Homegrown Devlog - New Compost System!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ธ.ค. 2024
- Devlog video about "Homegrown", a casual farming game I'm creating using my own engine. Big changes to the compost system this week!
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Maybe compost from different plants adds effects to the compost so you can mix certain plant combos to make the optimal compost.
Love this!
Thanks
This is an amazing idea!
Very cool idea! I'll definitely have to think more about that :) That could work very well.
@@ThinMatrix yeah, also follows with your goal of having a bunch of fertilizers as there are gonna be a lot of plants
Congrats on the half marathon! That's an epic feat, my friend
Thank you!
@@ThinMatrixhoping for that full marathon next year, I’m currently training for one and it’s been a bit brutal haha
I have some suggestions :
For the compost color probleme you can make multiple particule of each different fertilizer instead of combining them all,
I played a minecraft mod a long time ago and there was this mechanic where each soil have diferent nutriment in it and that each plant consume different nutriment so if i wanted my plant to grow i needed to choose wich plant goes in to that soil and make some cycling to let the soil replenish by using another type of plant that consume an other type of nutriment ( Like in real life :) This brought farming to an incredible level of management and planification :)
Keep up the good work !!!! I want to play this game so bad !
This is such a good idea
JACOB COLLIER CONCERT??? Absolutely amazing, and good stuff as always, TM. Excited for this new game to come out!
You inspire me to continue programming. Keep going and dont give up!
This man provides more inspiration than anyone I know! Keep coding!
The container's design gives off solarpunk-ish vibes, honestly I feel like it suits this game!
So calming watching these devlogs!
Jacob Collier is amazing! Saw him in Barcelona recently 🎉
it makes my day when i see a new homegrown devlog!!! keep up the good work!
I love it. What if you had the little color bits in the compost have 4 separate objects. When only one modifier is added all 4 bits have the same color, when 2 modifiers are added then half will be one color and half the other. likewise 3 and 4. The default color might be the same default compost color.
Well done on the half marathon! Nice to see more progress on the game :D
You could create an upgrade system for the compost bin that adds one container at a time to the side of the compost bin as it upgrades like a progression system. I think the disconnected containers is a little weird of a concept just because it doesn’t easily translate to real life. But adding an upgrade system for the compost bin I think would make it all a bit more intuitive.
Just some thoughts! Keep up the great work!
Love the series! I have never clicked so fast on a video in my feed. Oh and congrats with completing the half marathon 😊
Thank you!
Just thought of a fun feature having grown up in a village in England:
Village Shows / Faires!
It'd be cool to be able to show off vegetables that you've grown. Perhaps you could grow freakishly large veg with different compost mixes and buffs?
It really feels nice to see how people are leaving their life to fullest and enjoying and doing what they like.... in different parts of the world... It really is nice ;) keep up the good work 😄
--Love from India
Hey! I just met you with the 10 years of game dev, and I'm loving your videos! I'm trying to start game development myself, but it is still not the time for me... But I love the process of game development, and I'll get to it someday!
I have an idea, for the compost coloring issue. Just add a few more compost particles for each color, making it easier to remember what fertilizer are there, instead of remembering every color combination. For example, if you add a green and a blue fertilizer , there will be green and blue particles on the compost!
It's a simple idea, but I think it would be helpful!
Congrats on your success, and the achievements on the marathon!
Jacob Collier is the best! I hope you enjoyed it!
Congrats on the Marathon and on the stunning progress for Homegrown! I know the UI overhaul is coming, just adding this as an suggestion:
I would highlight the compost values in green since +10% and -10% in different categories may still be desired buffs. This may also improve readability when adding possible negative effects in the future!
Thank you for sharing the progress and taking us with you on Homegrowns development journey.
Great changes to the compost system. I really like how the containers came out.
Congrats on finishing the half marathon too!
16:22 awesome feature, mate! Keep it up
And congrats on the 21k run, because I haven't reached that milestone yet
Thanks a lot :)
You have the best devlogs that I managed to find. Very impressive, keep up the amazing work and thank you!
I like how the compost looks
Looking awesome as always, also congrats on the half marathon! I have 2 small suggestions for the graphics side of the compost:
1. You could also make its so the "flakes" in the compost are a random-ish assortment of the different fertilizers. So at a glance you could see that the compost has green & yellow fertilizer by the flakes it has.
