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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Players can now scoop dirt out of the terrain with a shovel and place it into the world. Will eventually be used for earth works / earth fortifications etc #indiedev #indiegame #screenshotsaterday #gamedev #unreal #unreal5 #unrealengine

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

youtu.be/_z7_SzAdpdo Video recording of modifying a holding claim! Just moved all this into a subsystem and made it less specific so players can only modify territories that 1. they are inside of and 2. own #indiedev #indiegame #unrealEngine #ue5

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Peasant Simulator - Holding borders

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Prototyping Kingdom borders! The Blue line represents where players will place down "Flags" to define the border. The Green line represents their resulting area of influence, which is extruded from the blue. Just debug drawing for now. #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Fixed the main issue with picking the most relevant edges to extend for my Kingdom borders! Dot Product to the rescue as per usual ... #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #unreal5 #unrealEngine

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

How on earth did you optimize that many bullets?!

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Starting to work on Kingdom borders! Players will place flags in the ground which will act as points on a polygon, defining the territory they own. #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #unreal

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Fire ripping through a farming field. Just testing out some proof of concepts for propagation mechanics. #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #unreal #unrealEngine

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Items in the game world now build a relationship graph of what they are close to! The idea being that I can have disease, filth, fire etc propagate item to item. #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Period accurate colorized footage of three peasants (cubes) farming (placing cookies everywhere). #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #unreal

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I don't know why but for some reason everything I make ends up being harvest moon. #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #unreal

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Added "Perishability" to the game! Items can optionally decay after a time into another set of items, or die entirely. In this example harvested Foliage yields plant fiber, which decay into rot, which decay into nothingness. #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #ue5 youtu.be/nzPY4p3QUSk

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Rotting and Perishability mechanics

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Starting to move everything to ECS! Also everything in the world is now an item. An apple you eat? Item. Building you build? Item. Deer walking around? Also Item. #unreal #indieDev #indieGame #gameDev

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Doing a bunch of FLECS ECS benchmarking, and I'm certainly gonna move my entire games logic over to it. 50k replicated "Wheat" crops which are ticking their growth and dryness, dying when fully dry - 120fps #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #unreal #ue5 #flecs

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Slight edit - out of the thousand in this shot, about ~540 are in motion. They stand still for a bit after finishing their paths, so not all 1000 are in motion at all times.

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Alright well it kind of works I guess. 1000 replicated pathfinding moving deer NPCs. With some room for polish! #indieDev #gameDev #indieGame #ue5 #unrealEngine

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I just noticed the Eat interaction type. Probably wanna cook it first at least. When I add cooking.

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Deforestation! I don't know why but I really like lumberjacking in survival games. They don't grow back yet but eventually they will. #indieGame #indieDev #gameDev #unreal5 #ue5

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

oh my god I only just saw this! Thank you so much haha thats so kind of you to say.

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Trying to communicate dying of thirst. Annoyingly though Thirst, Hunger, and Blood loss all need to compete for screen real estate. #indiedev #gamedev #indieGame #unreal #ue5

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

The amount of time I've lost because I couldn't be bothered logging coupled with the amount of time I have saved when I did bother ...

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

50 001 world items. I didn't honestly think it would scale this well but it looks pretty good! Loading time is a bit brutal on the initial spawn but I can speed that up later.

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Chunk replicated and rendered world items! Here are 10000 "raw meat" items which are replicated, can be added/removed, and support replication to late joiners! There's going to be damn near unlimited amounts of items in Peasant Sim :O #unrealEngine #unreal5 #indieGame #indieDev

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Yeah I think that is for sure the way to go after messing around with this sort of thing. Maybe just roll my own ApplyDamage interfaces and use those instead of the defaults, route them into child components when they aren't implemented on parents maybe?

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

@unrealengine.bsky.social Child components of an actor don't have access to the trace HIT via their parents OnTakePointDamage event because the binding doesn't pass through the Hit info :( #indieDev #indieGame #gameDev #unreal #ue5

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

This is a really neat line here - QUICK_SCOPE_CYCLE_COUNTER(__func__); Basically just profiles the cost of this function without having to name the thing. I basically litter these all throughout my code base. I'm trying to not prematurely optimize, to simply log the cost, and move on. #indiedev

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Sunflower Spiral! I end up using this pattern a lot when trying to sample points within a circle. Simplified Pseudo code: buff.ly/x2DdC2P #indieDev #indieGame #gameDev #unreal5 #ue5 #unreal

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

dyowananowat - that's the nicest thing I've read in a long time and I appreciate that you took the time to say it. Good on you.

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Yeahp! Thats a berry bush to me. Green + Red/Blue dots = Bush with berries. #indieDev #indieGame #gameDev #blender

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

You can now catch Fish! Basically its a game of getting your lure to float in front of them. Haven't handled the catching minigame yet but its getting there. #indieGame #indieDev #unreal #unrealEngine #ue5

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Something I'm going to try is that if a tethered fish takes this lure and flee's to the right, the line will snap against the trees. So you want to be close to the water to be out of a treeline but not close enough that your shadow scares the fish. #indieGame #indieDev #gameDev #unreal #ue5

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Fishing Prototype! The player can cast a lure into water surfaces (scaring the fish away). The lure then floats with the wind, notifying any fish near it to bite it. Now I just need fish. #indieGame #indieDev #unreal #unrealEngine #ue5

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Ok well I get that it's a hacky prototype, but that isn't working as intended ... #ue5 #unreal #unrealEngine #indieDev #indieGame #gameDev

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Just another shot of the chickens! Right now they don't care to be inside or outside at all, but that will come later. #ue5 #unreal #unrealengine #indieDev #indieGame

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Adding chickens to the players starting farm! They don't do much beyond walk around randomly and get one-shot by the player. #ue5 #indiegame #indieDev #Unreal #gamedev

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Thanks Jenkins. I appreciate your honesty.

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Hey uh, something NOT gamedev related! Make sure you replace the inlet valves in your plumbing or you know, your house might flood. And that would be really unfortunate if that were to happen. I wouldn't know anything about that though.

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PeasantSimulator @projectreign.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

"THIRSTY" - well it works to get your attention, but ideally it would be some sort of Icon that reflects the Thirst state with some sort of lerp in / out animation ... but it works for a prototype! #unreal #indieDev #gameDev #indieGame

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