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[Pixel Noise]

Hey, this looks great! It's fine if you're not sure what direction to go yet - you're doing exactly the right thing. Just keep filling in the world and details, while you figure it out!

Though personally, I liked the earlier, more open ideas of simply survival, maybe some light exploration, etc? But I'd rather it not be linear, or too much so. I think keeping it open/exploration is what this game wants to do

[Forstride]

Hi,

Are you still working on this game? I write music and would love to be a part of this. If you're interested you'll find my music here https://open.spotify.com/album/1tlOC3aSiEEDzlG9bm3dEF
https://vimeo.com/home/myvideos (I made the videos as well)
https://soundcloud.com/olasandberg

I'd be super into making more digital music towards the "bitty" sort of lo-fi stuff. But I'm still into ambient music, think the two would combine well. I'm currently studying music production and will begin my last year this fall and get my bachelors degree next year. If my grammar is a bit off I blame being from Sweden.

Get back to me if you're interested.
Best,
Ola

Just made an update post today, so yes, I am working on it.  However, I have a friend who's been doing music for the game, and has done a few tracks already.  Thank you for the offer though!

[Forstride]

New meadow-themed area.  Also, I decided to reuse the old character design/animations from Traversia.  Mostly because they look nicer, but I also came up with a new idea for the story, that will still involve the park and rangers, but you'll be playing as a tourist, with basically the same role I had for the ranger before.  Don't want to reveal too much stuff just yet.  

[Forstride]

Worked on extended gamepad support today, part of which included an in-game keyboard for file select stuff:



I was originally only going to have the keyboard for gamepad support, but I like the "classic" feel of it, and decided to keep it for actual keyboard use as well.  More fun that way.  

[Forstride]

Added in climbing and crawling tonight.

Climbing works 100% properly, because it's just a small modification of the normal movement code, and works properly with the collision detection (Which is separate from movement).

Crawling though, is a bit less stable.  It's working for the most part, although I've run into a few bugs with it that I've fixed kind of shoddily, so I'll probably end up having to fix things again in the future.  Also need to do an animation for it, which I'll probably end up putting off for a while. 

I also fixed some stuff with slopes.  Before, there was only proper collision detection if the player was moving up a slope, and the player would sort of "fall" down slopes awkwardly because of gravity, but I added collision detection for moving down slopes, so it's nice and smooth now.

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Not exactly sure what I should work on now.  I kind of want to put off mapping for a while, until I have more of a proper direction for the game.  Might just take a break for a while until I know what I want to do.

[Forstride]

I worked on rough drafts of the map layout over the past few days, and I think I'm satisfied with what I have.  Decided to draw an overworld map today, and implemented a map menu:



It'll just let you see where you are in the game, and highlight other areas you've visited.  I don't plan on doing any kind of fast travel system, aside from caverns, but you have to find/unlock them first.

[Forstride]

Did some hack-y water reflections:



As much as I like them, I'm probably not going to keep them, because as far as I know, the way I'm doing it isn't really that stable.

I don't know much about surfaces and whatnot with Game Maker, so the way I'm doing it now is creating sprites from the application surface every frame (Although, it just replaces the old ones, but it's doing it every frame, which isn't good) and drawing them.

[Forstride]

I spent most of today trying to fix water reflections and do them properly with surfaces (And then getting them to look nice), and I finally did it.



The new method is much more efficient compared to saving sprites from the application surface every frame, and doesn't have a risk of causing a memory leak as far as I know.

[Forstride]

Spent some time last night working on the camera, and gave it a nice and smooth acceleration/deceleration, as opposed to just sticking to the player's x coordinate.

[Forstride]

Reworked the bow graphics for the heck of it:

[ViSpear]

Wow the colors and animations are beautiful! I especially like the light beams  . Is the gameplay just going to be hunting or something similar?

[Forstride]

I don't really know what I want to do honestly.  I'm thinking of something along the lines of an adventure platformer, with survival elements thrown in possibly.

[Forstride]

Made some kind of promo background image thing:



I wanted to do something where it showed the range of seasons as well as time of day all in one image, so I came up with this.

[ANtY]

looks really pretty :3

[RujiK]

Dang, them some pretty graphics. I'd be interested in what you plan for gameplay. Hunting cute forest animals seems kinda out of place. Looks like the game is more of a zen experience to me, but I'll be watching to see where it's headed.

[Forstride]

Dang, them some pretty graphics. I'd be interested in what you plan for gameplay. Hunting cute forest animals seems kinda out of place. Looks like the game is more of a zen experience to me, but I'll be watching to see where it's headed.

Thanks!

As far as the gameplay goes, hunting isn't the sole focus.  My initial idea was to do a survival game with hunger, thirst, body temperature, etc., with a story to go with it, but I'm not really sure.  I then thought to have it focused more on adventure and puzzles than survival, but I want the game to feel open-ended in a way.

If the game was too linear, the dynamic elements of the game (Day/night cycle, seasons, weather, wildlife, etc.) wouldn't really matter much, and I want them to be an important part of the game.  But on the other hand, games that are too open-ended just get boring after a while, unless there's some kind of main goal in the game outside of just continuously playing it.

[Forstride]

Made a cabin:



I was kind of dreading doing the shingles, cause I figured the perspective would just be completely off, but I think it turned out okay.

Gotta add smoke particles for the chimney, and some other decorative stuff for the outside of the cabin.  Really not looking forward to doing indoor tiles.    I much prefer doing natural outdoor stuff.

[Forstride]

Made a new environment test video, showing off the cabin area with full video and audio:



The audio quality is a bit crappy, but it gets the point across I guess.

[Forstride]

Had to switch to a sprite-based font so I could use images in text for buttons and whatnot:



I also started reworking the HUD.  Still not sure about positioning for the item icons.  I might try out a centered HUD style, which is what a lot of games have been doing lately.  Seeing as you're going to be focused on the player in the middle of the screen, it makes sense.

[Sharif]

I really like the map layout for the game.  Looks really good.