Rafael

Devlog 2: UI Changes, Hero Creation and FAQ - Survival Sandbox

Hey guys

In today’s devlog I’d to talk about the UI changes, which is the reason why we’ve been silent for a weeks now, as well as the Hero Creation and World Generation screens, and your questions. There’s a video devlog about all this, so feel free to check out it on Youtube. Here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QwXd_eoQZM

NIMOYD is our new game. Nimoyd is like Minecraft meets The Sims, mixed with multiplayer Zelda and aliens.

Here’s our first dev log after a long time. See also http://nimoyd.com

NIMOYD is our new game. Nimoyd is like Minecraft meets The Sims, mixed with multiplayer Zelda and aliens.

Here’s our first dev log after a long time. See also http://nimoyd.com

Hey there

It’s been quite a while since our last devlog, so let’s talk about Nimoyd.

What happened to Nimoyd since then?

Well, we’ve changed the game art style from non-pixel to pixel art which led to a number of changes and improvements, and this took time.

This is NIMOYD, our little game in dev. And it’s hot. And, uh, <3

DEVLOG - 15 July 2017

Hey folks

Nimoyd is a pixel art game now. It was not an easy change. It took us months of testing, prototyping, talking, before we admitted that we’ll do a pixel art game. 

𝗤𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲

Hey folks

We’re sorry for the silence, but for some time we were not allowed to tell what was going on, due to a legal issue that surprised us when someone became greedy, out of stupidity, I suppose. Being a small team that only wishes to create the game they love, it hit us hard. It felt strange to not be able to talk about your own game. 

The development of Proven Lands is on hold, unfortunately. There is a silly clone out there anyway, which hurts, but this is probably how the industry works. But, it is perhaps not that bad, so we told to ourselves this morning, because numerous survival games came out recently and it’s not like they add new features to the genre, right? Like, NMS surprised us too. So maybe it is quite healthy to take our time and see what else we can add to Proven Lands in the long term, that makes is unique. I find uniqueness and to name your influences, at least to some degree, important. Let’s see how it all turns out and how much we can tell next year. Proven Lands is an amazing experience for us anyway, because, when you look back to 2013 and 2014, how much effort it took us to shape the core of the game, with the help of so many fans on tumblr, when it started as a roguelike, or that character design (that little astronaut, if you recall, was bigger at first), or the creatures and the voxel-based terrain engine, and also that UI, or that multi tool that felt 2013 pretty unique.

I am not sure how much we should show about Proven Lands, so see below for 2 internal videos, both from early and mid 2015. It shows well why we hoped to release the game late 2015. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6mz3q2uXQY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGur6y1UZzM

𝗤𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲

Hey folks

We’re sorry for the silence, but for some time we were not allowed to tell what was going on, due to a legal issue that surprised us when someone became greedy, out of stupidity, I suppose. Being a small team that only wishes to create the game they love, it hit us hard. It felt strange to not be able to talk about your own game. 

The development of Proven Lands is on hold, unfortunately. There is a silly clone out there anyway, which hurts, but this is probably how the industry works. But, it is perhaps not that bad, so we told to ourselves this morning, because numerous survival games came out recently and it’s not like they add new features to the genre, right? Like, NMS surprised us too. So maybe it is quite healthy to take our time and see what else we can add to Proven Lands in the long term, that makes is unique. I find uniqueness and to name your influences, at least to some degree, important. Let’s see how it all turns out and how much we can tell next year. Proven Lands is an amazing experience for us anyway, because, when you look back to 2013 and 2014, how much effort it took us to shape the core of the game, with the help of so many fans on tumblr, when it started as a roguelike, or that character design (that little astronaut, if you recall, was bigger at first), or the creatures and the voxel-based terrain engine, and also that UI, or that multi tool that felt 2013 pretty unique.

I am not sure how much we should show about Proven Lands, so see below for 2 internal videos, both from early and mid 2015. It shows well why we hoped to release the game late 2015. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6mz3q2uXQY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGur6y1UZzM

Nimoyd Update: Roads, Cities, and The Blue Girl

Hey

I’ve been working on the road system longer than expected. The roads or streets connect villages and fallen cities. I realized that roads give instantly depth to an open world game such as ours. Jeffrey, the other dude on Nimoyd, yea it’s a team of two, uh – he told me that he spent hours in Minecraft building and crafting roads. I think that roads are underestimated in smaller open world games, because roads add structure and linearity to  gameplay as soon as you wire most villages and NPC’s with it. Not all sites and locations are connected to roads though, it’s more like Skyrim, with those hidden and lost cabins and caves in the woods and wild, despite roads between castles and villages.

Sursday Dev Update – Painting Process

Hi folks and welcome to this week’s update where I will summarise some of the thoughts, tools and techniques, that I use for paintings like the recent Slaver’s mine.