Evening, guys!

We got a bunch of stuff done today! Monster health bars are in. They’re not totally finished, and right now every single monster in the game is called Waffles because we haven’t implemented the monster namegen. But…they’re in!

Omni’s gonna finish those up soon and then move onto the party window GUI, which should actually be the last major piece of GUI-work. So, yay. :)

We implemented some more minibiomes- for snowy worlds in particular- and some biome structures, which are mostly just interesting bits of terrain that have a chance of generating. They help to add some more variety to the landscape. A lot of the time they’re just little caves, or rock formations, but here’s an igloo!

Kyren is finishing off ore distribution, which should add a whole lot of balance to the game in its current state. Bartwe is still plugging away at the quests system, which we’re all really excited for.

And then Tiy, Rho and I played instruments in-game and pretended we were in a hipster rock group/Bon Jovi cover band. That’s all folks! Goodnight. :)

Hey guys,

Today we continued our bug fixing spree. A ton of small bugs were fixed. We also managed to cut bandwidth usage in half when playing multiplayer! Which is awesome.

The artists and I have been working hard on adding new mini-biomes and filling them with content and fun things to find. We added 3 more minibiomes today, each of which contains chests, blueprints, furniture to find, weapons, statues, new building materials and so on. These are all super unique drops that I’d rather not spoil with screenshots. But it makes hunting around for new items really fun.

I also completed the naming system for weapons today, names are procedurally generated and of course immediately after completing it I found a tier 1 weapon called ‘the useless slapper’ -_-

We’re also making a few small changes to the GUI. We’re having it display the health of the last monster you hit, streets of rage style. For a while we had health bars above the monsters heads but it was far too intrusive. This ought to fit nicely.

We also added tar as a new liquid. It was needed to finish up the appearance of one of the minibiomes. I should probably figure out something else to do with it though.

We’re now at 859 place-able objects, 102 building materials, 365 non procedurally generated melee weapons, 22 instruments, 383 non procedurally generated pieces of armor, 55 miscellaneous items and a bunch of other stuff we haven’t talked too much about yet. That’s on top of the procedurally generated weaponry

Good evening! Or morning. Some time of day.

Despite it being a Sunday, today was a pretty busy day for bug-fixing. Not much to talk about there, although Bartwe apparently fixed the “oldest bug in the game” because he’s a mad scientist. Many fixes were made to rendering bugs, cameras were tweaked. Not bad for a weekend!

GeorgeV made this animation for when players are falling really really fast– like when they’re falling through space. Like this (though…the animation isn’t actually implemented in this screenshot, I just thought it was pretty)!

More work was done on the food system! So far, each race will start with 16 recipes that reflect their culture/biology. There will be a bunch more recipes to discover in your travels- the more difficult they are to make, the better their buffs! We’re still working on balancing the effects of all the food items and their ingredients. Those recipes haven’t actually been implemented yet, though. Soon!

We also had another play-testing session tonight and talked a lot about player progression. I built a farm with a working kitchen and took a couple of screenshots:

That’s all for tonight. Goodnight, guys. :)