Heard of the story? - now in Early Access!
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A cosy medieval city-building simulation game with autonomous AI villagers who think, reason, and tell their own unique tales.
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What if in-game characters could do just as many things as you the player?
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BIG NEWS: Steam has completely overturned their decision and APPROVED my latest build. The game is coming to Steam too!! 🥳🥳 Turns out, making a lot of noise really does help - my sincere thanks to everyone that helped raise awareness of this issue! ❤️
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Looking at hiring a 3D artist, starting in November, to help with modelling and animations for the game. If you’re an artist, please shoot a DM! If you know anyone looking for work, please share this with them 🎨
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When a villager becomes an expert at crafting or gathering a particular item, they will now hang a sign of that masterpiece on their house to show off their expertise - just like in the middle ages!
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First time doing
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'Heard of the Story?' is a cosy city-building and life-sim game. The twist is that it has deeply simulated AI villagers who have their own goals, stories, relationships, and drama!
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As dusk shrouds the village, its people finally head home for a long and deserved rest.
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I'm playing around with more leaf-y trees, as opposed to the low-poly-esque ones. What do you think?
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I now have tree chopping working with the new terrain system 🪓
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I replaced the monobody tower roofs with nice wooden shingles 🪵🪵
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I improved the conversation buttons a little bit by adding an ✨ icon ✨ to the special ones and greying them out if there's nothing new to be gained!
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Having just added 3D terrain, walking around feels like I'm in some sort of a dream or Studio Ghibli film 🌼🌹🌻
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Thanks for 50 followers! 😊 Here is a video (that took far too long to make) showing off all the progress made so far!
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As you and your folk build a town, seasons and colors will dance around. 🌿 From the green of spring to winter's white, each season with its own delight. ❄️
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Heard of the Story? has officially just launched into Early Access!! 🎉🎉🎉 It's been a HUGE journey of learning and development, here is a short recap of how the game changed in those 3.5 years!😁
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I added screenshake for when you cut down trees, mine rocks, dig, and place things to make them feel more ✨ satisfying ✨
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I’ve just been covering the villager houses in ivy leaves to better hit that cottagecore aesthetic and vibe. 🌿🌿
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This was my first week of full-time indie-game development! 👾 Really excited to release a devlog about how the week went and the things I worked on. Here's a sneak peak at the improvements in villager AI
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The fire burns warm amidst the icy winter night.
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Subtle detail, but the flags on towers now always point in the direction of the wind, no matter the way you place them. Would be pretty weird to have them pointing in different directions 🚩
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I always love watching these tiny AI architects crafting a new town. As nature surrenders its canvas, the enigma of progress unfolds...
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Got a lot of progress to show on this chilly
#ScreenshotSaturday
! ❄️ There's now an inventory UI 💼 for you to see your items. You can mine stone, chop wood, and even get some iron ore ⛏.
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A simple and peaceful glimpse of a new house being built deep within the woods.
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500 followers! That’s a lot of people my tweets have bumped into - here’s just 100 villagers for reference (my laptop broke trying 500) ☠️ Thanks for joining this journey everyone! 🏰❤️
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A few travellers gather to found the town of their dreams. The road ahead of them is long, but their determination burns bright.
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Just submitted the game demo to Steam for review! 🚀 Hopefully there's no problems and I'll be able to announce the date soon 🤞
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Villagers can now contribute to building constructions! 🏗️
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Testing the maximum number of villagers my game can handle. 👩🦰👨 With some juicy music.
(from my latest devlog )
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Timelapse of beginning a settlement with a few villagers. ⚒️
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I made building progress feel much more rewarding by breaking it into steps 🔨
One of the most frequent things you see in the game is constructions so I'm glad I finally got the chance to rehaul the house progress visuals. It didn't take too long either!
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Here is a sneak peak of what's to come. A goal of this game is to have a village like this come to life and be constructed without a player giving any direction 🏡
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Each hammer hit actually progresses the construction a little bit 🔨
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Every surrounding town and region in the world will evolve and intertwine with your story.
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Sculpted a new hill into the map! You can see the whole village from here.
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After celebrating well into the night, the village goes into slumber.
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Added occasional wild wheat and some new ground flowers. 🌸💮
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I improved the crafting animation by showing which ingredients you are using around the smoke (and adding a sound effect). ⚒
I tried two different versions but I'm not sure which looks better. What do you think?
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🟢 Heard of the Story? Kickstarter is LIVE! 🟢
Here's the new trailer and there is also a demo available to get a taste of the game for yourself! 🕹️
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After almost 2 years, the trailer for my indie-game is finally here!!
Inspired by
#AnimalCrossing
,
#Minecraft
, and many
#citybuilder
games, its about forging a medieval community - with intelligent AI villagers! ⚒️🫂
Likes and re-tweets are appreciated ❤️
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Excited to finally announce that the Heard of the Story? Kickstarter and demo will be coming March 30th! 🚀
Can't wait for you all to try the game for yourselves 😁🕹️ In the meantime, here's a sneak peek of the trailer!
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@mystic_x1
@ACWorldBlog
I'm trying to make a game which expands on the villager behaviour a lot more so they feel much more real. Each villager has memories, knowledge, goals, quests, and will have their own unique stories to tell.
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I'm having a lot of fun with different narrative styles and creating the first pieces of interesting, cheeky, and mysterious dialogue content 😁😕🤨
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Small timelapse to test and profile while I work on a few optimisations! 🔨
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Really happy to say that my
@EpicGames
Store page has been approved and is now up! If you'd prefer that platform and want to support an alternative storefront, please give it a wishlist there!
