Hi there,

it’s been a while. But I am still on the project. Writing server side code via unitys new cloud code. Preventing cheating by never trusting the client. I am about to have the current mechanics covered soon. There will be a back and forth how I bundled the data on server side. A lot to learn!

This is how it looks. It is Javascript btw, not my main coding language. ( just a test script to not reveal too much)

Beeing stuck on setting up the google auth service in the internal test track. Playing around with keystores somehow I got 2 different ones, one maybe was the debug one before I had a keystore file. Also there is the OAuth 2 Consent screen and the credentials. Not sure..
But I keep trieng, thats no fun part tough.

This project will use unitys new services(beta). In the past I used firebase.

The game will use these services:

-Authentication
-Cloude code
-Cloude save
-Remote config
-Analytics
-Mediation
-Cloud content delivery
..

So currently I setup the login popup. So far I worked with anonymous mode only for the developement.
But its time to add google play and facebook so the save game can be used on other devices in future.
Building this ui is setup work which isn’t the most exciting but has to be right and solid.
These new unity services are currently still in beta but should be a couple of months in production when the game launches.

Decided to use a banner ad or atleast to be ready for it UI wise, since unitys mediation (beta) does not support banner ads right now but might be in future. As for orcs x banner ad revenue was 30% and I don’t want to waste any oppertunity to increase the ARPU. (average revenue per user)
I will have to adapt the already created UIs. (Settings, store, sawmill, shipwreck)

Except some user interfaces all will follow the same layout. To keep things simple.

1. A title area with close button.
2. Description area with or withouth etxra interaction.
3. The scroll area with the object specific options.

The new main mesh had weird animation rig weights, leading to strong stretching. We fixed this. But still have to go one time more over each animation of the main orc. Too make it look nice again.

The „Sawmill“ now throws its own set of numbers supported by little spark particles, generating that wood. It start to feel like a busy little village. Still a lot to do!

I could not work much myself the last couple days but Sebastian was busy optimizing the Peon and Chieftain mesh to only use around 30% of the polys they had before. Also both are on the same gradient texture now. Every poly counts on mobile!

The peons finally hit the tree and generate wood.
A pleasure to watch even on distance, like a boss.

The stylized fixed camera for the tree was hindering the core gameplay, it was harder to controll the character while choppping and colltecting the new pick ups ( prototype blue here).

So the camera had to go. The Counter is now on the tree and rotates around it to always face the player.