We talk a lot about the misery suffered by the peons while they spend time on Fringe Planet. They can freeze to death, they can get violently sick from eating food, they can go insane seeing the eldritch sights that are all around them. But how can you keep your peons (reasonably) happy? This blog
For thousands of years, man has been making and consuming alcohol. Every civilisation has had it’s own tipple. Alcohol calms nerves and relaxes people, but it does have it’s problems as well. This week we’ve been working on bringing alcohol into Fringe Planet. Through research, the peons can now discover how to make a still.
We covered the memories and traits systems that control the stats of the peons a while ago in this blog post. After some questions on twitter, we thought we would explain the system in slightly greater detail. Memories Every peon is given three memories when they are spawned – these memories will determine the stats
Death comes to us all, in one way or another. Death comes more frequently to peons – Fringe Planet is a harsh environment specifically designed to kill them after all. This week we have spent a lot of time refining some of the internal simulations, which unfortunately has had the side effect of drastically reducing
Fringe Planet is a cold and harsh world, and in order to succeed, you will need to provide warmth and safety for your peons. Today we are doing a different type of blog post. Rather than development news, we are going to take you through the first 30 minutes (or so) of gameplay. This will
Hello and welcome to Friday’s weekly development blog. We’ve spoken about the insides of the peons, how their bones and organs work. This week we will be looking into another important aspect of peons – how they think. Do peons dream of electronic sheep? No, but they do dream. The peon AI consists of three
Greetings! We have been very busy this week focusing in quality of life improvements in the UI – as well as making the UI itself more interactive. But window management would make for a rather bland development blog post – so instead let’s focus on something more interesting : The Anatomy of a Peon. A
It’s Friday once again, which means it is time for a new development blog. Today we will be looking at arguably the most important part of Fringe Planet: the peons. The peons are humans that have awoken in the frozen landscape of Fringe Planet with no memory of who they were or how they got
Greetings! And welcome to this weeks development blog. This week we have been focusing on various structural elements of Fringe Planet – things such as the main menu, peon builder and game settings windows. We’ve also done a lot of work on the save and load game systems – this is a big job and
Another busy week, and another Friday blog post covering all the development work done on Fringe Planet this week. This week has been focused on the AI of the peons, and finishing the plant work that was started last week. Peon AI is now very aware of meals, and how tasty they are – as