2. My suggestion for the containers of fertilizer would be to look at maybe rain barrels for inspiration! (Side note: you could also eventually make the liquid bubble passively or when it is drained)
Keep up the great work!
I think that is a great idea. The use of random a random colour will make it hard to tell what is actually in the compost when a lot of additives are created. Better to put “specs” in the soil with colors of the additives used as you will more easily remember the colors of the additive-bottles.
Thanks for the feedback! My worry with showing all the colors in the compost was that it might just look a bit too crazy and unnatural having multicolored soil everywhere. I was already a bit unsure about the single colored compost looking a bit too chemical-y, but I think with a bit if tweaking I can get it to look natural enough. But it would be that much harder with multicolored compost.
As for the containers, I think a rain barrel shape could look nice, I'll have to try it!
these are my favorite devlogs to watch great game and great editing i love it !
I love how far this has come. Just some suggestions. I think when you hover over the new nutrient containers there should be a small indication underneath each trait name to show what each one does just as a reminder to the player so they don't have to go back to the shop to remind yourself. Keep up the good work!
This new system is great! Very functional and well thought out. Congrats on the half marathon.
I love how chill these devlogs always are.
Nice job on the half-marathon, you smashed it!
It's still surreal to me to see places in my home city pop up now and again in your videos. But it's cool that you seem to like it here and congrats for finishing the marathon. Really nice to see the game coming together as well :)
Editing was fantastic, loved that half marathon segment 🎉🎉 I had been looking forward to your behind the scenes for the 10 year video!
You could add a couple additional meshes to the compost heap that get colored according to what kind of fertilizer is mixed in for the different chunks you see in the compost pile. This could lead to a natural limiting factor of how many different fertilizers you can add to a compost heap as well. You could then use the scaling mesh you made for the fertilizer containers to scale the size of the compost based on how much is there.
Maybe you could add sharp diagonal white dashes to work as a reflection on the glass. I think it could fit really well with the game's artstyle.
It's all coming together nicely! Keep up the momentum!
Congrats on the half-marathon! And here's my take on the compost system:
Though it may be harder to code, I think it would be simpler and a lot more intuitive to just have players 'pour' the compost boosters directly into the compost bins. Maybe have the effects of the boosters 'wear off' (decrease the percentage values) as more compost is taken from the bin? If this is the case then I'm not sure how the coloring would work. Maybe use an additive color system, where all boosters mixed would end up being white? Either that or do some coding magic to blend the 'randomized' colors, but I'm not sure.
The negative percents on the fertilizer tripped me up for a second, I thought they were debuffs.
I'd prefer "+30% soil water retention" rather than "-30% soil drying rate."
And congrats on the marathon! That's a huge effort ❤
Thanks, good point! I'll change that.
I am 4 seconds in and just have to say thank you.
You are actually the coolest gamedev TH-camr I know, because you actually know what you are doing and the game looks promising.
Keep doing what you're doing 👍
These videos have been even better than usual keep them up
Congrats for all your hard work! I'm new here but your story made me feel amazing, thanks for doing all that you do! Keep it up!
1:52 for your first half marathon is an amazing achievement
Thank you ^^
Brilliant work as always! Congrats on the half marathon! It's an impressive thing to do, would love to do one myself at some point!
The compost work looks great too,could be nice from an accessibility point of view to let people put names / symbols onto the heaps so they don't have to rely on colours?
Well done on the half! Very impressive time for your first race too!
Pflanzenschädlinge/-nützlinge wären eine interessante Idee und Ergänzungen zu dem Kompost System. Thumbs up wie immer!
It’s funny that you where ar the Jacob Collier Concert. I was there auswell.
Funny to see all the different areas of life cross :)
Thank you for the devlogs!!
Perhaps a smalll addition would be once an nutrition box is empty, have some drops/leaks at the bottom to indicate what liquid was in there before.
Amazing devlog
Your devlogs are such a high quality. I genuinely enjoy watching them!
