The Gods Fabled: Soil Frontier

An open-world fantasy farming game in development by @Zoyji_

Discord for the game:

[The Gods Fabled: Soil Frontier @SoilFrontier]

For those who missed the Kickstarter..

The Gods Fabled: Soil Frontier is now live on Indiegogo InDemand!🥕

https://t.co/h5HciQbVWD

[Zoyji @Zoyji_]

@SoilFrontier is now live on Indiegogo InDemand!! 🎉

https://t.co/KTncgzTyrB

Thank you to all who backed the Kickstarter, I'll have some cool stuff to show you all soon 🥰

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Custom text input for title and pronouns for your character - I think I might add a dropdown for common options while leaving the text fields open for custom text
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On the right, there is a short backstory of who my character is. This paragraph was formed based on the multiple-choice questions I answered in the Origin tab. I think this will be an easy way to give your character backstory while actually having this backstory known to NPCs

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The designs of the new character creation UI are starting to take shape - note that these will still be improved over time as UI is not my strong suit!

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🧵

As I mentioned in the recent devlog, I'm intending on replacing the 3D book ui for the character creator. I love the book, but it's not quite flexible enough and it's a bit too time consuming to work with.

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spawn bug, but I'm not mad about it @SoilFrontier

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Just testing some ideas for soil mounds, I liked this scene

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I've posted a new devlog for @SoilFrontier!! 🎉

Please go check it out and tell me what you think ☺️:
https://t.co/Wa44MskXpV

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Chiku tax 🧵

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Lighting/atmosphere is nearly perfect now, this was taken at about 6:20am

It was a challenge balancing the game to look nice at all times of day with celshading matching on entities correctly

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Working on hairstyles, they'll be split into front, back, and "extra bits", you can mix them in as many ways as you'd like

The varen on the right has just a front half right now of course 😆

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Still a work in progress, in the process of getting things functional in the engine

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(Just a concept! I'll be implementing this today)

As I've been reworking the inventory, one of the final things to do is add some nice UI to go along with it. Now this is just a concept, but the final design I implement will likely look very similar to this

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Slot animations to show what is selected while still keeping things minimal

also ignore the grumato punching glove lol, gotta make some fixes to arm poses and held item placements

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I've been working on the new hotbar and inventory for the past couple of days, It's tough to get just right but I'm really liking this style

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BEFORE & AFTER

The art style of @SoilFrontier a year ago vs now:

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These are the races currently in the game! you'll be able to play as any one of them in Alpha 1 and even mix your ancestry which is directly reflected in your character, the shape/size/skin tones will even blend correctly😁

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As a creflin I'm just a stupid tiny baby next to a jumbo grumato

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I won't explain how this occurs.. but there will be a feature in the future that will cause crops to become "gilded"

As seen to my right, there is a shiny golden grumato

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Running through the empty landscape often refreshes my own view of my game, I sometimes get caught up and narrow-visioned on the small details, and I forget that those small details are all coming together, slowly building this world I've had in my head for years.

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I'll be upgrading these guys soon 👀