Dev Blog #30 - A boat, dynamic water and more...

Boat

We added a boat. It can be crafted by the player when he has enough wood and iron. The boat can be collected again. And you can push it to in order to bring it into the water: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFjmz4PBvws

There is no motor yet. We will add one soon.

Dynamic Water

The water is finally working. There was a problem with air bubbles underwater. But in fact our debugging tool was faulty not the water algorithm! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thN10kg8jrY And of course as you can see in the video: Water can be collected with a bucket and it can be placed again in the landscape.

Red Deer

We also continued our work on the red deer. Check out the idle and the walk animation: Walk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt60ap4ZcaE Idle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6oWn6Xec84

Wolf

And did we showed you the walk animation of our wolf? It looks cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XKBArbayys

Motion capture

I tried to load 300MB of motion capture data in the game. This was a little bit overkill. But nevertheless we will use mocap data.

Animation System (2D Motion Blending)

As you saw last time our engine support 1D animation blending. This means that when the fish is swimming at a certain speed the animations for slow swimming and fast swimming are blended to match a the target speed. This allows smooth transistion between the animations. To also take into account the turn speed of the fish we added 2D motion blending via delaunay triangulation. A video will follow soon!

Artificial Intelligence

And last but not least we really coded a lot regarding the AI:

Behavior Tree
Goal Driven AI System
Serialization of the AI State (this means that when you shutdown the game and load it again the enemies will remember you!)
New enemy detection algorithms

Even if this does not sound very much it was in fact the biggest change in the game engine in this update. But this of course can't be visualized in a video or in an image. When we have the working monsters will show them you.

Misc

Added new icons (for water, lamp)
Improved rendering speed of the models
Improved the quality of the main shadow map
Improved the water physic
Changed the way the physic engine treats mass. The objects will now fall faster and more realistical.
Improved loading speed of the game
Improved the loading speed of the textures. And we also decreased the memory footprint.
Added new sand texture
Improved the contrast of the gravel texture
Changed the neutronium texture
Updated the position of the tools when the player holds them
Updated the normal vectors of certain materials
Tested the flash light and the lamp
Added a boat recipe

What is next?

Perhaps you have noticed that we changed a little bit the direction of our development. We made it because we know that you (the players) would like to have an update. So we will upload a new release as soon as possible.

[ 2015-10-22 22:03:35 CET ] [ Original post ]

StaudSoft's Synthetic World Beta

StaudSoft Developer

StaudSoft Publisher

2015-02-09 Release

Action Indie RPG Singleplayer Tags

Game News Posts: 177

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse

Mixed (14 reviews)

http://www.staudsoft.com

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The Game includes VR Support

Public Linux Depots:

StaudSoft's Synthetic World Depot Linux [512.76 M]

This is a work in progress title! Do not buy this game if you do not want to fund us!
This game is an open world sandbox game. Everything in this world is already changeable. The blocks are very small compared to other games of this genre. Instead of 1 block per cubic meter we have 64 blocks per cubic meter.
What is currently missing (from what you might expect):

Water simulation
Multiplayer
The AI is stupid and the monsters are placeholders
Minecart or boat

What is already implemented:

A C++ based game engine (we created our own engine)
A lot of different block types (see wiki)
Pregenerated landscape: You can start playing the game in seconds!
Torches, lamps, camp fires (with dynamic shadows)
Chests
Doors
Electric wires (LEDs, buttons, ...)
Growing of plants and trees
A bed
Weapons (stick, sword, pistole)
Grids
Paintings
Signs
Different types of landscapes
Caves
Fire simulation
Heat simulation
Crafting via recipes
Simple monsters
Voxel renderer
Deferred Rendering System
Day and night cycle
Sky rendering system (physically correct)
Master of materials (some blocks have submaterials)
And of course such things as loading and saving do work. You can also die in the game, there is an inventory. When you die you will drop your backpack.

If you unsure just check out the demo. What we should mention is that our landscape is finit and must be pregenerated. This is no big deal as the game comes with a pregenerated landscape. You can instantly start playing the game. If you create a new landscape this will take from 5min – 1 hour depending on the landscape size and your computer of course. We will not change this as we want to implement certain features which are only possible with a finit landscape.
We are a team of talented developers and artists. The main developer has 2 university degrees in computer science (a diploma and a master). The main artist has a master in biology. So we know what we are doing.
If you have the impression that in this description is something missing or if you feel the need to warn other people not to buy this game contact us. As long as you can deliver facts we will add your argument to this description.
What you shouldn't do:

Do not insult the developers, the game, the players or others (Yes we all know that we are completely stupid, that we are garbage, that we are a shame for our university, that we should change our jobs, that this game is only a stupid clone, that this is scum, that we are lying about our degrees, that we clicked this game in an editor in two days together, that I am a college kid, that this game is crabby, should I continue?).
Do not say that the price is not justified. You have no idea how much work we put in this project. Simply do not buy it!
Do not give false information about this game (we see a difference in the graphics between this game and other blocky sandbox games, other couldn't recognise this difference).
If you talk about how bad this game is and that it should be deleted, burned or something else you should have played the demo and then say exactly what should be change. We will try to improve it.
Do not post something again in the forum when we deleted it.

If you do not follow these rules we will delete your comment.

We understand that a lot of people simply tried to make money with such games and then never continued the development. Originally we didn't marked it as Early Access to emphasize that you buy it as it and that you shouldn't buy this game if you are unsatisfied with the current development status. Unfortunately a lot of people saw in this cheating which wasn't our intention.

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