Greetings to all! This week i worked on the new face generation system. Players will able to play as male or female.
The system is still being developed. It will contain much more features and also we will focus on blend shapes as well. Hair, beard and eye color features, lots of new hair and beard models and changing body fitness will be added on our future updates.
Greetings to all! On this weeks dev blog i wanted to mention about the territories.
Inside the Beast Master’s world, there will be different type of creature families. The Aliens, Evolved, Dragons and the Nature.
Each of these creature groups will control a certain size of area. Each area will be called territories. These territories will controlled by the AI which we consider as the leader of these families. These AI are called as “ruler”. Also each territory will contain certain number of cells. These cells will able to invaded by enemy groups.
The rulers will have some advanced decision system. Each ruler will control their territory by defending the cells or attacking the weakest point of the enemy. One of the main goal for the player will also to defeat these leaders. But it will require to gather huge amount of beast army.
Currently we continue implementing the territory system. We will share some more info on our future blog’s as we progress on it. Thanks for reading and if you would like to hear more do not forget to visit our website. http://www.beast-master.com/
Hello everyone, this week we spent time on implementing item database, looting and inventory. We had a very powerful item system which we used on our previous game. We made some fixes and improvements on it. It has still some issues which will be fixed on future updates.
Beast Master will have a loot system similar to Diablo. Creatures will drop items upon death. Also players will able to pick items from ground or drop unwanted items. Currently the item stats are work in progress which will be improved later.
Items can be sorted from lowest quality to best. All items can be equipped by dragging, swapped by overriding and auto equipped by double clicking.
Creatures will have chance to drop various types of items. Higher quality items will dropped by elite type enemies. Also critter type poor enemies will have a slight chance to drop good items. These values will be balanced later.
The player also will drop all the loot upon death. The game design requires player to respawn and pick his dead body to retrieve the items. This feature will be implemented on later updates.
On this weeks development update i focused on additional AI behaviors like improved combat decisions and pathfinding. Also i added a new feature which allows creatures to mating and reproduce. Each creature has a random timer to mate and also there is a slight chance to successfully give a birth to a baby.
We will focus on creating a dynamic environment. AI will have their own decisions to reproduce, create parties or packs, attack certain areas or groups, raid villages and more. The player will encounter random events while traveling on the map. Each encounter will be random and not pre-calculated. These events will be created by the AI decisions.
Hello everyone, this week i worked on AI combat, pathfinding and obstacle avoidance. Each AI searches for nearby creatures and if the target is stronger, it starts to flee. The most optimal flee path is calculated by the system and the AI always tries to get far away from danger. Currently there are two types of creatures. Aggressive creatures which attacks almost all other creatures withing range. Passive creatures avoids aggressive ones. There aren’t any formation movement. Each AI calculates it’s own path and also avoids other creatures and obstacles.
Hello everyone, this is the first announcement and the first weekly blog of Beast Master. Beast Master is going to be an open world role playing game. It has been a couple of month since we started to work on this project. This blog will cover the AI system which i was working on. We made a lot of progress on AI behavior, avoidance and performance improvements. The system can handle up to 1000 AI at 30 FPS which is way beyond our goal. Also we tested the new system on 2000 and 4000 AI’s for fun.