The Open Perpetuum Project

[WIP] NPC Gamma base structures

Added 2020-08-14 18:21:22 +0000 UTC

Another critical step in our efforts moving into our first NPC-base Stronghold is making sure we can make NPC's be buildings!

We chose to use the NPC system to actuate the NPC-structures rather than have real "buildings" be dynamically spawned through another system.
The NPC provides everything we needed for the experience, you can shoot them, we can give them stats to mimic that of real gamma structures, they drop loot and give ep, and they respawn just like NPCs!

Making a new NPC definition appear as a building was a bit of a trick, and we are fortunate that the robot rendering is flexible enough to allow us to make a robot appear like a building, or anything for that matter! An exciting discovery, which opens up a lot of potential options for future designs.

Forgive the messiness in these WIP-screens. We like to give you the latest, even if it isn't pretty.

In other news, we have our first testimonial of an ad on reddit bringing someone back to the game that was unaware of the project and live server!

So a big thanks to you all to providing the latitude to run ads on a number of platforms! We are very happy to see that your generosity is truly helping the game reach more people!

Stay tuned for more sneak peeks and development news!