 2022 - Week 167 - New Logo
  November 12, 2022 by haikuinteractive

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  I started contracting on Monday this week, I've been learning about the system I'm working on and that has left me quite tired. I've updated the logo across social media and in the app. Version 0.21.1... Continue reading
• October 2022 - Week 164 - Updates
  October 23, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Networked fixes Demo update Release update Detail Testing the networked game on Saturday and I am able to move Dwergs from other clans and no one's going to like that. It's a straightforward f... Continue reading
• Release 0.21
  October 17, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  New Features and Improvements: Dwerg personality differences affect relationship changes Context-menu items to show information about Terrain, Plants, Buildings, Water, and Jobs Follow button on Anima... Continue reading
• October 2022 - Week 163 - Holding
  October 15, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Tool Quality Tool Material Move Tool Improvements Difficulty Progression Testing and Fixing Detail I start this week making tool quality affect how quickly Dwergs do their jobs. There are eigh... Continue reading
• October 2022 - Week 162 - Game Panels
  October 08, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Ngram: Loam vs Soil View Tool default Job-progress update Task organising Detail With the new font I rename 'Loam' to 'Soil' because soil is a more common word, but it looked very like 'Soll'... Continue reading
• October 2022 - Week 161 - Context Menu
  October 01, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Personalities, Relationships and Mood Context Menu Roguelike Celebration Scottish Games Week GameDevEd is back! Detail I start this week finishing personalities affecting Relationship and Mood... Continue reading
• September 2022 - Week 160 - Syrupy
  September 24, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Rosehip syrup New font Personality facets and gameplay Detail On Monday I pick rosehips and make a litre of rosehip syrup. I've started making my own bread and apparently vitamin C helps the y... Continue reading

  
• September 2022 - Week 159 - Holihay
  September 18, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Bales of hay Bug-fix release Logo designer Detail This week I took some time off to visit family and help shift some 750 bales of hay. I did find an annoying bug that would have haulers repeat... Continue reading
• Release 0.20.0.11
  September 12, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Fix repeatedly re-stocking items... Continue reading
• September 2022 - Week 158 - Items Contained
  September 11, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary The Naming of the Chest Items refactoring Item and Animal panels Testing Releases Detail I'm in Levels on Saturday on a low-powered laptop adding chests. The low-power constrains me to working... Continue reading
• Release 0.20.0.10
  September 10, 2022 by haikuinteractive#HotFix, #Dwerg Saga

  Fixes: Crash on load while in combat with numerous foes... Continue reading
• Release 0.20
  September 10, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  New Features and Improvements: Treehopper nests Wandering Dire Wolves Chests for storing items in Dwergs are clearly highlighted when selected with the Move tool Mouse controls updated for tools: Defa... Continue reading
• September 2022 - Week 157 - Move Selection
  September 03, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Move Selection Feedback Tool Constraints Visible Depth Mouse Controls Dining Room Socials Detail This week I've done twice as much work as planned and I just need to do that again to fit every... Continue reading
• August 2022 - Week 156 - Treehopper Troubles
  August 27, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Treehopper nests Networked not scripted Detail I charge on with spawning Treehopper nests and the Treehopper behaviour and have everything working by Friday. Then I start looking at periodical... Continue reading
• August 2022 - Week 155 - Treehoppers
  August 20, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Treehoppers Sound effects Nests Detail I get back to work on Sunday with adding a new enemy. I was going to add giant spiders until Rao Dao Zao pointed out they are terribly cliched. I want a... Continue reading

  
• August 2022 - Week 154 - Holiday
  August 13, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  I took a holiday this week but for the next week I will be adding a new enemy type, foreshadowing future threats and adding wandering enemies... Continue reading
• Release 0.19.1
  August 13, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Fixed Issues: Fix an uncommon crash bug where two Dwergs try to fill the same tankard... Continue reading
• August 2022 - Week 153 - Learning FMOD
  August 06, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Dwerg see, Dwerg talk Ambience interpolation Music and silence New Exon Detail Taking time off on Sunday and Monday to enjoy the good weather I start with adding things in a Dwerg's vicinity a... Continue reading
• July 2022 - Week 152 - Planning
  July 30, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary MonoGame 3.8.1 Planning Critical Review Tasks Detail MonoGame 3.8.1 was released on Monday and while planning I upgrade on Windows. Issues with .NET compatibilities prevent upgrading on Mac so... Continue reading

  
• July 2022 - Week 151 - Release!
  July 23, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary The Enjenir Bug-fixing Testing Release Detail At Levels on Saturday afternoon I get to playtest an early build of The Enjenir . This has come a long way since I saw it last and it's as fun to... Continue reading
• Release 0.19
  July 20, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  This update moves the Farm, Stairs and Workshops under the Build Tool. New Features: New Build Tool Keyboard commands organised and expanded Fixed Issues: Crash after a synch occurs with a dedicated s... Continue reading
• July 2022 - Week 150 - Hold!
  July 16, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Sunshine Ignored requests Bug fixes Dedicated-server launch New bugs! Detail The weather is too good to miss and I spend time this week walking around some of Edinburgh's parks. On Monday I'm... Continue reading
• July 2022 - Week 149 - Curried Building
  July 09, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Curry Build Tool Tutorial updates Detail I make a giant chicken-dhal curry on Saturday, filling twelve Tupperware containers and ensuring a surfeit of gas in my alimentary canal for weeks to c... Continue reading
• July 2022 - Week 148 - New Build Tool
  July 02, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Stairs are Built Personality affects gameplay New Build Tool Detail At Levels café again on Saturday I do a bit of roadmap planning and sketch out the next three releases. I start making stai... Continue reading

