hey everyone! I hope you're doing well <3 Today I'm bringing you our monthly update where I go a bit deeper into some stuff in the game for you to see :) [h2]🍀 The Overgrown Station 🍀[/h2] Welcome to the very first area you'll see when you start a new game! Originally, you were going to arrive by train which is why I still call this the station 😅. Since then I've changed that to be the lovely mushroom van you might know from the demo. Regardless of the tracks being replaced by a road a lot of the vibes for this area were thought of very early on into development and I'm super happy with how it turned out. [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40827766/d9062e1b61365857194ea39c1d4a0b2631630869.png[/img] The above piece of art is actually from 18th of May 2021! Back then the game was going to be much much smaller but the idea for this really lush green area was already there :) [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40827766/b6f9a19eeafc45ffd5f243bb313149636711dcba.png[/img] [b]Above you can see the initial terrain setup for a part of the Station area[/b] (behind the camera there's more you'll see later). The area is a bit lower down than Bark Burg in the back which meant that we needed some kind of path to bring you upwards. I felt this little path that snaked its way up would be quite cute! It also allows for a good vantage point to look over the station area and see some other things you might want to explore. Once I have the general layout down with the terrain [b]it's time to add all the foliage, props and other decoration! [/b] [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40827766/6c688d822b7a2394119afa239208eafa2b691e3e.png[/img] Here’s some pretty images of how it turned out: [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40827766/cf3f1bd29e9d392226859c15a806a3015b529091.png[/img] [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40827766/0465ed009d92bd20a65282b7cce8f0fc88fcce59.png[/img] [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40827766/25ba017a02e7f54488c3cf42fabd4af7b859566f.png[/img] [h2]💌 Gliders!! 💌[/h2] I'm super happy to say I've been able to finish the gliders that were unlocked as Kickstarter stretch goals! As a quick reminder we unlocked 5 additional gliders (alongside the existing love letter one). [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40827766/22eb0524619f79f12d9dc1c478bd259208b78b60.png[/img] The original glider in the game was pretty flat. It was actually part of the very early prototype from April last year (you can even see the blockout of that really old map I shared with you all the way at the start of this post if you look closely haha) [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40827766/e4426608f8dc542562b8202599b6904052dc8c46.gif[/img] But now that I had to make 5 more gliders I didn't really want to have them be flat like that. Especially the flower one really called for some more depth so I decided to take the time to redo the gliders. [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40827766/29edaf50308d5a40edf9992dac165dc83ebefbae.png[/img] ta-da!! I'm personally really happy with how they turned out! I hope you guys like them too :) [b]which glider will you be playing with??[/b] I'm super curious to see which one will be the most popular! here you can see them in game: [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40827766/6adc8bbc85825b1586eedf40646b807f34864131.png[/img] [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40827766/85a9437b3eecc483a399a3a09d78a22c83782594.png[/img] [h2]🦢Haley the Goose🦢[/h2] (there's no goose emoji TuT ) Waaaaaaay back in May I was drawing on stream ([url=https://clips.twitch.tv/TrustworthyTangentialCheesecakeNerfBlueBlaster-_epcVJ48EMnoZfFq]clip[/url]) for a bit just for fun and we came up with the idea for a shy goose named Haley. I said at the time I wouldn't have time to add her BUT GUESS WHAT I DID IT This was the idea: [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40827766/66c508af7389a89a6626fcce9c0832d6ccacdc33.png[/img] Results: [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40827766/ef83f09e989f42e38a3e1ed7f38fcd620c9b3c38.png[/img] [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40827766/93b1710d481c1f2356ce1fcec98efc48878e8ac9.png[/img] ∘₊✧────────────✧✿✿✿✧────────────✧₊∘ that's it for today! There's also a LOT a LOT of work being done on getting all the dialogue into the game (that takes up like 80% of my time) but I can't show you that without spoiling the game :( I'm so excited about how it's coming along though!! My friend and incredibly funny writer [url=https://twitter.com/BloemMaya]Maya Bloem[/url] has joined the team to finish the script (we're pretty much done writing now 🎉) and she's contributing some INCREDIBLE storylines. bye bye! <3 ヾ(•ᴗ•๑)o Kela 🌈 Make sure to join the [url=https://discord.gg/SZenPPPDKP]discord [/url]to come hang out with the whole community