Worldbuilding My Biopunk Rpg - Wrought Flesh Devlog 8

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[@lycorisdev]

Omg the yurts' color changing depending on the coordinates, it's simple but genius. My lazy ass loves this

[@barabara9855]

might have to steal that idea

[@lycorisdev]

@@barabara9855 Yes, exactly the sort of things I'd do with my own game, especially for a big world. It takes time to create a good procgen, but once it's set and tested, you can focus on the gameplay and not the level designs, or the characters or the quests... I love hearing about smart ways to quicken the development process

[@DoomRater]

It's not even the only place I've heard of this trick. Minecraft edits the grass offsets based on location as well as for some textures, it randomly rotates the texture based on location as well. Using location to randomize cosmetics is just such a good utility trick.

[@lycorisdev]

@@DoomRater True, but it left a huge impression on me

[@MasonDavies74]

I wonder if this can be done with not just colour but the scale and rotation. It would make placing trees, rocks, mushrooms, etc a lot less tedious if they changed their size and shape automatically. I imagine that would require a `tool` script rather than a shader though

[@DevDuck]

Your approach to both developing Wrought Flesh and creating devlogs is awesome. You covered so many systems in the game in this video, and it's easy to see how much thought you put into them because of how well they all fit together. Looking dope, can't wait to play!

[@kingbling7571]

speaking of devlogs, uhm, we are waiting for yours xD

[@LnkDHr]

hey it's you

[@daddylacus]

Hey, a developer I watch commenting on a developer I watch.

[@AssPriest]

The game constantly crashes and has missing missions. Very much a finished game.

[@toffeethedev]

6:50 My one nitpick here is that, I beg you to make the NPCs swap themselves out with a low LOD model that doesn't run any logic instead of vanishing completely, just so you can see them at a distance. This is all seriously awesome btw!

[@vantave9946]

I’m assuming that super small draw distance was just for demonstration purposes, in reality the pop ins/outs shouldn’t be that noticeable I think

[@lukabrasi001]

funny because they're already low poly, not sure how much more could you lower their vert count

[@cate01a]

yeah, and youd also want a solution that lets some of their code run even when they're culled, so that they can still react (to noise etc), wander after some time, and what-not. Though I guess the severity of all that is dependent on how the game plays

[@lukabrasi001]

@@cate01a you could make a VERY simple behavior of wandering place to place, very little calls. either a table of behaviors that gets randomized or something

[@gorillaz6399]

Maybe even use 2D sprites for LODs.

[@soulsmith4787]

I love the dialog interface

[@terry2295]

totally agree

[@tochka832]

it reminds me of morrowind a bit

[@terry2295]

@@tochka832 kinda I can see the simmilaritis

[@AerixArtGames]

I as well, adore it.

[@no-lifenoah7861]

It honestly has that sort of MS DOS look to it, like if MS DOS was given a few sequels without the icons of Windows 3.

[@metitfour131]

*"What would happen if you could change literally everything about your body?"* Detachable donger so I can throw it like a boomerang.

[@corporatecapitalism]

Octopus

[@TheEmeraldSword04]

I'd use Blender one-handed, as I leave one of my limbs on my cats head.

[@DingusKhann]

I'm a simple genetically modified person. I see a wrought flesh update, I click

[@Scaevola9449]

For really going in on the biopunk, consider a faction or group of people who really went hard on the body customization. I'm talking full on nonhumanoid body plan.

[@ZaptyYT]

I agree. It would also be really cool to see a subsection of people who find meaning in transplanting their brains into other creatures (birds, their friends, machines, etc.)

[@kingbling7571]

Ya upvote this right now, I can imagine a small clan of people who stuffed or overdid their body modification past the breaking point, went crazy and are hell bent on catching the main character due to his unique collection of body modification. Maybe there can be one boss guy with heavy mods in each biome who specializes in that aspect for eg. Nature biome boss has some kind of mods related to nature in his body etc

[@BRAINFOXINFINITE]

Yeah something like the mutants in Caves of Qud would be pretty cool. Can't begin to imagine how much work that would be to implement though.

