Emergence (Web Edition)

Devlog

• v0.4.0 - Viruses / Corruption, Pickups, new Commands
  September 07, 2018 by Matt Eland

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  #Release-Notes, #Commands, #Corruption, #Viruses, #Performance

  Emergence has officially hit 0.4.0 ! While the 0.3.x band dealt primarily with fleshing out the game engine and establishing a solid technology basis, the v0.4.x band of releases deals with making the... Continue reading

  
• v0.3.11 - UI Effects
  August 27, 2018 by Matt Eland#Release-Notes, #Effects, #Polish

  Emergence v0.3.11 is now officially released on Itch.io . This is a fairly significant release in terms of overall polish to the game experience, yet only adds one group of features: Special Effects... Continue reading

  
• v0.3.7 - v0.3.9 Released
  August 26, 2018 by Matt Eland#release-notes, #performance

  So, I've been a busy coder this week. Nearly every day this week I've pushed a client, server, or both a client and server update in order to incrementally improve the game's turn-processing performan... Continue reading
• v0.3.5 Released
  August 21, 2018 by Matt Eland#Release-Notes, #Agile, #Client/Server, #Architecture, #Performance

  After several months of heavy development, the large client / server conversion of Emergence is completed and now online . While the majority of this release is architectural, it does add one signific... Continue reading
• v0.3.3 Released
  July 15, 2018 by Matt Eland#Release-Notes, #Unity, #Poll

  After a very long delay, Emergence v0.3.3 is released. This release represents a significant amount of work, much of it in the technology / architecture side of things. Specifically, I am realizing th... Continue reading
• v0.2.1 - Graphics Arrive
  February 22, 2018 by Matt Eland#Emergence, #ASCII, #Release-Notes, #Graphics, #Art

  (Devlog ported from https://www.patreon.com/posts/17140485 ) This release, now live on Itch.io , is mostly "what you see is what you get", with the sudden advent of non-ASCII graphics, but a few addi... Continue reading

  
• Migrating Devnotes to Patreon
  February 04, 2018 by Matt Eland#Patreon, #Devnotes, #Early-Access

  So, short version: devnotes will be posted at https://www.patreon.com/IntegerMan going forward as public posts (you do not need to support me in order to read them). Slightly longer version: Since t... Continue reading
• Commands Underway
  February 03, 2018 by Matt Eland

  Emergence has changed a lot in the past 7 days. It's hard to believe that a week ago the game consisted of text on an HTML canvas without animation or line of sight checking, Even the visual profile... Continue reading

  
• Rendering Improvements
  January 30, 2018 by Matt Eland

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  #Pixi.js, #Rendering, #Field-of-view, #Development, #WebGL, #Canvas

  This weekend I took the game code and swapped out the custom code I had written to update the HTML Canvas element with rectangles and text and swapped in an open source library called Pixi.JS . Althou... Continue reading
• Milestone: Level Prototype Completed
  January 25, 2018 by Matt Eland#level-design, #development, #prototype

  Development continues on Emergence. It's still very early on into design and development of the game and it can only loosely be referred to as a prototype at this point, but a number of key enhancemen... Continue reading

  
• Project Started
  January 17, 2018 by Matt Eland

  This is the first dev log entry on what's currently being called "Emergence". I'm still very early in development on this project, but wanted to share my original vision at time of creation as well as... Continue reading