Current Project

Progress and Testing

The job, inventory, and mission systems have been completed! This is a huge step in turning Horizon Initiative from a build system into an actual game.

AI NPCs now follow a job system and actually perform actions based on a number factors. This is currently being used for building equipment in modules. The player places the equipment (as a hologram), a series of jobs are created to build the equipment, then the NPCs gather materials and perform the construction action. This will later be added to fabricating gear, making food, eating, sleeping, station maintainence and any other task an NPC should perform.

In order to set the job system up, the inventory system was needed. Each station and boardable ship (not drones) has its own 'global' inventory. NPCs gather materials from any nearby storage access point (shelves, crates, cargo modules).

The mission system has been implemented, however the mission content has not.

Currently testing:
-NPC behavior when following jobs.
-Jobs that do not get completed. Specifically, equipment that isnt built but all NPCs are idle.
-Inventory accuracy. Making sure the inventory values are consistant with what has been used.
-No Mission testing yet.