  
• June 2022 - Week 147 - Simplifying Multiplayer
  June 25, 2022 by haikuinteractive

  Summary VPN testing De-synch simplification Released Detail Running a Dwerg Saga dedicated server on my PC at home, I go out to Levels café on Saturday with my Mac laptop and connect over a VPN. I en... Continue reading
• Release 0.18
  June 24, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  This release enables all the Dwergs' needs and provides the means to satisfy them. I wouldn't go so far as to say it's fun, more pleasantly relaxing, building a little home for your Dwergs. New Featur... Continue reading
• June 2022 - Week 146 - More Fixing
  June 18, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Beer Feedback => Improvement Network bugs Network game over VPN Detail I fixed a bug on Saturday and then went out to drink beer with an old friend. Success! On Sunday and Monday I act on some... Continue reading
• June 2022 - Week 145 - Cymera
  June 11, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Cymera festival Crash dump fix Bug-fixing Kingdom of Balance stream Detail On Saturday I go out to Cymera and see Adrian Tchaikovsky being interviewed for the Page One podcast. I was intrigued... Continue reading
• June 2022 - Week 144 - Merge & Fix
  June 04, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Merge resolution Audio feedback Crash bug rage Detail Merging the Needs work into the main branch on Saturday isn't too painful but I do have some failing tests around Mood changes in Conversa... Continue reading
• May 2022 - Week 143 - Testin'n'Fixin'
  May 28, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Merge conflicts Pick-up menu Workshop queues QA & Play-testing Detail I'm in Levels café on Saturday afternoon fixing the Mac build and a few bugs. On Sunday morning I have an idea about opti... Continue reading
• Release 0.17.2
  May 27, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Features: Context-sensitive pick-up menu Pointer variants for the Mine Tool Dwergs responding to Workshop queue changes Fixed Issues: Workshop tutorial: Proceeds for items crafted in any workshops Pet... Continue reading
• May 2022 - Week 142 - Context
  May 21, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Needs 1 finished Bug fixing Context-sensitive pick-up Golf Gang Detail I actually finish all the tasks in the first planned epic on Monday. This is surprising because it's the date that I plan... Continue reading
• May 2022 - Week 141 - Joyous
  May 14, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Neon Chrome Brains on the Outside Critical Role Bugs Joy Difficulty Spiked Detail I fix one bug on Saturday and enjoy some time chatting to fellow edindies at Levels café and online. In the e... Continue reading
• May 2022 - Week 140 - Bath Time
  May 07, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Water sounds Illnesses Loneliness Planning good Detail Saturday and Monday are for finishing off the Hygiene Need; editing the water sound recordings with Audacity and combining them into soun... Continue reading
• April 2022 - Week 139 - Bucketry
  April 30, 2022 by haikuinteractive

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  Summary Buckets and Tankards Liquid Containers Ultimate Adom Software Design Filling bathtubs UI Idioms Detail Starting on Saturday with the dehydration icon my first stop is The Noun Project for some... Continue reading
• April 2022 - Week 138 - Health UI
  April 23, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Extreme Hunger Health UI Test-plans Sockventure on Switch Detail Taking a break on Sunday I finish off the effects of extreme hunger on Monday. Malnourished and Starving are two new behaviours... Continue reading
• April 2022 - Week 137 - Dining Rooms
  April 16, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary The Enjenir Bugs in the Latrines Dining Rooms Critical Review tasks Detail On Saturday afternoon I'm chatting with fellow game developers again and if you liked Human: Fall Flat and/or Bridge... Continue reading
• April 2022 - Week 136 - Latrine Pits
  April 09, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Digging latrine pits Test exports for test-plans Hired: Athena Paradigm Detail On Saturday afternoon I'm in Levels Café catching up with some fellow game developers and working on constructin... Continue reading
• April 2022 - Week 135 - Peepee
  April 02, 2022 by haikuinteractive

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  Summary Communal sleeping Bladder need Buildings from file Detail Yup, I am a child. On Sunday Dwergs also find places to sleep in common bedrooms, shared bedrooms and will claim any unclaimed bedroom... Continue reading

  
• March 2022 - Week 134 - Sleepy
  March 26, 2022 by haikuinteractive

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  Summary Rooms complete Hiring QA Playtester Detail I finish the Room Panel on Sunday with a small improvement to drop-downs on Monday morning so they can now open upward when space is lacking below. D... Continue reading
• March 2022 - Week 133 - Roomy
  March 19, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Behaviour UI Rooms Bedroom Detail I finish the Behaviour changes by the end of Sunday. Temporary Skill and Characteristic modifiers are shown on the UI. The temporary icon needs a bit more spa... Continue reading

