Hello everyone, welcome back! This fortnight I’ve really been back at it with finishing off a whole bunch of things, adding a bunch of new features into several areas, and beginning the process of transitioning all the new content from the testing files into the game itself. This is super exciting, of course, because it actually … Read More
Hello everyone, welcome back! I’m taking a short mid-year break at the moment so no devlog update this week, but I want to instead share some thoughts and reflections I’ve been having on some of the earliest experiences I had with procedural content generation techniques, even if at the time of course I had no … Read More
Hello everyone, and welcome back. This week we’re going to be talking about generating the poetry riddles for instructions in terms of what the player should do when they get to the right map tile where a secret can be found. The headline – I’m very pleased to say, after the challenges and frankly the … Read More
Hello everyone, welcome back! Readers might recall that two entries ago I had made significant progress on the rhyming riddles for pointing the player towards a specific location on the world map – either by describing that location, or describing a location which is directly to the north, south, east, or west of that location, … Read More
Hello everyone, and welcome to this fortnight’s entry. Here we consider several things. Firstly, we’ll take another look at the frontispieces of books. By this, I don’t mean the covers of books, but the first page you see when you open the book. As with the covers themselves, I really want these to be very … Read More
Hello everyone, and welcome back to the new fortnightly blog (sorry this one’s just a day late – had a health scare over the weekend, the first / worst I’ve had in a long time. I think things are going to be okay, but it really shook me up mentally / emotionally). This week is … Read More
Welcome, friends, to this week’s development blog for Padlock Simulator 2025 Ultima Ratio Regum. For the past little while now I’ve been working on generating padlocks as a way to draw attention to objectives for the player (especially a new player), to add even more visual flair, and also to give the player clues to … Read More
Hello everyone! Welcome back to the continuing, and new-and-improved, fortnightly Ultima Ratio Regum development blog update. As regular readers will know, we’ve really been cracking along in the last few months, with the development of an in-game tutorial, the development of a tutorial system, the removal of the in-game guidebook since was no longer required, … Read More
Hello everyone, welcome back! This week we’re talking about some key gameplay mechanics, so let’s get into it: Mechanical Complexity So, firstly, I’ve had something of a revelation recently vis-à-vis the complexity of mechanics in games in general, and the required complexity of mechanics in URR. This revelation would go something like this – it’s … Read More
Hello everyone, welcome back! I do hope you all continue to enjoy the new fortnightly update schedule. After a few blog entries away from discussing the poetry riddle generation – this being the only type of riddle I’m promising to have released in 0.11, with the possibility of more if time allows – it’s time … Read More