Today's Guernsey: Refurbishing the Mushrealm! ⛰️Terrain and placement to fix camera issues 🍄‍🟫Light propping with rocks & shrooms 🗑️Litter to give a reward for coming down here! Need more props and lighting 🤔 Guess this continues for a few more days! #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Started on this cave-like redesign of the mushrealm. Been considering this for a while, the old version wasn't really doing much for me. So, let's try this! 🍄 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: This mysterious forest path is a long-dormant prototype that is now resurrected! What cozy mysteries lurk within? 🧐 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Didn't have a lot of time or energy so, just added a backdrop to the Japanese maple to fill it out a bit! Every little bit helps move it forward! 🫡 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: some tweaking, refinement, definition, and decoration of the area surrounding the Chapter 5 funeral scene. That's it for today! 👻 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: The bird grave was kinda ugly with its placeholder textures, so I did a quick texture pass on it, and fixed a couple of smol bugs, and lightly propped the area. Looks nice now! #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: A simple one today, just did some propping to make this area make a little more sense and be a little more readable. Kinda cluttered but... it's a little nook so I think it's okay? #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: 🌊 Removed cattails in favor of a lilypad sea 🌊 Fixed walking on water (see screen) 🌊 Fixed bugged lilypad texture With little things like this -- a random pond full of lilypads -- I hope to give the player a MICRODOSE of WONDER! ✨ #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Finished up the Willow, I think. Also, discovered I forgot to turn off collision on those lilypad objects 🐸 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Did a pass at making the Willow look more like a tree and less like a temp thing. Been waiting like... four years to tackle this so why not now y'know? 🙃 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: A bit more work on the art around the Chapter 5 grave area. 🎥Subtle camera change to highlight the bird statues 🪦Moar graves That's it for today! #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: A bit of work sprucing up and adding more props and geometry to the area surrounding chapter 5's funeral scene. Looking decent! 🍂 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: 🍂Added collectibles to the Chapter 5 area 🍃Added more prohibitive collision to C5's casket 🍁Fixed a bunk grave 🍃Casket appears at the right time in the story That's it for today! #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Main thing was, I added some code that is a bit smarter about checking when Guernsey is behind something, so it doesn't prematurely hide trees way ahead of you. Now it feels much more organic, in my opinion! 🎥 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Lilypads. #gamedev #indieGameDev #ScreenshotSaturday

Today's Guernsey Update: A quick one, just tweaks to the pond. 🎥Some better, more robust camera volumes 🎨Painted the pond floor to make it not grassy That's it! #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: A new area for the Chapter 5 "Rally the Mourners" segment. 🕊️Bird graves finally have a home 🏃🏻‍♂️Little jumping puzzle 🌳New fences and tree lines 🪦Moar graves in the graveyard game! 🐦‍⬛Some crow placement That's it for tonight! #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: More work on the Chapter 5 area. 🏃🏻‍♂️Jumping puzzle refinements 🎥Special cameras for the jumping puzzle 🌳Tracked down a weird but where the willow tree kepot disappearin' Happy New Year! #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: More work following yesterday's Chapter 5 stuff 🤺Started adding proper walls and fences 🌊Added a pond jumping puzzle 🪙Distributed some more collectibles Nice! #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Cracked some Level Design work on Chapter 5. 🧐Solved how C5's breakout minigame bit would work 🐦‍⬛ Breadcrumbed crows from cabin to Chapter 5 area 📍Arranged crows and people to make better use of the space #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: 🌊 Tweaked water colors and waves -- even better! 🎥 Fixed a bunk dialogue camera in Clyde's train car 👁️ Added a second "leading" raycast for turning trees transparent so players can see better when moving through thick woods! 🙌🏻 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Some tweaks to the water settings. I'm honestly not sure what broke them before, and this is not perfect, but it's decent and it looks like water again! 🌊 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Spent some time chasing bugs with the water system and a teeny bit with crow placement. When those turned up naught, I also made a tweak to the rough landing times to make them less weird, which was consistent feedback from playtests. #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: I got this cat to be re-trigger-able! It took... a lot longer than it should have to got right. But here it is! Also, Merry Christmas. 🎅🏻 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: More work improving that code to place Guernsey. Works, like, pretty well now, but still has one big uggo buggo. Anyway, off to hide from Santa! #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: 🌼 Flowers now update same as chairs 🐦‍⬛ Fixed bug in crow interaction -- which actually took a ton of work and clever (for me!) programming and it's still imperfect but hey, works again! #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: more updates to Chapter 5. 👨🏻‍💻Rearranged the funeral space a bit 👨🏻‍💻Set up some code so the chairs are properly set up once you're that far in the story 🐈‍⬛Moved the Chapter 5 cat 🐛Misc small fixes #gamedev #indiegameDev

