#Planetbase Layout Upgrade Your Freighter
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Planetbase Layout Upgrade Your Freighter

249KB.The game's developer, Madruga Works, was founded by game industry veteransВ Tucho FernГЎndez and MartiГ±o Figueroa -В FernГЎndezВ was a 3D artist at Ubisoft and a contractor on many video games, while Figueroa worked on AI and gameplay programming at Criterion Games for franchises including BurnoutВ and Need for Speed.Then you can save your favorite map layouts so that if you want to upgrade your freighter you have. Using this system, mods should be easier to write, more stable, and faster than ever before. Used to patch the game to use the Planetbase Framework, a system for creating new mods. Updated version of the mod patcher for modern versions on Planetbase.

My old colleague from Criterion, Tom Williamson, did the Xbox One/PS4 port. Tucho did all the 3D Art, I did all design and coding, and then we got a few contractors (which we paid with our savings) to help out with audio, animation and UI art. I've always been a fan of real-time management games and we decided to do something in that genre, but a bit different: something with more involved AI, a game where you would build some sort of 'ant colony' and could then watch your people live in it.We came up with the most minimal design we could, in order to finalize the game in less than a year, and this was how our first title Planetbase was started. Making the leap to independenceOwards the end of 2014, we both decided we had enough savings to survive for a year without a job, and we decided to try to make a game and see if we could make a living out of this. Weve been playing with the UI layout quite a bit in Dawn of Man and.Here, Figueroa explains key decisions in developing Dawn of Man,В and how the release of their previous game, Planetbase, informed their latest game.Answers have been edited for clarity.

And if they have a chance encounter with a cave lion on the way back then it makes it even more exciting. This also has it's problems of course, as sooner or later someone will make the wrong call and get themselves killed, but we believe this is part of the fun too.Everyone might have their preferences here, but we always believed that games that track the actions of individuals are a lot more fun, otherwise you end up with some sort of spreadsheet-based gameplay where everything is decided by some math behind the scenes.If you send three people to get wood you should be able to see them go to the tree, cut it down, and bring the resources home. We really haven't seen that in any other game.В It's a lot of fun in our view to design your settlement, give the people a few basic directions and then see them trying to figure it out. Dawn of Man also draws from RTS games like Age of Empires or Starcraft.However,В we believe our games have quite a unique mechanic: autonomous AI that constantly has to make life or death decisions. As an example: You can tell them to a) 'gather sticks in an area until a limit is reached,' b) 'gather these particular sticks,' c) 'tell this particular guy in the settlement to gather that particular stick.'Our favorite city builder/management games are probably The Settlers 2, Stronghold, Startopia, and more recently Banished, of course, and Frostpunk is great too. We were always fascinated by that time in human history: a bunch of people with sticks and stones in the middle of a forest somehow managed to make a living, survive and evolve through the millennia.Both games are similar in that for the most part it's all about producing/gathering resources to keep your people going, designing an efficient base/settlement and juggling the various production chains.В However while in Planetbase the management was mostly at the macro level, in Dawn of Man you can give commands to your people with varying degrees of precision.

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In Dawn of Man, there were a total of 10 people involved, about half of them 3D artists.Regarding the generation of assets usually we start by searching for references to have a general idea of how the asset would look. They are all usually very experienced people that have worked in the industry before, many of them old friends or colleagues. We have some experience doing this with Planetbase so we hope to be able to offer a quality port.We have a very particular way of working at Madruga Works: Tucho and I build a prototype of the game first, then once we are ready to go into full production we get remote contractors to help us finish the job. Photoshop, XNormal, CrazyBump, Substance Painter and others to create 2D textures.And yes, we are working on the PS4/Xbox One version of the game, we are redoing the UI and control scheme to ensure the game is easy to play with a pad, which is always a challenge for these kinds of games. We created our own shaders, to realize our own particular visuals and atmosphere and customized the Unity terrain system quite a lot in order to be able to generate the season transitions, add/remove trees and place removable resources.Artists used a variety of tools to create 2D and 3D content: Maya, Blender, Topogun, SpeedTree and Zbrush for 3D assets. Dev tools and process run-downFrom the programming point of view, Dawn of Man was created in Unity and coded in C#.

You have to constantly send hunting parties to get food, which decays quickly and can never be stockpiled for long. History fit for simulation and managementFrom the design point of view, my goal was to get the player to experience the great transformation in the way humans lived in the various eras, and get them to adapt their play style to that.First, you start off as a hunter gatherer band, which makes it really hard to sustain a large population. We use mainly Zbrush for this, but some of our contractors also work with 3D-Coat at this stage.Once the high poly model is done, we do the re-topology to get something usable in-game, we use Topogun or 3D-Coat for this and then, we bake the maps from the high poly mesh and paint the textures in Substance Painter, but as we switched to Physical Based Shading during the development, we also used a bit of the old school tools like XNormal or Photoshop for this. Once we are happy with the proportions, we make a quick concept art (usually overpainting a capture of the placeholder) and then we make a high-poly model using this as reference.

If you don't hurry up developing your people, you can end up with your hunter-gatherers armed with sticks and stones being raided by 40 people carrying steel swords and composite bows.