Hey everyone!
Here’s a little WIP from the upcoming update, which will finally introduce Mercy into the adventure!It was about time she came back from her mission and returned to her duties in the infirmary 🙂
I’m planning several mini-games where you’ll get to act as Mercy’s assistant. I’m really excited to work on them and to eventually present this update to you all. I’m pretty sure you’re going to enjoy it!
The entire room is already modeled, and I’ve started working on the animations. I still need a few more days to finish them.That said, I did a quick test to check how long the animations would take to render… and my computer would need 33 straight days to render them all! 😄Yeah… definitely not happening, haha!
As I already mentioned on Discord, I bought a training course to help me optimize Blender and create much faster renders. This should save me a lot of time in the future!
Also, as announced about a week ago on the Discord server:I replayed Gameverse Adventures as if it were my first time playing, and I noticed a few things that bothered me — mainly scenes that could be improved, things I hadn’t really realized as a developer rather than a player. Because of that, I decided to tweak some dialogue for version 2.0 and also re-render all the animations.
Some of them are more than two years old, and thankfully I’ve improved a lot since then in both modeling and animation. I want to add more environmental details, better lighting, and make everything feel more alive.This is one of the big goals for version 2.0, but I’ll talk more about it when reaching the polishing stage.In any case, learning how to render faster is essential if I want to render everything again — so that training really makes sense.
I’m currently aiming to release the Mercy update during the first week of March.Until then, I still need to:
Continue working on the animations
Train for faster renders and improve scene quality
Develop the mini-games
Do the sound design
And finally, implement everything into the game!
I hope the schedule holds up, but either way, I’ll keep you all updated 🙂
For newcomers who don’t know where to find the post about the latest update (1.8 with Adanna and the Anglerfish), click on one of these links:
Producer tier: https://www.patreon.com/posts/1-8-1-patch-is-143420943
Superstar tier: https://www.patreon.com/posts/1-8-1-patch-is-143420811