Hello everyone!

Today I implemented 6 pickaxes - one for each primary ore.

Stone Pickaxe T1
Copper Pickaxe
Gold Pickaxe
Iron Pickaxe
Gammite Pickaxe
Atherium Pickaxe T6

These pickaxes have all been implemented into the game. They all modify the solidity of blocks. I plan to make a video on it, so keep your eyes open!

​Until next time!

Hello everyone!

I'm happy to present one of the tracks from the Crevis OST. As I said in the last post, a fair few of these were made with Jukedeck - visit them to create your own stuff if you want!

Here's the track:

Until next time!

Hello everyone!

I have recently been creating awesome tracks for the game with a tool called Jukedeck. You can Google it for more information on it. I'm also emailing several composers that seem like they produce music that would fit the game.

To me, music is a very important aspect of the game - it provides an atmosphere and puts emotion into what the player is doing.

I hope you will all enjoy a preview of one of the new Crevis tracks tomorrow!

​Until next time!

Hello everyone!

There are so many sprites that are left that need to be translated into the new art style and resolution. I spent most of my time working on the sprites. 

I have also been working more on the Underground, and, more specifically, the teleportation masks within the Underground.

The Underground has 4 teleportation masks in it - left mask, right mask, up mask, and down mask. Each of these masks transports the player to the appropriate area - the up mask returns the player to the surface, and the down mask progresses the player further into the ground.

I've been working on the intelligence of these teleportations - tracking areas that are safe to place the player. That's all from me today.

Until next time!

Hello everyone!

I've just finished uploading the latest Crevis Dev Video! Here it is.

I hope you enjoyed, and with that,

​Until next time!

Hello everyone!

Instead of spicing up the caves, I worked on the shaders in the caves. Players can light up a cave by simply having a torch in his/her hand. Torches can obviously be placed down as well.

I'm going to have a video up tomorrow showing a bit of cave exploration. Sorry about the short post, I'll go more into depth in the video.

Until tomorrow!

Today, I made huge leaps of progress in terms of the underground area. I'm not sure if I explained this in my last post, but I plan to have the underground world made up of 5 or 6 sections, each getting progressively more valuable minerals, as well as dangerous monsters. Today, I have created 3 of those levels.

I have also incorporated caves, as well as more ores, such as iron.

Tomorrow, I plan on spicing up these caves with stalagmites and stalactites, as well as smoothing out the stone textures, as they look very block-like.

Until next time!

Hello everyone!

Today I'm implementing a new system for optimization that literally uses chunks, and I'm going to explain how it works.

Using GameMaker: Studio, a higher instance count (how many things are in the room) translates to a higher drop in performance. My method cuts the amount of instances, quite literally, into four, using chunks. Blocks in Crevis are 32x32 pixels. It takes 2,040 blocks to fill an entire room... which, you can probably imagine, can get very laggy. So, I'm implementing a system that uses 64x64 blocks, which takes 510 blocks to fill a room. When the player comes closer to the chunks (64x64 blocks) they turn into a set of 4 32x32 blocks.

Hopefully that makes sense.
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​Until next time, everyone!

Hello everyone!

Today, Nesus's Kickstarter was fully funded by 2 people several hours before the campaign ended, which is superb! We had several complications, however. As you may know, Nesus was merged with Crevis a few weeks ago, and work on Nesus ceased. I wasn't sure if they still wanted to back the project now that it had changed, so I contacted them both. They both agreed to continue funding the project, which was awesome! This money is most likely going to go toward music and code extensions.

Until next time, everybody! (the next post will have some game content)

Hello everyone!

Sorry about the lack of a post yesterday, it was a very busy day for me and my family.

Today, I've been contemplating some things about the handmade world. In the world, I have massive chunks that are separated from each other. These chunks are initially 108 blocks (x) by 64 blocks (y). I have foreseen that the tiny amount of blocks on the y axis may be restricting for large buildings, like multiple story towers, or huge tree houses. So, I have allowed the player to surpass the y axis block boundary (with the help of someone on the YoYoGames forum) so that the amount of blocks you can place on the y axis is, theoretically speaking, infinite. It is, however, not infinite, because there are restrictions like memory that the game can't control. 

Now, as the y border is theoretically infinite, I've decided to add a boundary very high into the sky so that the player doesn't end up crashing. This way, people can build tall and exotic builds and still won't crash.

I have also realized that the x border may be just as restrictive, but people can extend their builds on the x axis by simply entering the next chunk.

I hope you can make sense of this little tidbit.

Until next time!