The stylized fixed camera for the tree was hindering the core gameplay, it was harder to controll the character while choppping and colltecting the new pick ups ( prototype blue here).

So the camera had to go. The Counter is now on the tree and rotates around it to always face the player.

Never thought I use this stuff for anything. So I had to learn(re-learn) school stuff, in order to spawn the future power ups around a target on a circle radius.

Got much better with shaders last month, still a long way to go….
As this messy results shows.

Working on Peon AI. Right now they patrol between boat and tree but will soon also go their shelter and saw. I think about having an energy value for them making them go to their home take a nap if they are low on energy , increasing their gain afterwards.

Added the ship scrolls into the broken part of the ship.
Its where the player choses the next thing to build, these options appear in scroll form.

Sebastian worked with me at the company sMeet he is the lead artist there.
He also sells this desert asset pack via the unity assetstore which I bought for the palm mainly.
Also he created the shipwreck specially for me a while ago.

Added more enviroment and some water experiments.
Not happy yet but lets keep on trieng.

For style and performance reasons I will not use realtime shadows.
Using the so called „blob“ shadows.

Also I removed a lot of details from the main orc texture, while most other characters and enviroment anyways use vertex colors or a minimal 32×32 pixels gradient texture.

Also the Orcs 3d (Working title) will have a day and night circle as Orcs X had.

On this screenshot I have not yet implemented the blob shadow yet!