  
• March 2022 - Week 132 - Moody
  March 12, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Irritable Project Management with JIRA Mood affecting conversations Bad News Detail On Saturday and Sunday I continue with Behaviours affecting mood, adding story events when they start and fi... Continue reading

  
• March 2022 - Week 131 - Aging
  March 05, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Aging Extreme Needs Mood Behaviours Detail Day one of the planned work and I've hit my target of one card completed, yay! I've not been able to make icons for each of the age-groups (Baby, Chi... Continue reading

  
• February 2022 - Week 130 - Needs 1 Planning
  February 26, 2022 by haikuinteractive

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  Summary Congestion Busy stockpiles Needs planning Detail Monday is for fixing congestion problems. Movement instructions are limited to one per Dwerg. If the player instructs a Dwerg to go somewhere b... Continue reading

  
• February 2022 - Week 129 - Needs, Bugs, Contracting QA
  February 19, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga, #Hiring

  Summary Contracting QA Tool-Responsibility conflict Stockpile fix Next feature: Needs Detail I'm looking for a contract QA person for one day per week to test Dwerg Saga. Fully remote. Three months or... Continue reading
• February 2022 - Week 128 - UI Bugs
  February 12, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Peer-to-peer OccuIT Named panels Nicer drop-downs Crash-bug release 0.17.1 Context-sensitive mining icons Detail On Saturday and Sunday morning I'm working on the script versioning, removing p... Continue reading

  
• Release 0.17.1
  February 10, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Fixes a crash bug with the Move Tool in Elevation view... Continue reading
• February 2022 - Week 127 - Break to Fix
  February 05, 2022 by haikuinteractive

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  Summary Global Game Jam: OccuIT Scripting bugs Detail For the Global Game Jam I teamed up with a couple of other programmers and a designer/artist. Us programmers wanted to experiment with making a mu... Continue reading
• January 2022 - Week 126 - Release 0.17
  January 28, 2022 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Mining trenches Stockpile detour Mac resolution sadness Crash/Not A Crash Script versioning future Detail A bug-fix release this time and the first bug is the mining bug. The bug is with the m... Continue reading

  
• January 2022 - Week 125 - Build Pipeline Fixed
  January 22, 2022 by haikuinteractive

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  Summary Combat bugs Build pipeline Various bugs Build pipeline fixed Git LFS regrets Detail Monday morning and after a hearty breakfast of fried Flintworm and eggs I settle into the bug where unarmed... Continue reading
• January 2022 - Week 123-124 - Holiday Part Two
  January 22, 2022 by haikuinteractive

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  Next feature Holiday and health Tai Chi On Patreon... Continue reading
• December 2021 - Week 121-122 - Happy Holidays
  January 22, 2022 by haikuinteractive

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  On Saturday evening I get started on preventing scripts from grabbing the camera off the player. I start by pausing any script as soon as it starts and highlighting a continue-script button. This is f... Continue reading
• December 2021 - Week 120 - Unblocked
  December 18, 2021 by haikuinteractive

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  Summary Exon: Fragment Roguelike controls experiment Path-finding terrain costs experiment The Dwerg Army Building without blocking UI bug-fixes Detail This week I've been playing a bit of Exon: Fragm... Continue reading
• December 2021 - Week 119 - Known Issues
  December 11, 2021 by haikuinteractive

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  Summary Wild ideas Ray Harryhausen exhibition Crash bug not so serious Test-driving route-finding A* analysis Breaking things worse Detail On Saturday evening I start a number of things that I'm inter... Continue reading

  
• December 2021 - Week 118 - Release 0.16
  December 04, 2021 by haikuinteractive

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  Summary Full-screen and resolutions Broken A* Testing and Fixing Broken pipelines Solas 128 RichCast Release! Detail On Saturday I move 30 issues out of the to-do and in-progress columns leaving me wi... Continue reading
• November 2021 - Week 117 - Tool Feedback
  November 27, 2021 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Hunting deer Not-a-bug Tool feedback Region-system bugs and tests Detail Damn I can't stop adding things. It was too easy to catch deer so I had to make them run away and escape off the side o... Continue reading
• November 2021 - Week 116 - Play-tested
  November 20, 2021 by haikuinteractive

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  Summary edindies Play-test Parking the Collapsed Wave Function Hunting, Butchering, Tanning and Armourer Tutorials Detail On Saturday afternoon I was out in the real world at Levels café for an actua... Continue reading

  
• November 2021 - Week 115 - WFC Fun Time
  November 13, 2021 by haikuinteractive

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  Summary Tutorial bugs Horribly complicated system Wave Function Collapse (WFC) for natural textures Detail Tutorial bugs plague my Sunday. Special cases for inventory jobs make them awkward to track f... Continue reading

  
• November 2021 - Week 114 - Mega-bug
  November 07, 2021 by haikuinteractive

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  Summary Failing-to-melee mega-bug Weapons & Inventory tutorial Detail This week I get even more technical than usual describing a bug that turns out to be a nest of bugs. On Tuesday evening I continue... Continue reading

