Making Wine
Production assets continue to come in from Eddie.This week, we were focused on producing liquid libations that will keep miners…
Screenshot Saturday – Inaugural Edition
In the first of our Screenshot Saturday images, I’d like to introduce our fruit orchards. Farms in 1849 will have…
Simulation Engine Part 2: Resources and Conversions
In the previous post, I wrote about building simulations using production rules. In this next post, let’s look in detail…
Art Update – Ungrateful NPCs
If you don’t buy food for your workers, they get upset and leave. Where’s your loyalty to the mining company,…
I like A* (and I cannot lie)
En attendant A* Last week I was implementing pathfinding, so that our NPCs could find their way around town. Until…
Art Update – An NPC!
We’ve been working on mostly buildings so far, but Rob is starting to implement NPCs and asked if we could…
Concept Art 2 – Mines and Farms
I know last week I said that we’d show off stores this week, but Eddie made mines and farms that…
Keeping the history in the art
A while back, I started by talking about the historical context of our game in the California Gold Rush. I…
Concept Art 1 – Houses
We have our first piece of concept art courtesy of our fantastic artist, Eddie Einikis. 1849 is going to have several…
Simulation Engine: Production Rules
Welcome to the first post from the programming side of things. 🙂 I’d like to start with a few words…