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Development continues steadily on Free Company here in the Shed. I’ve been doing a lot of fiddly bits that don’t particularly lend themselves well to individual highlighting. So here’s a little sampling of my recent to do list:

• I’ve fixed up the shadow mapping a lot better so it now works properly when you scroll about the world and interacts better with the point lights (orthographic projection, once I figured out not to divide by the far clip anymore, was the key).
• I’ve added little notification numbers that float up above enemies and the player’s mercs when they take damage or are healed.
• I’ve started to build up the enemy variety by adding three differently armed variants of the bare-chested barbarian you can see above.
• Improved the tooltips for all the items so they give details on the item’s stats.
• Changed the font to a smaller variant and tweaked all the font colours to be less garish.
• Boosted the light level on all the interactive objects to make them stand out a bit more from the background.
• Properly cleaned up render targets when the fancy effects are disabled.
• Added a modular system for useable items, like health potions and made the health potion drinkable as an example.
• Added chainmail armour and made body armour variants visually swappable and have an impact on the player’s stats.
• Added the capability for head variants and beheading to humanoid enemies.
• Tweaked enemy stats and added more scope for variance in stats generally, hopefully to increase difficulty and tactical variety.
• Now possible to edit mercenary nick names and compare their stats in the campaign screens.
• Fixed some loading state bugs.