Devlog Trench Run Weekly News - Trench Run Pets and Drinking and KAG Achievements Dev

Hey Everyone!

Been a while since it's been "just a plain old news week". Quite a bit has gone on both in KAG and Trench Run, so lets get down to it!

Trench Run:

This week we focussed on getting a bit more out of the pet system, with each pet having a toy that it likes to play with. These items are consumable/temporary like basketballs but let you interact in a unique way with each pet, which increases the tamagotchi factor a little. We're unwilling to make the pets "need" food and attention at this point as that'd make people sad, but the option is there for those that want a little bit more to do in the lobby. The dog's frisbee is my favourite!

The croc also finally has animation frames, so there's that.

Not your average entourage​

There was also work on commando functionality, and work on the drunk shader effect.

Drink distortion is a little less predictable, and affects the whole screen!​

We're looking at getting the game onto steam more or less "ASAP" - there's not too much more that we want to do with it other than content, and steam will let us get a better idea of a realistic audience to cater to, by bringing more people for you guys to play with and getting the game into the hands of people who don't follow THD as closely.

More costumes are also underway, more word about them next week!

As always you can buy Trench Run here: https://trenchrun.thd.vg/ - every purchase supports our work, and the more people you tell, the more people there are to play with!

KAG:

Norill and Skinney have both been working tirelessly on Steam Achievements implementation. Norill has been writing the code for each achievement and Skinney has been drawing the images needed for the little pop-ups.

Here is a selection of the icons:

In total there will be 64 hand-pixelled icons for 64 interesting achivements to unlock!​

We hope the completionists out there will have fun collecting them all!

Have Fun!

Max & Michał

 

Pooping pets sounds awful. Don't worry, I wouldn't trust you guys to look after anything. I doubt you even walk that crocodile every day, let alone cleaning up its poop and making sure it's got enough water and wine team members to chew on.

For now it'll be just small fun things - if there's more interest than we're expecting after steam release, we'll consider continuing to flesh it out.

Trading cards will come a bit later IIRC - they're bigger images to create and require us to make emoticon packs or something.

 

Got a whole new set of 14 maps done today and yesterday. Hoping to pad the content out past 50 maps before release time, currently sitting at 42. A few more over/under type maps, and a couple more complex paths.

The skirmish maps, for the interested:

 

what happened to the map generator you were working on?

 

I didn't play yesterday, or this week.

 

Please take the OKSA/Guard discussion to PM or its own thread. @Furai is probably the one to get in touch with about that stuff if you want to bug someone directly.

Re: map generator - there are generated areas, not whole generated maps. While I'd like to do generated maps, its out of scope for TR at this point. Would need a custom generator per gamemode per biome, and that simply isn't going to happen. The big squares underground you can see there are progen tunnels.

I've been kind of underwhelmed by how much they add to the game (ie not much) so I'm not looking to add more random stuff at this time. The only benefit is changing up exactly where cover lies in those areas, but that can lead to RNG gripes too. With things like random hills/rooms/etc, it'd create some pretty serious concerns unless the overall shape was predetermined, and at that point you may as well just draw out the hill. Random vegetation would be less of a concern, but doesn't add much to gameplay other than HAHA SURPRISE for people who dont bush-check, so I'm not really motivated to spend time on it.

Re: mine bug - yep, its honestly the major bug to be fixed next build. At the moment the achievements stuff is what's holding release.