UniverCity is a university management game being programmed in the Rust programming language. This month was spent preparing my steam store page for a release at a later date.

I’m currently still aiming to release in late May. Its pretty scary with the date getting closer though, even with my checklist getting smaller I still don’t feel ready.

Gameplay

Missions

Aka a basic tutorial. The mission system has finished being implemented. The mission system allows for more scripting control over gameplay vs the free build mode. Normally scripts are limited to only controlling one thing either a room (plus the entities inside) or a single free roaming entity, mission scripts on the other-hand run over the whole level (including multiple players although this currently doesn’t come up yet). They can intercept events and cancel them, inject their own commands for a player or send commands from the server. A special mission only command exists to allow mission scripts to send their own data to the client to control the visuals like the placement marker and the hint box.

UniverCity is a university management game being programmed in the Rust programming language. This month was spent preparing my steam store page for a release at a later date.

I’ve been aiming to release UniverCity some time next month into early access in order to get some feedback and testing however I’m not currently happy about the game’s state so I’ll most likely be delaying it a little while longer.

UniverCity is a university management game being programmed in the Rust programming language. This month was spent mostly on the business side of things, including going through the steam partner process.

Internal

Steamworks(-rs)

As I’m working on putting them game on Steam I wanted to integrate with steamworks. There didn’t appear to be any work on this already so i’ve begun some work here. I’ve only been wrapping parts that may be useful for me currently due to a lack of time but I’m more than happy to accept PRs for missing parts.

UniverCity is a university management game being programmed in the Rust programming language. Lots of internal work this week plus work on implementing grading for students.

Gameplay

Grades

Students (finally) have grades given to them when completing lessons. The system is still in the works but currently grades are affected by the stats of the teacher of the lesson and not the student (to be fixed later). The teachers skill plays the largest role in grades followed by their control stat. If the teacher has too many students all students in the class will suffer as a result, the game will notify the player if this happens.

Things were a bit slow this month due to christmas but there were still a large number changes made this month internally.

Gameplay

Windows are models instead of flat textures

Previously windows were a flat texture cut out of the wall texture. This made adding new wall types harder and limited windows to only one type.

Windows are now implemented using multi-textured static models, special textures get replaced with the correct wall texture at runtime based on placement.