Thanks for your Greenlight Support!
Verdant Skies has been successfully Greenlit on Steam! We are deeply grateful for all of your votes and support; thanks to you, our game will be available on Steam when it is done.
New Clothing, Mechanics, Everything!
So much has changed in the last month, it’s hard to make a list. We’ve got a new flexible clothing system that allows you to combine dozens of different shirts, pants, skirts, and accessories.
The map has expanded to include the eastern side of the river, which includes a new lake where you can harvest clay for your pottery. The color theme of the eastern bank gives the new area a pretty different feel, it transitions from the green grass on the west side towards a purple theme.
New character art and new map areas!
Crafting Overhaul
The crafting system has been overhauled- many new items have been added, but we’ve also cleaned up which items get crafted at which station. The 3D Printer is used mainly for crafting objects that have a specific gameplay purpose or can be used to craft other things. The 3D Printer can queue 5 items at a time and things generally take the better part of a day to print.
Contrast that with the woodworking workbench, which is used mostly to make decorative items for your home. Items take a few hours to make at the workbench, but it actually consumes the your time to make these items.
If you find yourself with time left over at the end of the day, use your time at the workbench, artist easel, or in the kitchen! Without using energy you’ve reserved for chopping wood, you can make a tidy profit or restore some energy with a homecooked meal.
One of the new craftable items is the alarm clock, which allows you to nap anytime you want and wake up at the time of your choosing.
The pottery station provides 50+ decorative options for your home, plus the possibility of a steady daily income.
Interior Decorating
More and more interior items are being added. Once you invite Miles to the planet, you’ll be able to buy flooring, wallpapers, windows, and recolorable rugs.
Change the flooring and wallpapers of your home… with a fancy animation!
Gene Splicing
The genetic engineering UI has been reworked again in order to improve the usability. There isn’t really anything else like this that I’m aware of, so it’s taken a lot of redesign to make it easy to use. The big usability fixes in the latest changes to the genetic interface have focused on immediately showing the effect of your splice location.
There will still be a few important changes to come to this UI:
- You’ll be able to label/mark your seeds, so you can keep them sorted easily.
- The UI will probably go full-screen to better fit the resulting traits without needing to scroll.
The below picture shows the combination of two seeds with some positive and negative traits. Notice that one of the two genes that code for “Needs extra water” overlap with the quality trait. We could move our splice point to remove the last blue gene, but that would eliminate both the positive and negative trait. But we did get the necessary regrowth gene out of the bottom seed, and that’s one of my favorite traits so far.
The new Genetic Splicer is also red/green colorblind friendly by default.
There are also a dozen events for the first four characters. Wyatt likes to request plant samples from new areas of the planet.
New watering particle effects and new outfits!
Play Verdant Skies at Gamer’s Rhapsody
If you’re in Minnesota, stop by the Gamer’s Rhapsody conference to play a preview build! The convention is this weekend, November 18th – 20th. We will have a booth at the Gamer’s Rhapsody Indie Developer room. Also, you can use the coupon code “GR3” for a discount on admission. If you’re a student, use “GRstudent” for even cheaper tickets!