  
• October 2021 - Week 113 - More Tutorials
  October 30, 2021 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Playing with light Play-testing and bug-fixing Explaining the bird's-eye perspective Detail It's Saturday evening and I've separated out parts of the first tutorial but also thought, wouldn't... Continue reading

  
• October 2021 - Week 112 - Player-led tutorials
  October 23, 2021 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga, #Inky, #Tutorials

  Summary Roguelike Celebration Crude Toolshop Refactoring the tutorials Inky scripting ❤️ Detail It's Wednesday and I've been reflecting on Roguelike Celebration , listening to some early DF Talks... Continue reading
• October 2021 - Week 111 - Tutorials
  October 16, 2021 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  It's Wednesday and I have one thing to do: The Workshop Tutorial. It's taken a while to get here and thank you, dear patrons, for sticking with me. I thought a quick test of the existing tutorials was... Continue reading
• October 2021 - Week 110 - Piles of Stock
  October 09, 2021 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary The Compost Heap grows The Bug List shrinks Oooh! Story-Sifting! Default Stockpiles Detail Sorting through my list of tasks and sending about half of them to the backlog and I think 'compost h... Continue reading
• October 2021 - Week 109 - Butchering Bugs
  October 09, 2021 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Meet the butcher The 'last' path-finding bug Contemplating concept art Playtesting Conversational Animals Detail I start this week by adding light and shadow to a Butcher sprite I started some... Continue reading
• May 2021 - Week 88 - Fixing
  May 09, 2021 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Bug fixing Play-testing Twit-dev? Detail Sunday was spent fixing bugs, play-testing and then experimenting with a lit forge animation. The animation suggested forges should have a bellows as p... Continue reading
• April 2021 - Week 83 - Combat: Done 1/M
  April 05, 2021 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Balancing Cleverer builders Next: Bug-squishing On Patreon... Continue reading
• March 2021 - Week 82 - Combat 3/N
  March 28, 2021 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Continuing combat Tile-set process 'Balancing' Watching Dwarf Fortress Pixel-art practice On Patreon... Continue reading
• March 2021 - Week 81 - Combat 2/N
  March 21, 2021 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Melee injuries Path to release Bellyfulness On Patreon... Continue reading
• March 2021 - Week 80 - Combat 1/N
  March 15, 2021 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Panivox contracting More combat work UI improvement and bug-fixing Detail This week I started my contract with Panivox . This is a really interesting product to be working on and I think the w... Continue reading
• March 2021 - Week 79 - Contract Signed
  March 09, 2021 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Government does not approve New contract Combat, skeletons and natural armour On Patreon... Continue reading
• March 2021 - Week 78 - Fantastic Feedback
  March 03, 2021 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Web-devs vs Apple Fast feedback game dev Contract is green-lit A free game Walk-cycle animation On Patreon... Continue reading
• February 2021 - Week 77 - Contract Cloner
  February 24, 2021 by haikuinteractive

  Summary Cloning tools Estimating and tracking work ICO registered On Patreon... Continue reading
• February 2021 - Week 76 - Clouds & Clones
  February 17, 2021 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary SGNTV Interview Web-tech for games Refactoring: Early and Often Distribution with S3 and CloudFront Learning from the classics Detail I was recently interviewed by Ryan Duff for the Scottish G... Continue reading
• February 2021 - Week 75 - Skeletal
  February 10, 2021 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary When blocked, switch Skeleton definitions Note To Self: Tests first Contract III: A New Hope On Patreon... Continue reading
• February 2021 - Week 74 - Little Bit Lost Prince
  February 03, 2021 by haikuinteractive

  Summary Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care AWS Container start-up times AWS Cognito with Lambdas Global Game Jam - Little Bit Lost Prince Contracting Go! ... Stop! On Patreon... Continue reading
• January 2021 - Week 73 - Skills, Unity and AWS
  January 27, 2021 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Undoing a hack Skills - who needs them? Learning Unity An app idea that's already been done Learning AWS On Patreon... Continue reading
• January 2021 - Week 72 - Butchered
  January 20, 2021 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Butchery implementation trade-offs Git Large File Storage Butchery reconsidered Tree UI implemented Streamer research - Nookrium Backlogging the bladder need Salt caves and forest generation L... Continue reading
• January 2021 - Week 71 - Inventoried
  January 13, 2021 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Bronze vs Flint Weapons and Armour workshops Inventory instead of Guard responsibility Item icon tweaks On Patreon... Continue reading
• January 2021 - Week 70 - Workshopping
  January 06, 2021 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Bug-fixing tools for jobs New weapons and armour Workshop considerations Detail On Patreon... Continue reading
• December 2020 - Week 69 - Short Update
  December 30, 2020 by haikuinteractive

