Now that players can unlock new equipment via Research the Shipwright and other merchants in the game need to be able to support the stocking and replenishing of new equipment. We now understand the Stack Overflow comment state that it is “unacceptable to store currency as floats”. Streamlined the tooltip objects, no longer needing to make and destroy them each time, Convert currency data to decimals to avoid rounding errors

This almost halved our build size without affecting the quality. Trawl Net animationĪlex had a time figuring this out (and learned way more about actual Dredging ships than ever before), not only does a Trawl net awesomely fill out your boat, extending above your Dredging equipment, it also shows you dragging a net behind your boat when it is deployed.

Visual feedback for when a player deploys a crab pot and the current state of the pot – solid light means functional, flashing light means it’s caught something, and a dead light means the crab pot is broken and in need of repair. Production art for three crab pots and two trawl nets, the awkward shapes are fun to play with in your cargo hold but poor Alex who has to figure out the details! Crab pot animation & buoy We also have two new crustaceans to introduce this sprint the small common crab and the massive fiddler crab. The last thing from the prototype to make it into the production version of the game and this is something we really wanted! We now have three intensities of Rain that can form weather-wise a gentle sunshower, a steady pour and torrential rain with accompanying sound effects. Alex has updated the icon and added an animation so we’ll test that out. We noticed during playtests that our current small, static indicator wasn’t quite drawing the eye. It’s funny that it took two weeks to build a prototype and eight months to build the production version but we’ve added in a whole lot of extra features, built it to support consoles as well as PC not to mention the PV’s are a whole lot higher these days. With the completion of this sprint it finally feels like we have the production version of our prototype of Dredge, built way back in January. Through this you’ll get an understanding of our game development methods and tidbits on the features we’re planning for Dredge! Sprint 14

In our Developer Blog Updates we’ll talk about some of the work we’ve completed in the previous two weeks and explain our approaches.

Small crab dredge