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DigiMastered Works LLC

Office of Development

DMW107IB1013

Date 08/03/2022 12:02 PM

THIS IS FINALIZED INTELLIGENCE

To: The People

From: Tanner Fry

Subject: Enhancing Scenery & Buildings

Water Shading

For a while now I've been trying to tackle the issue of depth on the map. One area of concern was the map's terrain. Currently, the terrain is split into 9 regions. They are as follows: Water Deep, Water Shallow, Water Edge, Sand, Grass, Grass 2, Rock, Rock 2, and Snow. To give the terrain more depth the water edge now has a shadow below it. In the first image below you will see the depth visualized as red while the second image shows its true in-game color.

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Administrative Intelligence Agency

Pixel-Art

Simulation

Indie

Strategy

Procedural Generation

#12 Operations and the Environment

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DigiMastered Works LLC

Office of Development

DMW107IB1012

Date 07/03/2022 11:27 AM

THIS IS FINALIZED INTELLIGENCE

To: The People

From: Tanner Fry

Subject: Operations and the Environment

Operations and Their Structure

Grab your coffee and take a seat because this update is lengthy. Over the month of June the Director's operation board has received quite a few changes and enhancements. While building out more functionality to the board, the underlying structure of an operation has increased in size. This was expected but the workload was not. Below we will talk about the overview of the operation system, what an operation contains, and how it is used.

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Administrative Intelligence Agency

Procedural Generation

#11 Progress is of the Essence

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DigiMastered Works LLC

Office of Development

DMW107IB1011

Date 05/31/2022 11:02 PM

THIS IS FINALIZED INTELLIGENCE

To: The People

From: Tanner Fry

Subject: Progress is of the Essence

Director's Operation Board

Fantastic developments have occurred regarding the Director's operation board with more to come next month! The purpose of the operation board is to allow you, the Director, to create operations for your agency. These operations will play a vital role in helping you keep track of what's going on and what you'd like to take action on.

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Administrative Intelligence Agency

#10 Advancing the Agency

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DigiMastered Works LLC

Office of Development

DMW107IB1010

Date 04/30/2022 11:22 PM

THIS IS FINALIZED INTELLIGENCE

To: The People

From: Tanner Fry

Subject: Advancing the Agency

Building Construction

This month's edition of updates will include agency building construction, agency research, music, and additional sounds. We've previously talked about enhanced lighting, how details can be added to buildings through it, building selection and information, agent's entering and exiting buildings, and more. Today, we will be talking about utilizing buildings to enhance your agency.

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Administrative Intelligence Agency

#9 Pathfinding

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DigiMastered Works LLC

Office of Development

DMW107IB1009

Date 03/20/2022 11:29 AM

THIS IS FINALIZED INTELLIGENCE

To: The People

From: Tanner Fry

Subject: Pathfinding

Route Finding and Optimization

A Director's agents will be using A* pathfinding algorithm in order to move from their current location to a new location. Things to consider when implementing pathfinding into a game are the size of the game, the entities using the algorithm, and other objects as that can change how A* should be implemented. We implemented A* pathfinding with a small 16x16 grid that is placed around an agent. When an agent is told to move to a location within the agent's grid, a path is calculated from the current location to a new location.

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Administrative Intelligence Agency