For the new singleplayer game mode I need three maps to start off with. You've seen the initial Gorge map:

Desert Map

Now I've started on a desert map. In my mind I have this basic idea of the four classical elements - Earth, Wind, Fire, Water - where the gorge map is Earth and is sort of the starting Green Hill Zone of the thing, and the desert is Fire. Artistically though I was inspired by the real Desert Road here in New Zealand:
Photo credit: Nicolas Leroy. So not a sandy desert, but more of a tussocky one left barren by volcanic activity.
I'm still working on the look of this but here are a couple more shots:

Other Part-Time Work

Something else I want to let you know about in case it affects development times (I do realise I'm not churning out updates fast as it is - I really try, but doing everything yourself always takes a while). I've got some other part-time work starting this week. I've been working on Scraps full-time for years now but it's never made the sort of money one could live off. That's fine, I'm making this game because I've wanted to play it since the 90s and not because I want to be rich, but I'm going to have some other work to do on the side. Please don't let this worry you about Scraps ever being left unfinished. I've been wanting to play this game forever, it's taken longer than I hoped but it's really starting to look like the game I've always wanted, and unless I die suddenly I'll be working on it and it's getting made.