Alpha 4 is ready for planting
Gravity Garden alpha 4 is posted and ready for farming. Quick rundown of all the changes:
- Player can now harvest fruits from plants. Right-hand only for now. Grip button when your hand is near a ripe fruit.
- Fruits now give an indication when they are ripe. More colorful and brighter is ripe.
- Improved Clouds. Now physics-enabled and more efficient.
- 14 new islands to find and explore. Empty (for now)
- 4 new farm-able islands.
- Velocity is transferred when player turns gravity belt off.
- Water and fertilizer particles now inherit velocity from player
- Improved skyboxes
I also worked this month on some of the things players will find when exploring a new island. Keeping these under wraps for now so that I can have something juicy to reveal for my next big marketing push. These will be little bits of eye-candy, small self-contained experiences, new plants, and other WTFderful things.
Still trying to work out how the player will deal with harvested fruits. Need a fun/easy way to turn them into seeds and other resources. So far my experiments have failed. :) Next I'd like to try something attached to the players wrist that they can use to convert the fruits.
I've been experimenting a little with the controls, too. I like the current setup, but I feel like it needs to be simpler. Confusing right now with the grip button vs the trigger button. Looking for some way that I can make them interchangable or otherwise define their functions more clearly.
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Gravity Garden
a cosmic farming simulation
Status | In development |
Author | Don Whitaker |
Genre | Simulation |
Tags | First-Person, Gravity, Oculus Rift, Physics, Sci-fi, Virtual Reality (VR), vive |
Languages | English |
More posts
- Gravity Garden development is cancelled.Jul 11, 2020
- Please send feedback about Gravity GardenMar 21, 2020
- Gravity Garden Alpha 12 - collectible Eye ModsNov 23, 2019
- Gravity Garden alpha 11 : newer new terrainOct 22, 2019
- Alpha 10 - Mega IslandApr 27, 2019
- Alpha 9 - new cloudsOct 13, 2018
- Gravity Garden version Alpha 8 is now availableOct 01, 2018
- I'm back in the GardenSep 20, 2018
- Developer Diary #3Jan 20, 2018
- New developer diary + roadmap UpdateJan 20, 2018
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