Hello everyone! Just adding a small update for performance. Mainly fixing slow down when loading a saved game. ... also poison mushroom... ːsteamfacepalmː -See Ya Later! Mike Krow
Just adding a small update for performance. Mainly fixing slow down when loading a saved game.
... also poison mushroom... ːsteamfacepalmː
-See Ya Later!
Mike Krow
So this went well... Well, it certainly went. I was originally going to just work on adding missing things from the early access description. But once I got in there I realized I wanted to redo basically all of the code to help make adding content in the future a lot easier. And
I spent more time creating new items and map scenes, which was the fun part for this update. More creatures and items to eat of course!
They work much differently than they did in 2.0. No longer can you just pick them up but I decided to instead go with a floating item approach.
Now you can add flooring to the ground and remove it as well.
I redid this as well, now you can cut the line if the fish is too hard to pull in.
One of my goals was to make using the controller possible for the entire game, and I think I did this aside from entering text which will still have to be added with the keyboard unfortunately...
More were added for actions and menu movements.
Now when things are mined or cut there are drop tables for them so you aren't just getting the same block each time. Mining and other actions are a lot faster now as well. Digging can now be done with an empty hand but it will hurt the player just like in the original game.
Maps are larger and have more map scenes and the start of sub biomes!
This still needs a lot of work but one of my goals was to redo this and implement a Behavioral Tree for NPCs, which I was able to do. Hopefully things are a little more interesting. But it is still an area of improvement for the next update.
Reworked farming system as well.
Now you can select if the parts might be broken when landing and will require you find the resources to repair them.
This is another one I redid, its reliable and no longer dependent on counts which made it unpredictable.
I completely redid this and hopefully its a little more appealing than the last version!
Temperature effects were removed - I want to redo it and in its current state its not even worth having.
One of my goals was to get SYL! to be fully compatible with the Steam Deck. I will be submitting it soon and I hope it goes well but one of my major concerns is that I'm using Godot 4.2 and I couldn't figure out a way to actually activate the virtual keyboard on the Steam Deck. If anyone knows a way please let me know!!!
-See Ya Later!
Mike Krow
Hello Everyone! It's been a bit, (about 6 months...) since my last update. So let's change that! I had been working on rewriting the engine for King Datchi in c++ until the end of 2024 but after the new year I switched to spending time trying to rewrite my SYL! code base to make
Hello Everyone!
It's been a bit, (about 6 months...) since my last update. So let's change that! I had been working on rewriting the engine for King Datchi in c++ until the end of 2024 but after the new year I switched to spending time trying to rewrite my SYL! code base to make it easier to do updates in the future. I want to add more biomes and I needed a better way to do that. This has taken a lot longer than I expected but I think it's going to be worth it in the end.
I also finally got clothing working and I can't believe how I didn't realize how easy it could have been.
I also changed how resources are collected and now after hitting with a tool they will pop up and be collectible instead of instantly added to your inventory.
Some other things I've been working on are redoing the cutscenemanager, clothing affecting body heat, better enemy AI, a better inventory interface, and adding floor tiles. There is still a lot to work on (reworking the fishing mini game is a big one) and other backend stuff but I'm getting things done little by little. My goal is to have a new update sometime this year and get this project closer to a real game! I appreciate the support while I do! Thanks again for sticking around!
See Ya Later -
Mike Krow
Hello everyone! Thank you so much for waiting! The new version of SYL! is finally here! I originally thought this would be a 5 month project but like everything else in life it took a lot longer. I hope this is a better experience for everyone and I hope you enjoy it even more th
Hello everyone!
Thank you so much for waiting! The new version of SYL! is finally here! I originally thought this would be a 5 month project but like everything else in life it took a lot longer. I hope this is a better experience for everyone and I hope you enjoy it even more than "Classic" SYL!.
Just a quick list of a few new additions:
Future Improvements/Additions
This is still in early access, so if you experience any bugs please let me know! Be on the look out for future updates as well.
