Edengrall News

I found a way to optimize all the custom animations I made, without sacrificing animation quality!



Right now i only converted a few of the animations to the new system, I will have to manually convert them all later, but at least i know it works and future animations will be properly optimized.

The tooltips for soil, crop and cooking are fixed, the one for the girls is still being developed since my brother decided to make the system that will assign mood icons according to both mood and personality so each girl can have a different set of icons

The tooltip is the element to the bottom right. here for soil.



Planted some turnips, it is alerting for lack of water.



Ready for harvest!



Now for some cooking!



Roasted egg and carrots!



The food is ready, but lets cook a bit more.



Maybe we overcooked it a bit…



Through these tooltips you can keep track of cooking from a distance, so you can cook several dishes in different appliances at once.

Next week i will be converting the old animations and making sure they are properly optimized, while my brother finishes the girls tooltip.

Southern shops second floor

Southern shops first floor

Northern shops second floor

Northern shops first floor

Spinning wheel on the tailor shop

Firewood cutting area in the carpenter shop exterior

I also started making furniture for the INN, this is the kitchen

And here the dining area/tavern

Basement with several supplies

Top view for the first floor

And basement


Right now we have furniture for the Library/Museum, Shop district and the first two floors of the INN/Tavern, but we noticed these objects are starting to affect performance, so before continuing we will optimize the furniture, there are several different things we can do to improve performance, from lowering polycount to some more complex methods my brother can try later, so we won’t add more interiors for a while.

Until the optimizations are done I will be doing two things: improving the assets so they are more optimal and I will start working on the new Trailer, which will contain several new character animations that we can re-use in the game later when AI is implemented.

My brother has finished the functionality of the Plant and Soil tooltips, but he scrambled the elements again and I will have to pretty it up before I can show you guys, he has zero aesthetic sense… This is what the plant tooltip is supposed to look like, will be like this next week after I fix it.



He is now working on the cooking utensil tooltip, which tells the player when something like an Oven is being used and if the food inside is done or even if it is burning.

Sorry I could not finish the shop and workshops interiors yet, I needed more assets, and wanted them to be accurate so i had to research, i finished the 3 last rooms of the second floor, made the smithy and most of the carpenter shop, 4 shops remain, will be done next week.



Tailor workshop left (missing spinning wheel, gonna make today)
Smithy assistant room in the middle
Smithy room right (he is a golem, thats why his bed is weird)



Forge, Anvil, Crafting table and Whetstone are done and rigged, they can be animated when we make them interactable.



The carpenter shop mostly has furniture piled on, I haven’t finished most of the tools here yet.



For the tailor I made this loom, despite being a simple model it has a ton of movable parts, so I haven’t rigged it yet since I wanted to speed it up, I might make the rig and animate if we implement tailoring as a feature in the far future.

Only a few more assets are needed, so I will finish it this week and move to the INN.

My brother is finishing up a editor he made to create UI behaviors (will make coding new UI much faster and simpler), he is also improving the implementation of the farming system features so we can have more plant Traits types to make plants more unique and interesting.



It is possible that we will be able to release this and some other stuff we use as modtools in the future.

In case you missed the last week update, we have decided to delay the game for up to a year (up to, means we might release earlier if we can), we want to release something worth of your money, right now all current features are very unstable and unpolished, and we haven`t even begun the biggest and hardest of them, the advanced NPC AI.

But, that doesn't means there is nothing to look forward this year, we have two big things planned, first is the demo, as soon as we tie all loose ends, replace old systems, review and polish what we have we will release a new free demo with the new crop system. The second is a trailer, so far I have been against using anything that is not direct gameplay on the game promotion, but we need something catchy right now as the demos we released haven't pulled any eyes so far, the trailer won't have any fake "in engine" bullshit, just a cute animation with the characters interacting and cooking, raising crops and such, all new animations I will make for the trailer will be in the game later.

Now for this week progress

GRASS IS DONE (for now)

The new structure works, the system can now support a lot more features, like many more different types of grass and crop traits on grass type crops, it is also much faster to generate (lower load times) and a better optimized (FPS)

My brother is now working on the new UI, starting by the universal tooltip, the one that shows up in the bottom left corner and will give info about anything intractable.

I have been reviewing some legal issues, we live in a very tax heavy country, so I gotta make sure we won't be doing anything wrong when we start actually making money, but i still had time to work on assets.



Unfortunately I still couldn't finish the shopping district, as soon as i got to the blacksmith room I stopped filling the rooms to make new assets, stuff like Forge, Anvil, Saw, Work tables, grinding stone, some of them will have animations, so i had to make a rig for the them and it was extra work, but most are ready now and I will finish the building this week.



Here all the assets I made since I started making the town interiors.

Sorry for the late report, just got my PC back from the maintenance, it broke down Wednesday, but it is fine now, luckily I didn't lose any data (as far as I am aware right now).

I will go directly to the point now. We won't be able to deliver the game this year for several reasons:

-We didn't manage to make the AI in time

-The cooking and farming systems are still going through some reworks since we are switching from the old UI to the new Unity UI Toolkit

-Grass system has taken a lot longer to implement than expected

-Game won't be polished enough to be playable even if we manage to finish the AI and finish the promised features for the early access

For the release of the Early Access we made a few promises we won't be going back on:

“The complete version will have all the features listed in the store page description. The Early access will have all we can implement in time, which probably means:
*Cooking System
*Farming
*20 NPCs with our experimental AI
*Simulated Economy
*A few festivals
We will add more if we can get them done.”

These won't be done in time, so sorry no release until they are. While the current date is set to 31/Dec/2021 we might release sooner if we get all done and well polished, i picked a far away date to be safe, since we won't be pushing the release date further again. I hope we will have better news next week.