Devlog #38 - Frozen in Time
Meowllo! We’re going into full-fall territory now. But, the dev team is in winter…because of the final biome: welcome to the Frozen Tundra~
❄️ Frozen in Time
We had a lot to do that popped up between when we first started this biome and now, when it’s finally finished. Optimization, bugs, UI code rehaul…
All those trees in the distance are fake planes! They’re flat!! ALL FAKE!! We hope this makes the game run better 🥺👉👈
But, after two months(!!) it’s completed. It’s come a long way from the sketch. This was one of those places I had a very strong idea of what I wanted from the beginning, so I set out with the goal to recreate it as close as I could to what was in my imagination.
Some changes were made once I could walk around it in the game, but the gist of it stayed the same.
This was, by far, the most time-consuming environment to do. It was essentially two: the inner cave and the outside.
But! It’s done. So let’s say bye-bye to all the terrain modelling, and hello to…the rest of the game. Props, furniture, NPCs, the list goes on and on and on and on-
📈 Progress On Other Things
There’s also a lot of other things we’ve been doing in the backend that we can’t talk about. Sorry! Just trust us, we’re doing lots of work. OK?
OK. Well, onto the things we can talk about: cutscenes.
We’ve brought on Ken, who you may remember also being our tech artist who made our great water shader and some VFX. He’s now on cutscene duty to wrangle the spaghetti that is cutscenes inside Snacko.
Let’s say thank you to Ken for wrangling this noodle monster. We hope you enjoy the cutscenes and interactive tutorials, because they take a lot of time (save me).
I’ve also made some progress with things like the different signs for each biome.
Now that I finished that, I was able to send out Kickstarter reward surveys for the signs and the other custom assets. For the other tiers, like just game keys, etc. we’ll be sending those out later. Thank you for your support!
I’m especially happy with the Frozen Tundra’s sign. Look at that little snow overhang. Very cute.
We’re also working on an in-game achievement system. These icons were very fun to do, we hope you enjoy collecting them!