As for the Classic version I will be re-releasing that first on Itch.io in the next few weeks and then later on here.
Thanks again to all those who have been supporting this project, I really do appreciate it. <3
See Ya Later -
Mike Krow
Hows it going? Its been another busy month but we are getting there. I've doing more testing this month as well as art more than anything (You might notice some new art on the store page). Recently I have switched over to Linux for development and have been going through the work
Hows it going?
Its been another busy month but we are getting there. I've doing more testing this month as well as art more than anything (You might notice some new art on the store page). Recently I have switched over to Linux for development and have been going through the work of getting things set up for this.
Just today I've been spending time trying to get things to export appropriately. I was having an issue of exporting on Linux for windows only to have it broken on when actually played on Windows. I would later found out the main reason was a missing dll file... At any rate, We ARE ON THE WAY!!!
See Ya Later!
-Mike
Hello everybody! Another update but lets make this quick. I'm still trying to get this ready to submit to steam for the first update of SYL2.0. I wish I had a lot of progress to share but unfortunately this month I haven't had much time to just sit down and focus on SYL. Its clos
Hello everybody!
Another update but lets make this quick.
I'm still trying to get this ready to submit to steam for the first update of SYL2.0. I wish I had a lot of progress to share but unfortunately this month I haven't had much time to just sit down and focus on SYL.
Its close but what is really holding things back is the fishing minigame. Everytime I work on it i come to the conclusion that it's not anywhere near ready. Sure, the basic loop works. You can cast, hook a fish, pull the fish in, and get it in your inventory.
Lines break but there is no bobber, the fish AI needs a lot of work, only one type of bait works, and interactions with the fish outside of the fishing minigame need lots of work.
Though dropping them into a body of water and that fish now being part of the pool works.
If you played SYL1.0 you probably noticed a slew of bugs here and there. I am really hoping to avoid that with this version but the more complicated the systems I include the more testing is required and thus more development time. It takes a long time to make things professional and right.
I really want to include fishing on the first update since I feel like its a pretty big part of the fun of the game!
Spending some time in the rain with a Snow Fish
Some new items and enemies!
Hopefully, I can get more done this month than the last. And thanks for sticking around!
See Ya Later!
-Mike
Hey everyone, I'm a little late this month getting back to this update but lets just I guess call it a April Fools Day joke... sure why not? After much debate, I decided to just go ahead and rework the fishing game before releasing it. In the previous version I had a lot of issue
Hey everyone, I'm a little late this month getting back to this update but lets just I guess call it a April Fools Day joke... sure why not?
After much debate, I decided to just go ahead and rework the fishing game before releasing it. In the previous version I had a lot of issues with the actual interaction with the fish and hook. I tried to simulate the physics myself. I later realized I was approaching the whole thing wrong, and instead of using a CharacterBody2D, turns out its better to use a RigidBody2D for this instance. For example, by using a rigidbody I can launch the hook and depend on the physics engine in Godot rather than step through a perfect arch and it feels a lot better overall. There is still much refining to be done to it but its a lot better overall.
Fishing in the rain
Other than that I spent some time adding a bit of polish to the menu systems and refactoring code. Sadly, not much else to speak of this month. Hopefully April will be more productive. And make sure to have a good one!
See Ya Later!
-Mike
Hows the year so far? Some good progress this month, though most of it might have been polish. I believe I am very close to releasing the new updated version of this game and I hope you all will let me know what you think when I do. One of the things I did this month was to try a
Hows the year so far? Some good progress this month, though most of it might have been polish. I believe I am very close to releasing the new updated version of this game and I hope you all will let me know what you think when I do.
One of the things I did this month was to try and make a better key layout for controls as well as to create support for the PS4 and Xbox controllers. I have never really played any PC games with a controller, let alone an Xbox one, so I actually bought my first Xbox controller for this. A very new experience for me and I am starting to like it.