Keep up the great work, my friend! 😁
Do you have any videos on the engine you created?
considering the lung issues you had that half marathon is a great achievement man good job!
it really shaping up to be great game keep up the good work
Congrats on reaching 10 years and the half marathon!
I love the idea of being able to mix your own compost, however, as you mentioned it currently looks a bit industrial / chemical.
I'm not sure if you can take any of this for your game, but I remember when working with compost IRL at my grandmothers house, that a big compost heap is a permanent thing, which you don't fill up 100% and empty 100%. You gradually add more on top and when you need some, you dig some out from the bottom and sift it into a wheelbarrow.
Only then we added other stuff to the wheelbarrow, like plain earth to make it less concentrated or hay to loosen things up and give it more long term fertility.
I can't even use Unity or Godot properly, but this man here basically makes an engine for each game. Mad respect
Ahhh I love that you love Jacob Collier! One of the best crossovers I've seen yet :)
Game’s starting too look supremely cozy!
These are so relaxing and entertaining, really love the pacing also!
Its just so inspiring and calming to watch you, you just earned a sub😊.
I think the town should sell randomly generated compost bags that you can only buy one of each and change each day, so they’ll be easier to obtain but for a slightly higher cost and the downside of not being able to choose the nutrients. That way players are not forced to get started with making compost right away and can experiment with different nutrients and combinations before they start making their own.
Excited for the release its looking so good!
Nice to see you're a jacob collier fan! Saw him in Australia back in December and loved it.
Living for the balcony updates
Hi, great video! Maybe with the compost, you could have the "soil" of the compost itself change color depending on the combination like you have it now, but perhaps the rocks could use the different given colors? So, if you have a compost heap getting pink and blue, half of the rocks would be blue and the other half pink, that sort of thing?
Great video as always! I just had an idea: To make the the UI more visually engageing you could make it so that, instead of showing an icon of the item currently in use next to the cursor, the cursor becomes a 3D model of the item.
Good work on the half marathon! Under two hours ain't so bad!
Thank you!
Great work! You could maybe add colored transpiration particles around the compost containers to highlight both, the type of the compost, and to make it even more clear that this in fact is some stinky compost.
And that's why I use Unity. I can concentrate on features of a game instead of an engine.
Congrats on your achievements 🎉
JUST FINISHED YOUR LATEST VIDEO LOVE YOUR VIDS
I think it could be neat to have additional bits in the compost for each colours fertilizer. So then you end up with a rainbow compost. Like if you tossed fruit loops cereal into it. Haha.
Ohhhh you went to see Jacob! That's so awesome
What are your thoughts on automation mechanics (e.g. automated food watering, harvesting or else) ? Do you plan on implementing something like that in the future or do you think that it wouldn't fit the style of the game? I personally love those mechanics because they make playing a game so satisfying, seeing all the tedious work you did by hand being done automatically.
I have plans for some amount of automization - sprinklers for watering for example. I don't plan on going full-Factorio though ;)
congrats on the half marathon! i just ran my first one a few months ago. it’s not easy!
Thanks, congrats to you too!
my fave devlog series!
The game look so cuteeeee!!! I need to play it soon. Also, we demand more Rufus on your videos.
Congrats on the half.
for the compost in the beds, add a little stake in a corner with the colour of the matching compost
yay new upload
Is this the first time you show your face? Glad to see the face behind the development vlogs!
Congrats on the half marathon :) I recently did the Edinburgh marathon and I think the difference with a half marathon is that it's more of a mental game (especially during the last 6 miles). I didn't feel aerobically exhausted but my joints were definitely shot by the end (perhaps a lack of training on my part). I would definitely invest in a camelbak or similar hydration solution. There were drink/gel stops on my route but for me personally I don't think they were frequent enough and it was quite a hot day when I ran it. It's worth getting used to running and eating or consuming gel pouches.
Thanks, and congrats for the Edinburgh marathon! Yeah, I think a camelbak would have been useful, it was so hot by the end and I really needed more water. Plus I found it impossible to run and drink from the cups at the same time, I think most of it got splashed over my face! For the last couple of water stations I gave up trying to run at the same time and just stopped to drink.
I'm a big Jacob Collier fan. So cool you went to see him live!
I went the Jacob Collier concert here in chicago about a month ago and it was SO good. Hope you had fun as well!