  On Patreon... Continue reading
• December 2020 - Week 68 - More Combat
  December 23, 2020 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary The Mini, Sedan or Rolls-Royce of combat systems Body parts and armour Staying focussed by constraining details Future modding-support Pause for contracting Detail If an agent is wearing armou... Continue reading
• December 2020 - Week 67 - Combat
  December 16, 2020 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Combat system Combat state Progress and next steps On Patreon... Continue reading
• December 2020 - Week 66 - Tangents
  December 09, 2020 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Wave Function Collapse Minimalist tile-set Draw-your-own Dwerg Silhouette tile-set Vicinities and Fog-of-war First passing Combat test On Patreon... Continue reading
• December 2020 - Week 65 - A playlist
  December 02, 2020 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Busily making little progress Cavern tweaks Adding friends to the clan pool Tools for jobs Wave Function Collapse fun Combat plans On Patreon ... Continue reading
• November 2020 - Week 64 - Copperpede Cavern
  November 26, 2020 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Smelting copper, tin and bronze Copperpede spawning Real world contracting Detail This week I spent altogether too much time procrastinating over how bars of metal should be smelted. Now the D... Continue reading
• November 2020 - Week 63 - Prospecting
  November 18, 2020 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Hiding the caverns Hiding the caverns again On Patreon... Continue reading
• November 2020 - Week 62 - Cavernous
  November 11, 2020 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Simple ores Caverns New World screen previews On Patreon... Continue reading
• November 2020 - Week 61 - Tool Refactor
  November 04, 2020 by haikuinteractive

  Water update fiddle with Fluctuface Tool refactor Crazy MonoGame key-presses On Patreon... Continue reading
• October 2020 - Week 60 - Stoke the Furnaces!
  October 28, 2020 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Test-driven development Addressing difficulties Patreon changes Detail Test-driven development encourages minimal changes to achieve results and the minimal change is usually the simplest solu... Continue reading
• October 2020 - Week 59 - Holiday
  October 21, 2020 by haikuinteractive

  I'm taking a break this week, hope to be back fresh next week... Continue reading
• October 2020 - Week 57 - Stoked
  October 14, 2020 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Bug-fixing Short stockpile tutorial Stoker sprite Detail On Thursday I got back into the game by first taking an hour to play-test, noting down small improvements and a couple of possible larg... Continue reading

  
• October 2020 - Week 56 - Fluctuface
  October 07, 2020 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga, #Live-Edit, #Fluctuface

  Summary Fluctu(ant Inter)face Videos Detail This week has been mostly about making an iOS app that allows me to modify in-game constants while the game is running. The idea for this really came from L... Continue reading
• September 2020 - Week 55 - Next Feature
  September 30, 2020 by haikuinteractive

  Summary Next feature Rabbit-warren of related features App for in-game variables thatguybgreen Detail What is the next feature? Deepening the risk and reward by adding ores and monsters spawning as th... Continue reading
• September 2020 - Week 54 - Squishin' Bugs
  September 23, 2020 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Stockpile bugs Routine changes Release schedule change Detail This week has been all about fixing bugs. Nothing too interesting except the stockpiles issuing jobs for items that were no longer... Continue reading
• September 2020 - Week 53 - Holiday and Reflection
  September 16, 2020 by haikuinteractive

  Summary A question for players. Tutorial promises. Three directions for the year ahead. Detail What goals did you make for yourself after completing the first tutorial? On Wednesday evening I finished... Continue reading
• September 2020 - Year 1 - Release 0.15
  September 09, 2020 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Dwerg Saga is officially One! Happy Birthday Dwerg Saga! Release 0.15 Detail It's been a year and I still love doing this. How about you dear patron/valued customer/casual observer? Are you sa... Continue reading
• September 2020 - Week 51 - 'Ware the Flinty Worm
  September 02, 2020 by haikuinteractive

  Summary Ramp fail Seasonal tiles The Flintworm More GDC videos Detail I hope that solution for ramps actually works... Nope. After two days of work I find a serious flaw. The plan was to prevent agent... Continue reading
• August 2020 - Week 50 - Ramped Up and Down
  August 26, 2020 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Job-failure feedback Quitting vaping Fixing ramps Detail The work-bench component of a crude workshop needs a piece of flint, thematically, for hammers and chisels. Flint must be dug out of th... Continue reading
• August 2020 - Week 49 - Workshops
  August 19, 2020 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Items from workshops Seasonal tile-sets Tree and grass planting StikkzMedia dev stream Detail This week has been mostly about workshops. Dwergs can now make flint axes and picks and wooden spa... Continue reading
• August 2020 - Week 48 - Release 0.14
  August 12, 2020 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Building workshops Too much excitement Workshop UI Release 0.14 Detail I woke on Thursday morning with a fairly clear idea of how workshops will be built in the game and how the placement tool... Continue reading

  
• August 2020 - Week 47 - Dreaming of Dragons
  August 05, 2020 by haikuinteractive

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  Summary Chris Crawford's StoryWorld Building materials Scope reduction win Adding fun Ramp rendering First workshop Detail I got drawn into Chris Crawford's StoryWorld Authoring Toolkit work on Wednes... Continue reading
• July 2020 - Week 46 - A MAZE. -ed
  July 29, 2020 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Camera zoom A MAZE festival New world screen update Off-piste weekend AWS cost calculations Farewell to Frans Detail I started this week finishing up the farming tutorial and then spent some t... Continue reading
• July 2020 - Week 45 - Watching the Grass Grow
  July 22, 2020 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Flora refactor Farming tutorial progress Cart sprites Twitch appearance Procrastination Stockpile fixes Detail Before extending the second tutorial to cover farming I refactored the flora, add... Continue reading
• July 2020 - Week 44 - Release 0.13
  July 15, 2020 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga, #Azure Pipelines, #Game of Life, #Conway's Game of Life

