Really happy with how the new loco looks. Just need to munge all the data into the right place now so that it *acts* like a loco, and hope it wasn't modelled sideways. #indiegames #DevLog

How did you get up there! Get down! #indiegames #Gameplay

There, that's a lot better. This should give enough information to help the players along, but without giving everything away. I might try and put some 'wear' on the roads, and I need to work out what's going on with the text rendering, but - good! #indiegames #DevLog

We've now got a 'vague' minimap to help guide players - this is used instead of 'black' in the fog of way #indiegames #Gameplay

What a terrible name for a dog. #screenshotsaturday #indiegames #Gameplay

I'm still unsure if I want a volumetric atmospheric solution, and I'm unsure if I want to stick with the low-poly clouds or do a raymarched Horizon Zero Dawn style cloud renderer. But I can say that sunsets look nice. #indiegames #TechDemo

That's pretty neat; 2 signs, not intersecting, as the there's a fork coming up. I'd prefer one on each side tho... #indiegames #DevLog

Forests and Sign posts are now displayed on the Minimap to help debugging out #indiegames #TechDemo

Incidentals at Vistas are now back and working \o/ #indiegames #DevLog

Stupid UI is always there, ruining a nice pic. #indiegames #GameDevGlitch

Oh. Found the Timbermill. #indiegames #DevLog

A bit more flavour text and we're looking good. I've purposely made the signs bright so they're easy to read, but part of me is tempted to make it affect the normal shading via a decal shader instead. #indiegames #DevLog

A little bit of gradient/height magic and I'm just about ready to sign this off. I need to do a version for trees, but the hard part there is 'only bits that are green can move' - I haven't got any internal vertex colouring to sneakily drive this 🙁 #indiegames #TechDemo

ProcGen does lead to some weird contradictions. #indiegames #DevLog

Weirdness abounds. I'd swear it wasn't like that when I went to bed. #indiegames #GameDevGlitch

Wise words #indiegames #DevLog

So, I'm not saying this is a bug. I'm just saying I don't recall parking all of those carts there. #indiegames #GameDevGlitch

Bugger. #indiegames #GameDevGlitch

10/10. Need to improve the sign mesh tho, that's ugly #indiegames #DevLog

Hmm. Something's missing from this. #indiegames #GameDevGlitch

Completely new, fully-threaded approach to detail streaming. This time it's biome-aware and rendering is vastly more optimal. #indiegames #TechDemo

Developing a game with both macro and micro detail is incredibly difficult; back in the days of Black and White, that was considered a major engine feature! #indiegames #DevLog

And if you have the horsepower, the engine has the drawdistance. That's a LOT of polygons! #indiegames #TechDemo

Trading posts are always open for business. #indiegames #Gameplay

Iron Mines bit hard to find -> Iron Mines much easier to find! #indiegames #DevLog

Now you can rest for the night, I realised I need lights on in public areas at night, else I'm stumbling around in the dark! #indiegames #DevLog

A loop from the sawmill to the nearest forest #indiegames #Gameplay

More performance means better drawing. It's an endless task! #indiegames #DevLog

That's looking a bit less placeholder-y. Probably too large. Also definitely too penisy. #indielife #indiegames #DevLog

uh oh #indiegames #GameDevGlitch

That does look good, but I suspect I'd have to fake it instead of a few hundred shadow-casting lights in a town! This is the sort of thing decals are idea for and bloody love decals I do #indiegames #TechDemo

Another day, another town. #indiegames #Gameplay

Towns are now using the correct min/max rules. #indiegames #DevLog

Tree Grove spawned in the middle of a town. Bug or feature? Discuss. #indiegames #indiegames #GameDevGlitch

Mines are now correctly embedded into cliff faces. Still need to do the different variants, as well as lots of interesting clutter and detail around each one - and sign posts so I can actually find them! #indiegames #DevLog

Normal maps still backwards, but at least the weather's nice #indiegames #GameDevGlitch

Fixed. That was DEFINITELY my guess and I DEFINITELY didn't get the AI to help me, no sir. #indiegames #DevLog

"What? No, this train was like that when I got here" First screen of networking working. #indiegames #GameDevGlitch

I forgot I added that debug toggle. Oops. #indiegames #GameDevGlitch

#oneofthesethingsisnotliketheother #gamedev #consistentnamingschema #indiegames #DevLog

Just a quick reminder that Gnomancer is still available on Steam, and it's sitting with Microsoft for the #Xbox port! https://store.steampowered.com/app/290180/Gnomancer/ #indiegames #Gameplay

"Computer games are never finished, they merely escape" #indiegames #DevLog

It's always good to have a plan.

Dual rails. There's some seams and cracks, but I'm sure we can fix those. That said, isn't that period-accurate? 😉

Steps towards the final track rendering happening now. This is more-or-less how the track will look in planning mode, before you start to build it. I need to work out a better visual look for the control nodes still.

What a terrible name for a dog.

First pass at the lowest tier of locomotive's graphics, a little unnamed 0-2-0. Period-accurate and based on a real locomotive, these things were tiny workhorses - but not designed with elegance in mind.

I've no idea who would have made a handcart back then. I suspect I may have to do some research at *some* point

Dropped objects can now have bespoke graphics. I also now have enough planks to make a handcart, and we all know Handcarts are made out of 4 planks and nothing else

No clever references intended, but procgen absolutely does not care. #screenshotsaturday