ReGrowal

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Hey everyone! Bit of a boring update here, we hit a couple bugs and road bumps but everything is still mostly on track. Thankfully these kind of delays on update logs happened during alpha stages of development so we can take those experiences and learn from them sooner rather than later haha. Obviously the goal is to be as professional about all this as possible, but we're just two humans making a game for the love of making games at the end of the day. That being said we will hopefully have the first video log in about a week or two tops- but as for right now we're working out some details so we have everything up and ready to go.

A very short update log today, as we have big big BIG changes in the works, but it's not quite ready for showing everyone- so with that in mind I look forward to revealing our progress on 6/24 - on Youtube.

This will allow us to show a lot more than just simple images and gifs, which we'll definitely need with to show you all the current stuff we're working on.

Until next time! - @recusantalchemist

P.S. We'll continue posting here as well until our website/blog is set up- after which we'll just post links to the new update log videos here as well as our site.

P.S. #2 Here's some WIP posters from Foundry ruins :)

Rushing /right/ into things since I am ever-so slightly approaching the midnight of 5/24/2024 (im so sorry) here's the new/fixed tools and fixed copper color :)

(left to right: claymore, staff, spear, knife, shovel, chisel, rounded shield, bucket, paxel, pickaxe, hoe, axe, bow saw, sling shot, and bow)

Now that I've caught your eye, time to quickly go over the huge technical stuff that doesn't have any fancy images to show *yet*: 1. It now is supported on Linux! (Windows and Apple too obviously) 2. Controller support! Play using whatever controller you'd like, or a standard mouse and keyboard. 3. There's now a saving state when quitting the game to ensure no file corruption when quitting to main screen

4. WE'VE STARTED THE SURVIVAL MODE AND WEIGHT-BASED INVENTORY SYSTEM LETS GOOOOOOO

Here's the WIP design of the HUD, followed by the concept draft for the inventory system:

Basically, as items are added to your backpack/player/whatever, they add to the total weight vs possible storage weight. similar to games like Fallout or Skyrim, but with the visual grid layout of inventories like Stardew Valley or Minecraft or Terraria. obviously as that list grows, itll expand the size of the GUI but if its *too* large itll have a scroll bar. no more worrying about having 347353 different flower types or random knick knacks. so long as you have the STR stat for it you're good to go!

Magazines/books are in the work now too! You can find and read tidbits of these across the world, ranging from top secret training manuals which give you permanent stat bonuses to learning how to make coffee or bits of lore and new customization options, they've got it all!

(also ignore the sentinels standing in as the temporary player models for now but i felt like including this image from a past update preview to visually explain what i meant by stats and STR/strength/carrying weight/leveling those things up and whatnot)

AND FINALLY THE REST

Updated Textures!

New textures and models

New unique items/tools/weapons/blocks

Implemented more blocks

About 15 new lore entries/logs to discover

2 new in game corpo logos and some related items, Daemonik Energy and NUD - Neural User Display (aka the brand that made the user HUD)

A bunch of new skybox elements such as the distant Orbital Satellites, Planets, and more

....a few more things i cant remember right now (i swear ill get better at these summaries - @recusantalchemist)

We are working on the details to have a musician now to work on our soundtrack with us.

Following up on Log #0, this is our first proper update log showcasing our most recent and current works-in-progress for our indie game, presented by yours' truly, @recusantalchemist and @andeditor7! Starting off with some of our recent technical changes, @andeditor7 has been hard at work getting our water mechanics implemented, arguably the most important aspect a game set in the ocean. Although for the moment on my end of the repo, it's looking like a desert:

Ah well, soon enough I'll get to go swimming again. Also, we've started working on the weather and seasons system as well as planning out various weather types, ranging everywhere from radioactive rainstorms, snow, and sunny days.

Speaking of sun, AndEditor7 has also improved the lighting system drastically, allowing us to use a much wider variety of colors as well as allowing for proper blending between light sources!

Next up for lighting will be ambient occlusion and shadows.

On my end of things I've been working on updating and polishing textures and block models as well as making more new ones, such as those seen above and below. Along with that I've been adding a variety of new creatures to the game, ranging from darners (aka dragonflies), purple shrimp, crabs, rollerspike crabs, plankton, and giant bloodsucking.... things, to name a few!

Quite a few new tools and weapons have been made as well, although I forgot to update the copper texture before making this display (Sorry, I'll show that and some tweaks to the models in Log #2!). Some ui's have been polished as well, namely the hotbar and the backpack inventories. I'm also working on some new more visually interesting uis for the world generation, namely within the spaceship before the game takes place. Here's two working drafts:

I was working on my garden with my partner L the other day and noticed the dirt in game didn't feel quite right, so after touching plenty of grass irl I decided to recolor the one in ReGrowal a bit:

We've also got a starting space uniform and backpack model now as well, as you might have noticed here and there in the screenshots above. Next up will be implementing them along with the player model. Fun.

From yours truly, @recusantalchemist

Hey everyone! As we've been working on ReGrowal, we've realized that short snippets of updates (i.e. showing a couple blocks or items or creatures) has been really messing with our development flow, so we're switching to making posts every couple of weeks showing more significant update progress, with more screenshots and videos and information. Our regular posting schedule will be every 2nd and 4th Friday night (PST) of the month, although we may have some extras here and there. So with that in mind, I look forward to updating you all on our progress on 5/10/24 with some more looks at the world of Planet 55e. Stay tuned for much more to come! :)

Working on some more wildlife today as well, here's some Butterfly variants and fish species, notable the Sailfin, Bigjaw Salmon, and Glimmer Bass!

well this took longer to sketch out than i wanted it to, but i've got the general geology of Planet 55e worked out into a bite-sized diagram to share :)