  Summary Job-system refactor Flex-box (over?) simplification The 'King' sprite Fun with cellular automata Build pipeline fun Release 0.13 Detail The job-system refactor took most of this week but is la... Continue reading

  
• July 2020 - Week 43 - Sowing
  July 08, 2020 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Job-system refactor Combat audio balancing Flex-box with TDD Music update Three crops for farming Detail This week has been all about farming and the cold, bleak winter music. Back in week 24... Continue reading
• July 2020 - Week 42 - Triggered
  July 01, 2020 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Summary Resolved to fix the pipeline Opt-in analytics Twitch debut New UI sounds Script triggers Dawn chorus Play-test request Detail Last week I was whining about difficulties with the build pipeline... Continue reading
• June 2020 - Week 41 - Release 0.12
  June 24, 2020 by haikuinteractive#release, #Dwerg Saga

  Summary I've been wrestling with Azure pipelines for most of the day. #broken Release Notes for version 0.12.0 Release 0.12 is now available as the demo for free from itch.io . Features: Elevation vie... Continue reading
• June 2020 - Week 40 - Touchy Macs
  June 17, 2020 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga

  Large world at 1920x1080 Summary Virtual play-test session Mac woes Softening the pan Winter (music) is coming Testing and bug-fixing Release next week Detail A big thank you to Anders for recording a... Continue reading

  
• June 2020 - Week 39 - Gather!
  June 10, 2020 by haikuinteractive

  Summary On words Mood modifiers on death Stockpile constraints Summer music Attenuation and Spatializers Detail Last week I was a little harsh on words. The cause of last week's bug of failing to find... Continue reading
• June 2020 - Week 38 - Snoozeworthy
  June 03, 2020 by haikuinteractive

  Summary Overlapping rectangles is hard(!?) Elevation view is done Dwergs get some sleep Thesis complete 🤞 Detail A bit of a learning experience for me at the start of the week. I was fixing a recur... Continue reading
• May 2020 - Week 37 - Elevated
  May 29, 2020 by haikuinteractive

  Summary Ramps in elevation view Autumn, winter and battle music Sockventure: Prologue Detail The elevation view is very nearly complete. The biggest problem has been figuring out what to do with ramps... Continue reading
• May 2020 - Week 36 - Release 0.11
  May 20, 2020 by haikuinteractive#Dwerg Saga, #2D

  Summary Elevation view fun Settling water Water, wind and bird ambiences Mining, harvesting and farming sound effects Release 0.11 Detail In my head, adding an elevation view is simply applying a tran... Continue reading
• May 2020 - Week 35 - Move!
  May 13, 2020 by haikuinteractive

  Summary Contemplating the future Move tool Pets The sweet sound of industry Elevation view for stairs Sockventure Detail My ambition outstrips my abilities. So I need help, which costs money, so I mus... Continue reading
• May 2020 - Week 34 - Eat, Drink, Avoid Dire Wolves
  May 06, 2020 by haikuinteractive#dwerg saga

  Summary Eating and drinking sounds Personality fiddles Tutorial nearing completion Live guitar recordings Detail The week started with a handful of bug-fixes to make the tutorial more robust and conve... Continue reading
• April 2020 - Week 33 - Dwerg Burble
  April 29, 2020 by haikuinteractive#DwergSaga

  Summary 4-month re-retrospective Dire Wolves attack! Dwergs discuss forestry Detail Back in week 16 I had a 4-month retrospective. Here's how I've progressed on the actions I gave myself. Action: No m... Continue reading
• Release - 0.10.1
  April 23, 2020 by haikuinteractive

  Fix crash on launch Version 0.10 crashed on launch on both Mac and Windows when it was packaged. On Mac this was due to FMOD not finding the native dylibs despite them being in the same folder as all... Continue reading
• April 2020 - Week 32 - Release 0.10
  April 22, 2020 by haikuinteractive

  Summary UI overhaul Tutorial progress Sound and Music Release 0.10 Detail To give Frans a better idea of the sounds to make for the user-interface, I've gone back to the button and panel designs. A fe... Continue reading
• April 2020 - Week 31 - Positioned Sound
  April 22, 2020 by haikuinteractive

  Summary Listener position and velocity Scrum planning Combat music Wind Dire Wolves in the tutorial Detail Audio work continues with a set of UI sounds to play for buttons, toggles, pausing, playing a... Continue reading
• April 2020 - Week 30 - Sound
  April 22, 2020 by haikuinteractive

  Summary Scrum over-process Job-indicators and sprites Tutorial: Marking the map Frans Hipponen Initial audio work Detail Before Frans started on Monday I sent him details on how we will work together... Continue reading
• April 2020 - Week 29 - Pathloser
  April 01, 2020 by haikuinteractive

