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I've been working on this for ages, and the larger game for over a year now. Mostly completely silently while we prepared. Hunter's Moon is not as far along as I feel it should be before reveal, but the testbed needs exposure and so HM has to be there too. The main push of development is still to come where most of it will be completelt overhauled. That time is only a week or so from starting.

Here's the description of the testbed:

The plan for this game was to develop a greatly simplified version of the Hunter's Moon (see website for details) hunting mechanics that didn't depend on any of the main game features, and that put the focus on the AI.

The first reason for the testbed is to act as a research project for my final year of university by analysing the merits of training a complex Multi-Agent System with a Genetic Algorithm rather than doing it manually, the second reason is to aid the development of Hunter's Moon.

The data for analysis is provided by a user study at the end of each play-through of the game.

The game will randomly pick an AI configuration at the start of each game (either manually tuned, or computer tuned), that adjusts the behaviour of the wolves. Both attempt to maximise the fun of the game.

After this project is concluded more AI development will be done to make it do everything HM requires and to flesh it out, but the basic foundation is here.


Details on the big game, Hunter's Moon, can be found here: Link

It's based on this ancient DF mod idea: Here


Feedback and survey responses are very much appreciated.

Special features:

• Human fortresses
• Humans have muskets and pistols
• Silver musket shot causes considerable damage to werewolves if stuck in
• Less metal armour
• Werewolves (civilization)
• New metal: Silvern Steel (similar properties to iron)
• Sawmill workshop creates 5 wooden blocks (planks) from one log
• Gunsmith workshop
• No aquifers
• Human mining skill will always stay at 0

I've tweaked the humans to make fortress mode work and i beefed up the werewolves too.

This is a world similar to ours where instead of finding America they found a smaller northern continent where the only natives were werewolves. The match lock muskets, inexperience and unawareness of silver's properties made the mainland too dangerous for the humans and so they only colonised the smaller islands surrounding the continent. After a few centuries technology and understanding improved to the degree where humans could start taking and holding territory away from the shore. The mod is then set a few generations later when the humans have several footholds along the coasts and are just now beginning to push into the deep interior in search of gold and territory.

This is now out of the concept phase and has become a fully implemented and supported mod. There is still a huge amount i would still like to implement but there is enough content for a first version now.

For world generation i strongly suggest you use the 'Northern Continent' param set as it has a huge amount of customisation to make it fit the setting. I realise that it may be a problem for some as it is based on the 'Large island' but i have not had the time to convert it into a region or smaller sizes yet. If anyone wishes to take this upon themselves i would be happy to add it to the mod.

Notes:

• The werewolves will not currently show up in adventure mode due to forest retreats not being implemented at the moment.
• There will almost certainly be many bugs in this release
• Some of the graphics tiles have a bright green line through them. This is to highlight people which should not be around. If you spot one please let me know.
• Human fortresses are not showing up on the map and I don't know why. As there are no werewolves to fight in adventure mode at the moment this is not a pressing concern, however if anyone knows of a reason I'd appreciate it.

Future Plans:

• Silvern steel for swords and other edged weapons causes short-term mild dizziness/pain/sickness for wolves with no long term affects.
• Different werewolf castes.
• Adventure mode variety (Such as a semi megabeast werewolves to hunt).
• More complex musket production.
• More complex musket shot production (gunpowder).
• More realistic custom workshops.
• More weapon variety.
• More human factions based on western colonisers of the period.
• More purpose to fortress and adventure mode.
• Possibly a custom trading workshop where currency can be spent on items that realistically would have had to come from another continent by trade.
• Possibly a custom trading workshop where large batches of valuable intercontinental trading goods can be exchanged for currency.

Changelog:

1.01.09 - 12/03/2011
Added overcoat
Added mail chausse
Revised the frequency of some clothing
Fixed clothing layers so more can be worn
Added heater shield
Removed kite shield
Made silver and lead shot more effective to get through armour
Changed arena layout back to default
Various tidying of the RAW files

1.00 - 10/3/2011
Initial release

Old version:

Hi

I traveled to a town and went around looking for quests. got one to kill the cities lawgiver so i went to find him. when i attacked him people came running as usual. only thing was that instead of attacking me they just started killing each other. there didn't seem to be any sides or anything, jut chaos. i came back with another guy and wandered around. i kept finding bodies but because i couldn't see the fighting i didnt get the messages. anyway eventually i returned to the tavern and there was around 10 people there just fighting each other.

Is this a bug or a feature? I wondered if there was a group loyal to the lawgiver and another loyal to whoever gave me the quest to kill him.

Do pumps still make more water than goes in?

Hi

I put in a drawbridge but when it's raised it just disappears and doesn't form a wall. Is this a bug or something? I can't build on the location or anything like that.

Also do drawbridge walls still let arrows through?

Is it possible to kill and eat an animal or you you need to find prepared food? I hate spending money on all this food while there are plenty of dead animals around.

Thanks

a few searches didn't show anything on this so here's a new bug i think. I'm using a save from a previous version with the latest and a human diplomat turns up as normal and instantly leaves unhappy. Any ideas?