Hello everyone!

It's been a very long week so far, and a successful one for Crevis! I have added 15 new blocks that can be utilized for building and decorating. Here they are:

• Wicker
• Rough Wood
• Concrete
• Fluff
• Asphalt
• Mossy Stone
• Metal Tiles
• Plaster
• Marble
• Smooth Stone
• Sand Bricks
• Bricks
• Metal Beams
• Metal Scrap
• Cobweb
• Clay

Until next time!

Hello everyone!

I have finished Content Wave #1 one day in advance: Here's what's new:

• ​Cloth
• Plant fiber
• Bamboo
• Coal dust
• Generated fiber vines
• Rocks
  
• String
• Onyx
• Bandages
• Rubber
• Heavy rocks

Most of the items here are crafting components, but some randomly generate, like bamboo or fiber vines.
I'm now going to start on the next content wave.

Until next time!

Hello everyone!

We are now at the point at which we are going to begin mass producing content! This includes getting more team members on board, as well as pumping out new content every single day. Here's the order of content:

Wave Group 1: Items & Crafting Recipes

1. Naturally occuring items
2. Building blocks
3. Crafting components
4. Food items

Wave Group 2: Biomes & Worlds

1. Shiva biomes
2. Nimrodor biomes
3. Ecrides biomes
4. Abos biomes
5. Archea biomes
6. Vesuul biomes
7. Athera biomes

Wave Group 3: Combat

1. Melee weapons
2. Armor
3. Ranged weapons

Wave Group 4: Animals

1. Farm animals
2. Hostile animals

Wave Group 5: Monsters

1. Hostile monsters
2. Boss monsters
3. Passive monsters

Each wave of content is expected to last about 3-4 days. In 76 days, or about 2.5 months, most of Crevis's main content will be complete! The first wave begins tomorrow.

Hello everyone!

 I spent most of my day today combining the elements that I've been working on:

• The physical rocket that blasts off into the sky
• The shipworld
• The HUD

All of these elements have now been combined to form a smooth experience from launch to orbit.

I also created the rocket's crash animation, as well as the explosion that the crash creates. Once the rocket is out of fuel, it drops out of the sky at a speed of 50 blocks per second, and hits the ground with an explosion so large that it explodes through the entire dirt layer (8-10 blocks deep).

Until next time!

Hello everyone!

Sorry about not posting yesterday, this is actually the post intended for yesterday.

Yesterday, I created a world for the ship - you can float around in it, access the fuel hatch as well as the ship HUD. There's also a window for you to see the black nothingness of space.

I also added a 'Launch' button the the HUD for travelling to other planets, patched some bugs within the HUD, and improved the look of the HUD. 

Until later today!

Hello everyone!

Today, I completed the planetary radar in Crevis - a grid that shows the layout of the planets, gives you information on how much fuel it takes to get to each planet, and the distance between the planet you want to go to and the planet you are currently on.
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In Crevis, your rocket can only hold 900 fuel. This may seem like a lot. However, around 100 fuel is used up in the liftoff of the rocket. Due to this limitation, you hypothetically would not be able to travel directly from your planet to, say, the planet farthest away from you. You would have to make consistent stops at planets for fuel. Upgrading your ship is also a possibility.

However, beware - the rocket does not stop you if you want to go to a planet and you don't have enough fuel for it. The rocket will simply stop in the middle of space, and you will be stuck there forever until you starve or dehydrate.

​Until next time!

Hello everyone!

For the past few days, I've been working on space travel and rockets. Crevis is finally leaving orbit!

Rockets are entities that are crafted with many materials, and also require fuel in the form of radioactive gammium. Gammium is a material that can be found in the bottom layers of the Underground, and can be made radioactive in the PNR (Photonuclear Reactor). 90 rods of radioactive gammium will fill the rocket's fuel. Each fuel rod supplies 10 fuel.

 A rocket caps its speed at 50.22 PPT (pixels per tick), or 47.08 BPS (blocks per second). Once a rocket reaches a height of 4,000 blocks, or 128,000 pixels, the rocket leaves the atmosphere of the planet.

The rocket can then travel to the moon or to other planets or celestial bodies.

A video of everything here will come soon. Until then, feast your eyes on a screenshot:

Until next time!

Hello everyone!

Today, I'm introducing two people to our staff - Reichiimi and brybrymcfry. Reichiimi will be creating concept art and will be covering anything art-related in Crevis, aside from pixel art. Brybrymcfry will be assisting me with coding, and more specifically, content. He will be creating new biomes, blocks, armor, etc. With these new team members, development should pass significantly faster.

​Until next time!

Hello everyone!

Sorry for not posting the video yesterday... but here it is!

Until next time!

Hello everyone!

Unfortunately, I didn't finish the crafting system fast enough to leave time for making a video - it took longer than expected. Fortunately, however, the crafting system is done, and just needs to be perfected. 

The video will be out tomorrow for sure.

Anyway, today I primarily focused on replacing the lazily completed built-in textbox that GameMaker provided me with with a $15 textbox that I bought from the YoYoGames marketplace. The engine that I bought provides clean and professional-looking textboxes with CTRL functions - (copy, paste, undo, redo, selecting, etc). The most difficulty came from programming the selection of these textboxes.

Eventually I completed it, but it was too late to make a development video.

Tomorrow for sure!