Spooky Season with Skystead Ranch
The team have been hard at work as ever making more content, more animations and even more progress towards our release goal in January!
Read below for more details and official confirmation of the release date for Skystead Ranch!
Player Animations
We started on this last month, but we are proud to share that we have all of the revamped player animations in-game and working smoothly! It took some fine-tuning from our programmer Rob to get them all lined up as intended, but now the animations are all looking great and transition between each animation smoothly.
From running, to digging, to even petting the cute Skylets all around your Skystead!
New Mini-Trailers
Not all work this month has been in the game editor. Lee has been making a variety of mini-trailers to help advertise Skystead Ranch to the masses! If you are here from any of the adverts we've shared on Reddit; Welcome! And don't forget to Wishlist Skystead Ranch now!
If you haven't seen any of the trailers but would like to watch them, find them here on our YouTube channel.
105 Buildable Objects and 114 Items! 😲
Laura, once again, has surpassed all expectations and has been adding more and more 3D assets to the ever-lengthening list of Skystead Ranch "things".
Rob has finally had the time to start importing all of the assets and setting up the long list of prefabs to be used throughout the game design.
We have a staggering 105 buildable objects and 114 items that the player and Skylets can use, and this list is still growing as Laura continues to work into the back end of October! See all of the items that we were able to add in the last week below.
It's not just small items that Laura has been working on, more of the large in-world areas have been re-adressed too! Check out the Fishing pier below, now with added upgrades.
We realised the fishing areas we placed into the game were another area we could add to the player experience by providing players with more choices to upgrade and customise in-world areas.
Game Music
Even more exciting news, we have started the commissioning of the game music for Skystead. We already have 2 pieces back and they are sounding great!
With a desire to be more ambitious and creative, we are working with the idea of an over-arching main piece of music that plays throughout and will change as you go from one biome type to another making the background ambient music thematic and changeable.
Once we have more music back, we will start adding this to the game and can hopefully show you what we mean!
New Skylets!
If you have been following along with our bi-weekly Twitch streams, you will have already seen some Skylet creations. If you missed it, meet Loona! A cute moth-style Skylet that loves to come out at dusk and enjoys basking in the moonlight.
Tune in next week (1st of November) to watch more of Jack's wonderful creations live on stream.
Release Date News!
As we are getting ever closer to release, we have committed to a release date of the 17th of January 2024. Make sure you mark this date in your calendars and Wishlist Skystead Ranch to help our development and stay up-to-date with all the behind-the-scenes news.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2399570/Skystead_Ranch/
For those of you who backed us on Kickstarter at the relevant tiers or support on Patreon, Beta access will be coming soon.tm so keep an eye on your inboxes for more info about that in the coming weeks.
With love, the ToastieLabs team <3