Oct 23

My Time at Evershine - MoeeeZ

Hey, Governors!

Our big moment has finally arrived - the Alpha playtest for My Time At Evershine is here!

This is the very first step of our journey together; a small but meaningful glimpse into the world we’re creating. You'll get to experience an early version of that world, exploring uncharted territory while guiding the game's future.

Like any early expedition, things might feel a little rough to start - many of the game's systems and features are still in early development, so please keep that in mind while playing.

The main focus of this Alpha build is to test the core gameplay loop, so there's a chance you'll come across bugs, placeholder visuals, or incomplete content while playing.

Before You Begin

Here are a few things to keep in mind before you dive in:

The story content in this Alpha version is limited, but we’ll be expanding the narrative significantly in future updates.
Combat difficulty and animations are still being adjusted, and we’d love to hear your thoughts on both!
Recruiting NPCs and building your city will be major features in the full game, so please feel free to share any ideas or suggestions about these systems.

Known Issues

Here are some known issues that we'll be continuing to address in future builds:

Occasional frame drops may occur during certain story cutscenes.
In rare cases, controls may become unresponsive after loading a save.
In rare cases, a black screen or freeze may occur after completing the ruin exploration quest.
Under certain conditions, the blacksmith quest with Hua may loop indefinitely.
Recommended specs: GTX 1060 (or equivalent) with 4GB VRAM or higher.
Systems below 4GB VRAM may experience lag or stuttering.
If you encounter performance issues, try lowering anti-aliasing and texture quality - lowering these settings can greatly improve FPS with minimal impact on visuals.
The current version only supports keyboard and mouse. Controller support will be added in future updates.
Overall performance optimization is still ongoing - this version doesn’t represent the final quality of the game.
This version doesn’t include voice acting

Playtime will vary depending on your playstyle, but most players can expect around 1-3 hours of content.

Last but not least, this is a closed Alpha, so please don’t share gameplay footage or screenshots publicly. If you run into issues or have any feedback you'd like to share, you can reach us at

https://qa@pathea.net or on Discord in #evershine-alpha.

Thank you again for being a part of this journey!

Let's build a new home together.

Oct 23

0.2.5 Version Update (German localization available)

Toy Smash Kaboom! - 沐雨千秋

Localization

Added German language support (available in the Settings menu).

Bug Fixes

Fixed a Unity engine security vulnerability.
Fixed an occasional error when opening the recipe.
Fixed an issue where the screen could occasionally become blurry.
Fixed an issue where hotkeys could not be used in certain interfaces, including settings, tutorials, and battle results.
Fixed an issue where players could obtain multiple blessings in Joker's Blessing event due to animation delay.
Fixed an issue where closing the battle results with a hotkey could cause the battle or event to be skipped.
Fixed an issue where repeatedly closing the recipe, or quickly pressing ESC could cause UI components to disappear or trigger an error.
Fixed a softlock issue that could occur when using the Magnet Hook.
Fixed an issue in Trainings where defeating an opponent would not grant gold.
Fixed an issue where Ice Cream caused abnormal slow effects on Burrowing Mole and Mole Specialist.

Oct 23

Performance Hotfix

Sofia's Dark Fantasies - Episode 1 - greuceanuheavyindustries

Critical Performance Update - Memory Issues Fixed!

We've just released an urgent update addressing the game-breaking performance issues many of you experienced.

What's Fixed:

Memory Management Overhaul
• Reduced 7 large animation files that were causing RAM overload
• The biggest offender was the Day 2 Gas Inspector scene - now fully optimized
• Animation sizes reduced by 85% (from 200-600MB to 30-80MB)
• Implemented scene-by-scene memory clearing
• Fixed all freezing issues affecting players with less than 16GB RAM

Performance Improvements
• Smooth playback on 16GB RAM systems
• 75% reduction in VRAM usage
• Eliminated scene transition freezes
• Significantly faster loading times

An Apology:

We sincerely apologize for not catching this RAM loading issue during testing. The Day 2 Gas Inspector scene in particular was using an unacceptable amount of memory, and we should have spotted this earlier. We've learned from this and will be implementing stricter memory testing going forward.

Special Thanks:

Huge shoutout to Marcvs Antonivs for providing detailed logs that helped us identify the root cause. You're a legend!

Thanks to everyone for your patience while we worked on this critical fix.

Still Having Issues?

If you encounter any problems after updating, please send logs to: greuceanuheavyindustries@gmail.com

We're committed to ensuring everyone can enjoy the game without technical issues.

Note: Please ensure you have the latest version installed. If you're still experiencing crashes, try a clean reinstall of the game.