I noticed you finally switched from Eclipse to some other IDE 😅. Great video as always!
Do you know which one he is using now?
@@lonely1685 IntelliJ IDEA
I don't know if it is in scope but, I think a cooking system with all the food would be fun. :D
Nice Video, I love it that you post more frequently :)
For compos color you can just do nutrient chunks so small crystals with the color of the additive. Additional I'd like to see a more in depth system like potenbrewing in potenomics. And it would be nice if farmland itself has nutrients that deplete differently for each type of crop you plant on it. This would encourage crop rotation.
I think a core system that plays around with nutrients and maybe soul types (different locations have different soil) could bring some death to the game
An idea I thought of for the situation you mentioned where a player might not produce enough plant waste could be to add a crop like wild grass or something and have that have a very high drop rate of plant matter but not drop anything else, that way a play could have a patch of crops specifically intended to refuel the composers without the need to go buy some at the shop!
Always fun to watch your videos! Thanks for sharing with us! Greetings to the neighborhood ;)
Great video all around. Quick graphic suggestion: maybe consider putting the pipe connectors on the inside of the compost bin, too. As of now, I can't see how the liquid would reach the soil, so it's a little immersive breaking. But the system is awesome. Good job.
Thanks, I'll fix that!
I thought of a nice addition to this update: Use the connect mesh system to make a water hose sprinkle feature. Auto water plants to keep from drying out. Connect hose to the well somehow.
Man I love your channel
4:25 instead of scale, you could change the vertical position, maybe that gives out another option to try.... oh you did it XD
What about a Time System? Each day starts of at 08 am. Each action takes some time (e.g. 00:15 minutes) until the clock hits 10 pm. And between each day a profit summary shows up.
Will you be implementing day and night cycle i feel like it kinda looks bland with same lighting all the time. Alternatively adding cloud shadows could be nice
People will use your game as an actual gardening class in the future for sure!
Maybe compost additives can be created in a special fermenter with very specific plant parts?
LOVE YOUR WORK!
For the compost mixing of colours, an idea could be using a modulo in the shader to select the colour of the coloured region on the pile. That way as you add more tanks of ingredients to the pile it scales
Sub 2-hour half and then straight back to work?! That is super impressive
Nice! It made me want to play it.
Great to see you again for another video.. A suggestion from me can be the compost bin can also only support smaller nutrient containers with still 2 options, while the compost heap (bigger one) stays the same heehhe. Another is that every plant should have advantages and disadvantages to the composts to encourage variety of compost. Also is it possible to have a nutrient container be connected to two or more compost bin/compost heap, cause that somehow works with my brain.... HEHEHHEH Cant wait for the next one..
Thanks for the suggestions! And yes, it is currently possible for a nutrient container to be used be multiple compost bins/heaps.
What could be a great idea is to add the possibility to claim multiple land, pretty much like travelling between one "farm" and another. This could be very interesting for the players, adding an adventurous aspect to the game, discovering new parts of the world and specific plants & trees depending on their location and soil; the difficulty would vary depending on where in the world you are. This would increase both the interest and time put into the game.
The world could be procedurally generated, and be split into multiple biomes with each of them having positive & negative traits. (e.g. Volcanic soil is highly fertile, certain types of plants could grow over there that wouldn't otherwise. And so on.)
Take care!
Your eyes will hurt you while working on the PC because the light is coming from same direction
Just a suggestion to block the light while working to protect your eyes
You can come up with a more efficient way to simulate the contents in the containers with Blender's shape keys, where you can change its amount with a slider that ranges from 0 to 1 whilst making the container a single mesh.
For the compost fertilizer issue with colors, those tiny bumps you have on the heap, weight them so if there is one fertilizer, all are one color, if there are 2 fertilizes, half are color 1, half are color 2.
that way, the user can very quickly know if he fertilized the compost or not, just by looking how many colors (and which ones) are on the compost heap.
Will we be able to craft fertilizer bottles with our own produce?😮
I need a bit of info, why Ska-p (Spanish band I love) was in that fest???
That jingle at 3:14 is associated to game dev content for me now, just like the vsauce sound is assciated to vsauce/science content :D