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agricultura update 09

a solarpunk farming sim

1) the shop screen is nearly complete! a few things like the buying and selling of produce haven’t been implemented yet, but this is a major milestone to reach!

2) you can also go to bed now and progress to the next day! these two mechanics being complete is a load off my shoulders. the game is slowly becoming playable

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agricultura update 08

a solarpunk farming sim

01) holly arrives at Yatakang’s west station! also known as “the city of rivers”, Yatakang has a reputation for its unique public transportation -- people hail water taxis! west station in particular is a popular stop point for passengers to board and be ferried throughout the maze-like tributaries and waterways of this trendy, welcoming metropolis

02) AgSec is a company officially licensed by the government of Huanjing to be a supplier of seeds and receiver of produce for the nation’s farmers. the robot who works behind the register seems friendly, if a little goofy. could holly be interested in making friends with him?

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agricultura update 07

a solarpunk farming sim

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thank you so much!! holly will have 4 friends she can make, and meeting them all is one requirement for the golden ending.

yes, there are three towns!: yatakang, (the trendy commercial city) neo peking (the capital, where you unlock things for your farm) and tiangong (the urban seaside city). there’s a secret fourth optional location, as well

plants contributing certain nutrients to the soil was a planned concept up until very recently. the way it would have worked was that certain plants have adjacency bonuses to other plants, improving their quality. it would have cost somewhere around triple the number of variables that the planting system uses on its own right now, so it unfortunately had to be scrapped :-(

is this who i think it is………

i listed every type of plant in the game in my previous update, but the only real important distinction between them is in what farm zone they were grown in and if they’re a fruit or a flower! all of these catagories have randomized modifiers that affect their price every 10 in-game days or so (tentatively, the mechanic hasn’t been added yet), so you could have a situation where sunflowers are suddenly in high demand, flowers are in high demand, and anything grown in the meadow farm is in high demand, leading to a sunflower being worth 6 times as much as normal

<:3c as for cooking, it was a planned feature i ended up having to scrap, partially for the sake of development finishing more quickly, but also because i couldn’t really find a way to make it fun with RPG Maker’s limitations. you will be able to collect and sell trading cards and rehabilitate different kinds of fish in your own fish tank, as well as other things! i hope it’ll be enough to keep people interested…

this might be an unhelpful answer to some people, but i only know what i know because of what i wanted to make! the first step is having an idea for a game or even a mechanic, and the second step is busting your ass learning exactly how to do it with the tools RPG Maker gives you