Another major goal was to bring in enemies. I had for the longest time been putting it on the back burner cause I was figuring it to be too difficult, mainly on account of navigating through the area to get to the player. I tried my own way but later found out about the astar algorithm, and was able to reproduce it for my enemies. It works for now but will need improvement in the future for sure.
I have a few enemies now. Some that shoot, some that tackle and some that explode! They will also attack other NPCs. One of things that I really like about developing for this game is that I can try and implement systems. Particularly a faux-ecosystem of sorts. It's nowhere near something like Rain World but I'd be lying if I didn't say I was inspired by it. I almost forgot that I did add a weather system as well. Currently only rain though
A rose to a wuffer in the rain.
While we are on the topic of NPCs, I thought it would be funny to have them produce something when you feed them. So not only will they start to like you but you will get an item out of it. When the game comes out try and feed them and see what you get!
I also added a new part to the Craft Book (which I'm now calling the Guide Book), now when you capture an animal it gets added to your Guide Book and you can track how many you ate or burned to death. I will probably add other things to be tracked as well later on. Recently I was playing Palworld and realized that my game needs a sort of progression system and a reason to play again, so I'm thinking of having goals of eating a certain amount and getting a new starting item. And of course There will be some steam achievements opportunities as well.
Track what you eat!
Oh and just for fun I added a sword.
All in all, I'm really starting to feel like this is ready for people to play. I hope to have it out on April 1st, no joke. I think one more month and It will be up to snuff, well as up to snuff as an early access game can be. Haha. Well, at any rate I guess... I'll....
See Ya Later!
-Mike
January a month busy with resolutions and planet fitness memberships. Its been a busy month for me as well. Unfortunately that also means I didn't get too much done on SYL!. Mainly just spanking bugs and creating an options menu to allow players to have a name and a few game sett
January a month busy with resolutions and planet fitness memberships. Its been a busy month for me as well. Unfortunately that also means I didn't get too much done on SYL!. Mainly just spanking bugs and creating an options menu to allow players to have a name and a few game settings.
I also stumbled across an interesting bug within Godot, at least I believe it is. When creating the Options Node I duplicated the existing Craftbook node to start as a base. They were saved separately but for some reason despite checking to see what is being referenced having both the Options Node and Craftbook Node in the same scene would make the Craftbook Node into Options Node. Seemed like something was linking improperly. I spent around an hour messing around with it and kind of just ended up deleting both and it someone magically worked. Game dev is magical like this sometimes.
At any rate, hopefully next month will be better! Thanks for stopping by!
See Ya Later!
-Mike
How’s it going everyone? That time isn't it? This has been another month of slow progress. While testing the game I realized that there were instances where the parts the player needed to collect would be surrounded by water and inaccessible to the player. Well, I could write a l
How’s it going everyone? That time isn't it? This has been another month of slow progress.
While testing the game I realized that there were instances where the parts the player needed to collect would be surrounded by water and inaccessible to the player. Well, I could write a long function to figure out where to put it so that never happens or..... I could let the player SWIM!
*taking a dip*
So I decided on swimming as a new mechanic for the game and honestly I'm glad I did as I feel it really opens up the game for more exploration and disaster.
*regretting taking a dip*
And to ensure craziness insures this meant that now all the npcs can swim and drown as well.
*everybody likes to swim!*
This also leads me to another major change, the player controller. In the original game I based the control off of Pokemon, aka the player moves one space each time. But This really lead to some difficulties the more I chose to keep it, especially since it made the game feel very clunky for the player. So after a bit of work I decided to make the player able to move in 8 directions as freely as they'd like. This felt like a really drastic improvement to the over all game.
I was also able to spend a bit of time getting the temperature system working. Its not perfect but there is now a weekly temperature forecast, no rain so far.
Lastly I have been working on adding sounds to the game. Creating the system in Godot was surprisingly simple though I did have a bit of trouble at first.
*Look at this image, now imagine it with sounds*
Over all this month has been OK on the progress front and hopefully next month there will be more! At any rate, thanks for reading!
