TAR Update : New Buildings & Bartering news

Greetings, here's our update for the last 3 weeks of development:

General Shoppe:

This is the 1st iteration of the General Shoppe in Town. The shelves were also created this week. And the Merchant Chicken (placeholder), who runs the shop.

Blacksmith Building:

This is the blacksmith's building (WIP) that has been worked on for some time now. Finally, it is polished enough for eyes to gander.

Some things present:

• Blacksmith’s forge (bellows & anvil)
• Shop area (with some preliminary armor stands & weapon racks placed)
• Kitchen (just a stool, shelves, & an opening to the forge as of now)

On a side note: you can destroy your shoes rapidly by running around in the forge, though, currently, not taking any damage yourself.

The bartering system has begun and has reached a functional point. It’s still a WIP as there are a few bugs and there’s a lot that can be done to improve feedback to the player. Here’s what we have now:

• You can select items you’d like to offer for trade in your own inventory and select items you would like to acquire in the merchant’s inventory. A Selected item will display a ‘B’ in the upper right corner of its slot, designating ‘barter.’
• We’ve setup preliminary item values for shopping. Highlighting an item will display its value.
• A transaction display at the bottom shows how much gold you will have to pay/will receive to compensate for the imbalance of the selected item’s values.
• Merchants will emit a vocalization at the start of bartering.
• A successful transaction will increase your character’s Persuasion skill.

Pitchfork & Hay Pile:

Robe:

The basic trap systems have been started! Certain containers can now be trapped. When opening a trapped container, the trap will be triggered with an audible click sound as warning. Currently, the only trap is the bomb trap, which throws a bomb out at you. There will be others in the future.

The arena matchmaking bulletin has been revamped, providing a bit more feedback for team setup. There’re now icons displayed for the amount of AI combatants (skulls) and players (crowns) on each team. The icons are placeholder at this point.

• You can now proceed from the Player Setup Screen with gaps in between player slots (e.g. playing as player one & three).
• Fixed ledge going through side of Blacksmith building.
• In the Gamepad Change Popup HUD, the controller icons now line up with player IDs (e.g. if player 4 syncs with a controller, the last icon will light up).
• Horses now have 2 seats! That’s convenient.

• Player setup screen now displays the name of the input device tied to your user, e.g. Playstation 3 Controller
• Tree climbing improvements: trees no longer have to be rotated facing directly upward, they can be rotated and the character will match the angle. Climbable trees still must be pretty straight, though.
• Fixed a sneaky bug that would cause level load to fail from the player setup scene. Adding a player, removing that player, then adding one back and beginning the play session, would produce this error.
• Fixed bug in the new player setup scene where player’s selection cursors would not initially tint correctly and would appear for players that hadn’t joined/didn’t exist yet.
• Female tunic & chainmail tunic both fit underneath armor pieces more properly now.
• Changed the way character motors handle mounting, resulting in these fixes:
  • Potions & bombs will now hit a player on a mount (e.g.: chairs, beds, horses/etc).
  • You can now jump on another player’s head & mount them (climb on their shoulders) while they are mounted (in a chair/horse/etc).
  • Possibly fixed a bug that occurred while galloping on a horse, where the horse would push the rider.
• Fixed certain sounds failing to play, after quitting a play session and starting another.
• New male greeting clips (when starting a conversation).
• Jon has tidied up some menu number displays, implementing a string lookup system for floats that clamps the decimals to two points (no more, “0.000001” of a pound).
• Optimization: wooden chairs use box colliders instead of mesh.

Have a good week everyone!