F.a.R. Team Development

Last time we actually updated you about the contents of our games was August 15th 2023. It's been a LONG time, but I can promise that none of our projects have been abandoned. In fact, we've made tons of progress on all of them, but not much worth to be shown. For the Farmoxel project (name pending) for example, we were waiting to finally be able to showcase the farm map on its entirety. Sadly, as you'll see later on this blogpost, we run into a lot of problems with it. Most of them are fixed, so we may have that done for the next post. This time, the blog will have 3 bullet-point lists of changes so... buckle up!

 HAPPY NEW YEAR! (Still January, not late yet.) With that out of the way... As you may remember, back in THIS POST  we talked about all the character that were designed at that point for the game. We presented you the humble amount of 7 characters. In today's post, we'll talk about the rest of the cast, which sums up the whacking amount of 19 CHARACTERS! Before we beggin, check this awesome piece made by Pipi of the Little Ballet Girl: Take this a reminder to follow her on Twitter So buckle up, 'cause this is gonna be a LONG ride... The Protagonist! Let's begin with the most important character of the game: You! This is the old concept created back in 2022: And now, Pipi's redesign: He has such a cute smile~ His name is Marko, his last name is... yet to be revealed. He is 14 years old. He is the current owner of the telekinetic powers, he is unlinked.  Now, he has to learn to use his powers properly to help his grandmother with the farm. Obviously, he keeps these p...

During October and November, the team started working in 4 different projects, which divided us in Team A and team B. Does that mean we are crunching? Not at all! In fact, we haven't been working much these past months cause of university and such. Does this mean we take terrible decisions? Yes. Definitively. There are no huge updates about the Farmoxel Project to showcase since the team is working in one of its biggest features: a proper save/load system. Therefore, we cannot show anything about that game. I know this may sound disappointing, but working on the save/load system is the top priority for the game's development right now. Anything that needs to be done in the future requires that system to be fully functional. With that said, allow me to introduce you to the other three projects: Room Makers Room Makers is a simple arcade tetris-like gameboy style game in which the player will have to place different items in a room, creating combos to earn points to buy new rooms...

 Quick update first, from September 15th to September 25th, the main development team was participating on the GBJam 11. When you see this posted, the Jam should be over and the results public. If you want to see our game, you can check it out HERE . Now back to the Devlog...

The past three monts were very important for our team, since we used them to reorgnize the development and to rework mechanics that were flawed and caused performance issues. By reworking these mechanics, many new bugs showed up, and we didn't want to make a blog about a totally glitched update.  While working on those reworks and bug fixing, new assets and animations were created for the game, so adding and testing them was added to our tasks. Also, since the team was divided between fixing bugs and adding new things, these three months gave us time to add meaningful features for the game. After all, we ended up with the biggest bullet-point list of chages yet! So why don't you read it?: -Replaced some flawed models. -Replaced all of the strawberry plant and fruit's models. -Updated several textures to fit more the final game's art style. -Now you can harvest in area. -Added a water bucket. -You can now water crops. -When watered, dirt will change its color. -A...

It feels like we've been gone for 3 and a half months... and we've been. I'm gonna explain what we've done these past months but before let me tell you, this blog is all about bug fixing and technical issues, so it could get kinda boring next to the other ones. First, the good ol' bullet-point-list: -FINALLY fixed the big mean bug that allowed the player to plant in the air. -From now on you run by default and you walk by pressing 'Shift'. -From now on you sell in bulk by pressing 'Control' instead of 'Shift'. -Refactored pause and unpause, making it useful for inventory and UI stuff. -Completely revamped dirt's connection system to make it more efficient. -Remade the dialogue system  from the ground up  (Not the final one, but a proof of concept) -Added an Scriptable Object Editor. -Added the ability to close the inventory with Escape. -Added more debug commands. -Added sound volume options. -Added MULTIPLE optimizations to the code. -A...