Chapa

Defold Engine gamedev; Lua and Python programmer

[greedychapa]

War & Economy

"War & Economy" is my first big project. It's the game about two city-states at the war with each other. Nobody knows the reason for this war. For their rulers, it's just very exciting game. And you act in the roles of these rulers. But nobody thinks about habitants of these city-states...

I was inspired to create this game by marble wars, in particular the MIKAN channel. I watched them and cheered on teams. I got upset if my team lost. I thought my team lost because i can't control it. I decided to create a game is similar to marble wars but it's played by players this game, not random chance...

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[greedychapa]

I've released my mod!

Hey! It's been 9 months (almost a year!) and i recently finished and published my mod.

The main idea of the mod hasn't changed: it makes unloading of caravans smarter and faster.

Features

Caravan unloading spot: The mod adds caravan unloading spot, where your colonists will unload pen animals and themselves after caravan arrives. Your mechanoids and non-pen animals will use them too, and even on their own!

Fine-tuning: You can choose which things pawns will drop at each spot. For example, you can tune them to pawns drop food in a kitchen and medicines in a hospital. Now the pawns will run around the whole your base more efficient!

Orders: You can order a pawn to unload all its stuff at all the available spots or to unload only at the certain one. If an unloading of pen animals for some reason was interrupted, you can order your colonists to unload them at the unloading spots.

My mod has already got some popularity (if i can say so): it has almost 200 subscribers (i.e. downloads). This is a good result for me, i guess.

So if you haven't forgotten about me yet and you play RimWorld (to be honest, i doubt i have such a follower), you can try my mod, perhaps, it'll be helpful for you.

Steam Workshop::UnloadHere: smart caravan unloading

[greedychapa]

The idea of my mod

I've learned the basics of RimWorld modding and have made a very small part of my mod functionality and i think i should tell you about its idea

In the vanilla game when your caravan arrives on your map the caravanners will lead horses of the caravan (roamer animals in the game code) and unload them one stack at time. The situation will be similar with elephants (not roamers): they will simply wander around and wait to unload.

I want to add unloading spots where caravan animals will be brought, unloaded there and then taken to pen. There will also be the ability to customize spot and choose which items will be unloaded there

I'll try to implement this this idea but not a fact that i won't give up

[greedychapa]

How i decided to become a RimWorld modder

Hi there! I'm back

2 weeks ago i woke up after a nap. My consciousness was clouded, i couldn't concentrate, thoughts jumped from one to another. I started thinking about games, about RimWorld (my favorite game). I remembered about an AreaUnlocker mod that i was using but it didn't update to 1.6 because its developer left modding. There is a forked version with some changes but no just continued version with no additional changes. I thought i may continue it. But should i learn C# just to continue a someone else's mod? I've been thinking about an idea for my own mod. And came up with a one.

I started googling info about RimWorld modding. I found some guides and the official website. But i could hardly read russian text, let alone english. So i put this idea on hold

A few days later i remembered about this and started reading info on the official website. I realized that i needed to learn C#. And i started learning

I've learned the basics, classes, object-oriented programming (oop) and collections (lists, queues, stacks, dictionaries, etc). And today i start learning modding itself

What i can say about C#? Its classes and oop are pizdets (fuckness, fucking awesome or how it translates to english)

That's all for today. Bye

[greedychapa]

War & Economy beta released. What's next?

Hi! It's been almost a month since i released War & Economy beta. During this time the game was downloaded only 3 times. This is less than the number of downloads during the month after the release of pre-beta 2.0. More likely this means that my game is uninteresting. And i agree with this.

I think the reason for this lies in the concept of the game. War & Economy is essentially a board game, like chess or Monopoly. It's interesting when you play it but there's no reason to play this game again. The game hasn't long term progression. It hasn't a plot or development. So it's almost a one-time game. One-time and uninteresting game. Which even I'm not interested in playing.

So i think i won't continue to develop War & Economy. I'm tired of it, and maybe you're too.

