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Small dev update and ramblings. Ideals finalized, gameplay imminent!

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A small update considering the state of things, rudimentary AI has been implemented, simple debug spawn and they will run to location of newly placed building and perform the "build" task. I'm still deciding on the initial ideal of the game, Main premises are: Large world  Random Encounters (Feral Animals/Weather/Other Civilizations) Resource Depletion Sense of wonder! To get these implemented might prove challenging, though with some better assets the sense of wonder can easily be achieved with "the money shot"* Designer Note: The "money shot" for lack of a better idiom is generally used for that awe-struck moment a player sees something cool, this is generally easier to do in First Person or Third Person games due to lighting/player vision and forced direction for the player (mostly linear, but non-linear works too). Now, I've never seen this in RTS style games, as generally the environments are static and there's other th