Friday Progress Report 215
Late report!
Sorry we spent the entire day without electricity because of some maintenance on the house’s electrical grid.
We uploaded the new demo and the trailer on Steam, but we are unable to test it for some reason, anyone reading this please try the download demo button and see if it works for you, leave a comment here if it fails. We think it doesn’t work for us because we technically own the game already as developers, so Steam launches the full version instead of the demo when we try.
If you have played the demos before DELETE ALL YOUR PREVIOUS SAVES, as they are not compatible with the current version and may cause problems just for being in there, you can easily find the save folder by pressing F12 while ingame. (Start new game, press F12, close the game, delete all saves, then you can play).
Nothing much else to report, we spent the entire week improving on the demo, there are still some minor bugs, we will update the demo when they are squashed.
And we spent some of the time without power brainstorming more ideas, specially for the chickens and their traits, but these will only be implemented after NPC AI and economy, Here some of the trait ideas we had:
Negative
-Wanderer: just goes its own way and gets lost
-Crop Nibbler: eat crops, at lv3 it eats ONLY crops and starves otherwise
-Bee Eater: eats bees, gets hurt doing so (dumb bird)
-Bully: hurts other chickens (unless there is a rooster nearby, roosters with this trait attack other roosters)
-Musophobia: afraid of mice (opposite of Apex Predator)
-Skittish: run away from you (opposite of curious)
-Hydrophobic: Hates water (really bad trait in ducks)
Neutral
-Sedentary: stays in the coop, requires manual feeding, but eats less
-High flight: can jump fences (really bad if also has Wanderer or Skittish), requires more food (gives juicier chicken wings)
-Plumpy: eats a lot more, but gives out more meat
-Quick Aging: ages faster, eats more
-Slow Aging: ages slowly, eats less
Positive
-Fertility: lays more eggs (on roosters fertilize more hens each day instead of just one per day)
-Plume Piles: produces feather piles (without this trait you must butcher to get feathers)
-Pest Eater: eats pests, protecting your crops
-Natural Fertilizer: Will fertilize crops with poop (Nu, Ka and Pi variants)
-Apex Predator: eats rats and other vermin (that spawn to eat excess grain in the chicken feeder)
-Curious: more likely to interact with people (better for pets, as it gives more opportunity to earn loyalty)
-Pluviophile: Doesn’t mind rain, at higher levels can enjoy heavy rain and pick food more efficiently during rain
We also thought of ideas for Rabbit Traits, Duck Traits, Apiaries, Compost mechanics, Compost worms, Silkworms and a whole lot of stuff we will add in the future. We want livestock traits to define their AI, personality and usefulness.
Sorry we spent the entire day without electricity because of some maintenance on the house’s electrical grid.
We uploaded the new demo and the trailer on Steam, but we are unable to test it for some reason, anyone reading this please try the download demo button and see if it works for you, leave a comment here if it fails. We think it doesn’t work for us because we technically own the game already as developers, so Steam launches the full version instead of the demo when we try.
If you have played the demos before DELETE ALL YOUR PREVIOUS SAVES, as they are not compatible with the current version and may cause problems just for being in there, you can easily find the save folder by pressing F12 while ingame. (Start new game, press F12, close the game, delete all saves, then you can play).
Nothing much else to report, we spent the entire week improving on the demo, there are still some minor bugs, we will update the demo when they are squashed.
And we spent some of the time without power brainstorming more ideas, specially for the chickens and their traits, but these will only be implemented after NPC AI and economy, Here some of the trait ideas we had:
Negative
-Wanderer: just goes its own way and gets lost
-Crop Nibbler: eat crops, at lv3 it eats ONLY crops and starves otherwise
-Bee Eater: eats bees, gets hurt doing so (dumb bird)
-Bully: hurts other chickens (unless there is a rooster nearby, roosters with this trait attack other roosters)
-Musophobia: afraid of mice (opposite of Apex Predator)
-Skittish: run away from you (opposite of curious)
-Hydrophobic: Hates water (really bad trait in ducks)
Neutral
-Sedentary: stays in the coop, requires manual feeding, but eats less
-High flight: can jump fences (really bad if also has Wanderer or Skittish), requires more food (gives juicier chicken wings)
-Plumpy: eats a lot more, but gives out more meat
-Quick Aging: ages faster, eats more
-Slow Aging: ages slowly, eats less
Positive
-Fertility: lays more eggs (on roosters fertilize more hens each day instead of just one per day)
-Plume Piles: produces feather piles (without this trait you must butcher to get feathers)
-Pest Eater: eats pests, protecting your crops
-Natural Fertilizer: Will fertilize crops with poop (Nu, Ka and Pi variants)
-Apex Predator: eats rats and other vermin (that spawn to eat excess grain in the chicken feeder)
-Curious: more likely to interact with people (better for pets, as it gives more opportunity to earn loyalty)
-Pluviophile: Doesn’t mind rain, at higher levels can enjoy heavy rain and pick food more efficiently during rain
We also thought of ideas for Rabbit Traits, Duck Traits, Apiaries, Compost mechanics, Compost worms, Silkworms and a whole lot of stuff we will add in the future. We want livestock traits to define their AI, personality and usefulness.