And now welcome to the 55th week devlog for Cosmic Construct.
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Structure Art
This isn't anything new, but I've been working to get the parts in for the Bazaar procedural generation. Its more complicated that I realized, as the existing seed function I have in place was making the generation look too regular, so I've been tweaking it a bit so that parts don't get repeated. I'm not too knowledgeable about how to prevent these modulo based hashes repetitions, so I've had to learn about that.
New Biome
I'm working on a new biome called Dansland which will be tropical themed. We don't really have enough fruits, so I plan to add a few in this biome to encourage exploration. Also, a new type of tree with a new type of fiber for decor later. Basically, after the game releases, I can support it with expanded decor recipes, which will allow for a late game "progression" feeling without the need of additional character levels by doing tiered decor. Some of which will have functions and be interactable by pawns. I'm just getting stuff set up for that.
I have a couple of trees I am preparing for a future biome, as well as palm trees for Dansland which I've barely started. These trees will help increase diversity across biomes so that biomes don't just contain a single type of tree. Something I'll flesh out more once the structure art is done. Good news is that after the structure art is done, I only have items, interactable, biomes, UI and minigame art. There are only 4 more planned biomes, and biomes are generally "easier" than the structures are for me. Minigame art is the most complex, but I have assets I can reuse for most of that. Also, much of it is UI anyway, and programming
Side Projects
A dungeon map page generator for tabletop games. I wanted to see if I could do it real quick, and I like it. I might flesh this out a bit more and make some maps PDFs .
I've been working on developing my conlang from 10 years with of documentation into a textbook that teaches the language to others.
So I made this Kawaii sakura-themed page layout for the textbook.
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As has been for a while, I'm still working on Structure Art. But, I'll now be interleaving that with the new biome. I should have the new biome done either this week or next. We'll see.
- Structure Art
- New Biome