Kikai

Devlog

• Fully Featured Unit Development & Radio Device
  February 27, 2025 by Dziban

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  I’m on a roll! I’m using most of my limited free time for this game and writing here. Let’s go over some tech and some game design-ish things that happened today. Unit Development Environment Yo... Continue reading
• In-Game Editor & Unit Persistence
  February 26, 2025 by Dziban

  Today I managed to squeeze some time to work on Kikai while my daughter was sleeping in the afternoon and I have some news! A very basic form of the sandbox is starting to take shape: What was impleme... Continue reading

  
• Customizable User Interfaces
  February 24, 2025 by Dziban

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  Third post this week, let’s go! In most games, units (and buildings) have a user interface to present the control options you have for that entity, for example in Age of Empires you have the followi... Continue reading

  
• Assembling and Rewriting Units
  February 24, 2025 by Dziban

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  #uxn, #programming

  This is gonna be a short post exploring ideas I have about how to generate unit behavior on the fly. The main objective with Kikai is to give you a whole development environment to achieve whatever cr... Continue reading
• Kikai, Uxn & Debugger
  February 23, 2025 by Dziban

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  #uxn, #development

  The Origins of Kikai This is the first post talking about the development of Kikai. Kikai is a programmable RTS game, inspired by Zachtronics and Screeps. The idea is that in order to get an advantage... Continue reading