Oct 23

[Devlog] October 2025 - Week 2

Cosmic Construct - SoaringMoon

This is the week 46th devlog, unfashionably late as usual. As a reminder, these upcoming weeks will be focusing entirely on art assets, so they are list eventful that some of the past devlogs.

To follow the game's progress you can join me at:

My bluesky account which gives more frequent updates.
The Cosmic Construct community discord server.
Also Wishlist Cosmic Construct on Steam and follow it's steam page.

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Structure Art (Residence, Observatory, Restaurant, and Bazaar)

I enjoyed working on this one, as I just like drawing houses. Its appearance is a direct upgrade to the Bungalow, and has a the blue and white color scheme as many of the late stage buildings. I'm getting to the point where I might need to make variations of this and other housing structures, as it might look a little dystopian with rows of tens of these around the city.

I didn't finish the Observatory, as I'm still a little iffy on the animation and planning out the structure. This is the last of the progress I posted to bluesky. I'm not happy with what I was doing with it. We'll see if I end up going with this.

The restaurant was pretty relaxing to work on, and more complicated than it initially appears. It has a bunch of layers in my art file. Because I was going above an below various parts. The spanish, cajun / irish fusion think I got going on here is funny in my opinion. A note about the "conscript" I have for the signage. It doesn't really mean anything, but is intended to looks like something meaningful. Keeping it all stylistically consistent and looking like the same language is a challenge.

I might eventually need to make variations of this building too. I already foresee this structure being abused in the midgame as a revenue stream.

Looks simple, but it isn't. It is the frame for a procedural generated building that will have many of the same visual components of the Market.

Here is a reminder of what the Market looks like.

The same component parts will be used to procedurally generate the Bazaar, but it larger more consistent rows. It will produce more income than the Market (per unit area). However, I'll do something to incentivize the use of the Market stalls in favor of the Bazaar. Maybe an additional resource, or improved mood or settlement value.

The Bazaar will have awnings over the wood, and will be multi colored like the Market awnings, but have more patterns (and cleaner appearance).

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Just like the prior couple weeks, the only type of work I have planned is structure art.

- Structure Art (Finish Observatory, then Courthouse, Guild Hall, Treasury)

Oct 23

Pixel Composer 1.20 stable is out now

Pixel Composer - MakhamDev

Add multi-frames async rendering.

Interface

Now use built-in minimize function.
Old default collection will now automatically delete on startup.
Add file autosave.
[Preference] Add button for clearing recent files.
[Color, Palette, Grad editor] Pressing enter with active textbox now won't close the dialog.
[Preview Panel] Camera node render setting now reflect on apply to the preview.
[Graph Panel] Hovering on non-surface output junction now won't set node preview.
[Graph Panel] Previewing atlas array now display data in multiple columns.
[Graph Panel] Shift + Double click on a junction to always show current junction value.
[Graph Panel] Improve performance.
[Graph Panel] Fix crash when adding toolbar button that doesn't have icon.
[Inspector Panel] Add tab navigation in node settings page.
[Inspector Panel] Add hotkey for togglable attributes.
[FontBox] Add font refresh button.
[FontBox] Add font inverse sorting button, font name sorting is now case-insensitive.
[FontBox] Now show search results amount.
[File Explorer] Now show project thumbnail.
[Add Node] Change default view to stacked list.
File Autosave is now per project settings.
Loaded collection now contain collection metadata.

Node

Add simple number node.
Renamed `Animation` node to `Image Sequence`.
[Canvas] Add solid background option.
[Canvas] "Make/Reset Brush"' tool icon now change based on brush setting.
[Canvas] "Make Brush" tool now only show up when a selection is made.
[Strand Noise] Add band render mode.
[Bloom] Add fractional unit.
[Evaluate Curve] Disabling animation will stop per frame updating.
[Array] Connecting junction to 'any' type now won't set the junction display widget.
[Caustic] Invert position and scale effect.
[Caustic] Detail value now control effect iteration.
[IsoSurf] Unset offset now returns zero instead of half dimension.
[Simplex Noise] Inverse scale effect.
[Simplex Noise] Position now has fractional unit.
[Group] Adding input from connection now set value type appropriately.
[Group Input] Improve performance.
[Shadow] Blur value is now an integer.
[SVG] Add dynasurf output.
[Tileset] Add tooltip telling user to hold ctrl when scrolling over zoomable regions
[Tileset Drawer] Add animation speed and offset properties.
[Bend] Improve performance.
[Transform] Add atlas output.
[Mesh Warp] Improve performance.
[Nine Slice] Add dynasurf output.
[Lens Blur] Add oversample, iteration, controls properties.
[Threshold] Add multiply option.
[Chromatic Aberration] Add intensity property.
[Pixel Cloud] Add oversample setting.
[Gap Contract] Add oversample setting.
[Draw Cos Gradient] Add randomize button.
[Draw Bar/Graph] Add fractional unit.
[Draw Bar/Graph] Add button to set value range to data range.
[Array Split] Add minimum output property.
[Pattern Generators] Scale property now control grid size (not inversely).
[Stack] Add preview transform.
[Wiggler] Frequency is now a float.
[Spherize] Add position and texture offset/scale properties.
[Export] Add node settings to delete temporary folder after exported.
[Draw Text] Add offset properties for fixed dimension output.
[Hex Grid] Fix texture grid mode gives incorrect output
3D Camera gizmo now follow camera properties.

