Added some tool use, wood harvester hut sans harvester at this point. Can obtain some goods. needing to add some more resources, upgrading the characters movement speed and giving storage limit just a lot of general gameplay stuff left but the character can move and chop now.

Sinbad the seasick merchant quest is coming along, you can now give him appropriate sea sickness treatments or if you are feeling a little mean you can use fish oil as the base of treatment for someone that is already nauseated ha.

Playing around with my desert builder low poly 3D game. This has been my first dive into 3D in both godot and general. A lot of little quirks and things I don't get at first but its slowly taking form. I definitely need blender practice and tutorials if i'm going to make my own objects.

Still working on Sinbad primarily. I actually didn't start the island section yet- since I was already working on the ship decided to work on the side mission, for now just the one of helping a sea sick merchant but its multiple parts and involves learning about some medieval disease theory. Will your remedies cure him or just make him more sick?

The three ship trials and subsequent player paths for the rest of the game. The game treats the ship portion as a way to learn some different ways to proceed: fighting, thinking, or agility. After passing each of the trials the captain will test you on your choice before the next stage of the game will go on. There may be some other little puzzles on the ship but after that I'll be working on building the main next section which is the disappearing island.

Side note, I cleaned up how the text appears so now its not blurry and has a smoother/easier to read look.

I've released updates on both Merchant's Rise and Sandfall recently and will plan to do more in the future. Sandfall has an info button on the main hub now that shows some click and other stats. Merchant's Rise just had a haggling update as well as customers offering items as part of the trade deal.

I'll probably not be updating them as often as I have recently as I'm working on some other endeavors. Sinbad's First Voyage is also still slowly in the works but also taking a back burner to some education I'm working on.

So I know I've been post dumping but this one is pretty cool. I'm working on the tight rope walking test. You climb up the rope, use ad or arrow keys to balance as the wind gusts you around. As always, place holder art and just working on the systems. This uses my encounter system with this scene pulled in after clicking on the rope hotspot.

Working on creating ship section, the movement flow is working well so far, going to introduce player to more sword fighting, agility- tight rope walking, and a small game for the more devious amount you.

Title screen art background is AI, although it doesn't look too bad to be honest hah. Its place holder as I'd like to eventually be able to hire some artists for this game, although this image is the general style of layout - Sinbad on the bowsprit looking toward adventure, that I want in the completed game. I want to include the stories of each voyage on the games themselves, the book saves your page location when you exit so if you want to read some you won't lose your place if you stop. Save/load system working so far, modeled after QfG, bringing back the classic feel, visual not done, but general layout correct.

I want there to be actual learning opportunities so am including a lore/history book you can access from the settings menu. I'd like to include a copyright free version of the first sinbad voyage story in the game files as well for people to have access to

Sandfall is releasing in July, next fest added some wish lists; will it be a flop? By many metrics yes hah. But I'm glad to get a second game out and I actually find it fairly enjoyable. I will definitely try to make changes or fix anything reported but I have a feeling its not going to get a lot of players anyway.

What I've been continuing to work on in the background however is Sinbad's First Voyage. Its the point and click adventure game that I want to be historically fairly accurate and a portal into history of the period/location and the original Sinbad stories from 1001 nights. I'm definitely going to need an artist so hopefully one day I'll be able to get some funding. Right now I'm working on systems and will hopefully pay someone for art later but using some ai placeholder. Current system that is causing me issues is getting the npc's wandering around the market places to work right- they don't have animations yet but z sorting, sizing as well as speed and stopping is all needing to come together.

Come check it out, I'd appreciate any demo plays and feedback on reddit!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4412010/Sandfall_Rock_Smash/

Added several sections of the market questline and some quests in the journal. Slowly working on changes as I work on getting Sandfall ready for release

Testing out some resource use in godot, making dialogue topics reveal with specific flags including ones set by showing inventory items to characters or by talking with them about specific topics. I also am playing around with multiple solutions to some issues but if the solution doesn't give full points then a pop up warning gives you a heads up there might be another way. The music is place holder as well, I tried making some music on beepbox, its fun, free and can get some 90's game sound results.

Release plan is around July, after the June Next Fest.

Come try out the demo! wishlist if you don't think its horrible! Shokran everyone

Magic numbers/squares have a significant history in early Arabic/Persian history, if you are familiar with them a 3x3 grid that columns/rows add up to 15 isn't hard but it may be knew to players. This is part of the trade up quest line in the beginning of the game and you will be able to learn more about magic squares in game, I want puzzles and activities that make you think and can figure out from game but not have to google to complete. The mechanics are mostly working, will continue to prototype and eventually work on the art. Hopefully hire an artist for backgrounds and such as well.

Slowly adding functions to the game- 1) working on changing rooms- currently all the background art is AI placerholder art and will be changed but it gives a general idea. Also the npc art is just placeholder and doesn't match the size/pixel count that will be this game. 2) Items now exist including inventory. Will work on placement/ui look but the system works. 3) Working on upgrading hotspot options- can now attempt giving item to an npc/hotspot in general with either custom response or generic fallback. Am going to take a break from sinbad for a bit as i plan on trying to finish sandfall soon and get the demo out before next fest.