Too much work made this a rather unproductive week…

This turned out to be an incredibly productive week and not just for AA Battery…

This article provides an introduction to the Turn-based Strategy (TBS) genre and is the starting point of a series aimed at documenting all TBS mechanics, in the hope that this will help me learn how to make games in my favourite genre.

I’ve failed to update this development diary for a couple of weeks, because I got sidetracked by Ludum Dare 42… here’s a quick update before hopefully returning to the normal schedule this week.

A bit of retrospective on Ludum Dare 42 and especially on my Turn-Based Strategy Template project that I used for it.

Sorry for the late update! It was Ludum Dare 42 this weekend and against my better judgement I ended up making an entry during whatever bits of time I could scrounge over the weekend with Monday for polishing. It’s probably not my best work, but I consider it my most successful foray into roguelike and / or turn-based mechanics - you can give it a try here. Week 40 was absolutely terrible for AA Battery with work grinding to a complete halt this past week. ...

Some pre-jam game ideas for Ludum Dare 42.

Progress pretty much ground to a halt in week 39 from my side. Between a birthday dinner, board game weekend, recording a new Crazy Cousins Chat and still feeling a bit poorly from the cold / flu I had last week I just didn’t manage to find enough hours left over in the week to make a dent in Crew Manager V4. To be fair it is a very large task - writing the new code took me no time at all, but going through 3-4 scenes that need to have their components updated to use the new version is going to take a while. ...

Week 38 could best be described as slow… Kind of like the middle movie in a trilogy - more about setting up for what’s coming next, than being a highlight itself. The first part of the week involved getting my pull request with the seaside level prototype merged in, which I’ll go into a bit later as I definitely learnt a couple of new Unity tricks thanks to Sas’s review feedback. ...

Week 37 was a bit of a mixed bag… I didn’t make much progress on finishing off the seaside level prototype at the start of the week. Then I got a bit sidetracked in the middle of the week and finally ended up having to do a 3 hour push tonight to get the seaside level finished enough to move on. 16 July - 22 July, 2018 We’re planning on calling this new level the Bay Of Boars, which is a not-so-subtle reference to the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba by American-sponsored rebels in April 1961. ...