Hello fans and followers, here's Marco Muellner, Project Lead of Stone Rage. Unfortunately our Community Manager Zac Knapp had to leave us, that's why I'm writting this update myself to give everyone heads up on where we are at with our development at the moment. First of all I'd like to apologize for our very little communication on our steam forums the last weeks and months. It has been quiet and rough here at the indie studio Mountainwheel Games, as we were trying to find a good, reliable programmer who can help us with the two biggest and most important game features, such as construction and AI animals. But, the good news is, we have found one talented programmer (Kenny) already. We are looking for more programmers to join us and then we are set and ready to start more testing sessions with all our new features and assets. If you are a talented programmer and are interested in working with us on Stone Rage, check the bottom of our update text for contact details!
Update on AI & Construction:
Our newest programmer Kenny has started work on the AI for animals. He has started out with an AI animal spawner which basically spawns animals all around the map with different parameters telling when, where and under what conditions animals spawn. Depending on where you are at on the huge map, animals will have different spawn rates and not all animals will be seen in every biome. AI is quite complex and needs tons of love to work properly. After that we are starting work on all of our animal blueprint classes and then we are finishing up the construction system. A lot more work needed to finish all of this. Here are some renderings from Pedro with the latest construction stuff.
Goals and Milestones:
Our goals and milestones within the following weeks will be to finish AI, construction system, rework our website, updating our gamepedia wiki, hiring a new community manager and getting our foundation set for more testing with our discord community! Stay tuned!
Donations:
Next up, from this day on we are accepting donations from everyone who wants to support us and the development of Stone Rage on PayPal. All the funds will directly go to the developers who are working extremly hard on Stone Rage. This will tremendously help with putting more time into the game since we all have fulltime jobs next to Stone Rage (hopefully soon Stone Rage will become our fulltime position). That's our huge goal and we are working towards it. But it's not easy especially as an unfunded indie studio since day one. Every penny helps! Thank you!
By simply clicking this link you get to the donation part:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=PUDNY2QKCPBEQ&source=url
Discord:
If you are interested, here is the link to our Discord channel: https://discord.gg/Ew5PdWt
Hiring:
If you'd like to work with us on Stone Rage, do not hesitate to send us an email to our project lead Marco and write all the details about yourself why you are the right fit. Email: [email protected]
All the best,
Thank you for all your support and love!
Marco Muellner, Project Lead Stone Rage