Hi everybody! Thank you all so much from the bottom of my heart for wishlisting, it means a lot especially since I have no marketing budget and attempting this all by myself. Big shout out to my friends, twitch community and everybody who's managed to find the game on the opening days! I'm having to rely on your word of mouth for the game to find people, and so far its done absolute wonders and I appreciate it so SO much.
I've been quietly working on this game on my free time over a year and I can't emphasize enough how much it means to me to see people being interested in this! I come from a video game artist background and never thought I could make a game by myself. I'll be straight honest though - The game will be jank (I'm new to learning coding), it won't be perfect but I'm learning a lot and my main mentality is find the fun!
I'll try to use the steam announcements page here as the main way of keeping you updated on progress. I also finally have a use for my social media so I'll post updates on them (I have the links to my socials on the steam page) when I make significant enough progress I'll post a video on the youtube channel!
Twitch
I am also a part time Twitch streamer so if you're curious about seeing the game live I can show you during the stream! (Sadly only around 9PM PST timezone though). I'll sometimes be streaming miniature painting or playing games (Plenty of simulators). I think its really healthy and important to keep playing games as a developer, even if its not in your genre... sometimes you find fun and cool inspiration to pump you up for your own game!
Plans & Roadmap
To give you a rough idea of my plans in the near future, I'm focusing on getting the remaining 'Core Mechanics' in the game, I'm trying to make sure to have all the main parts in before we go crazy with adding content like fish, upgrades and regions. I have way more things planned but these are my main priorities at the moment:
* Cozy/Decoration System
* Biomes/First new region
* Debt/Rent System
Cozy/Decoration - Good news on this part, I took a break from the wishlist announcement and started figuring out the system and got it partially working! This system is important for the game because I want to reward the player for decorating. I took big cues from Valheim... I loved that it rewarded you and gave a 'Cozy' buff for decorating your base, it's something I've wanted in my own shopkeeper for a while.
When I get the system fully working, I'll post some updates on showing how it works, its a really important system for progressing in the game but also making you excited to find/unlock decorative props!
Thank you!!
Thank you all again so much, I can't emphasize how I wonderful I feel right now and you've all inspired me to plug away and bring this little world to life! I also appreciate any patience (I still work full time in games and need to pay the bills) because there could be times where I make little progress - but I'll be honest with you about it (Which is what I absolutely love about indie development).