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[Devilkay]

Recely I was looking a lot of poly low games. is it a trending kind-of-game?

[Alain]

Yes, I hate to start from scratch. I always try to find elements I can use to build upon, like with lego . The Wickerman for example mainly consists of wooden planks I took from some wooden constructions I already have. Then I just scaled and aligned them properly 

I work exactly the same way. Btw. our 3D models seem to have a very similar level of detail / polygon count. I envy you for not having to paint textures, but on the other hand I guess you have to pay more attention to smoothing groups and normals than me.

[Alain]

That's cool! I personally get a more intense feeling of exploration when I know parts are procedural. I'm curious: What makes a chunk of your level? I assume it is one of the landscape patches that we see in the gif. Is everything inside such a patch static or are there more procedural elements?

[Alain]

You may find this very interesting where I show a breakdown of a generation tile and explain how it works.

Nice, that was interesting. I somehow missed that you have quite some procedural generation in your game.

I invested all this effort because I really wanted to create a level generation system that creates not only believable levels but also to make them detailed and fun to explore.

It totally makes sense to me that you put a lot of work into that. "A lot of time" is less than the time you need to build infinite levels by hand. Wow, that sounded funnier in my head

[Alain]

A pentagram in a dark temple hinting at black magic and human sacrifice? Sign me up for that

[JobLeonard]

Legs go flopflopflop

[Alain]

C'mon Ninja Bear, you can do better than that!

[JobLeonard]

Looks really cool though, why not figure out why it happens and make it a feature?

[Alain]

It really looks like a lot of fun. By the way, do you plan (or already have) different types of arrows?

[Alain]

I think quality is better than quantity here. I think it's not very fun if you have 20 different arrows that just do different kinds of damage (fire, poison, ice), which some RPGs have.

I totally agree. Having one damage arrow and a handful of utility arrows as you say is also how I like it best.

[JobLeonard]

Congrats!

[Alain]

That's great, congratulations! You put a lot of work into the store (and your game obviously) and I wish you a looot of wishlists

[Alain]

This looks better than any possessed animal I could ever animate!

[Alain]

Good job on the post processing, it looks great! Also, I agree that increasing the size of your trees does a lot for the feel of your levels.

At first, I was unsure whether I liked that you now have individual leaves instead of polygonized tree crowns. But then I realized that it was only some of your old trees that had polygon crowns and you already had leaves on bushes and flowers. So looking at your footage I see that it is much more coherent now with the new trees. Did the new trees have an impact on performance?

[Alain]

In fact, I can use fewer trees now because I made them bigger. That may actually even save some performance, also because I can decrease view distance, as you don't see as far as before.

That's great, seems like you could kill two birds with one stone!

[Alain]

I like the world building in the second screenshot: I assume the size of these tusks give us a hint that mushrooms and dandilions are (or were) not the only giant inhabitants of this area ;)

[vivaladav]

It's pretty amazing you're creating all this alone (at least that's what I got from reading your intro)!

Btw, is this going to be a F2P game?

[Alain]

I like the mood in the second screenshot with the sun setting (or rising) while the lantern is still lit.

[Alain]

Nice, I'm looking forward to watching this!

[Alain]

This was a great read and definitely food for thought for me. I should take the time and make something exactly like your tile guardian to explore the "extremes" of my procedural generation. Thank you for sharing this idea!