Here's a Better Update! ~ #35 (Patreon)

Hello! This was a very exciting week and we’ve brought a ton of great things to share ~ I think we are getting better with more interesting images D:

First on the list is our highly anticipated rework of our food assets! We know we have a lot of foodies out there (and in here too (•ω•)) so to honor our community we’re really putting a lot of effort into making them look as tasty as we can. We’re also investing a lot of time into making more sweets to go alongside our existing list of savory meals, the goal is to offer everybody a good snacking experience!

Continuing with our decorative objects push, this week we started doing some of our personal care items, such as hair brush and hair dryer, meaning that the days of sleeping with wet hair are finally over. We’re adding a board game and a chess board as well, for all of you out there who enjoy some friendly competition, and we’re also bringing in more wall decorations. Last week we had some family photos and wall mirrors, and now we have full blown art pieces! Aside from a couple of more pop-style paintings you’ll now be able to even purchase a masterpiece from a certain Italian polymath (• ε •). You’ll also have access to some diplomas and a medal of honor, makes you wonder how much history is behind that one!

By the way you’ll notice that some of our marble furniture has already been rotated, this is always a big step when it comes to asset creation. We have to make sure that the art works on all views, and each piece needs to strictly follow the grid our game is based on. It’s hard work but it’s completely worth it, it means our furniture is always consistent throughout.

In car news, you can now see the colours available for your personal vehicle! NPCs will be driving them too, and since we have a ton of colourful ones we’re still figuring out a good ratio at which different colours might appear ᕕ( ಠ‿ಠ)ᕗ

Some people asked us recently to see how the game looks at night, well, here it is in one of our gifs (the one with the car going vroom)! We’ve been working a lot on how to make the car lights look natural and cute, and it’s our hope that we’re getting close to a good balance! You’ll notice that there are headlights and brake lights, each with their unique colour, we want to make traffic feel even more lively for all of you.

Now onto some quality-of-life gameplay features, you’ll see in another one of our gifs that the walls become transparent once the character gets close enough to them and also on mouse hover. This is a fresh, recent addition that we wanted to try out hoping this would make it easier for all of you to decorate and navigate through your home, and see things that were placed behind walls. You’ll also notice in that gif our doors and gates system test! They are retractable and slide to open, so don’t worry about placing furniture too close to your doors.

In our animation corner, we have a highlight of how our rigging now works! As you all know we’ve updated certain things about our character structure to make our lives easier, and one of the main improvements was the introduction of fully functional IKs. This can turn technical real quick, but it basically means we can now animate things easier and with more fluid movements as you can see in the gif, and very easily! This means better and more numerous animations all around ~(‾▿‾)~

This was a lovely week!, as always thanks for making it even better, talk to you soon!

Terry & Michel