Meowllo everyone! April sure passed by quickā¦I thought it was still March. Time is scary. This month, weāve been working on a lot of cool things! Except we canāt show them to you just yet! Terrible! But itās OK, thereās a lot of asset and art work done this month, we can show you some of those. This will be a pretty image heavy devlog!
šæ Grassy Plains
Last month, we showed some assets for the Grassy Plains. This month, the family is all complete! Say hello š
Some tulips, a new fence, and flowers to help brighten up the colors. We wanted to keep the Grassy Plains primarily green. Lots of fresh warm greens! The terrain is quite large, hereās how it looks in the 3D modelling program:
ā¦And hereās how the same chunk looks in-game!
Itās been a lot of fun working on the level. Itās changed quite a bit as it progressed, and itās also become a lot more hilly. I swear, I do know what āplainsā are. I took some, um, creative liberties.
The pond and the northern end with the bamboo are one of my favorite spots.
Also, owo whatās thisā¦?
š” Buildings and Buildables
Adding another building to the ārustic homesā set, hereās an Alchemistās shop.
Keeping in theme with the rest of the rustic homes, it features mainly Softwood and Stone. As always, you can dye the roof! To keep things consistent, I use the same set of pieces and textures for each style of housing. It also makes things easier!
Making a house is like building with blocks. Sometimes it can get a bit annoying to have to tweak things to work in the style I want them to, but I see it as a fun puzzle!
Thereās also a few more things you can place as decorations. The fertilizer sacks are cute š³
Well, thatās all for this month! Thank you for reading the devlog, your support means a lot to us š
We will be performing a scheduled maintenance on MAY 4, 2021 (UTC). Further details regarding the maintenance are listed below for your reference.
UTC (Universal Time Coordinated): MAY 4, 06:00 ā MAY 4, 14:00 KST (Korean Standard Time): MAY 4, 15:00 ā MAY 4, 23:00 PDT (Pacific Standard Time): MAY 3, 23:00 ā MAY 4, 07:00 EDT (Eastern Standard Time): MAY 4, 02:00 ā MAY 4, 10:00
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The Salt Mine Studios Team has been hard at work these past few weeks fixing bugs, adding some quality of life features, and more! Thanks to everyone who has been telling us about the various bugs they encounter in the game. Here are the update notes for todays update!
New Features: - A New Game Mode has been added called NewGame+ This game mode is unlocked after beating the whole game once. Lets you use all body types on all levels. - Two New Achievements! Spacebound and Health Conscious! - Elevator Music added to the elevator level transitions. - Color Blind Support! We have added a graphics option to change the colors of the red and green buttons and lights. This can only be done through the main menu under "Options" and then "Graphics". - Level Music has been re-done to emit from phonographs that are placed in a variety of locations in all levels. Positioned in places to help give players a sense of which direction to go. - Spawn Point activation sound added. - Level 3 floor buttons now have sound added to them when they are pressed. - Impact sound added when a player gets hit by a wrecking ball or turret. - Music added to the Credits. - Updated Level Select to have pictures of every level. - Texture and lighting updates.
Bug Fixes: - Various walls and floors you could walk through and fall or get out of the levels through have been fixed to no longer let this happen. - Turrets sounds had the direction fo their sound fixed to point the right way. - Level 2 maze of buttons should no longer let you hear the turrets through the walls. - Fixed sphere body flying and other sphere related bugs. - Can no longer jump off bullets. - On level 2, you need to hit both buttons in the 2nd area now to open the 3rd gate. Should also resolve the problem of accidently getting stuck in level 2. - Added Air Control to launcher pistons after you get launched by them. - Various Bounce Pad bug fixes. - Updated poster read distance. - Resolution settings should now awlays show the current resolution. - Various sound bug fixes.
I hope you all like the new features and bug fixes! We are always open to feedback and bug reports! Hope you have fun and see you in the Lab!
We will be proceeding with server patches for smooth gameplay.
Updating the game app is not required. Upon restarting the game after server patches, game resources will be downloaded.
However, please be informed that an unexpected game crash or unstable server issue may occur during this time. Your kind understanding will be appreciated.
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š¢ [May. 3rd Server patches]
ā Date & Time - MAY. 3rd 06:00 ~07:00 (UTC+0), 2021
ā Details - To provide stable service
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We will try harder to provide a stable game environment.
The Salt Mine Studios Team has been hard at work these past few weeks fixing bugs, adding some quality of life features, and more! Thanks to everyone who has been telling us about the various bugs they encounter in the game. Here are the update notes for todays update!
New Features: - A New Game Mode has been added called NewGame + This game mode is unlocked after beating the whole game once. Lets you use all body types on all levels. - Two New Achievements! Spacebound and Health Conscious! - Elevator Music added to the elevator level transitions. - Color Blind Support! We have added a graphics option to change the colors of the red and green buttons and lights. This can only be done through the main menu under "Options" and then "Graphics". - Level Music has been re-done to emit from phonographs that are placed in a variety of locations in all levels. Positioned in places to help give players a sense of which direction to go. - Spawn Point activation sound added. - Level 3 floor buttons now have sound added to them when they are pressed. - Impact sound added when a player gets hit by a wrecking ball or turret. - Music added to the Credits. - Updated Level Select to have pictures of every level. - Texture and lighting updates.
Bug Fixes: - Various walls and floors you could walk through and fall or get out of the levels through have been fixed to no longer let this happen. - Turrets sounds had the direction fo their sound fixed to point the right way. - Level 2 maze of buttons should no longer let you hear the turrets through the walls. - Fixed sphere body flying and other sphere related bugs. - Can no longer jump off bullets. - On level 2, you need to hit both buttons in the 2nd area now to open the 3rd gate. Should also resolve the problem of accidently getting stuck in level 2. - Added Air Control to launcher pistons after you get launched by them. - Various Bounce Pad bug fixes. - Updated poster read distance. - Resolution settings should now awlays show the current resolution. - Various sound bug fixes.
I hope you all like the new features and bug fixes! We are always open to feedback and bug reports! Hope you have fun and see you in the Lab!
Hello there, This update was primarily focused on creating a small tutorial at the beginning of Zone 1.
According to the feedback, the lack of a tutorial did cause some frustration among new players. I also reduced the battery consumption Please let me know what you think!
Savegame is fixed! I inadvertently broke the save function (both autosave and normal save) with the last update yesterday. Oops sorry. It's fixed now. Thanks to Bongo13 and viroX for reporting it!