Recently most of my efforts have been concentrated on one subject: controls.

Unit controls are very important because it’s your main way of interacting with the game. I am inspiring myself from popular games like starcraft or age of empire. Right clicking will move your units, left click will deselect or confirm a prompt, etc. I already had a formation system and some pathfinding in place, but I needed to push the AI further and finish all the actions units can do in the game. While I was at it I also added a lot of random improvements.

Here is the complete list:

• Around a 100 new sounds (!!!)
• Fog of war ( this one was a big one )
• Action bar for units and buildings
• Unit recruiting from buildings
• Unit queue of buildings on HUD
• Hunting and Ressource gathering for settlers
• New AI actions such as “escaping” for animals
• Mounting units inside structures and attacking from them
• 4 new tree variations
• Re-animated catapult
• Build menu for units that can build
• Better targetting, units respond better to incoming attacks
• Better squad position system ( right click and drag to spread the formation)
• Portrait and name display
• Resources and cost display
• Population cap based on buildings
• Better targetting of structures (walls are always chosen last)
• Custom cursors
• Unit selection
• Day / Night cycle
• Lights on buildings
• + a lot of bug fixes and general code cleaning.

Next will be more map editor features and scenarios!
I am leaving you with those screenshots: