The Follower
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Populous, Terraria, From Dust, Dungeon Keeper, Diggers 2: Extractors. If you know all these games, then you know what this is about.
The time is The Stone Age! You are a deity, with powers beyond comprehension, but these days people are sparse. You only get one Follower, Tanri.
You two need to work together to make it.
Controls: WASD keys and mouse
WHAT'S IN THE GAME *
A full terraria-like engine to handle terrain.
A sandbox tutorial level.
Your follower can eat, dig, and pray to create mana. You can create earth to build stuff, by using up "Matter" or by using up "Mana". Matter is the earth you've already dug up. Mana comes from making Tanri pray at the altar. If you have no matter, mana will be used instead, but matter will always be used first.
When you're building, beware of earthquakes, single earth tiles come crashing down.
WHAT IS PLANNED *
- animation and eyecandy ( I restrained myself this time! )
- claim the wheat and the altar, so they can produce food and mana even when you're not there. When you *are* there of course, your production doubles.
- build new rooms
- give Tanri some more AI. Choosing what tiles to dig has already been more difficult than I anticipated, and it isn't working 100%. I'd like her to have some more agency, climb single steps on her own, and if she has no orders, try to go and feed herself, or pray.
- Battles with dinos, turn-based
- If your one follower dies, and you have the mana, you can reincarnate her, instead of losing all your stats.
UPDATES:
27 Dec 2013: made a lava engine which can create ground tiles.
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I never want to stop doing LDs!!!
The time is The Stone Age! You are a deity, with powers beyond comprehension, but these days people are sparse. You only get one Follower, Tanri.
You two need to work together to make it.
Controls: WASD keys and mouse
WHAT'S IN THE GAME *
A full terraria-like engine to handle terrain.
A sandbox tutorial level.
Your follower can eat, dig, and pray to create mana. You can create earth to build stuff, by using up "Matter" or by using up "Mana". Matter is the earth you've already dug up. Mana comes from making Tanri pray at the altar. If you have no matter, mana will be used instead, but matter will always be used first.
When you're building, beware of earthquakes, single earth tiles come crashing down.
WHAT IS PLANNED *
- animation and eyecandy ( I restrained myself this time! )
- claim the wheat and the altar, so they can produce food and mana even when you're not there. When you *are* there of course, your production doubles.
- build new rooms
- give Tanri some more AI. Choosing what tiles to dig has already been more difficult than I anticipated, and it isn't working 100%. I'd like her to have some more agency, climb single steps on her own, and if she has no orders, try to go and feed herself, or pray.
- Battles with dinos, turn-based
- If your one follower dies, and you have the mana, you can reincarnate her, instead of losing all your stats.
UPDATES:
27 Dec 2013: made a lava engine which can create ground tiles.
______
I never want to stop doing LDs!!!