New features in Prototype 0.2 are online

New features are awesome! Man, this were some days full of creativity and coding and I think we got a good step into the right direction.

I made a list so that I do not forget something. So we got:

• auto sale – when customer leaves your shop, he/she will automatically buy the item if it is available
• week count – so you know how many weeks did you spend in this game
• improved storage display
• added week days to event messages, so you know when what happend
• Ho ho! Every Friday you can buy all your desired resources from a flying vendor at your shops door
• It’s dark, it’s deep – dwarf mine! Let them dig for you!
• You want to become famous? So you have to increase your fame – let your customers spread the word about your crafting talent!
• Quests – finally you can do quests!
• background picture – atmosphere is everything!

As you see – this update has a bunch of cool and awesome and – you name it – new features!

Try ’em now! And do not forget to tell me your thoughts about it!

New features and what they are good for

I will tell you more about this update’s features. Because I think every indie game dev should tell about his progress – just to document it for later usage 😉

Auto sale

Since it was a mess to click every ‘sale’ I thought something like an auto sale would be cool. Less click and still money in my pocket. Maybe you will have to hire someone at your shop for selling your stuff in the future – we will see!

Flying Vendor

The flying vendor is someone that brings your needed resources directly to your door – that’s awesome! Because now you can buy them every Friday in the week. So you do not have to waste time visiting the market.

Maybe he will charge a bit more in the future or just appears randomly – I do not know yet. But for now you can expect him every Friday at your shop!

Fame

Fame is such a wonderful thing! As higher it is as more you get! As soon as you have a lot of satisfied customers, they will spread the word about your talent in smithing.

So you will get more customers and maybe in the future richer customers with very special needs as well! For now – try to reach a fame level of 500 – that is a good goal for this prototype.

There are also quests to raise your fame – try am now!

Quests

Quests are awesome and essential for a fantasy world. So we put some cool quests into this prototype – just for testing if and how it works.

In the future we have a ton of cool quests to do. I am really excited to see how it will work!

Dwarf Mine

Hey – that’s a fantasy game – so we really need a mine and who could own it better than dwarfs? Nobody! Correct!

So there is this dwarf mine and in the beginning there is a dwarf. This guy is kinda bored and want something to do. So you flip him a gold coin and he will start digging for you. Maybe he finds something, maybe not – we will see!

I guess in the future you can hire more than one dwarf and they will dig deeper and deeper and you never know what horrors are waiting there for you and your strong little dwarfs!

What’s next?

Well – actually I’m working on v0.3 and it will become a big update as well.

That’s it – so give it a shot and try it out!