Isop0dyssey News

hey everyone! First of all, thank you for playing Isop0dyssey! It's always magical to talk to you about your experiences exploring Abyss City & see gameplays (and even speedruns!) on YouTube.

isop0dyssey v1.1 fixes some bugs such as UI scaling issues, bad terrain geometry, trigger collision problems & quality of life improvements such as an "unstuck" button that you can find in the pause menu in case you get stuck somewhere or would like to be teleported to the nearest spawn point.

Achievements now fully work, and you now will have an easier time hunting down all the isopods to talk to through little markings on the minimap, as well as a... pirate map? on our Discord?!!?

Now everyone can “Get Back To Work” amongst other things.

Don't forget to join our Discord Server to hang out with us & fellow isopod enjoyers! You can also report bugs there as well :3

Let us know what you think!

XOXO
-PARASITE PLAYHAUS

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UBmF0Xbcvo

watch the trailer!
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Hello there, fellow crustaceans!

I am Bee, one of the artists working on Isop0dyssey. Today, I'm taking over the announcements from Maaruska.

I have some exciting stuff on my checklist!

After many months of delays, we are finally starting to close the curtains on Isop0dyssey's production:
the doors to the detrivore power fantasy open by the end of this month!

With that, we are adjusting all sorts of things in the game, adding final touches, and crafting all sorts of extra materials. We don't yet know what you guys will get to see, but we are hopeful that you will enjoy this little experience that we have assembled. It sure has been and is a ride!

To add even more content to our cultural landfill, we have created a YouTube channel!
PARASITE PLAYHAUS youtube
Please check it out if interested; we will be adding some small but fire content there!

Until then:
race on o7

Hello again! This is the first devlog of 2024. The factory line here has been chugging ever forward, and today I come to talk (and rant!) a bit about the sound design & some seaweed.

Firstly, the sound. This project has the most fun and most infuriating sound design challenges that I've had the pleasure to experience so far. It was not planned to be this way, but together with Likop we ended up using mostly self-recorded trash (staying true to Abyss City's values) like heavily processed tea slurping for isopod dialogue & old laptop fans for the sweeping hums of the soundtrack.

Whenever I start bumping a wall, reminding myself that we are supposed to have fun making games has helped me find fun solutions. This method has worked for most(!) of the sound design tasks where I could wrap up many things in the first or second try... but there is one track in particular that has defeated us many many times:

the racing music.

For the love of all detrivores, we have had so much trouble with this. Likop's solution has been classified as "psychological warfare" and is staying as backup in case we don't end up making it less repetitive, longer, or inflicted psychic damage.

I've scrapped more than 4 attempts, maybe 5th time is the charm. We shall see. I will hopefully return with happy news regarding the race track soon.

On other developments, Abyss City has recieved a fantastic layer of varnish from Nicole (our very own hired gun technical artist!), and she has done an amazing job glueing all the visuals together with her post-processing magic.

She also managed to implement the seaweed flora, but unfortunately we haven't yet figured out how to make them wave around. This might be down to us being locked into Unity's Standard Rendering Pipeline(it would be really nice if Unity can one day decide to stick with just one!). We will look into this if there is a good solution.

Until next time!
-maaruska

cohost: https://cohost.org/maaruska?page=0

wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2410700/Isop0dyssey/