Screenshot Saturday: Advisors!
This week’s screenshots show off our advisor system. The game simulation gets pretty complex: you grow your gold mining towns,…
Screenshot Bonanza
Well, what do you know? We got top votes in last weekend’s Reddit Screenshot Saturday! 🙂   Check it out here: Screenshot…
A few miner details
We have many resource conversion chains in the game (there are about 50 different resources). This chain is probably the…
Educating Future NPCs
Every NPC hopes to be able to give their young NPCs a solid education. To help them out, we’ve created…
A preacher, a bartender and a sheriff walk into a game…
New NPCs continue to come in from Eddie. This week, he worked on some more specialized characters – a preacher,…
1849 at the Good Game Club
Last night 1849 met the world for the first time at the Good Game Club. Thanks to all who came…
Gamasutra excerpts from Rob’s GDC Next panel on going AAA to Indie
Last week we were at GDC Next in Los Angleles. Rob participated in a panel discussion with Borut Pfeifer from…
Trading Map version 2
Second pass at a trading map, where you can establish resource trade with your other California cities.
Rob’s Interview with GamesIndustry.biz about Going Indie
Rob recently joined fellow GDC Next panelists Damian Isla, Thor Alexander and Borut Pfeifer in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz. In the…
Workplace UI
Work in progress on UI for building simulation that’s both informative and inobtrusive.