Today's Guernsey: Okay, a first pass of scripting Chapter 5 is basically done! Still some improvements and a cutscene to add but seems to be completable. 👻 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Still under the weather and getting ready for Christmas so just a few things... 👨🏻‍💻Some more Chapter 5 scripting 👨🏻‍💻Fixed an unreasonable gate 👨🏻‍💻Moved the Chapter 5 geo around a bit And that's it! #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: I spent some time going back into the in-progress Chapter 5 and hooking things up. Did a decent bit but feel like garbage so -- that's all for now! 🤧 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Thought I was done with the map, but decided to make one more improvement: adding a bit more shading and detail to the cloud art. Not much, just a tad. Now I'm gonna table it for a while! ☁️ #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Improved those clouds a fair bit! ☁️ Nine different cloud variants ☁️ Cloud variants are randomized ☁️ Cloud position gets a slight randomization Also, witness a screen from when I used position and localPosition interchangeably! 🐞 #gamedev #indieGameDev

We've been taking in a ton of player feedback these last weeks and pushing hard to expand our popular building tool, add context-sensitive and unobtrusive tutorial prompts, improve the UI out of "debug" state. If you played the last demo, consider giving this one a fresh look!

We have a NEW demo up on Steam that has an updated Procedural Survival world and also allows you to play one "Adventure" world, IsleOfVox! See which you like better and let us know :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wicM...

Today's Guernsey: Whilst noodling I looked up the map from Shadow of the Colossus, which I always liked and is has similar needs to Guernsey. And I noticed the "fog" on that map was literal clouds. Needs some variety but I'm gonna pursue it a bit! ☁️#gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Trying out text map markers to make the map more useful. Not sure if I love it yet but we'll see how it evolves! Also adjusted some interaction volumes! ✨ #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Following yesterday's trigger work, re-authored triggers on NPCs and crows to be a tad more generous so players can approach them more easily, now that Guernsey jumps to a good spot. Boom!💥#gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: A bullet I've dodged for a long time, but finally, uh... got... shot by? Anyway, talking to NPCs or feeding crows, Guernsey snaps into a good position alongside the character, making it easy to author more generous interactions! 💡 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: A bit zonked, so keeping it small. Added a tiny helpful title to the chore score pop-up to hopefully make the game a bit more readable without crowding the UI too much! That's it! 🥱 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Most of my time was spent researching dynamic button icons in the UI (X for Playstation = A for XBox = x on keyboard, and so on)... But I also updated a few text elements, like the "Get up" in the screen. A #gamedev's work is never done! 🚶🏻‍♂️‍➡️ #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: More UI, and a little UX! 🔠Game and Chapter titles updated with purple drop shadow 🔤Some smaller text elements updated as well ⏱️Re-trigger delay for dialogue boxes increased slightly The UI is looking -- literally -- sharper! #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: UI work! 👤Switched from a black outline to a rich purple drop shadow on UI text 👨🏻‍💻Implemented the new UI text in a bunch of different HUD places #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: A hodgepodge of minor things! 📐Fixed crooked UI element 🪧Fixed bugged sign text 💡Played with UI text highlighting 👨🏻‍💻Researched controller-aware button icons 🌊Tried to improve water reflections #gamedev 🥱 #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Sorted out the UI text issue I was working on the last two days. Overall, the end result is a much better system! And everything seems to be working again... 🤞🏻 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Had a wild day today so it's a small one. I started breaking the interaction UI a bit so I could use some better text and make for more readable triggers. But, still broken. Will fix like tomrow mayb not su 😴 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Tonight's Guernsey: Fixed a bunch of low hanging fruit from the playtest 🎨Darkened subtitle background 😶‍🌫️Removed collision from some rocks 🚂Adjusted some train tunnel collision And tried a bigger task but too big for the amount of energy I've got. 😅#gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: At @playcrafting.bsky.social's Indie Dev Night, people played the game under the encouraging paws of a hundred radiant lucky cats. I took four pages of terse and illegible notes, which will become tasks... tomorrow. That was FUN. #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: More playtest prep, lots of handwringing and settings tweakings. But... if you're in the New York City area you can come play Guernsey in the Graveyard tomorrow night at @playcrafting.bsky.social's Indie Dev Night - Cozy Edition! #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Prepping for a playtest! 👨🏻‍💻 Fixed build issues 👨🏻‍💻 Prepped "demo" content 👨🏻‍💻 Fixed some animal placement issues 👨🏻‍💻 Fixed other miscellaneous issues Love seeing the game full screen -- and with nice water, too! #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Integrated the cat and the turkeys into the daily animals rotation, all placed and ready to go. Animals in the game serve mostly as little rewards/points of interest, but I might give the cat something to do... 🦃🐈‍⬛ #gamedev #indieGameDev