Hello everyone,
We hope you’re having a great start to the pre-holiday season! While keeping ourselves well-supplied with gingerbread, here’s what we’ve up to the last weeks:
Steam Awards 🏆
Over the last week, Steam asked you to vote for your favorite games of the year. We also suggested our little forest game - and many of you used the opportunity to leave a review for Wild Woods. We received so many that we were completely blown away 😲🥰 We just want to say a huge thank you for being such a kind and wonderful community. Thank you 💚🙏
What we’ve been working on
Biome 3 - Progress Report ❄️⛄
Most of our time recently went into the new boss and its arena. The boss fight itself is now roughly 90% complete in terms of mechanics and programming 🥳 We’re still waiting on some sounds, music and visual effects that will be created by externals.
Biome 3 in terms of gameplay still needs a lot of internal testing balancing - especially the new biome mechanics. Right now even we sometimes struggle to reach the boss 😅
On top of that, many level parts are still a work in progress. But it will take some more time to get to the quality we want it to have and still hit our deadlines.
For this month, we thought it might be nice to treat something different: instead of always showing you new visuals, we’ve got something for your ears: take a peek (or a listen 🎶) at what awaits you in the cold, snowy mountains of Wild Woods on our Discord.
What happens next
Our main focus in the last weeks of this year is to tie up all loose ends of Biome 3 and get it ready for external testing 🎮 One good example of these “loose ends” is our plan to make variations of the existing enemies (instead of completely new ones). Even though we decided to expand our existing enemy roster by variations - a choice that makes sense for our small team - it is still quite a challenge to integrate all the necessary changes for a proper biome release. Maybe we can even give you a new sneak peek before Christmas 🤞🎄
Last but not least: we’re also working on a small surprise for next week … so stay tuned! 😲🔥🥳🤗