Being a little late for this, I figured I can talk about my dev progress more.
As for why this has been late, I think I just needed a break. I've been sick, tired, and a little burned out. So I just need a few weeks to recoup and get back into focus. Now I feel better and it's given me a chance to think about some of the bugs and story flo...
2023-02-21 04:36:16 +0000 UTC View PostAs from my last state of the game, this was definitely not much farther from the last release. I had to backtrack features that were lost from the corrupted save, and I think I got most of them back in. The key things are some bug fixes, doors at the ship transition points, and blueberry should be working a lot better. The fabricator and making ...
2023-01-16 07:02:41 +0000 UTC View PostOh yeah, definitely almost published this with 2022 on it.
This comes a little later than normal for a state of the game, and for good reason. The last week was a little stressful with thankfully what turned out to be minor setback. Late last year I was able to build a windows machine, which with all the plugins allowed me to debug the ga...
On December 12th, I released the very first look at my attempt to take a fresh look and work on a new version of the game that takes everything I've learned so far from the last year of game development. The story and nearly all of the dialog was already there, this was a review of the presentation of it all.
Since then, I was on a full w...
In my December state of the game, I announced that I had started a rebuild of the game, incorporating everything I had learned in the last year for image editing, sound design, and general game development in the RPG Maker engine.
This has also allowed me to look at the main and theme stories, and add them back in so that I can make ...
2022-12-12 07:54:01 +0000 UTC View PostNovember was another tough one. I had released v0.10 to supporters and the main goal still stands. I'm trying to work on the story blockers that are preventing players from getting to the endings, as well as unlocking blueberry content.
I was growing frustrated with how some of these puzzles and bugs persisted in causing problems. Pl...
2022-12-05 22:16:27 +0000 UTC View Post
In my deployment devlog, I had mentioned working on a studio name to roll the final release deployment under for itchio as well as Steam. I'm letting you know that I'm changing all profiles that I can under the new trade name I've setup. I'll be developing under Rule 34 Games. It also lets me separate development efforts between regular games an...
2022-11-21 06:52:45 +0000 UTC View PostYup, coming down to the line. Here we are with only two months left in the year, and I have wanted to release the final version of this game around that time.
Reflecting on all the things that are in the game, I feel like I accomplished a lot. Three expansion themes to choose from. Several maps to explore and gather materi...
2022-11-01 18:04:33 +0000 UTC View PostOctober saw a new version and a lot of developments that were exciting to me as a developer and creator for the game. It makes me think about the visibility as a player, and that it probably wasn't very much. I got to see new art assets for blueberry content, but it's not unlocked for players (yet). I got to see new art assets for NPCs, which un...
2022-11-01 17:27:58 +0000 UTC View PostHere's the first look at v0.10.
Referring to my version goals, most of this work was on a combat revamp, as I now have some npc artwork assets to work with. There is some dialog to at least hold up the introduction to it all, but most of the work was around new combat skills, the npc's, strengths and weaknesses, and other mechanics t...
2022-10-26 05:57:25 +0000 UTC View Postv0.9 had a lot of tiny changes to a few bigger goals, and it appears that some of the off topic changes at the very end broke save compatibility. Meanwhile, there are some highly requested features that are art completed that have been pushed back a bit in favor of the needed gaps filled in v0.9.
v0.10 is important to me and I'm excited a...
Here is the last patch for v0.9 and a great launch point for the next content. I'm releasing this to all supporters so that I can focus on the goals for v0.10.
v0.9 had two main goals, and they were mostly accomplished by this point:
A lot of bugs and gaps were filled, with a lot of new dialog and story added in for Preg gameplay. ...
Here is the v0.9.3 for all supporters
google - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pjt_TLY5yqxeHyviox80Tl8kI6w9lB0N/view?usp=sharing
The new cutscene events for the map 6 cave were blocking the character from walking past them to continue the cutscene. Hotfix out to remove the blocking issue.
google - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j69EoWkv...
2022-10-05 14:54:25 +0000 UTC View PostConsidering v0.9 I'm considering story gaps as bugs, this is a small patch for Esteemed Patrons. The change log seems light, more because these adds are scattered all over the place. I'm not done with v0.9 either, so there are likely to be a few patch versions after this one.
