Odd Realm Dev Tracker

Hi everyone!

Hope you are having a great start to your weekends.

I've just uploaded version 0.11.0.8 and this one is more of a content patch for once. There's a bunch of stuff I haven't added to the Ardyn expansion yet, and, now, I'm working on adding these things. And, it's not only the Ardyn race that I'm focusing on for content. I'm working on lots of stuff for the Humans and, especially, the Ancients.

Resurrection


You'll notice the Arcana research tech tree is a bit sparse. I've moved a lot of stuff over to the Ancient tech tree, to round out some of their uniqueness. Magic isn't intended to be this easily obtained thing. It's supposed to be difficult to achieve. Unless, of course, you're the Ancients and have thousands of years of mastery to work from. Don't worry, I'm adding much more stuff to the Ar... Read more

Hey gang,

The latest patch has just been uploaded. I made a goof in the last patch which messed up uniforms and caused people to get stuck in idle. That should be fixed.

I've also done some work to smooth out the camera and entity movement. This will be very noticeable when following entities. No longer will it be all jittery.

Bunch of other things in there. Check it out:

-Polish: Auto-jobs will now show an orange warning that says, "Work point is in use," instead of a red warning that says the props is missing. This is to avoid confusion where the prop exists in the room but jobs can't be added because they already exists at the workstation.
-Polish: The selection box no longer snaps to a grid when selecting entities.
-Polish: Smoothed some of the camera movements. Especially when following entities.
-Polish: Smoothed some of the entity movements.
-Bug Fix: Not all mod data objects were being loaded.
-Bug Fix: Mods caching even w... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Happy Monday everyone!

Here's another stability patch with a bunch of fixes and some tuning changes. I also have some modding fixes in the works, but they aren't quite ready. As well, I'm currently setting up the Workshop steam page. It involves some SDK setup, so it's taking a tad bit longer than expected. I'll keep you posted about that.

This patch really focus fires on some stockpile bugs. Hope that is starting to feel better for most people. Let me know if you continue to get any stockpile weirdness.

Here are the notes:

-Modding: Replaced the JSON data field for scenario actions in GDEScenariosData with c# data classes.
-Bug Fix: Scenario entities would spawn with incorrect appearance and age.
-Bug Fix: Entities would get stuck trying to eat/drink/gather items that were inaccessible from the entity's position.
-Bug Fix: Updated the chicken race portrait to match the entity portraits.
-Bug Fix: Entities were not moving items from o... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Heyo,

I've uploaded a patch to the beta branch with tons of fixes, especially for eat/drink bugs, and a nasty load issue which kept items from loading properly.

Here are the notes:

-Bug Fix: Entities would get stuck in single open block point. Now, they will snap to the closest entity to get unstuck.
-Bug Fix/Performance Improvement: Where entities were searching additional blocks for a job candidate when they already had one.
-Bug Fix: Certain scenarios weren't activating because they couldn't find the right tag for a previously created entity.
-Bug Fix: Stale room jobs (ones that have been sitting around for a long period of time without starting) were not properly being removed from a room. This would cause multiple jobs to stack forever.
-Bug Fix: A null reference would occur (in the entity WorkState) when an item search processed in the background, then the active job was cleared, then the job finished to reference the cleared job.
-... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Hello!

I uploaded two patches at the end of the week, but was unable to put out an announcement at the time. Both patches are quite small, but provide some good fixes/features.

Namely, 0.11.0.2 provides extra modding features while 0.11.0.3 provides a couple fixes for critical bugs.

Also, I've uploaded a guide to the modding github page which explains how to get started making mods. I'm in the process of making a video tutorial as well. Additionally, I'm setting up the Steam Workshop page. I want to have both of these things ready this week.

If you'd like to take a look at the modding written guide, or download the modding project, you can find those here:

Modding Project & Guide[github.com]

Here are the notes for both patches:

0.11.0.2
-Feature: Mods can now rep... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Hey folks!

