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[Vakey Rujevic]

Glad my input is useful! I understand the difficulty committing. The idea about debris mobility is really good! It works with the world and I love the trade-off and risk you'd take.

Your art is good too! It kinda reminds me of some art I made in high school. I prefer the top one I confess, I think the bttom is the one you made with the random patterns? Are they new or just sharing some old drawings? Thanks for the tip about William Chyr, I've got his thread opened next. Cheers!

Thanks man! Pretty much all of them started off with random patterns and random strokes. The drawings are new. Not sure if any of them will make it in the game, but great for inspiration.

As for William Chyr, I just read his most recent post. Really great stuff there for Async loading.

[Vakey Rujevic]

Hi! I have been working on improving the underlining architecture of the game and performance of it (which took waayy longer then I expected). And one of the key things of that is visualizing the flow of energy.

The idea is that all living things are composed of energy particles. The more energy you have, the more full and vibrant your body is. In the gif above is an example of Sundura finding a pool of energy that she can feed from. In the same way, Sundura’s predator can suck energy out of her, depleting her of her life source.

Depending on how much energy your body has will cause your body to react differently. Having full energy gives your body a hard skeleton that allows you to break through barriers. Having low energy causes your body to be very particle like allowing you to easily pass through cracks. I will be working on the basic environment of the game next. Can’t wait to showcase how those mechanics will play out.

And for fun, here is a close up gif of Sundura’s body being created out of thin air.

[Vakey Rujevic]

I have set a few goals for myself for the remainder of Q2 (2nd quarter of the year). The theme for this quarter to is implement base environment for Life Of Sundura. Before I dive into making the ecosystem of the game, I will need to build out basic infrastructure of environment. Here is a run down about what each goal is about:

Environment Concept Art (6+)

Want to start my creative juices going of what the environment could look like. So will be doing at least 6 concept art pieces of some basic environments.

Seamless Environment Loading

Not a big fan of loading screens, so really would like the game to be able to seamlessly load and unload environments as the player progresses/explores. I have already build out seamless loading mechanics for organisms in the last quarter, so just need to apply the same logic to environments.

Flowing Mechanics of Migration Current

This one is my favorite. Since Sundura will be following a migration current through her life span, that makes it a big core of the game. The game is completely physics based, so this goal will focus on using physics to push organisms within a current. I will also be exploring the gameplay of dancing with the current (and eventually with other organisms in the current)

Setup Base Environment

The picture above shows an “abstract” big picture perspective of the environment of game. With a core in the middle, a current that flows around it, and different environments inspired by Ayurveda (more on that inspiration in another post). So this goal will focus on setting up a basic version of that environment. As I iterate through the development of the game the environment will grow and change, but I need a starting base to work with and that’s what I wish to accomplish with this goal.

[Vakey Rujevic]

Here is 4/6 of the top down environment concept art I wanted to make for this quarter.

[marcgfx]

Your game is looking great. I love the transition idea from life to death and how you have visualised sundara.

[Pixel Noise]

Glad to see an update on this! Really looking forward to seeing the environments you come up with, the concept art all looks awesome.

[Vakey Rujevic]

Thanks guys! Really liking the direction the game is going in. And seamless environment loading is progressing quite smoothly and am almost done with it. Will be posting an update on that goal soon.

[Vakey Rujevic]

Finished implementing seamless environment loading (one of my Q2 goals) and in the top GIF you’ll notice two boxes.

• White Box: Camera bounds
• Green Box: Collider bounds that load anything inside of it

That with the combination of Object Pooling (a game programming technique) is how the seamless loading works (let me know if you guys want me to write up a more technical overview of this).

[Vakey Rujevic]

Almost done with building out the mechanics of the current. Here is a sneak peak of it. Will be posting gifs of what riding the current will look like soon.

[Vakey Rujevic]

Finished implementing the mechanics of the current. It’s 100% 2d physics based.I can easily change the strength of the current, and this current is one of the more stronger ones, so it’s particularly hard to ride against it (as shown in the second gif above).

And here is one more GIF of lazily riding the current and just letting it sweep you away. Kind of reminds me how I used to ride the lazy rivers in water parks.

[Vakey Rujevic]

Here is two more top down environment concept art pieces, and this one has organisms in it. That completes the goal I had this quarter for drawing at least 6 of them.

[foofter]

Woaaaa the environments! This is exciting. 

[Vakey Rujevic]

Woaaaa the environments! This is exciting. 

Thanks man!

[Vakey Rujevic]

The end of the second quarter was last week. Unfortunately, I did not complete all my goals for that quarter. I was not able to finish “Setup Base Environment” goal. Regardless, these goals were super helpful as they kept me focused (as I have a habit of getting too lost in the details).

Going to finish up that last goal and share with you guys what the base environment of the game looks like. Then we can talk about QA3 goals (hint: it has something to do with organisms).

[VampireSquid]

Glad to see you are still working on this.  Looks amazing.   

[Lo-Phi]

Yay! Super stoked to see some updates. The game just keeps looking better and better! I love the way your concept art looks as well

[Vakey Rujevic]

Thanks for the support guys! I love working on this game so def will keep the updates coming.

[Pixel Noise]

I want to buy your sketch book. All of them. Those environment concept pieces look SO GOOD. Looking forward to seeing your progress in the next quarter, and (hopefully?) seeing some of the organisms you've mentioned.

[jamesprimate]

still one of my favorite projects. keeps looking better and better 

[Vakey Rujevic]

Oh man, that means a lot hearing you guys say that.