Mega - 2022-10-05 05:48:17 +0000 UTC
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Development looks a little different again in this stage. I'm not trying for some sweeping overhauls or wave of new features. v0.9 has been just a series of one liner changes and edits scattered across the entire game for story and dialog improvements. I've wanted to update the progress-log more, but most of my changes seem to have more descript...
2022-10-02 15:50:05 +0000 UTC View Post
For those that didn't want to have to download the photo.
2022-09-26 23:26:25 +0000 UTC View Post
In my September "State of the Game" I admitted some frustration with some lost progress from commissions falling through on a couple of possibly new themes.
Well... here's a little spoiler for something that has happened since then.
Seriously, thank the artists for Project Gaia. If you get the chance, I have them all listed in a spe...
2022-09-26 23:24:51 +0000 UTC View PostSome more story-breaking bugs were found. Getting a quick patch out for them
google - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pjt_TLY5yqxeHyviox80Tl8kI6w9lB0N/view?usp=sharing
A patch version for the Esteemed Patrons, this one handles a few bugs. There is also some new functionality that handles what I consider bugs, which is that the puzzles in the game are poorly explained. In addition to rewriting the dialog around them and the reasons why they should be completed, I've added dialog to ALPHA 6 that provides hints t...
2022-09-24 19:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostLooks like one bug was causing an infinite loop, so I wanted to fix that. Meanwhile, went through a quick look at a few other things and wanted to make a quick hotfix since I've just released a new version for you supporters.
Google - 2022-09-19 06:44:17 +0000 UTC
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Getting back to the normal development cycle. Here is the supporter early access for version 0.9
The full progress-log is in the Discord.
In summary, there was still a big gap between content from each of the two expansion themes in the game. In addition, there was still a lot of bugs and content that was only for weight gain that ...
Project Gaia has now accomplished some goals that I didn't think was possible when I first started the actual game. Meanwhile, it has come a long way from that starting point, which was not that long ago. I started with the concept in about February of this year. The game now has multiple expansion themes in the game, fully illustrated, and with...
2022-09-06 15:41:32 +0000 UTC View PostAs I've talked about in the last state of the game, I had spent a lot of time identifying a list of bugs an unintended behavior when I had unlocked the Pregnancy gameplay. In addition, I had worked on some other pieces that may not be implemented for a while, but also tried exploring some of the other, many plugins that are still included but no...
2022-08-28 20:25:43 +0000 UTC View PostFirst of all, I'm really happy to work with Erronwolf, who has come in to provide writing support for all of the pregnancy dialog. So now all of the expansion stages and anomaly logs for that gameplay is filled. That was a massive amount of content that was very nice to see get put in. That did require some formatting work on my end, which did t...
2022-08-03 04:32:44 +0000 UTC View PostJuly saw a lot of activity, which helped to contribute to this delay. I'll be happy to explain further in my monthly state of the game. But for this version, there was a lot of writing content to add in. I received some writer's support, so now all of the pregnancy dialog is (99.9%) complete! Another art asset came in for the weight gain, and mo...
2022-08-01 05:53:49 +0000 UTC View PostHappy Independence Day, Americans.
I'm excited to see last month receive the art to unlock the pregnancy gameplay, which means that the game can now support two different gameplay styles. There is still the initial goal to have several other expansion themes with their own story. That's a work in progress, while for right now I'm looking ...
Here it is! This one was tough, for a bunch of great reasons. The Pregnancy expansion style is unlocked! Well, mostly. The artist is finishing the last two pieces, and I wanted to take the chance to work on the mechanics for a while before they finished. This is because it required a new branch of game mechanics.
This is the next big ste...
Bug hunting is constant.
In this one, I wanted to incorporate some of these puzzles from the earlier maps, and use one to give the opportunity to obtain some items and some dialog for the story. But then there was another bug that prevented some anomalies from showing.
This has some bug fixes, and some things that I was ...
So in my release last night, I apparently introduced two bugs. Since the first was preventing the engines from being repaired and therefore blocking progress to Act 3 and my new ending, I wanted to get a hotfix out as soon as possible.
google:
2022-06-06 02:49:21 +0000 UTC
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