🪵🔥 The charcoal pile is used to turn wood in to charcoal by your workers. This can be used by the artisan in the forge to smelt iron ore intro ignots. #gamedev #indiegame

It's long overdue, but I'm finally tackling one of the major points that is still open. Building the interface. Not the most fun, but of major importance. #gamedev #indiegame

Concept art of the first tier unit in my upcoming base building game: the worker. Workers keep your colony running by performing the most basic, yet important tasks, like: ➡ Hauling supplies ➡ Stocking workshops ➡ Running the marketplace #conceptart #gamedev #indiegame

While digging there is a change to stumble upon tombs or ruins of ancient civilisations. 🔍 You can make your units explore them to find out what lies inside. #gamedev #indiegame

If your units encounter natural obstructions like ponds, they need to take the long way around. 🛠️ Fortunately, it is now possible to build bridges! #gamedev #indiegame

Working on environments and caves. When expanding your colony you can stumble on natural caves. You can integrate them in your colony, or build around them. Caves will also be a great place for your units to forage or catch fish. #gamedev #indiegame

Some early footage of setting op de fundaments of a new colony. Dig rooms, build and decorate chambers and set your units to work. Please note this is pre-alpha footage, so missing animations, the UI and additional polish are coming soon. 🛠️ #gamedev #indiegame #colonysim

The farmer is no longer idle and hard at work with watering and harvesting crops for the colony. 🥕🌽 #gamedev #indiegame #colonysim

Here is the first draft of a new unit tier. The worker 📦 After some testing it became clear a new unit type for the most basic jobs was necessary. Like hauling supplies, stockpiling rooms and running the market. #gamedev #indiegame

Here are some miners, digging out new rooms for the colony. ⛏️ Working on the digging animations, they will be added next. #gamedev #indiegame #colonysim

Dump in a bunch of units and see how the job system handles it. I did a small stress test of the job system and it holds up pretty well, but I did found room for some improvement 💡 #gamedev #indiegame

You can’t test early enough, so I brought in the heavyweights for some early pre-alpha testing. 🪲 #gamedev #indiegame

All units pick a job appropriate for their tier. For example: ➡️ An artisan smelts iron ore to ingots. ➡️ Miners dig out and build new rooms. ➡️ And the farmer... doesn’t have a job yet, so hangs out in the dormitory all day 😅 #gamedev #indiegame

Concept art of the third tier unit in my upcoming base building game: the artisan. He likes to keep busy with all kind of crafting jobs inside the colony, like: ➡ Processing resources ➡ Carpentering ➡ Smithing #conceptart #gamedev #indiegame

A new unit model is added to the game, the farmer 🥕 This guy is responsible for providing your colony with food by foraging and farming. #gamedev #indiegame

New year, time to gather resources and start working again. A lot of exciting updates are coming this year, make sure to follow ❤️ #gamedev #indiegame

Entering the end of the year, I got a lot of the systems done for my underground colony builder 🎉 Next year the focus is on content; more units, room types, and a lot of stuff to explore. And finally a Steam page of course. Hopefully see you then🎆 #gamedev #indiegame

Some early interface design concepts for my upcoming game. I aim to deliver a good quality on both the visual aspect as the user experience, since I'm also a designer by trade. I only just started. A lot can change, and I still need to figure out how to get it in engine 😅 #gamedev #indiegame

Your miners will now dig the chambers, lay floors and reinforce the walls, ready for you to build new rooms. Still in need for some visual polish, but the logic for are the construction jobs is ready 😊 #gamedev #indiegame

Concept art of the second tier unit in my upcoming base building game: the farmer. This guy is responsible for providing the colony with food and keeps busy with jobs like: ➡ Farming ➡ Fishing ➡ Foraging #conceptart #gamedev #indiegame

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Currently finetuning the job system. With multiple jobs available, a unit needs to pick the most logical job. The player can influence this by setting the priority of a job type higher or lower. I’m using a utility system to achieve this, which works great. #gamedev #indiegame

Currently working on the job system and doing some testing. Guess this guy doesn't need a hammer 😅 #gamedev #indiegame #colonysim

Concept art of the first tier unit in my upcoming base building game: the miner. Equipped with a power drill, he is responsible for the most basic, but important jobs in the colony, like: ➡ Digging rooms ➡ Gathering resources ➡ Hauling supplies #conceptart #gamedev #indiegame

Due to a happy little accident I spawned way to much supplycrates. 📦📦📦 A great oppurtunity for some thorough testing of the hauling system I guess. 😅 #gamedev #indiegame

Starting supplies need to be brought to the stockroom before they can be used. Here are some units working on it right now 📦📦📦 #gamedev #indiegame

My upcoming colony sim isn't quite far enough for a Steam page yet, so I've created a quick landing page for now. Check it out! #gamedev #indiegame

The resource system is almost finished 🎉 📦 Units will haul resources to the store room 📦 Resources shelves will fill dynamically 📦 Rooms will drop resource crates when sold #gamedev #indiegame

Just added the first unit model in game, the miner ⛏ This one is without equipment, since he just woke up. #gamedev #indiegame

The core of the unit utility AI for my base builder game is finished 🥳 Next is the stockroom, since this is a vital part of most jobs that units can take. Here units store resources and get supplies when they need them. 📦 #game #gamedev #indiegame

I’m back working on the Unit utility AI after I had to spend some time on client work. Also the first concept art is coming in soon, so hopefully I can share some more in the coming weeks. #gamedev #IndieGameDev

A bit of polish for editing rooms and placing objects in my base builder. ⚒️ ➡️ Better visual feedback ➡️ Click and drag to rotate objects ➡️ Place and edit animations The main building system is almost done, modifying wall and floor styles is up next! #gamedev #indiegame imgur.com/a/78HYtTw

I spend last week rewriting the camera controls with a modular approach, so player can adjust controls (once the options page is done) And who knows, maybe I can add controller support in the future. #game #gamedev #indiegame #citybuilder #colonysim #camera imgur.com/a/q0EmLw1

Make sure to make your dormitory comfortable, so your workers can have a good night sleep 💤 Too bad you can't post a video or a gif (yet?) on Bluesky. But I posted some live action of the building process in my game on Imgur: imgur.com/a/pddWSNb

For the last few months, I have been working on a casual underground base builder/colony game. Dig chambers, build rooms, and decorate them for your inhabitant. Still very early, but I like to share some progress as I go. #gamedev #indiegame #citybuilder #colonysim