I may have raised a few questions, so I would like to explain the current situation again.
Discord Channel
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If you have questions and issues, feel free to post them there as well and I can react more quickly to those. https://discord.gg/ahazEZT
The Team
I don't work alone on the project, as I described it a while ago. I'm still working full time, but it changes in November and then I have about 30 hours a week available for Endciv. This will give the development a corresponding boost.
There has been a programmer for a few months now, serving up to 20 hours a week. It's the same I used to work with previously.
Besides there are some freelancers. Currently there is an animator and a 3D Artist, another one I have as a backup if we need more progress.
As I invest some time in preparing the art assignments it will take a while to finish new graphics.
The Price
With the release in September, the price will be reset to 16 USD. Currently there is still a discount since development was halted.
Recent Progress
My programmer is still fighting the AI Savegame feature as this turned out to be a big task but he shall be finished on Monday.
My drawing skills are limited but I do my best to brief the artists so they know what i have in mind. For the buildings we try to minimize modelling effort and texture space by reusing and replacing parts. We want to model seperate elements and later merge everything down to one mesh.

Today I managed to implement the character customization engine. We still miss a few textures and settings but overal it is working great.
As you can see the system can generate people with random colors for skin, hair and clothes. Of course it won't be that colorful later on.
[ 2018-08-26 18:32:09 CET ] [ Original post ]