We've started improving the UI, and the first stages of introducing mods! More info here: www.patreon.com/purple_kingd... #gamedev #indie #indiegames #indiedev #scala #indigoengine

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This month our focus has been on looking at the UI and improving how buildings are added to the game. One of the things that became clear as

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This month we've added Taverns and Docks. Huge shout out to @davesmith00000.bsky.social for his patience and guidance while I bombarded him for feedback! Find more on our (free) Patreon: www.patreon.com/purple_kingd... #gamedev #indie #indiegames #indiedev #scala #indigoengine

This month we've been working on saving and loading islands - just another step forward on the path to getting our demo ready! More details here: www.patreon.com/purple_kingd... #gamedev #indie #indiegames #indiedev #scala #indigoengine

This month we've been working on creating islands from scratch! You can now build an island, and place trees and rocks! More details here: www.patreon.com/purple_kingd... #gamedev #indie #indiegames #indiedev #scala #indigoengine

This month I've been learning shaders and focusing on the waves for our game - they're aren't perfect yet, but they're looking pretty good. As always - more details can be found on Patreon (for free) www.patreon.com/posts/shady-... #gamedev #indie #indiegames #indiedev #scala #indigoengine

This month we've added ambient sounds to our game! We've also added some player acknowledgements... you can find a sample of that in the usual place 🙂 www.patreon.com/posts/sounds... #gamedev #indie #indiegames #indiedev #scala #indigoengine

Pirates, trees and mini-maps... oh my! This month has been working on just that.. more info, as ever, on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/pirate... #gamedev #indie #indiegames #indiedev #scala #indigoengine

We're updating our graphics! So far it's just the island, but the rest will follow soon. As always, there's more here: www.patreon.com/posts/island... #gamedev #indie #indiegames #indiedev #scala #indigoengine

This is why I love game dev.. the bugs are much more interesting than API work 😛 Combat system is done now though 🎉 You can read more at www.patreon.com/posts/147789... #gamedev #indie #indiegames #indiedev #scala #indigoengine

This month we've been working on the combat system... only to realise it's not fit for purpose ..frustrating, but these things happen 🙃On a positive... new graphics are coming! More details can be found here: www.patreon.com/posts/145502... #gamedev #indie #indiegames #indiedev #scala #indigoengine

Zen and the Art of Combat Rewrites | Purple Kingdom Games

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We've recently added some Navy ships to our pirate colony sim, to really stir things up.. and some pretty graphics! Find out more here: www.patreon.com/posts/pretti... #gamedev #indie #indiegames #indiedev #scala #indigoengine

A few more buildings this month - the Inn (for tempting Pirates to your island), and the Tavern (where your pirates can buy drinks) Find out more here: www.patreon.com/posts/inns-t... #gamedev #indie #indiegames #indiedev #scala #indigoengine

Our little Pirate colony sim just got a raft of new buildings that can be built, and a new unit to help you along the way 🙂 You can find out more about them at www.patreon.com/posts/landlu... #gamedev #indie #indiegames #indiedev #scala #indigoengine

After a bit of a re-factor to our game, we're back on track again! We've also managed to sneak in a new feature, so you can start ordering your crew around. Check out the full details on our free Patreon page www.patreon.com/posts/from-a... #gamedev #indie #indiegames #indiedev #scala #indigoengine

From the Ashes of Disaster | Purple Kingdom Games

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📣 New Blog Post! Fellow OSS authors! Drowning in hopelessly outdated code snippets and misleading docs? I’ve been there. This post is about the idea that helped us recover — shared in case it's useful to someone else. 💜 purplekingdomgames.com/blog/2025/07... #Scala

Progress on the game has hit a stumbling block this month, but in the interest of transparency (and because set-backs are as important as successes), we've written a blog post on it: www.patreon.com/posts/month-... #gamedev #indie #indiegames #indiedev #scala #indigoengine

A Month of Set-Backs | Purple Kingdom Games

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We've been working hard on the UI elements of our pirate colony sim, and this month is the turn of crew stats! You can check out more about this (and keep track of thee development) on our Patreon page (www.patreon.com/posts/crew-s...) #gamedev #indie #indiegames #indiedev #scala #indigoengine

We've been tweaking our AI for crew members! They now wander aimlessly around the island looking for things to do 🙂 You can check out more updated on our Patreon page (www.patreon.com/c/purple_kin...) #gamedev #indie #indiegames #indiedev #scala #indigoengine

Just finished revamping our island generator! Pretty happy with the results of this, and had a lot of fun with implementing Wave Function Collapse 🙂 #gamedev #indiegame #pixelart

🕹️ Indigo 0.20.0 is out! Many thanks to the contributors involved in this release! A small smorgasbord of quality of life improvements and a wacky Waypoints demo. What's not to love? github.com/PurpleKingdo... #Scala

Indigo's UI system is dead. Long live the UI system! The UI system released last month did not survive first contact with the real world, and has been overhauled. New releases of all Purple Kingdom Games #Scala libs, containing the revised UI and many other improvements, are now available.

Changing the graphics to 1-bit so we can focus on game-play for a while. Wasn't sure I'd like this art style, but actually quite enjoying it 🙂 #indiedev #pixelart

Still very early days, but I wanted to share our progress on a the quirky pirate colony simulator we're working on 🙂 Getting NPCs to make choices has to be my favourite part of the game dev process 🙂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rriZ...

Work in Progress - Fight and Flight

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