After i started playing Beholder (late october), i come up with a new concept for a game. A dystopia where the main character is a judge in a country where corruption and violence rule, in a country when almost daily appear new stupid and senseless laws making life even harder. And all this is seasoned with a ton of propaganda of war and hatred. I was also inspired by my country for this concept. Yes, sometimes quite often i feel like i live in a dystopia where even youtube is blocked.

But this concept is a hard to release. So i won't implement it anytime soon.

What will i post? Maybe content about my favorite games: Beholder and RimWorld, maybe something else, maybe nothing. You can write in comments what you would like to see in my blog. Maybe i'll listen to your opinion.

But for now bye...

[greedychapa]

War & Economy beta 0.0 released!

But initially i wanted to release my game on Google Play or Steam as well but it turned out that i can't create a dev account there because they doesn't accept bank cards from my country

Then i decided to create a buymeacoffee account but it turned out that all payment services that it uses are blocked for my country

And yes, itch.io also doesn't accept my card

So there's no way to get money for selling my game

This world is so fair 🥰

PS: of course, i can sell my game in rustore but i think no one uses it

[greedychapa]

Renaming blog

Hi

I decided i want to rename this blog and my studio from Nava and Mantyi respectively to Chapa

Why? Because it's my nickname in some online games. It's familiar to me and i think it sounds better than Nava or Mantyi

In the next few days i'll be renaming this blog, my itch.io and github account and creating a new youtube channel. I already renamed my discord account

Now i'm CHAPA

Also i'm going to release beta 0.0 next week

New links: itch.io, github, new youtube channel

[greedychapa]

Hi

I've not posted anything for 2 weeks because i've been optimizing the game and making some small additions and changes

The biggest changes:

New description for defense line:

And new background for the main menu:

I also added new soundtracks and noticed that for some reason the quality of all music has deteriorated. I tried to fix it but i couldn't. So i decided not to fix it because i don't think anyone listens to the soundtracks

And today i'll be releasing the pre-1 version on my discord server

[greedychapa]

Hi

I added little more info to the debug menu and changed its font. Also added info how to undo and redo actions to the tutorial and changed the cursor image in its screenshots

I finally added a convenient color select menu to the customization window instead of rgb scales

Today i'll release the last interim to my discord server, the next one will be a pre-release

PS: i thought i would be developing this interim for 3 weeks but due to illness i did it in just one

[greedychapa]

Hi!

Now if a tool/attack isn't selected, the description displays info about building built on the selected cell. Also added a description for empty cell. I think it's very informative...

Today, after 1,5 months after the last one, i release a new interim release on my discord server

PS: yes, the description of empty cell is the longest description...

[greedychapa]

Hi!

Added a full screen mode and an ability to sync the speeds of "wave" animations and bots' work

Also now, as it was before, the pause button doesn't pause the game. I had to delete this feature because it was pausing WHOLE the game (for example, the cursors in entry fields were also pausing)

[greedychapa]

Hi!

Added an interface tab in the settings menu. There are checkboxes for large interface and blocking end turn button. Also moved there are the tool deselection checkboxes and the default menu radio buttons deleted

And yes, now the end turn button has a timer that shows the remaining time

Also, the pause menu finally pauses animations

[greedychapa]

I improved scrollbar and now it works just like scrollbars in browsers. Also added a reset button to the bots tab in the settings menu

[greedychapa]

Hi

I created the remaining "wave" animation variants. Also now different variants have different time lengths. I did this so that their speeds would be the same and look nice

PS: yes, there are some bugs with determining which animation variant should be played

[greedychapa]

I created the most of "wave" animation variants. Also decided to make them round

[greedychapa]

Hi

Drew animations for shelling and bombing, shelling animation have 4 variants for 4 sides. Decided to experiment and added a "wave" animation for conquering attacks (storm, tank battle and landing)

Also now when it's bot's turn, you can't select cells, tools and attacks, use undo and redo buttons

And yes, i added price tags to the attacks menu

And also...

this is my 100th post!

[greedychapa]

Hi

Now bots can visualize their work (show which cell they select) and take breaks between actions. Also added new settings for bots

I'll post this release (interim-2) on my discord server

Happy New Year!