Dev Update: OMG Zombies !

Yeah, zombies! I added a new game-mode to demonstrate the flexibility of my little engine (only 30-50 additional lines of code required to include the option). As you can see in the screenshot above, it's a zombie apocalypse scenario. 5% of the population spawn as zombies. People killed by zombies immediately respawn as another mindless undead. They are very tough, and regenerate health quickly. Your starting pistol is no match against them and you'll have to get a shotgun or rifle quickly as they will definitively conquer the whole city in a few hundred turns. On the bright side, money will be laying pretty much everywhere by that time. Before you ask, no I am not gonna do a Rogue Survivor 2.0, it's just a dumb fun survival scenario. It also allowed me to test the combat routines at a large scale and fix a rather large amount of potential bugs which would have arisen with the 'faction' tree of the roadmap.

But that's not all, many other changes were made.
And I have an approximate release date for the next version.

On the economical side, factories are working, most shops now have safes where the goods are stored. At the moment, the player can loot those safe without any repercussion, but it will be changed before release so he has to pick the lock, with a chance of triggering an alert calling any cop in the neighborhood. And btw, here's the window used to handle containers in general:

Simple. Double clicking on item will move the stack from a side to another, right clicking allows to move given amounts (1,2,5,10). This window (or a variation) will probably replace the trading one so the player can sell his goods to given shops.

I also added a few building types and altered existing ones, here's a few screenshots on that matter:

This is the new Grocery Shop, it obviously sells food items and can be found in most districts. You can notice the safe containing the shop' stocks. Couriers will retrieve items from depots or factories and deposit those in these safes. As explained earlier, you (and NPC gang members) be able to crack the safes to get free loot.

Here's the pub. It's a variation of the restaurant building. It doesn't always has a shop type activator,  it doesn't have a safe, and you can eat there by bumping into tables. NPC hang out here to eat or to have fun.

The city center's restaurant building. It now has a distinctive sign, NPC are way more likely to eat there if they are wealthy enough. There's no safe to crack in here, though. I have to keep a few locations with unlimited amount of goods for the time being so NPC don't starve to death because of an unbalance of the economy.

Regarding the AI, like I said in a earlier post, NPC actions are less predictable and more diversified. For example the "Idle" routine, when a NPC has no special need to satisfy, has been improved. Instead of just going to a park if available in the current sector or idle aimlessly for exactly 60 turns, they now can buy items at random shops or relax in a pub in addition to the two previous options. Durations have been randomized too. I still have to make the patrol job less dumb (cops/thugs).

I also fixed a ridiculous amount of bugs (most of them not yet visible) and made too numerous random additions and modifications to list here. Sleeping won't cost you money anymore (someone asked about that), though. 

Anyway, there's still a few things to add and fix, but you should get the next version of GRA in more or less two weeks.