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I’m working on a new game, where you can join and it will generate an island, with trees and rocks where you make tools to get better. It’s only 5 days in development. You can pick up rocks, drop them, and chop trees but it’s still a little buggy so once those are fixed it should be good for the next demo release!

You can play the early demo version here.


Showcases

Terrain generation showcase

This is the terrain generation. Which is still in development as I research runoff islands, unless someone can help!



Rock and tree generation showcase

Here you can see the rocks and trees generating.



Full screen shot

This is a full screen shot of the game





Any feedback on the game, or help with the runoff islands are greatly appriciated!

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Looks great but theground on this picture looks much worse than the trees which makes it look like a free model. Love the idea tho

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It’s kinda challenging because the trees have to be a mesh, so I modeled them in blender, and the ground is a bunch of parts.

Maybe make the trees blocky instead? Or just a lot more low poly would look more pleasing IMO.

to fix the blocky terrain, you could try making invisible nodes instead of blocks and then making triangles that connect to the nodes in a way that leaves no gaps. I don’t exactly know the math for that but I have seen it done many times.

I have encountered an issue
I lagged out and couldn’t join :crying_cat_face:

Can you fix this, it could lose you visits
Thanks

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Are you working solo or with a development team if so how much of you and what does each do?

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You might want to use terrain. Download a plugin called Part to Terrain, as it is really useful.

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I work fully solo in development and modeling, but I do have testers which are just my friends who are willing to do it without pay. :smile:

Working on a fix in demo v1.5 should be out by next week if everything goes right!

I have it, but I didn’t know you can program it to work in game? Can you explain how please!

Thanks!

???.
You select the plugin
You select the type
you click the part. :smiley

Oh… I knew that, but it’s a random island, and it’s new instances of parts each time. I thought you meant you could do it in real time in game.

I found a way to do it using scripts, should look better soon!