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[kizmarh]

Just noticed that the bird that have the most “feathers” at the top is “alpha” (the first one), and the one that visually have the least amount of them is the “omega”, the last one that is clumsy and is lagging behind a bit. I wonder if that was made on purpose

[JLJac]

Actually not for this one, but some other creatures have stuff like that - such as rain deer antler size depending in their internal ranking. This is sort of what we're going for though ... by not giving away much information in the game about what's going on except from what you see on the screen, we can get the player to project their own ideas onto the world, and you'll end up with a nice blurry line between what the game can do and what you think the game can do  

Update 482

UI for placing ambient sounds.



Just UI so far ~ no, you know... sounds.

[jamesprimate]

^ FINALLY MY TIME AS COME. mega mega stoked about this









for those who dont know, i was originally only here to do the audio...   

[tortoiseandcrow]

I am so excited about this!

Wait...I just realized you'll be placing every single one by hand. And with the number of screens I know you've made...James, I don't envy you. Not even a little bit.

(okay, a little bit)

[jamesprimate]

there is a system of inheritability in there, so it wont be all that bad! Like with the lighting and palette tools, Joar has it set so ill be able to set audio templates for regions/subreigons. though... if my workflow with the lighting and palette is any indication, ill likely wind up doing most of it by hand because i am a fuss. The 1% lighting blend difference between rooms matters to me! XD

really looking forward to it. my only sadness is that i cant dive right in just yet. Sooooooon!

[Franklin's Ghost]

Nice to see that sound is now going to start being implemented

That UI ambient sound setup looks like it works really well and looking forward to seeing what james is going to be doing with it. When will you be able to start playing with it?

[flashysquirrel]

Thanks for taking time to explain a bit more your "non-ragdoll" birds It's impressive how you made it look behaving physical with no real physics involved, nice trick !

[JLJac]

Update 483

Made the ambient sound engine load and play sounds, and made the inheritance stuff work. Ambient sounds ready to go!

[lakithunder]

After discovering this game, I read an unhealthy amount of the devlog in a very short time. Rain World is the coolest game.

My only qualm is that at this point it doesn't appear to me that the player will meet many other slugcats in his or her search for food which just feels sort of unrealistic to me. If you don't have anything more productive to do with your time, I think it would be cool if the game matched you up with another player online journey style - although adding online multiplayer is kind of time consuming and probably not worth it.

I've also been wondering whether you have any species where the males and females have different abilities and/or behaviors. That's a very integral part of the natural world and would be cool to have.

Anyway, the game is going to be (and indeed already is) awesome whatever features you intend to add.

[Christian]

After discovering this game, I read an unhealthy amount of the devlog in a very short time. Rain World is the coolest game.

My only qualm is that at this point it doesn't appear to me that the player will meet many other slugcats in his or her search for food which just feels sort of unrealistic to me. If you don't have anything more productive to do with your time, I think it would be cool if the game matched you up with another player online journey style - although adding online multiplayer is kind of time consuming and probably not worth it.

I've also been wondering whether you have any species where the males and females have different abilities and/or behaviors. That's a very integral part of the natural world and would be cool to have.

Anyway, the game is going to be (and indeed already is) awesome whatever features you intend to add.

Well there is co-op, and the game has competitive MP modes

[jamesprimate]

yes, what Christian said!

also were not showing any of the narrative / story stuff in the devlog, for obvious spoiler reasons, so WHO KNOWS what sorts of things you'll find when you venture out into rain world proper

[JLJac]

Update 484

Making tiles! The next region is going to be really mazy. With a few lizards in there I think we'll be able to squeeze out a decent pac-man clone from the engine!



The slanted walls of the tunnels enables you to see the creatures in them, even at the edges of the screen where the slight depth effect will otherwise tilt the geometry so the tunnel becomes obscured.

[itsyourpalmike]

Damn, this game looks amazing. I'm excited to see where it goes.

[lakithunder]

It's nice seeing that you're bringing back more maze-like areas from the beginning of the development.

[JLJac]

Yeah I think so too! The maze game is perhaps not quite as strong as the platforming game, but it is suspenseful and fun when there are a few lizards around, and it's a very welcome change of pace. Suddenly the game becomes way more about planning and thinking rather than quick reflexes.

Update 485

More tile work! This is a little bit more exciting, so I'll leave it to James to show it off properly in an environment in a couple of days!

[jamesprimate]

GOING DEEP!

Past week or so we've been working on materials and structure for the 11th (and penultimate) region on our to-do list: Subterranean! Probably won't get into too much detail with the specifics of it since its among the final regions the player will encounter, but suffice to say that its underground, so totally happy to show off some of the deep cave-like elements we've been messing with for the top layer subregion.

Joar has whipped up a *fantastic* new (procedural?) dirt tile material and a pair of dark-ish cave palettes to get us going. Worth noting is that we spent a few days fretting on how to make these work, as both aspects are potentially a bit of a departure from how things have been done so far, but i think it came out really well:



detail: http://i.imgur.com/8wndxmd.png

This sub-region is "Near Surface Subterranean", so occasionally you come across areas where the cave ceiling has given way and shafts of saturated light shine down, illuminating the walls. So we needed a palette that would work with various lighting types and could also be blended with other "outside" palettes for when transitioning to other surface regions. No easy trick, and Joar did an amazing job! I know its subtle stuff, but definitely worth pointing out as I think its the best palette work in the game so far. Here is the same palette, but deeper underground and with only player lighting:



detail: http://i.imgur.com/gyl3kYY.png



experimentations continue... so more soon!

[christopf]

holy cow, you guys...

[Crabby]

its....beautiful!!!
 
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[tortoiseandcrow]

That is one sophisticated palette there. I'm getting a total 18th century romanticism vibe from those soft hues. The painterly dirt tiles are certainly helping the effect too. Nice work!

[Christian]

Looks great, James

Can't wait to see what terrifying species Joar thinks up for those underground caverns...