Bugs

Fix error when previewing project with no thumbnail.
Fix project default dimension saved as 4 dimension vector.
Fix internal node rendering error.
Fix crash when using save as from menu panel.
Fix node connected to some inline group render out of order.
Fix performance problem with expression.
Remove connection missing popup when loading collection.
Fix vertical tabbed panel group render tab name on top on an icon.
Fix crash when grouping nodes inside an inline group.
Fix crash when exporting project as .zip.
Fix error when duplicating inline group.
Fix repeated rendering in some group.
Fix error when converting some string to number.
Fix animation inside a group cause the group to not do partial update.
Fix connecting to a group not update the group.
Fix loading collection with pin or tunnel sometime turns connection invisible.
Grouping inline content is now allowed.
[Graph Panel] Fix auto connect try to connect nodes in different context.
[Graph Panel] Fix connection appear disconnected when move node fast enough.
[Graph Panel] Fix error when exporting graph.
[Graph Panel] Fix undoing node grouping while viewing the group content caused instability.
[Graph Panel] Fix adding node after closing add node dialog connect to previously dragged junction.
[Group] Fix error when drawing children control gizmo.
[Inspector Panel] Fix potential section collapsing bug.
[Workshop] Fix crash when filtering Patreon content.
[Collection] Fix error when searching.
Fix bypass junction takes extra output space.
[3D] Fix transform tool not working.
[Array] Fix string array input sometime got converted into string.
[Chromatic Aberration] Now multiple alpha by default.
[Canvas] Fix iso cube over-fil in some case.
[Export] Fix export to path that contains space failed.
[3D Camera] Fix node use wrong ambient color when playing animation.
[3D Camera Set] Fix default lights not rendered.
[ASE Layer] Fix changing name not changing layer.
[ASE Layer] Fix node not update with file watcher.
[ASE/ASE Layer] Layer now sort from top to bottom.
[Bubble Noise] Fix seed value not applying.
[Draw Bar/Graph] Fix error when dragging origin value.
[WAV File In] Fix sound keeps playing after deleting the node.
[WAV File In] Fix error when importing 32-bit, custom bit per sample audio.
[SVG] Fix node not working.
[SVG] Fix implicit `line to` command not registered.
[Tileset] Fix middle click to pan activate scroll pane panning.
[Tileset Drawer] Fix error when unselecting tool.
[Warp] Fix tile properties got hidden.
[Composite] Fix custom layer name not saving.
[Composite] Fix error when connecting dynasurf.
[Composite] Fix error when previewing node inside canvas group.
[Simple Blur] Fix gradient not apply correctly.
[Directional Blur] Fix single direction brighten the output.
[Path Blur] Fix oversample applied incorrectly.
[Radial Blur] Fix negative strength return empty surface.
[Average] Fix output color has no alpha.
[Flow Path] Fix error when deleting surface in connection.
[Transform Image 3D] Fix wrong output with non-uniform surface.
[Draw Shape Polygon] Fix overlay gizmo allow selection.
[Draw Path Profile] Fix error when connecting path.
[Draw Cross Section] Fix control gizmo not scale correctly.
[Repeat] Fix array error when setting amount to 1.
[Canvas Group] Fix visibility setting not apply to output.
[Spherize] Fix texture shifting when adjusting strength.
[Export] Fix output file name contain two extensions.
[pSystem] Fix loop off by 1 frame.
[Diffuse] Now does alpha multiplication.
[Random] Fix error when cloning the node.
[Image Sequence] Fix error when previewing.
Fix error when updating globalvar value.
[File Explorer] Fix crash when opening filter menu.
[3D Obj] Fix error when importing model with no material.
[Maze Pattern] Fix crash when setting dimension to decimal, negative value.