Terrain manipulation is now in game! 🗻

Stress testing: Rendering (max) 100K units and simulating all of them. There was a bottleneck with the A* setup I was using for indoor pathing that limited the number of units processed without causing FPS stuttering. 🧵

Hey everyone, launching is on the horizon. No official date yet. I've updated the road map reflect what Metropolis 1998 will offer for early access: yesboxstudios.com/roadmap/

I've been working through a backlog of assets. Happy to see the pond ones in the game now!

I waited too long to add pillars. They look great!

Added emergency vehicles and vehicle lights (at night) :)

More overlay/UI work. Some common issues are now covered: - Not enough workers - Not enough customers - Too many customers (hope this video doesnt get compressed to sand!)

Real time supply road painting :) Soon, I'll be making this work as a function of distance and proximity demand.

Starting on UI Overlay work. Coloring roads to show specific businesses' customer reach (compressed distance to show color range). Probably should not use strict color palette for this feature 🤔🥉

Howdy everyone, I've setup a mailing list if you want major updates sent to your inbox 💌 dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/153652...

Hey everyone, I just pushed out a big QOL update to the Steam demo (itch io soon). Includes 25x bigger map size and lots more! Full list: store.steampowered.com/news/app/228...

I improved the building construction animation (sped up)! Medium density zoning will be available in the next update (Soon)

You'll be able to customize zone widths for more control over how your city feels and looks. 🔲 More customizations are planned for the future!

🔊Adding more sounds to Metropolis 1998. I've been attempting to implement CTRL-Z, but not sure if this will happen before EA. I also resolved the GPU bottleneck and improved the FPS by 20x-30x.

Major update to the demo now live on Steam and Itch! Major leap forward in unit simulation. All updates here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/228...

Simulation is starting to come together! Workers and shoppers at the local grocery store.

Get item 🍰. Purchase 💵. Consume 🥵 I've been adding a lot more depth to the unit simulation for the next build :)

Experimenting with the color space. Thoughts??? I recently watched a documentary from the 70s. That inspired me to modify the color palette to reflect the color space of analog film. This isn't the final result, but I find the results interesting. Maybe a second option

Camera can lock on units, and units can now enjoy your city parks :)

Some bugs should just be kept

Making great strides to drastically improve the UI. After (left), before (right). Gonna try adding clickable items to move camera to item clicked

Hey! We've got visitors now 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Non-citizens will travel into town to eat/shop. Once they're done, they'll head home. Ignore the collisions :P Soon they'll be able to visit friends/family

Time to give ya'll goals.

Working on unit simulation in Metropolis 1998 🥳. In this clip, units are assigned the eat action. They look for a table, check for unoccupied seats, then sit down to eat! (quick retriggers just for show). #GameDev #PixelArt

Creative Mode for Metropolis 1998 is now in alpha and live. Next step: simulation/management 🥳 Demo Steam: s.team/a/2287430 Demo Itch: yesbox.itch.io/metropolis1998

Worked on something fun and tinkered with my shadow projection code. There's no 3D lighting in my game so to keep things simple, I bake peak shadow projection into the map, then calculate how much shadow to output based on the sun angle (done manually here). #gamedev

Added stackable items to Metropolis 1998. Pillars and columns coming soon! #pixelart #gamedev #indiegames

Will you earn it? Added some mayor statues and fountains to Metropolis 1998 :) #gamedev #videogames #gaming

Farms are in Metropolis 1998 now #gamedev

Added in wall corners! Super happy with the outcome. #gamedev

Finally added pools/animated water to my game. #gamedev

A view of things to come :)

Im making Metropolis 1998. Check my link tree for activity on twitter, discord, and my steam page for monthly updates