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Trying a different way of stylising grass. This method almost makes it look like I'm walking through an oil painting 🎨🖌
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Added the first sound effect this week! 🔉
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Amidst the rocky mountains and unturned stones, what precious minerals will you find?
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As mentioned, I've been working and thinking about a tree art style upgrade for a while, and here's what the first version of that looks like! 🌿
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Tiny detail... but made buildings signs flutter in the wind.
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Three years of progress. Looking back feels... nostalgic
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I have wanted to try to find my own unique art style for a while and finally decided to give this some love recently. Here is the first experiment I've tried.
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Here is a slowed-down version of making a hill in Unity as some people said the previous one was too sped-up to see the progress clearly. ⏲
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For this
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, I played with the camera, animation, and interruption logic so that you can start and leave a conversation with a villager! What will you ask - or what will you tell them? 🗣
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I added fences as a decoration! These really help break up a town and give it some texture 🏘️ Hopefully I can turn this into a more fancy mechanic at some point.
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I added mouth movement when the villager speaks. Every letter spoken changes the mouth shape. I think it's a small thing but it goes a long way to make the interaction feel much more real
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I've released a new devlog - this time testing the limits of my game with 5 villagers and more!
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Added recipes to the UI as well as a little requirements/items consumed section 📜. Here's a little demo showing how to craft a sword - even despite the winter weather! ⚔️
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Finally added a day-night cycle ☀🌒. I love this feature and have wanted to add it for a long time! 😊
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Last week we did the first playtest for the game! Surprisingly it turned out... hilarious?
Oh that's right, we also got some great feedback.
Witness the full playtest here:
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The positive thing about Steam taking a suuuper long time to approve the game is that I was able to add an option for multiple saves!
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Working on the new village design in
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I just updated my cel shader to adjust colours based on the current colour of sunlight - you know what this means 👀
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After maybe about 30 failed posts, I finally made one that reached over 1,000 views on TikTok! It's a small success, but still leaves me with a very hopeful spirit that I'm improving at this social media thing 😊
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I added the ability for villagers to get a drink at your taverns! Of course, don't be afraid to join in and keep them company 🍻
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Please also try to publish on the Epic Store and - those are my next steps. By ensuring that you publish in more than 1 place, you can help break up their PC monopoly and stop single decisions having a disproportionate negative effect on all of us. [9/10]
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With these new models and animations, this forest has started to feel busy and the game is really starting to come to life! 🧔🏽👩🏼🦰
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5 DAYS until my game officially launches its Early Access! It's been a VERY bumpy ride, but I'm really happy to be finally near the end of this lap and the start of a new one! Don't forget to wishlist the game if you're interested! 🚀
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Experimenting with my art style by adding gradients to the trees and rocks.
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I was spending too much time positioning and randomising the environment so I decided that it would just be faster to procedurally generate it! 🌲🌹
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One of the most interesting features I introduced to the game is villagers talking to each other. This adds a huge amount of life to towns and allows domino effects as villagers pass information between each other.
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Finally nailed the walking animation; villagers can now walk towards their destination instead of dancing to it 😅
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Working on a tutorial! One of those things you definitely leave until last 🤣
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Major upgrade of the system to support multiple villagers (who think on their own)! This is going to open up so many possibilities: trading, cooperation, friendships... - stay tuned 👨🏻🦰🧔🏿👱🏽♂️👧🏻👨🏾🦳
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Introducing villager goals! 🎯 The next AI feature you most wanted to see in the game. And wow, this has made the town extremely productive now that everyone has their own specific purpose and motivation!
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Cue the confetti cannons... After an epic 3.5-year developercoaster, Heard of the Story? is finally soaring into Early Access on August 17th! 🎉
Like, retweet, and follow for a shot at winning a FREE key when it hits the Steam shelves! 🕹️
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Added trees and rocks to the map generation. Having different biomes like forests or fields will be really cool 🌲⛰
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Thanks so much for such a positive first Steam review - this is for sure the most rewarding part of
#indiedev
! 🥹
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Tomorrow is finally the day that the demo and Kickstarter will be released! Pretty excited and nervous!
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After a long and difficult journey through the freezing winter snows, you arrive at a village. What stories do you bring? ❄️
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#gameart
#unity3d
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Happy to announce that after a lot of thinking, research, and tinkering, we have actually been busy moving to
#Unity
🎲 as the main engine for the game! 👩🏼🦰👋
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📕 Announcement! 📕
I'm very excited to say that Heard of the Story? 🗣️ and a public demo 🕹️ is finally coming soon to Kickstarter and Steam! 🎉
More details to come... 👀
To get notified, hit follow on the fresh pre-launch page!
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I added fog to the day-night cycle and cel shader to create better atmosphere during the mornings and evenings (pun unintended). 🌫
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Quest status, fulfilment conditions, and incoming requests for iron in this
#ScreenshotSaturday
🪨!
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Today marks the final day of the
#100DaysofGameDev
challenge for this game. There's no greater way to celebrate it than with an in-game statue! 🗿 If you want to also join the challenge, the discord is here:
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Deciding what to do can be hard. When wanting to
#craft
, a villager will now choose items they like crafting and those they actually have ingredients for. Here, this woman spontaneously decided to build a house! 💡
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#indiegame
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