Desktopia: A Desktop Village Simulator

Devlog

• Festivals and Gratitude
  June 23, 2022 by mftinyturtle

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  With over a month to go on the #nofreegamejam, I'm hesitant to say this but... Everything is going great!! This week we've added a gratitude mechanic to the game which allows the player to collect gra... Continue reading

  
• Moody Villagers; Needy Villagers.
  June 18, 2022 by mftinyturtle#desktopia, ##nofreegamejam, ##idle, #simulation, #moods

  This week we've absolutely powered forward - with 10 new buildings and villagers, new heroes, new enemies, and increased window functionality; but our most interesting addition is definitely our villa... Continue reading

  
• Charts, Graphs, and Progress
  June 11, 2022 by mftinyturtle#graphs, #charts, #nerdy

  Amongst a slew of changes and developments in the past few days, I think the team (just me) are most excited about the implementation of visual information representation in the form of GRAPHS!! Excit... Continue reading

  
• FIRE! and the trouble it's caused...
  June 07, 2022 by mftinyturtle#balancing, #idle, #clicker, #desktopia, #fire, #devlog

  The last few days have been a struggle! While it's great that in Desktopia your villagers can expand down the road and destroy enemy buildings, it was less great that yours were imperishable. We set o... Continue reading

  
• Villager Evolution
  June 05, 2022 by mftinyturtle

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  #desktopia, #pixel-art, #graphics, #nofreegamejam, #update, #devlog

  We've almost finished work on all the villager upgrade graphics, which has been a whole bunch of design fun! You see, as your village grows, and becomes more prosperous, so to do it's villagers. As yo... Continue reading

  
• Ideas on User Interface
  June 03, 2022 by mftinyturtle#desktopia, #ui, #user interface, #idle, #screen options

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• Pathfinding and Logging!
  May 24, 2022 by mftinyturtle##nofreegamejam, #desktopia, ##simulation, ##idle, ##clicker

  Day 4 of #NoFreeGameJam The last few days have been spent wrestling with pathfinding. Desktopia has a huge single road (between 50k and 150k pixels) and we've decided that the whole thing needs to be... Continue reading
• Creating a Village
  May 21, 2022 by mftinyturtle#nofreegamejam, #idle, #desktop, #simulation, #houses

  Day 1 of #NoFreeGameJam Alongside the code and UI for Desktopia - we've been putting together some preliminary buildings. With such a small amount of screenspace to work with we've had to be creative... Continue reading