See Ya Later!
-Mike
Hows it going everyone? It’s time for a monthly update. This month has been a bit more frustrating than the past two sad to say. I tried to focus on getting the fishing part of the game done. At first I found a lot of difficulty with just getting the basic level setup in Godot...
Hows it going everyone? It’s time for a monthly update. This month has been a bit more frustrating than the past two sad to say. I tried to focus on getting the fishing part of the game done. At first I found a lot of difficulty with just getting the basic level setup in Godot... Then had some set backs. The hook and fish interaction initially had some crazy results.
*an average interaction while fishing
Thankfully I was able to find out the issue was caused by constant collision between the hook and fish.
Another breakthrough and pain point was figuring out a way to create separate. ponds that I can track and the player can interact. As in the original each pond with be its own and you can add fish and take away fish from each. Creating these ponds would cause a long freeze while building the initial map but after a couple of days of tweaking and experimenting I was able to get rid of this delay.
*each pond is its own pool of fish.
*it would take up to 3 minutes to build the initial map.
Eventually I got a pretty decent version running. It needs to be tuned a little so catching fish is a little easier but overall its not bad.
*We’re getting there.
But now for some bad news. I have ended up taking out clothing for the time being. The way I am doing it is not working and its gotten more complicated with the fishing game. So for now I have to take them out.
Additionally I spent time updating the craft book more and creating a bit of a “Alien Language”. Not sure, what I’ll do exactly but it at least looks cool.
*Craftbook 2.0
Feels like less progress this month but still something got done. Despite this I did spend some time polishing, added random npcs and items as you walk, hunting for bugs. There is still a lot to do, sound, npc behaviors, achievements and the list goes on. But little by little we will get there. I got death figured out in the game too. Almost forgot to mention that but really who wants to think about death? So its best to save it for the end, just like in life. And on that note!
See Ya Later!
-Mike
Here we are again, another update! This month past and I worked on a bunch of stuff, so its time for a little updatey in the form of a bulleted list, as is the custom. craft book farming wetness bottles clothing gun bug catcher game finished screen scene pieces like houses and sh
Here we are again, another update!
This month past and I worked on a bunch of stuff, so its time for a little updatey in the form of a bulleted list, as is the custom.
I tackled two of the biggest hurdles this month in creating the craft book and farming aspects of the game. Most of the other stuff didnt take too long.
*some relaxing farming for survival*
*craft book 2.0*
*trying out the gun and clothing*
my target for next month is to bring about fishing. Its been hard to get going in Godot but I'm making some progress so far. As always thanks for dropping by!
See Ya Later!
-Mike
Hello everyone ! Another month passed and hopefully with minimal reckless space ship flying. I've been hard at work rebuilding See Ya Later! in the Godot Engine. It's been a learning curve for sure but I think I've made some good progress. I've been able to get quite a bit runnin
Hello everyone!
Another month passed and hopefully with minimal reckless space ship flying. I've been hard at work rebuilding See Ya Later! in the Godot Engine. It's been a learning curve for sure but I think I've made some good progress.
I've been able to get quite a bit running I think. Some of that stuff being:
*Some Underground Mining*
*Enjoying a Day by the Water*
*Chopping Trees*
*Menu*
Still a lot to go just to get it back up to speed of the original and I'll keep you updated! Thanks for being there.
See Ya Later!
-Mike
Hello everyone! The time has come! I'm actually getting back to this project. Originally I was going to continue this project in the custom engine I made but I have decided to instead rebuild it in Godot v4.1! I hope with this I can make it more accessible, add trophy support, an
Hello everyone!
The time has come! I'm actually getting back to this project. Originally I was going to continue this project in the custom engine I made but I have decided to instead rebuild it in Godot v4.1! I hope with this I can make it more accessible, add trophy support, and controller support.
Stay tuned for more updates! Thanks for stopping by.
See Ya Later!
-Mike Krow