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  Summary Losing time in Pathfinder Job Indicators Detail In ten days I've played 115 hours of "Pathfinder: Kingmaker" and worked zero hours on Dwerg Saga. Oops. On Tuesday I kicked the habit and added... Continue reading
• March 2020 - Week 28 - Release 0.9
  March 26, 2020 by haikuinteractive

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  This week I got carried away with making new sprites and experimenting with button textures. This led me into making crop sprites which will eventually grow on farms. To preview them I've replaced the... Continue reading
• March 2020 - Week 27 - Folding Proteins
  March 18, 2020 by haikuinteractive

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  Summary Audio tooling Preparing for first employee Folding@home , Rosetta@home and Foldit Official Dwerg Saga website and market research Detail Last week and half of this week I was recovering from... Continue reading
• March 2020 - Week 25 - Serendipitous Storylets
  March 18, 2020 by haikuinteractive

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  Summary UX in games Storylets Research aka playing games Grammar Oodls Official website Games | Drinks | Edinburgh Detail In play-tests since I added the tutorial, users have definitely learned how to... Continue reading
• February 2020 - Week 24 - Release 0.8
  February 26, 2020 by haikuinteractive

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  Summary Creative Bridges gets me thinking Lean Stockpiles, iteration One Release 0.8 Detail I received some great help from my colleagues on the Creative Bridges course this week. We were challenged t... Continue reading
• February 2020 - Week 23 - Dog-sitting
  February 19, 2020 by haikuinteractive

  Most of this week I was looking after my sister's dog, Rita. Super-cute, full of energy and reminds me Dwergs definitely need pets. I'm thinking bears. It's been another slow development week, having... Continue reading
• February 2020 - Week 22 - Pitchin'
  February 12, 2020 by haikuinteractive#DwergSaga, #funding

  Summary This week I finished my video pitch for the UK Games Fund, fixed a couple of bugs, worked on the first story and started writing customer interview questions for my target audiences. I also go... Continue reading
• February 2020 - Week 21 - Jammin'
  February 12, 2020 by haikuinteractive#dwergsaga, #global game jam, #clojure

  I was at the Edinburgh Global Game Jam over the weekend and with four others we made Insufficient Storage, a game about an android returning home from war. The game has a great story, music that chang... Continue reading
• Release 0.7.0.0 - Ac-tu-al
  January 30, 2020 by haikuinteractive

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  Release 0.7 includes the following changes: Draw up to eight sprites on each tile. Mining straight into the earth. Context-sensitive build and mine tools. Fix messages being hidden by Dwerg informatio... Continue reading
• January 2020 - Week 20 - Release 0.7
  January 29, 2020 by haikuinteractive#dwergsaga, #release

  Summary Creative Bridge and Lean Canvas . Game-recording spike. View-modes and UI layouts. Elevation view anyone? Release 0.7 Detail Gathering what I needed to do this week: Make a Lean Canvas for my... Continue reading
• January 2020 - Week 19 - Refactor
  January 22, 2020 by haikuinteractive#dwergsaga

  Summary Refactoring Play-testing with a non-gamer Detail While working on the new mining tool I became more and more aware of some shortcomings in the job system. So I refactored. When doing a large r... Continue reading
• January 2020 - Week 18 - The Pits
  January 22, 2020 by haikuinteractive#dwergsaga

  Summary Context-sensitive tools FTW Reflections on testing View Modes, not View Tools Refining my pitch Detail In play-tests users always try to use the Mine Tool on flat terrain and expect it to dig... Continue reading
• January 2020 - Week 17 - De-confuse, shaders and mining
  January 09, 2020 by haikuinteractive

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  #dwergsaga, #shaders, #UX

  Summary Addressing user confusion over vertical levels Shader experimentation Making mining work as users expect More work from play-test feedback Detail I started the week by addressing the confusion... Continue reading
• January 2020 - Week 16 - Happy New Release
  January 02, 2020 by haikuinteractive

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  Summary Four-month retrospective Continuing with first tutorial Buttery smooth scroll and zoom Release 0.6 Happy New Year dear reader! I hope this year brings you joy, happiness and fulfilment. This w... Continue reading
• Version 0.6.0.0
  January 02, 2020 by haikuinteractive#dwergsaga, #tutorial

  Release 0.6 The start of the first tutorial Buttery smooth scrolling and zooming Improvements to navigation around flowing water Harvest and Chop-Trees tools have been combined The tutorial will curre... Continue reading
• December 2019 - Week 15 - Teach and Entertain
  December 26, 2019 by haikuinteractive

  Summary Core experience reflections Controlling the game world from Ink scripts Refining the first tutorial/story Details What is the desired core experience of Dwerg Saga? That the player cares for t... Continue reading
• First steps in the first tutorial and story
  December 19, 2019 by haikuinteractive#inkle, #tutorial

  Integrated with Inkle's Ink and running in a single-player game... Continue reading
• December 2019 - Week 14 - Scripting The Tutorial
  December 19, 2019 by haikuinteractive

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  #inkle, #tutorial, #story, #interactive-fiction

