Bunny Eureka · published · build 26342002
1. More animations for Bunny
2. A new story chapter: Piggy's World
3. Some bug fixes...
After the last update, I was stuck in bed for days. I didn't even turn on my computer. I was so exhausted that willpower alone couldn't get my completely drained body moving, so I just lay there, very still, for a long, long time.
The story is getting close to the end, and I couldn't think of anything else I wanted to say. I came up with a few story ideas, but none of them felt good enough. On top of that, I made a separate psychology game in the meantime, and most of the informational content had already gone into that one. This game already has farming, and it already has helping those who are small and vulnerable. I just couldn't think of what was left to say.
After a few more days of thinking, I came up with some fun 2D designs. Then I suddenly remembered that I'm not very good at drawing... The whole reason I learned 3D is that there were so many things I couldn't draw. So I had to let those ideas go.
Back in school, teachers always told us to do the questions we knew first and save the hard ones for later. So I decided to skip the parts I'm not good at and work on everything else first.
That settled it: 3D. I started designing the levels for Piggy's story and explored lots of directions. Then I thought: if the end of the story is a gift for Piggy, what kind of world would Piggy love? What I wanted to see was Piggy happily playing with Bunny, with everyone carefree.
I get really bad motion sickness from camera movement, so I went with a side-scrolling view. It's the kind of camera movement I handle best.
Then I spent a lot of time designing Piggy's world. I hope Piggy can live there happily forever. I thought carefully about every house and every table, hoping Bunny and Piggy would really enjoy living there.
Of course, I honestly have no idea what my brain wants to do next... Partway through working on Piggy's chapter, I randomly stopped and went off to make a few different walking animations for Bunny: hopping, wobbling, tired walking, and more. Bunny feels a lot more like a real little bunny now.
It went on like that, with lots of back and forth and revisions for a long time. Several times I ran out of inspiration, so I looked through my old artwork. I had actually made a lot of art of Piggy and Bunny before, and I borrowed quite a few assets from it.
The game has had almost no new players for a long while. I saw on social media that the recent Steam Next Fest had over 8,000 new games, and everyone is getting buried under the flood. I'm a little worried that no one will ever see this new chapter I worked so hard on, so I recorded some extra footage and added it to the trailer. That does spoil the surprise of the new chapter a bit, though.
That's about it. I hope you enjoy this update!
This is the last big update. After this, I'll be fixing the issues you've reported, then adding the final chapter (2D story pages), and then the game will be complete.
Feedback and comments are always welcome~
And thank you for staying with my little bunnies～