Everyday Life Edengrall
V0.57.0.4
Fixed a minor UI bug
Friday Progress Report 300
The gameloop now includes the NPCs, previously interactions with the citizens of Edengrall was mostly buying items from them since most people just ignored the quests,
The new quests give you more reasons to grow crops, fish and capture critters, they also alert you to types of critters and fish you haven't seen yet and since the NPCs only ask for things that are in season, as soon as you see someone requesting a new critter you can be sure it can be found somewhere.
The next feature we will work on is the end-day screen, when midnight hits a popup (can be disabled on the options) will show your progress in the previous 24 hours, including money earned/spent, skills gained, items gathered, new collectables discovered and NPC friendship gained.
After that we finish it the work on the Exploration update begins with the first feature being the new forageable spawner that will bring Dandelions, Violets and Cattails to the world as well as the new tool, the Shovel and artifact hunting.
Then we will overhaul the grass and start expanding the terrain, starting by unlocking the zone to the east, the pillar coral reef.
Quest Update
Each character has their own quest list and can ask for up to 3 items, you get paid for each item delivered, and if you deliver all requested items you will also gain extra friendship with the NPC.
NPCs now have lines when requesting items and when you deliver something, adding more personality to each character.
We also improved the feedback when you earn money and your current funds are shown on the UI under the calendar.
Also we removed the taste specifications of NPCs, making the ideal dish is complicated enough, having to take NPC tastes in consideration makes the system too overwhelming.
We also added this little goober (should appear by the river during summer)
v0.57.0.3
Features:
Reworked the quest system
Added money counter under the calendar
Added river goobers
Changes:
Now there is an animation for collecting things with your hand
Fish loses interest if you move the hook too far
Bugfixes:
An issue where the toolbar would be clicked through the prefab screen was fixed.
Fixed an issue with the save/load screen showing the incorrect season for a save
Fixed a bug where going to the main menu broke the hand collection
You can no longer spend more money than you have.
Fixed bugs related to copy and pasting large buildings
Fixed a serious UI bug related to having all tutorials complete
You can no longer disable the main mod of the game
Using tool on empty air no longer gives experience
The Apply button in the graphics settings also apply resolution changes
The graphics settings no longer ignores input resolutions (previously it would only consider the drop down)
Fixed a couple bugs related to uploading items to the steam workshop
Friday Progress Report 299
While my brother was finishing the update I made some new assets, Money will now be displayed in the Main UI, taking away the placeholder plain message that used to tell the player they received money.
We are going to add a new critter as well as the new weeds after this update, but now that some more serious issues have been reported i will change focus from adding assets to trying to reproduce the bugs so my brother can fix them.
The ingredients for the Dandelion, Violet and Cattail are done too by the way, but we can't add them to the game yet, we need to finish this update and then rework the forageable spawners to add them to the game properly.
Friday Progress Report 298
Every NPC has their own quests, asking for critters, fish, crops and forage, in the future more items will be added to the list as we implement them.
Quests are easily moddable as they are entirely contained in XML files.
While my brother finishes up the quests I begun working on the exploration update, starting with small forage, the first plants we will be adding will be both pretty and edible.
Dandelion
A very common weed with pretty yellow flowers, did you know they are edible? The entire plant can be eaten, despite the weak nutrition and bad taste, there will be ways to prepare them and make it a decent ingredient. Dandelions will spawn in the areas between grasslands and cliffs or roads.
Violet
Violets are also edible and despite being cultivated in gardens IRL they are indeed weeds. They will grow in small patches in the middle of grasslands.
I am also making cattails as a new grass type, but it won't be harvestable until we add the shovel that will allow the player to gather the edible roots.
Keep in mind that these forageables will not be as abundant as they are now, most of them will take a full year to respawn, so choosing to harvest and use them all at once can lead to a nasty winter.
Friday Progress Report 297
The quest rework should be done by next Friday. Right now it is half-way done and quite broken, so we won't be uploading a new version until it is done.
Again short report, but can't really do anything about it, as we were busy with other work.
Also a screenshot from the house I build for the new trailer, I will upload it to the workshop after the trailer is up.
Friday Progress Report 296
Since we can't try a kickstarter campaign we are going to do one in Catarse.me, a brazilian alternative, with luck we will get some money to keep developing fulltime, the catch it that we will have to translate the game to brazilian portuguese, which will be time consuming, but would have to happen eventually anyways.
There isn't much else to report this week, sorry.
V0.56.0.4
Fixed many types of buildings being built under the ground, including sprinklers
Fixed the infinite carrot bug
Friday Progress Report 295
All of the items they sell can be recreated and improved by the player, if you check your recipe book there will be over 60 pre-made recipes now, including all of Reiko's and Yukari's menu
Next we are going to reform the quest system a bit, instead of requesting finished dishes the characters will request crops, fish and critters as well as react with dialogue when the player delivers the items.
Now for more serious news.
If you have been keeping up with these updates you will know we are out of funds, We got some support from our family, with the condition we do some oddjobs and earn something while we develop the game, my brother managed to get a nice opportunity and will for the following weeks take time off from Edengrall and focus on the job he got, he will still develop during weekends, but right now I am the only one working fulltime on the game, and this may change as I am also looking for a freelance job or maybe we will try to crowdfund here on Brazil since we cannot use Kickstarter and other sites like that, this will probably last 2 or 3 months until we get out of the red and can go back to focusing on the game.
V0.56.0.3
Reiko now sell a variety of finished foods for those who don't want to cook, you can find her working at the Inn kitchen
All of Yukari and Reiko recipes are available in the cookbook if you want to make them yourself, or can hide them if you would rather make your own recipes.
Changes:
Changed the underwater shader to give better visibility, matching how far you can see if over the water
Reworked the pizza recipe
Bugfixes:
Fixed Chewy Buns not being edible.
Creating a perfect meal no longer breaks the cooking UI