  Summary Learning from a grand-master of games, Will Wright Integrating with Ink Writing the tutorial and first in-game story Detail I've started on Will Wright's Masterclass and it's started me of... Continue reading
• December 2019 - Week 13 - Prologue Cancelled
  December 13, 2019 by haikuinteractive

  Summary Prologue writing cancelled Starting on Will Wright's Masterclass Detail Is trite OK? If I want the game to produce meaningful stories it's definitely not. So, what do I know about? Programmin... Continue reading
• December 2019 - Week 12 - Prologue Pains
  December 06, 2019 by haikuinteractive

  Summary Struggles with writing a story UWP regrets Detail First step: Learn how to write a story. I've enjoyed a number of Neil Gaiman's novels over the years so my interest was piqued by a Masterclas... Continue reading
• Release 0.5.1.0
  November 30, 2019 by haikuinteractive

  Changes Fix crash on Windows when copying while the app is in the background... Continue reading
• November 2019 - Week 11 - Launch Tomorrow
  November 28, 2019 by haikuinteractive

  Summary Documentation of cloud architecture Development stack is complete Patrons are now in the game credits Detail On Friday I documented the cloud architecture for the game. Not really an architect... Continue reading
• November 2019 - Week 10 - Binding of the Keys
  November 22, 2019 by haikuinteractive

  Summary Enable key re-binding Pretty in-game messaging Legal shenanigans Detail "The worst thing in a game is not being able to re-assign keys" - A. Gamer. Better fix that then. Of course it takes lon... Continue reading
• November 2019 - Week 9 - Cloud re-arch
  November 15, 2019 by haikuinteractive#weekly-update

  Summary Cheaper, faster game servers Game jam at Edinburgh University Concurrency headaches and writing tests Release in ten days! Detail On Friday I went to BrewDog on Lothian Road in Edinburgh to ge... Continue reading
• November 2019 - Week 8 - Version 0.4
  November 15, 2019 by haikuinteractive#weekly-update

  Summary The dedicated server is included in version 0.4. Give your clan chief your own personality. Text-input and UWP fun. Dwerg Saga Cloud to be released next week. Detail On Thursday I extended the... Continue reading
• October 2019 - Week 7 - Worlds from the Skies
  November 15, 2019 by haikuinteractive#weekly-update

  Summary World generation in the cloud. Why I love unit tests. Launching games in the cloud. Nebulous. User-interface for connecting to cloud games. Concrete. Music! Detail I spent Thursday extracting... Continue reading
• October 2019 - Week 6 - Location, Location, Refactor
  November 15, 2019 by haikuinteractive#weekly-update

  Summary Ask the user to use their geo-location. Set up a database to store world and running-game state. Testing the cloud game in the wild (cafes). Thai red curry. Extracting terrain generation from... Continue reading
• October 2019 - Week 5 - Punching NATs
  November 15, 2019 by haikuinteractive#weekly-update

  Summary Networking at the Creative Edinburgh awards ceremony and Creative Circles Leith. Building and running a Dwerg Saga dedicated server in the cloud. Meeting game-developers at Game Dev Edinburgh... Continue reading
• October 2019 - Week 4 - Version 0.3
  November 15, 2019 by haikuinteractive#weekly-update

  Summary Version 0.3 of Dwerg Saga is now available for $3-tier patrons via itch.io . Changes in this version: LAN game host and client lobbies. "LAN Games" from the launch screen. New water and solid... Continue reading
• Sept-Oct 2019 - Week 3 - LAN Development
  November 15, 2019 by haikuinteractive#weekly-update

  The goal for this week was to finish the new LAN game hosting, lobby, joining and leaving. I begin the week realizing I've not credited Professor Lewis Goldberg for using his work and fix this immedia... Continue reading
• September 2019 - Week 2, Story and Personality
  November 15, 2019 by haikuinteractive#weekly-update

  When you play the game now you will see the Story tab on the user-interface that pops down at the start of the game. Story events occur for the mundane tasks that Dwergs perform and for conversation s... Continue reading
• September 2019 - Week 1
  November 15, 2019 by haikuinteractive#weekly-update

  As I've committed to delivering monthly builds I need the release process to be as simple as possible. I started looking into Docker to see if this was something I could manage myself on AWS. I learnt... Continue reading
• Version 0.4.0.0
  November 07, 2019 by haikuinteractive

  Changes for version 0.4.0.0 I've mostly been working on the cloud version of Dwerg Saga over the last month so not too much for this release. Dedicated server is included. Requires .NET core runtime f... Continue reading
• Version 0.3.0.0
  October 10, 2019 by haikuinteractive

  Changes for version 0.3.0.0 LAN game host and client lobbies. "LAN Games" from the launch screen. New water and solid terrain sprites Crash bug fixes around rendering Bug fixes around network game syn... Continue reading
• Version 0.2.0.0
  September 27, 2019 by haikuinteractive

  A quick update to credit Professor Lewis Goldberg for use of the Five-Factor-Model of personality. Small tweaks: Larger, more readable fonts Credit screen Fewer adjectives for personality descriptions... Continue reading