Hello, everyone! In my last post, I promised you that there would be many changes. Well, here they are! Enjoy!

I changed the main font and added two more fonts, one for dialog and one for headlines.

Enemy projectiles now cast a "crosshair" visual effect on the player and deal twice as much damage. The player's projectiles, on the other hand, deal 30% less damage.

Opening the pause menu now stops the music. When all the enemies in the location die, the battle music changes to peaceful music.

Grass and bushes now wave slightly as if affected by the wind. If the grass shakes a lot when the player walks by, the big bushes will shake just a little. I also added leaves that fall from the big trees in the forest location.

Enemies now flash and bleed more than earlier when damaged. Their projectile vanishes if the enemy dies while creating it. They die with a pretty shader effect now. I also changed their behavior slightly. They no longer interrupt casting animations, run in place, or freeze without an idle animation.

The main menu was slightly reworked. The vignette (black semi-transparent lines on the edges of the screen) is not so dim now, the clouds move at one speed regardless of the player's FPS, and there are new, neat "starting" and "quitting" animations.

The main character now dashes and teleports with a nice visual effect and "magical" particles. The player's camera now centers on the main character when they start a dialogue.

There is an erotic picture in the game, a drawing on a papyrus. You can now move your mouse to "examine" it. There is also an erotic scene at the end of the demo. Particles and the ability to "look around" have been added there, too.

The artist drew a bunch of dialogue avatars! There are 18 pictures for five characters. She also made a "promo pic" for the game.

Another artist drew something called a "fakeshot." It's a screenshot of the future project. It gives viewers a general idea of what to expect.

I hope the next update will be a demo release. There's not much work left, so I expect it in two to three weeks. Stay tuned! [No more abandoned projects]

Hello, everyone! The last two weeks were pretty mid, to say the least. There was a lot of planning, and a few days were wasted due to my illness.

I assigned the artists many tasks for the next four weeks. The concept for a new character - Blackie, the black wolf kid - is ready. The next goal is to animate him. Started to work on: "fake" screenshots of the future project, a few welcoming pictures for Patreon/SubscribeStar, and dialogue avatars for characters.

While planning with the artists and an animator, I also did some coding! The loading screen now waits for input after finishing all pre-loads. I also changed the player's UI a little bit. Added a background for it and improved the health bar. Added a dash bar! Oh, and the ranged attack now shows the reload time, too.

The enemy received a few fixes as well. Its behavior is still not good enough, but at least now its hitbox gets disabled when it dies, and the player’s projectile can’t fly through its head on a headshot. The player's projectile now emits "blood" particles when it hits an enemy and "cut" particles when it hits the ground. The enemy no longer chases the player after its death and following respawning.

The real demo is coming out soon. I’m excited, focused, and a little nervous. I think the next update will be huge because we have dozens of small tasks to complete. See you there, in two weeks! [No more abandoned projects]

Hello, everyone! Last two weeks I was finishing code refactoring and working on game’s overall prettiness~ You know, like ambient light and cool particles.

First things first, I finished tinkering with the code. It's now more logically correct and can serve as a stable foundation for future improvements. More importantly, I can now look at it without shedding tears! I also created a real pre-loader that works when changing locations and a good save system.

Then, I started working on the aesthetics! Oh, what a good week! The game looks like a game now. I added shadows, lighting, and a tiny bit of global bloom to both locations. I added ambient particles as well. I added light and particles, as well as more animations, to both the player's and the enemy's projectiles and teleport.

Camera! Now, the camera can shake with parameters! When the player takes damage, the camera shakes to the opposite side with a strength and duration based on the amount of damage. The player's skin now flashes white when they take damage, and the flash is brighter if the damage is high. I also added a knockback.

I finally created a cool vignette (black, semi-transparent edges around the screen). It "breathes" while idle, creates an animated effect when entering or leaving a location, and turns red and pulses if the player's health is low. I love it!

The beauty stuff is finished for now. Tomorrow will be a new day with new tasks. Like animations, state machines, and art. I need to get in touch with the artists again. See you in two weeks! [No more abandoned projects]

Hello, everyone! Time flies, right? I'll be brief this time because, after a week of rest, I started fulfilling my little dream - refactoring the whole ass project! It's a big task, but now is the perfect time. Perfect time is when the project is big, but not massive.

But what is refactoring? Imagine writing a fiction book. You can't picture the whole story yet, but you have some ideas and decide to write a few chapters. As you write, you learn and develop ideas, changing the plot and characters along the way. After some time, a sizable part of the book is ready. But it’s ugly.

That’s when you decide to proofread it, already having the whole story in mind. You're setting yourself up for a future book. That’s what I'm doing with my project now. And it turns out beautifully! 

A frightening, but manageable task is the perfect way to start the new year! Yet, I hope you guys start slowly, with chill. See you in two weeks! [No more abandoned projects]

Homelands (Windows x64) (142Mb)

Hello, everyone! I can’t believe that I’m saying this, but the Technical Demo is out. It is laggy, buggy, ugly, but I absolutely love it. Go check it out, fingers crossed it will run on your PC. The normal demo will be out in March of 2026, by the way.

The changelog of the last two weeks is absolutely massive, so I decided to not talk about it at all. I’ll just say that the last few days were hell on earth for me and I’m absolutely overworked. Anyway, I have to mention that I’ve found a new artist girl who draws porn art now! It’s kinda important.

So, let’s talk about this year! I started it with a text game Morning Coffee. Then found courage to ditch it and start a project I wanted to make all these years. It was hard, frightening, and I never expected to make it past very basic mechanics. Yet here we are! Homelands is ugly, but has goddamn potential. And after 9 months I still love working on it! And thank you all for support, of course. Really.

I need a week of extra-long Minecraft sessions with soda and chips. Then the work continues. For the first time I will be fixing, not adding. And oh boy some scripts need a complete overhaul!

Happy New 2026 Year in advance, folks! May the new year be merciful to us all. [No more abandoned projects]

Hello! As I mentioned, I wasn't able to finish the demo.. Sadly. But I managed to do something, at least!

First, the animator finished the animations for the NPC and the enemy. I added and adjusted them. Second, the artist finished the special assets for Village. I added those, too, along with grass, rocks, and other natural stuff. 

Meanwhile, I was learning Dialogic, a dialogue plugin for Godot that I mentioned a few weeks ago. So, work is progressing! Just a bit slowly... Anyway, thank you for your patience, and see you later!