For the week from 18 May to 24 May I’ve been working on:

• When entering/exiting combat mode, close query panels and map menu
• Add values for natural protection on all animals
• Implemented variable attack speed depending on animal
• Re-implement drowning animal looking for nearest land and navigating to it
• Refactored object sprites and animations
• Fix sprite getting stuck as explosion
• Fix flying weapons not showing up and aligning properly
• Fix combat arrows not assigned properly for final attack
• Realigned panel summary info to be below top menu
• Tweaked sprite colour change due to weather to be consistent with new game speeds
• Bow re-implemented, creates arrows automatically
• Arrows disappear through decay after small amount of time
• Added ability to select all Warriors from side menu in combat mode
• Added short tutorial for entering combat mode
• Tweaked UI side menu sprites for meeting point and start fire
• Fix exiting UI state via side menu not removing title text

This week is split up into two parts to separate the changes in Alpha 5 from the work I’ve been doing in the unreleased Alpha 6. For the week from 04 May to 10 May I’ve been working on:

Alpha 5

• Fix opening mapmenu then changing gamestate causes unable to get rid of mapmenu
• Change diplomacy panel elements to be more consistent
• Fixed some lingering UI scaling issues
• Added fishing error tipstring if no fishing at location
• Added click sound for successful gather/extract/fishing/build assignment
• Fixed panel summary positions not being set on game start
• Fixed ticking/unticking tribe panel misaligns legend equipment
• Fixed deleting horizontal button causing other buttons in list to misalign
• Added survive and prosper clause to tutorial
• Disabled tradepost/trading until it can be improved
• Added “click to change” hint for Pokian names
• Fixed backspace in textbox not working
• Added influence area shrinking notification
• Refactored human effects display
• Fixed tribe panel display summary

Alpha 6

• Implement ground effect animation for mosquito and fish school
• Reduce frequency of fish and mosquito creation
• Fix mini-map clicking not going to the correct location
• Fish school image adjusted so it appears underwater
• Add clay object to XML
• Fixed animal fat using fish image and fish using animal fat image – whoops
• Fix clay remaining when all is extracted
• Added clay statue and clay necklace
• Diseases on/off toggle on Generate World Page
• Fixed bubble text alignment
• Changed ant mount generation from completely random to forming in patches
• Ant mounds no longer take up space
• Entering combat mode changes UI colour
• Moved copyright to declutter main menu
• Refactored human thoughts to be separated into types

For the week from 20 Apr to 26 Apr I’ve been working on:

• Add notification for campfire extinguished due to rain
• Fix tribe panel clicking multiple tribe members crashing
• Aggressiveness in animal querypanel
• Querypanel for task has cancel option
• Refactored UI weather display into separate class
• Added storage of past data for map humidity
• Worked on UI chart functionality
• Worked on graph to plot humidity over time
• UIChart can take data within a range
• Added attack option to querypanel
• Reduced evaporation contribution to water vapour increase
• Implemented temperature graph
• Implemented temperature reduction when raining
• Fixed light source not disappearing when fire went out
• Added end of demo warning notification
• Added main page note for save/load disabled in demo
• Disabled arctic biome until it actually works
• Implemented stockpile tutorial
• Butcher tutorial activates when animal killed
• Make default animal aggressiveness 20
• Fixed extracting resources not using up tool durability
• Fixed loading game caused active cook meat tasks to fail
• Fixed progressbar textures not set on game load
• Fixed textbox sometimes not showing up
• Querypanel most objects showing forbid/reserve status
• Added tutorial for prosperity
• Fixed same stockpile point being added multiple times by putting in check
• Fixed UI not immediately repositioning when window moved
• Genworld page can select number of starting families
• Genworld page made map and tribe tabs more prominent
• Worked on making text sizes more consistent/scalable in future
• Fixed crashing when no saved games to load
• Added warning when loading game that does not exist

For the week from 6 Apr to 12 Apr I’ve been working on:

• Increased influence expansion ability at game start
• Meeting point can create new humans
• Added cooldown to GoalTreatPain
• Implement tribepanel showing effect summary for each human
• Added querypanel viewing stored objects inside query object
• Improved mapmenu positioning
• Add decayrate to querypanel for anything with non-zero amt
• Implement sound request 3
• Fix crafting using water progress bar
• Fix influence area shrinking not showing boundary properly
• Mapmenu dynamic drawing priority based on context
• Turned off symptoms list autoremove to stop it removing other effects
• Fixed decay rates for all objects not functioning
• Added autostore defined in XML for creating objects
• Experimented with finer heightlevels (failed, reverted)
• Added failchance defined in XML for creating objects
• Refactored mapmenu, removing lots of old menus
• Changed some UI boundary ints to floats
• Fixed tribe panel initialisation order incorrect
• Cleaned up xml readers and added string validation
• Fixed FloatToString conversion for non-decimal values
• Add functionality for one tick updating for debugging
• Reduced injury penalties to prosperity
• Increased prosperity value of each Pokian
• Activated task progress saving for craft tasks
• Added butcher to querypanel for carcass
• Craft tasks now use adjacent materials in case they get pushed off original cell
• Fixed progressbar texture not loading on game load
• Fixed clicking on cell not deleting existing mapmenu and creating new one
• Added malaria to air infection list

For the week from 23 Mar to 29 Mar I’ve been working on:

• Fix buttonslider scrolling offset in sidesubmenu
• Fixed various minor issues with gather and extract sidesubmenus
• Gather task number of times to perform action implemented
• Extract ground should auto create task to store items now
• Fix tree not disappearing when extracted
• Fix extracting rock destroys rock
• Integrated extract object into goalcreate
• Add check when harvesting so if object harvest == false, stop trying
• Add starting fire noise
• Fixed broken xml for extracting causing infinite loop for task
• Integrated extract ground into goalcreate
• Add cooldown functionality in brain
• Clean water goal cool down added
• Influence area only draws borders now
• Fixed berries not being tagged as an object in xml
• Fix sidesubmenu disappearing when something clicked
• Stop pit autoopening stockpile panel and instead create notification event informing player
• Shortened wordy tutorials
• Fixed notifications incorrect positions set
• Fixed various issues with button list positioning
• Fix creating new stockpile making duplicate forbid/allow all buttons
• Added many checks to prevent crashes
• Options page resolution changes immediately when resolution selected
• Cleaned up object drawing function
• Implement colour changes for homos based on tribe affiliation