Hi,
It's been a while but I have good news! I'm seriously starting a youtube channel to help promote Harvest Island more. This is a good thing for you because I'll be making Harvest Island Content! So, some of these content will reveal new areas in Harvest Island, but it's purely comical. Sometimes I'll post developer progress but most of the time, I just want to make you laugh. It's something I can do while developing Harvest Island at the same time since I know you guys have been waiting for this game for a long time. If you followed me in the super early stages, that's 2 years!
As you may have read the title, potato farming in indie game sucks. Not really haha. It's the title of my youtube video that I'm showing you!
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I hope you enjoyed that video! And I really encourage you to follow me on youtube. Like and subscribe too! I've got a stockpile of videos that'll last me for two months and I'll continue to do this until I release my game. I'll be uploading frequently.
As for the game Harvest island. I know the biggest question is when will it be finished? Well, I have the entire game development road map planned out and I have a set date when I want to finish this game. This is pretty much what I have left to do to finish the game.
This is literally taken out of my notes from the big canvas I have written... But I'll explain more after you take a quick glance at it. (The sloppy writing is from me using a mouse lol)
The main art which is all of the environmental art is 85-90% done.
The illustration is probably 20% done. This isn't a big deal since I have someone else working on these. So it shouldn't affect the release of the game.
Water tides is a code for me to say that, replace all the water in the game and be sure to add low tides and high tides. Pretty much a rework of the beaches in Harvest Island. This is maybe 10% finished. I still have to program a few things before the tides are final.
And then there's the secret animal map. That's pretty much is a secret :) But this is 0% done. If people have been following my dev log on my website, wild animals are really important.
Next we have Eventing. This just means to me that I have to create cutscenes for the game. Particularly the main story. And I'm talking about the ending of my game. So, you can say that the entire game's cutscenes is about 50% complete. The other 50% is the game's end game. This also implies other background programing I have to do like achievements, quests, and NPC Dialogue.
Story is 90% finished. All I have to do is write the game's lore. Which will take a while. And also write the the game's ending which is already planned out. I can't finish this without finishing the art so this will take a while for me to even start writing the game's ending. Plus there's the illustrations I have to wait on as well.
Testing. This is pretty much 0%. I have tested the game while I was developing it. So if things broke, I would fix it quickly, but small bugs that I wouldn't even think of testing would take some time for me to find them. Plus I'm going to find friends and have them play the game blindly. You can consider testing as polishing phase. Which will take a huge amount of time from me because I would be playing the game beginning to end like 100x to find bugs with different style playthroughs. And the game is pretty long and kinda open world. Would you even consider stardew valley open world? Well, you can say my game has the freedom to explore.
Easter egg island. That's just code for me to design the game's easter eggs. Yeah, it's pretty much self explanatory. If you guys played the beta, I'm sure you found game references. This island is pretty much answering those references. This is at 0% but I already have planned everything out for this.
And finally music. I'll be writing a lot of music. The game's music is probably 40%-50% done. Writing music is pretty quick for me unless I have to write a 5 min orchestral piece. We will see how my testers say about my music. If it's bad, I'm upping the level of music. If it's good, You can expect the game to release sooner. Also, I'm thinking about adding a singer which I already have lined up.
And that's pretty much everything currently with Harvest Island. So when will the game get released? I'm too afraid to give you the date because this is a lot of work, but I made deadlines for myself to finish. (Hopefully in a understandable time frame that doesn't kill me) This lets you peek into how soon Harvest Island will be finished and I hope that this is enough to keep you waiting.
And be sure to subscribe on youtube if you haven't yet!
