Merge Town

Devlog

• Waving flag
  July 12, 2023 by pocdev

  Today I had the idea of a little waving flag. I realized it with a little shader script. Maybe overkill and some offline drawn pixel frames could do the same. But anyhow I think it looks cool. :-)... Continue reading

  
• Dust Effect
  July 11, 2023 by pocdev

  This little dust effect below a placed house improves the reality feeling a lot. I'll revisit and fine tune this effect later. The in-game display looks smoother than in the GIF preview here. Technica... Continue reading

  
• Population popup animation and shop arrow
  July 11, 2023 by pocdev

  Two new visual improvements to the game: Population/points popup animation Each time you place or merge a house a little points animation shows above. Maybe I'll limit the appearance rate of single po... Continue reading

  
• GameOver and Shop improvement
  July 10, 2023 by pocdev

  Two new improvements added: GameOver screen A very missing feature was the GameOver and restart screen. Now it's added. It just shows the reached population and offers a Game replay possibility. A Hig... Continue reading

  
• Helping Avatar
  July 09, 2023 by pocdev

  I added a first draft of an helping avatar system to Merge Town. Today he's still pretty undynamic but next I'll add more animations and helpful hints to his message box. :-)... Continue reading

  
• Small visual improvements
  July 06, 2023 by pocdev

  Today I implemented three new features as small visual improvements: 1) Shop Highlight Each time you get enough Gold to buy items in the shop the button gets a little red and size flash. This is not t... Continue reading