This is our first ever DevBlog and we're quite excited to talk to you about what we’ve been working on these past few months. We're quite a small team, so please, bare with us while we find our footing with this new venture.
We hope you enjoy what we have to talk about in this blog.
We've been teasing the favor store and are happy to say it's coming along beautifully. Our art team has been hard at work creating lots of items you'll be able to purchase with favor points in-game, from scars to make your dinosaur look battle hardened to skull overlays to make you stand out amongst the crowd.
With the addition of this new feature you can earn favor through play time, meeting certain objectives and trials. Each reward will be permanently unlocked for the species you've unlocked it on. You can only equip so much per dinosaur however due to texture slot limitations. We’ve looked into multiple ways to figure out how we could tackle this as we know players would like to equip multiple overlays at once, but due to our robust skin system and how many texture slots we’ve used already it isn’t a possibility as of right now.
The favor store can be accessed via the character selection screen. Upon death you can purchase items from the store before resurrecting or reincarnating your dinosaur. While playing the game you can access the store via your character O menu, you cannot buy cosmetics while alive but you can buy different features like reskins and regenders.
You'll also be able to view your DLC items through the favor store. Anything you've purchased on this menu will show up greyed out whilst things you've not purchased or are new to the DLC store will be displayed as normal. Keep track of what new packs or DLC's we may release in the future through this page!
Zupaysaurus has been a fun creature to begin implementing. With its fearful gaze and chattering calls, it's been haunting all of our QA testers’ nightmares. We're happy to say that progress on Zupay is going great. Most of the animal is nearly done, with loads of different customization options and beautiful skins made by our art team, we're excited to see what the community makes of our little chittering friend.
Zupay will host an array of different abilities we hope will give players something new to sink their teeth into. One of Zupay's abilities, Fearful Gaze, will have your enemies shivering their timbers no matter how big they are with this new stacking ability. Hunt in well-organized packs during the dead of night to bring terror into their hearts!
This little guy will also make having a nice dinner out with your pack a little difficult. They have terrible table manners and a weird appetite for the most disgusting, rotten food imaginable. By spitting on fresh gores they can turn them rotten to make them quite delectable for themselves while making it a source of danger for other carnivores. Just know, if your unwilling hosts spot you trying to ruin their evening meal they will try to stop you by interrupting this ability, and, of course, the larger the carcass, the longer it takes.
(For those who may have emetophobia, don’t worry, there is a setting in-game to remove the particles and sounds of the Zupay spitting ability similar to how we dealt with the snake throwing up).
Zupay’s animations are our favorites yet. Our animator has done some fantastic work on bringing the skrungly and wibbly-wobbly vibes to life. For those of you who own the music track, you'll be in for a pleasant surprise upon release!
Until next time!