/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Right, might as well give an update on DF for the day, though to be frank, not much that is easily visually quantifiable aside from a few additional sprites has been done: most of it is trying to get a feel for the faries' and Suikas' playstiles while adding new things in between, like more youkai (which are tricky because most of them require fairly complex reactions in order to properly simulate them) and robots. In addition, cyborgs have been added as another monster type; they infrequently appear in evil biomes, and they're similar to robots staticially but also count as living creatures, which allows them to be undead for extra fun (robo-Cheetahs can be tamed if standard guard dogs aren't doing it for you)!

The Factory is more or less complete as a faction, and all that needs to be added for the initial alpha release are the Redcaps to cap of the villians gallery, though I'll probably add at least one more civilized youkai type to give thieving fairy civs a more reliable trading partner. The biggest hurdle to release is writing a guide for how the fairies play and more importantly how to instruct first-timers of the basics of the game.