Herding Sheep and Planting REAL Trees in my Indie Game! | Devlog

It's been a very busy month, having started a new job, moving to a new flat, attending game dev conferences, and much more. Still, there was time to make progress on Farewell North so let's see what's new! Wishlist on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1432850/Farewell_North/?utm_source=youtube&utm_campaign=devlog18 Join the Discord: https://farewell-north.com/discord First up this month is a few graphical upgrades, namely with the grass and terrain shaders to both fill out gaps in the grass, but also reduce the overall density for some nice performance improvements. A number of you have commented on the gaps in the grass in the uncolored world, so hopefully this will help on that front. With the memory visuals, I redid the shading of the base models, while also using @unity's VFX Graph to add thick layers of particles on top of the models to give an airy and ethereal feel to the memories. Starting production on a new area of the game I wanted to incorporate more of the characters' backstory, and after my trip to the highlands this summer I was inspired to add sheep herding to the game! I think it's a pretty fun little mechanic that helps build the relationship between the characters. On Discord this month I released a new meta-game for Farewell North called "Colour Clash" where we're planting real-life trees from the game! It's good fun, so come join Team Yellow and help me plant some trees. We also had art and game jams on the Discord, so I'll show you the winners and the weird game I made with Unity and Blender in just one day. I hope you enjoy the video, and please leave your thoughts down below. Don't forget to like, subscribe and of course, wishlist the game on Steam! Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1432850/Farewell_North/?utm_source=youtube&utm_campaign=devlog18 Discord: https://farewell-north.com/discord Twitter: https://twitter.com/kylewbanks Website and Email Newsletter: https://farewell-north.com Original Score by John Konsolakis: www.johnkonsolakis.eu Farewell North is my personal passion project, an open world adventure game about restoring color to a dark and desolate archipelago where all color and life has left. You play as a collie working alongside your human companion to explore, solve puzzles, evade monsters, and restore color to the islands. #devlog #gaming #videogames #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #unity #unity3d #madewithunity #steam #blender