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[Ivan]

What happened to this?

[knight]

Really I loved the demo.

[Ed]

What happened to this?

Well.... The good news is that it's definitely not abandoned. I haven't run out of motivation or inspiration or any other of the ations... except maybe articulation.
The bad news is that I have a recurring wrist injury which means I've hardly got anything done in the past 6 months or so. Anyway hopefully it'll be fixed soon.

The general plan is to get it into the shape of a reasonably compelling exploration game and release that. I have a few ideas for iterations after that, for example being able to nurture the world in some way or having an infinite fixed-seed archipelago to explore. I'm being very strict in not letting it mushroom into some infinite-scope Elder Scrolls game or something like that.

Here's a little morsel: the current tasklist hanging on my wall. NB Not the tasklist for the first releasable version. Have fun trying to read my writing!

Thanks for asking
I might try and scrape together a new build or something else before too long

[godatplay]

I'm excited for this, too. 

[Absurdist]

The terrain reminds me of Daggerfall.

[Ed]

Just thought I'd post to say that stuff is happening again with this

We're working on an interactive music system to support the atmospheric exploration.

More news and maybe a video with amazing non-copyright-infringing soundtrack soon...

[godatplay]

Interactive music system?!  You have my attention

[Derek]

Looks great!  Take care of your wrists, though!

[Ed]

Thanks! The music system (and content!) is progressing well, hope to have something publicly visible/audible in a few days.

(and my wrists are holding up well so far thank you!)

[Ed]

There isn't much (=any) development news posted on it yet, but I started a tumblr blog to provide updates and random related stuff on this project.

It's here: http://twistedtreegames.tumblr.com/

Progress has been good, we're slowly getting more of an idea of what the game will be like: "not really a game" as it turns out, but hopefully an interesting and satisfying exploration experience.

Currently working on an upgrade to the rain/clouds, linking up some sounds to in-game objects and prototyping ambient wildlife and ghosts and stuff.

[Ed]

Should I update this more often.... probably... anyway!

I've been working on day-night cycles for this, and a pleasingly ancient model of the heavens, about which I wrote some nonsense earlier: http://twistedtreegames.tumblr.com/post/797521853/the-celestial-sphere

Initial super-buggy screenshots of it almost working:







We have some exciting ideas for events and music tied to the day-night cycle, will post a video when they're implemented

Oh, and there's an slightly old video showing some other ideas and the dynamic soundtrack in action: here

[agj]

Ooh, night. Very nice.

[Ed]

Thanks! I got the whole celestial sphere business sorted out today, and fixed all the problems with latitude being interpreted wrongly, the sky turning the wrong way, etc. Was hoping to post some screenshots but there are some bugs with the palette that I think I'll try and fix first..

[Ed]

Proteus is not dead, just sleeping! We're hoping to have it ready for GDC, and then downloadable shortly after.

Just posted this for #screenshotsaturday:




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[Jasper Byrne]

Fantastic, this has been on my 'can't wait' list for ages...