Hello everyone!

Today, my main focus was redesigning the very messy and glitchy inventory. The inventory was one of the many things that frustrated me, because sometimes slots would disappear, the tooltip for the items would appear under the slots, etc, etc. The design of the slots were inconsistent as well. All of these issues are solved (or at least, I hope so) with the new inventory that I have created.

Until next time!

Hello everyone!

As promised, I have several screenshots of the in-development biomes! There are many more to come, and these are just a few of them.

Until next time!

Hello everyone!

Today, and in the following week, my main focus will be biomes. With the new "world generation" system, I can create any biomes I want without following an algorithm, so I'm able to tune it to exactly the way I need it to be.

Today, I've set up a plethora of macros that allow me to refer to a biome's ID in the code without looking up the number. The biomes that exist so far are:

1. Lush hills
2. Plains
3. Desert hills
4. Desert plains
5. Savanna plateau
6. Savanna plains
7. Mesa
8. Alpine forest
9. Bamboo forest
10. Brushland
11. Chaparral
12. Cherry blossom forest
13. Coniferous forest
14. Dead forest
15. Eucalyptus forest
16. Flower field
17. Grove
18. Poppy field
19. Mountains
20. Dark forest
21. Redwood forest
22. Steppe
23. Tropical
24. Tundra
25. Magma
26. Emotive

Each of these biomes will offer different and unique terrain, some biomes having materials unique to them, such as the bamboo forest, where bamboo can be found.

Hopefully, snapshots of all of the following biomes can be released tomorrow or on Wednesday.

​Until next time!

Hello everyone!

The 1 week break that Crevis was taking is now over! Crevis has now returned to full production.

Today, I worked primarily on two things. Firstly, however, I bought a new textbox engine to use for Crevis, and I will be utilizing this for crafting. The way crafting will work is as follows:

• There is a textbox that allows you to select what item you would like to craft
• Simply type the name or the ID of the item, and it will either craft it, or show you the necessary components to do so, or that the crafting table you are using is not powerful enough

I am also redoing the layout and design of the inventory, and am making the inventory "menu" a lot cleaner, as it's very congested at the moment.

I have also been working on worldmasks, which are the two world-sized masks on either side of a chunk. If a player touches a worldmask, the player teleports to the next chunk.

As a reminder, the world is broken up into a large number of chunks, which reduces lag. 

Thank you everyone for being patient, and sorry for the wait!

Hello everybody!

Sorry for the delay in posts. The main focus of this week will be the art, the galaxy, and the organization of the project. Crevis is very unorganized (that's just how I am) so I'll be spending a lot of time focusing on organizing it so that it's easier to work. 

In terms of the galaxy, I'm talking about space exploration and anything of the sort. Currently, I'm focusing on creating space ships out of any blocks. I'm working on some kind of system that can detect what blocks are apart of the spaceship.

In terms of art, I'm going to continue to rework the rest of the sprites, as well as incorporate some of the other races into the game.

​Until next time!

Hello everyone!

I've been working on many, many things in the past few days. I have continued to tune the pickaxe strength so that they can offer the most balanced experience possible. I have decided to make pickaxes universal to all blocks as well, which is something I've been working on. Another important feature that I've implemented into the game is water and the physics of water. This offers new possibilities for oceans, lakes, etc.

The next feature that I'm going to be addressing is space. Over the past few days, I've had many ideas that I plan to implement, the most important being universal physics.

Planets and stars will be able to collide with each other, as well as black holes with planets.

How is it going to work?
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An entirely separate dimension will be dedicated to a 'Space Radar'. You'll be able to craft one of these later on in the game, and you can use it to track all celestial activities. The planet that you spawn on, Shi'va, will be split into about 40 sections. The planet on the radar will also be split into 40 sections. If a meteor is observed on the space radar, and it hits the planet, the damage will be done to that specific section (or more sections). While an event like this may be scary, you can see the asteroid coming for a very long time, which will give you ample time to move your equipment and such.

You can also launch bombs at the asteroids, which will disintegrate them. 

Chromebook Support
We are purchasing several export modules for GameMaker: Studio, which include the iOS export module, the HTML5 export module, the Universal Windows Platform module, and the Android export module.

​All of these will be very useful in expanding our range of platforms. HTML5 will allow us to port the game to a browser, which will give people with Chromebooks access to the game.

Video demonstrations of these things should be completed shortly.

​Until next time!

Hello everyone!

Today I created a new development video showcasing deserts, the pickaxes, and some more underground exploration. Enjoy!

Until next time, folks!

Hello everybody!

Sadly, I do not have a video ready for you guys today, because I decided to rework pickaxes.

I find that, realistically, pickaxes are not only capable of mining through stone, but increase productivity of mining anything. With that said, I am eliminating other tools that would be used for terraforming, like shovels or axes.

I am now applying the effect of the pickaxe to every single block in the game, which should make things easier on the player.

I will hopefully have a video up by tomorrow or Saturday showcasing the new pickaxes.

​Until next time!