Edengrall News

We are out of funds and got part time jobs, so our attention will be split between other work and the game, this will go on until the end of the year, and we hope we can make enough to push through until the game becomes profitable and we can go back to fulltime development.

So expect the next reports to be thinner, but we hope we will still be able to finish the Fairy Colony by December.



On the optimization efforts: We didn't manage to increase the FPS too much, looks like there is another bottleneck we haven't identified yet, but we got a reduction on GPU use when the player is far from the town.

This change will be on the update going up today.
-Edit-
Correction: we made a mistake when measuring the impact of the changes, and it was much less than we thought, it is not a 40% performance gain unfortunately, sorry.




Other than optimizations we added 2 new critters. We have more ideas for optimizations to go through next week.

Added new critter: Peeba

New fluffy and delicious edible critter added, the Korscha is found during winter and early spring on the bamboo forest and flower fields.

This week there wasn't much progress because we are testing a new LOD system that will be vital for the map expansion and might improve the FPS when looking towards the town as things that for some reason are not occluding will at least have super efficient LOD models.



Here a test with 10k plants, with the new LOD the FPS is 900, when the plants render fully it is 250
The plants were already very optimized, so these results are better than expected.

While my brother works on the new optimizations and starts applying it to the game I am working on a new fluffy critter.



The update will be up as soon as we manage to set the new build as the default branch, right now it seems that Steam is having technical problems with this.

Features:
Implemented a hotkey to combine all seeds of the same type.
Implemented a hotkey to split items into a container.
Added two new autumn aquatic edible critters.

Changes:
Fairy particles and hair ornaments now match her dress color.
Added a slight position variation to the fairy resting position

Bugfix:
Fixed some baits not having the right range and effectiveness as they should.
Fixed the butchering table freezing up once you butcher something
Fixed the cutscene fairy particles not changing color

Next patch (probably going up tonight) is going to have a a bit of extra content as well as fixes, QoL and small details

The fairy hair accessories now updates with the dress color, the fairy also has sparking particles now (also has the same color as the dress)



When placing items in chests you can now split the stack and store it partially.



And there will be two new autumn aquatic critters, they are edible and have very high quality meat, I wonder how many of you will recognize these references.


I will resume making the food models when my brother gets close to implementing them in the game, it is quite pointless to make more right now. So I will add more critters for now.

Also next week my brother is going to try implementing some aggressive LoD for furniture and the NPCs, if all go well the FPS inside the city might increase by 10 or more frames.