Hello and welcome back
This time we have a surprise for all of you who bought the game. We thought that it is stupid when everyone needs to wait for the next release. So we created a new branch on Steam. The „unstable“ branch will always feature the current development version. It can be selected by:
Right clicking on the game in Steam
Selecting „Properties“
Go to the beta tab
Select the „unstable“ branch.
Our primary goal is to increase the contact with our players. You can give us feedback regarding the current version and we will then try to improve the game. And you can of course play the latest version of our game!
So before we released the game we did a lot of bug testing. What is most important is that the wheat is now better distributed so that the players can bake their own breads as soon as possible. Bread is necessary to regenerate your health. Here is a screenshot of our wheat:
If you collect it you get wheat seed. You can bake a bread with it by using the table or you can plant the bread again. It is adviced to create your own wheat farm.
And we also updated the big trees which appear deeper in the forest:
And we want to create a demonstration map where we will show all features of the game. Here are the first screenshots:
And we also improved the speed of the deferred renderer. Specifically we reduced the memory consumption by the factor 2. This will reduce cache misses. We in fact used an OpenGL floating point buffer for the normals. But this is a waste of memory as it is possible to encode a normal in a normal rgb buffer.
And do not forget to select your high end graphics card if you have a laptop with NVIDIA Optimus! I forget this and then I ask myself why the game only had 20-40 FPS.