I am still around, and still working on Goblinson Crusoe. Unfortunately, now that the move is done I'm back to work and it's been 10 hr days lately, so progress has definitely taken a turn for the worse. Still, though, I keep plugging away.

Now that I'm doing actual real work on the early-game experience, I've been doing a little bit of thinking about the early game. Early game is where you learn how to play, hence the existence of Tutorial Valleys and Noob Islands. But I'm wondering if I shouldn't give the player a choice about how h…

Haven't been able to do a whole lot, what with unpacking and being sick, but I did spend the time this morning to do a berry bush and a red berry icon:



Berries will be used in brewing various potions and creating various inks for the …

Had to take a short little trip that turned out quite longer than expected. Flew to Phoenix on Saturday, and spent the last couple days with my wife, my sister, her husband and their daughter, driving a car and a moving truck across Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. Kind of a bad time to d…

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A couple minutes of current gameplay footage. Still very, very much a work in progress of course, with many incomplete animations and missing icons, as well as a still-small list of usable skills. But all the basic elements are there.

Today was mostly a graphics day, what little I was able to do today. Finished some first-version graphics for the Small Campfire, Apprentice Cauldron and Apprentice Writing Desk:



Each object is a type of workbench with a different lis…

Today was a bit of a slower day. Had to run a bunch of errands, change a flat on my sister's car, yada, yada. Didn't get nearly as much done as I'd hoped, but I did spend a few minutes on doing some pyrotechnics:


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Today's work was mostly bug-fixing (relatively few, all things considered) and cleanup, plus an hour or so of planning. I've scraped together a rough outline for what I am calling Tutorial Island, where you'll learn all you'll need to know to get started exploring the islands. Based on that brainst…

Today's update sees a departure from more combat development:





That's my version of the Horadric Cube, or at least one level of it. Harvesting a tree now yields a Stack …

Spent some time this evening working out a few more test spells/effects. I'm not making anything official right now, I'm just trying to get a handle on the various effect types, parameters and calling conventions, etc... in order to work out an orderly system that will make it easier to add additio…