DeepLands
Going to Full Release soon, and update about updates...
DeepLands is the first game that I have ever made, I started working on it when I was fifteen years old. While I was making this game I was really just starting to discover how game design worked and I didn’t have a clear vision of what the core mechanics would be, or what type of game it would become, I just made some levels in my own fictional world named Aris and added the mechanics way later on. I have made multiple updates, and fixed a lot of bugs, but because my coding and game making from back in the day is now so unclear to read and hard, to basically impossible to work with I have decided to go from early access to full release, and do very minimal updates from time to time. It is now 2020, I am almost nineteen, and I fear that any updates I will make to the game will only result in more bugs and ultimately in a endless amount of fixing, to the point where I basically have to remake the entire game, this means that most bugs currently in the game will likely remain, though from the feedback that I have had, I hear that it is still definitely playable at this stage. Please keep this in mind before you buy DeepLands, I still like to play it myself, even though it is not the best game out there, obviously, and I believe that you can certainly still enjoy playing this game.
Thank you to all those that have already played DeepLands, I hope you enjoyed it, and to all those that will buy it I also hope you enjoy it and I thank you as well!
Tim Venekamp
Major New Update! And New Trailers.
This new update has also improved on the choices that you can make in the game, giving you different outcomes and or different ways to go through the DeepLands. The goal of this is to add more uniqueness to each players journey.
To demonstrate and show all the changes and new levels I made two new videos:
New DeepLands Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkZ7alhtgjc
20 min of DeepLands gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmsVght7uzA&t=289s
Improvements:
-Storyline.
-AI.
-Combat system.
-Lighting.
-character movement system.
-Level design ( only in a couple of levels).
-choices players can make to impact their journey and story.
-Player animations.
-Creature animations.
Bug Fixes:
-Loading screen errors.
-Music errors.
-Collision or hitbox glitches.
-Respawn glitches.
-Sound effect glitches.
-And much more small bugs or glitches.
Future updates will include:
-Combat improvements
-Trading Cards
-Achievements
-Cloud saves
-new levels
Alpha Update 1.3
*More player animations have been added, making the player walk more smooth
*The player movement mechanics have been improved making movement better.
*More dialogue has been added into the game.
*The game now has an upgrade system that can be accessed by pressing TAB. You can then summon the gnome to buy magic potions in order to upgrade stamina regeneration speed and stamina endurance. You can also use first aid mushrooms to increase health.
*More animations have been added to NPC's
*NPC animations have been changed and improved.
*The first side quest has been added in Troll land! There are 7 different outcomes in this side quest. Be smart in what you say!
* A better tutorial in the first minutes of the game making the game more understandable for beginning players that are not familiar with this type of game.
*AI has been improved.
*in one of the first levels there are now multiple possible escape routes from the first enemy.
*Music has been improved. It now fades out better in most levels and is better timed and there is now more of it in parts of the game that had no music or almost no music.
*Many bugs have been fixed. Including all reported bugs, bugs found in online videos from players, and newly found bugs during testing.
*A new 'you have died, screen' in which the gnome brings you back from the dead
*Lighting has been improved in multiple levels.
*some NPC models and textures have been improved and changed.
*Hitbox ( or collision) problems in many levels have been fixed.
*Many more small things have been fixed.
New levels will be added very soon now that most bugs have been fixed from the now included levels
Thanks for reading through this update
Kind regards,
Tim Venekamp
Update 1.2 is out now, and news on future updates.
In 1.2 all reported bugs are fixed as well as bugs found in live streams and Youtube videos.
In 1.2 the first chapter "Chapter one The New House" has received a lot of polishing and newly added instructions making Chapter one more of an introductory level as originally planned. And making it more understandable.
Chapter Two has also received changes. It now has more instructions and dialogue "with your little helper", to get more of an understanding of what is suppose to happen and why you should take the dwarf gold and why you can use certain mushrooms to heal your self etc. this update also removes most of the invisible walls when running away from the first enemy, adding a new option to escape from the enemy. The first enemy has also received a couple of changes, as it can now sprint after you ( and walk). His attack is now also more dynamic.
Wierd collision or invisible wall problems caused the player to sometimes get stuck in the middle of a path or on a small edge. all the discovered collision problems have been fixed.
Player mechanics have now had their first changes and will receive more in the next update.
More animations for NPC's have been added as well as for "the wife character". the main character will receive more animations as soon as possible.
Gold disappearing when loading a new level has been fixed.
Other levels that have been changed are:
*Chapter three the lonely caves
*Chapter four Dwarfs!
*Chapter five Troll land
Updates in the near future
Future updates will include:
*making the story clearer and more understandable
*battle mechanics. You will be taught how to fight by the dwarfs in chapter eight "giants of the deep" and from this level on the battle mechanics will be featured until the end of the game.
*More bug fixes ( if more bugs get discovered, and surely the will ).
*A system making it a possibility to upgrade your: stamina, health, hunger, With training and potions from the dwarfs, for gold making the gold more useful.
*More animations for NPC's as well as for the player.
*Better AI.
*More levels and chapters.
*And probably many more things, including possible requests from players.
Thank you for reading through this update on alpha version 1.2
Kind regards, Tim :)
It's out now!
to all who will play Deeplands, I hope you will enjoy it, and I am looking forward to hearing your reviews, and interacting with the community!
cheers !
Tim Venekamp