Thanks to those that have been reporting issues/bugs with the 0.11.0.0 beta. That is extremely helpful and appreciated.

One of the big issues was captured entities not eating/drinking. This was due to a bug and some unclear new behaviors relating to rooms. Namely, there is the behavior where captured entities won't eat/drink anything outside their designated rooms. I've added a toggle to all owner groups to enable/disable this behavior, even for entities outside the Captured faction. As well, I've added a second toggle to enable/disable the auto population of stockpile item settings based on occupant diet. This is handy to have stockpiles filled with foods your animals will eat/drink. There is also a new notification for when entities don't have their diet food in a room AND they are restricted to the room.

-Music: Audio levels have been balanced for all music.
-Music: Added in the last new track. All five new tracks are in the game now.
-F... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Transparency with the community is extremely important to me. That's why I want to let you all know that the price of Odd Realm will soon be going up from $10 USD to $15 USD in about a month. The game is currently on sale for 20% off to help players get the game at a lower price before I make this price change.

Now, I've always tried to keep the price of Odd Realm low for a few reasons but, namely, being an early access game, I wanted to make sure the price was fair to the consumer. If they're buying a half finished game, it should be half the price. That's why I started the price at $10, half of the $20 price that the 1.0 game will be. Now that we're getting very close to that 1.0 finish line, and there is a third race to play in the game, I feel it's time to raise the price to $15.

Normally, that content to price conversion wouldn't be on my mind and I'd keep the price low. However, a big part of raising the price now is that things are starting to get much more exp... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Hello my friends!

There is lots to talk about for the new 0.11.0.0 version on beta so let's jump right in.

Ardyn Race


You can now select and play as the Ardyn!

Senectia
They are a completely different race from Humans in pretty much every way. The main difference being that they don't need food or water to survive. Instead, they age much faster than all the other races. For them, every hour is equivalent to one day of aging for normal entities. This means that they die of old age (Senectia - an aging disease unique to their race) much faster.



They prevent themselves from getting old through a process called retroanimation. Retroanimation takes... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Hello!

I've been meaning to make an Odd Realm demo for a while now. I don't like seeing people buy the game only to realize the visual style isn't for them, or it doesn't run so well, or any number of reasons. No one wants buyer's remorse! That being said, you can now play the Odd Realm demo on Windows, Mac, and Linux. :)

The demo is the full version of the game with two limitations. First, players can only play as the Humans, and, second, saved games cannot be loaded. If players decide to buy the full version of the game, their saved files from the demo will be there to load.

That's it for now. I'm wrapping up the rest of the new race update, so look forward to news about that soon!

Thanks,
Waylon

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Greetings everyone!

I apologize for posting this so late in the month. My grandfather passed away just over a week ago and I had to attend to his funeral. I'm back to work now and I have lots of fun things to show today.

Skill Defaults Window One thing I've been meaning to add for ages is a window which lets you toggle the default enabled skills per profession and race.



It's pretty straight forward. Within the settlers window, there is a skill defaults sub window (seen above). This window shows all the default skills that are enabled/disabled for when an entity spawns. Players can also select which race to edit the skills for. So, let's say you wanted to disable mining for new Void Woken summons. You could select the Void Woken tab, navigate to their default profession, and turn off mining.

I would li... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Hello!

Today I'll be talking about all the exciting things coming for the next expansion, Timeless Tyrants. I have been extremely busy working on this one and I still have quite a bit of work to do to get it into your hands. I don't want to promise anything but I should be able to put out a beta build in a couple weeks.

Alright, let's take a look at what's coming down the pipe!

The Ardyn Race Every expansion going forward will introduce a new race to play. This expansion will unlock the Ardyn, a race of fierce warriors with a vibrant culture and history.



The unique aspect of the Ardyn race is that they age extremely fast. Every one hour of in-game time is one year to them. To combat this, they have evolved the ability to syphon life from other entities, keeping themselves from ever growing old. Their ... Read more