[@DelrienProd]

For contrast, a faction that completely rejects modifications could be an interesting source of conflict. Think Knights Templar from Deus Ex: Invisible War, maybe with some less extreme, a bit more pragmatic members. I don't know if this idea is overdone or not, though.

[@Scaevola9449]

@@DelrienProd Human purists or even cyborgs would be a very easy shoe-in for an opposing faction to our biocultist, yes. Something like the Templars in Caves of Qud.

[@fusk7799]

for another enemy or miniboss i have an idea. the bulldo-beetle. it is a huge genetically modified, dung beetle that can pick up giant boulders and throw them at the player or charge attack. it has rather a very heavy armor and can sponge a lotta damage. lore for it is that the colonists used these beetles for digging mines and general constructions.

[@SrLupinotuum]

Uhhhh this is great, it brings memories of borderland bosses where you have to break a part of their armor in other to expose weaker flesh; having to focus damage in a single part

[@roach9397]

Honestly man you seem like you’re super talented when it comes to world building. As long as the game ends up being fun, which it looks like it’s going to be, I’d say you’re working with something special here.

[@ayyohwinning]

This game is the weirdest shit ever and I am completely in love with it

[@asd1245d]

waiting for Wrought Flesh to release, i found this kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXnQY5dprMtre7c

[@TheEmeraldSword04]

We need more games centered more on just being bat s### insane! Balance is good, but realism is tipping the scale a bit.

[@jermca]

"You don't have to deal with other people" SOLD!

[@anuel3780]

as an aromantic asexual, i can confirm

[@TheJungaBoon]

@@anuel3780 Aromantic always makes me think of aromas. Like they're very into scents

[@aztro.99]

asexuals when they see an a 🥵🥵

[@anuel3780]

@@aztro.99 a

[@Rauser142]

@@anuel3780 lol at you genetic dead end

[@tapoutluke]

The aesthetic of this game is unreal

[@6Pope9]

Actually it is Godot

[@vikocho123]

@@6Pope9 cheeky 👀

[@lukabrasi001]

unreal had a similar vibe to this back with the first game tbh

[@JoelFunk]

The game is looking incredible! Also, your editing skills are some of the best I’ve seen! The pace of your videos is perfect it’s almost impossible to stop watching.

[@hugomontenegro4374]

I'm a fan of the text-to-speech warbled dialogue. Such a cheap but effective way of making characters come to live

[@PaveruHakase]

how about for the vowels theyd cut out slightly when consonants are triggered so that they dont overlap and make it sound unnatural?

[@JanPospisilArt]

The overlap really makes it sound like two different voices. Which, cool, kind of like overtone singing. But primarily confusing.

[@PaveruHakase]

@@JanPospisilArt i mean i can do overtone singing and unless youre beatboxing its not always possible to produce a vowel and a consonant simultaneously. it does sound cool but i think its more unnatural than cool

[@aidanalls1275]

or at least some of the time cut out the vowel. Use of vocal chords in consonants is super common, but there are also many non-vocalized consonants.

[@DavidFong21]

Totally agree with this - I’m a musician and (aspiring) sound designer lol, but here’s a few things I might try: 1) determine the natural sounding break times for each of the consonants and trigger the “Oo” sound after that. This way, they can overlap a bit in a natural way. Alternately, you could try dipping the “oo” sound depending on the volume of the consonant (in the music world this is called side chain compression) 2) every now and then, insert a short gap to simulate words/sentence breaks. 3) You could use a hash function to create the random seed for the audio so that each time an npc says the same thing it sounds the same? If you’re not already doing that! By the way, super excited to play this game! Love your channel too. Great work :-)

[@feedmewifi_477]

i like the droning sound.

[@jena_thornwyrd]

There is a new feeling that hit me when I see at which point you are with this game, I feel like you really start to shape something more than "just another indie game", it feel more deep and more precise at the same time, that's awesome !

[@Skylordmario]

So you're telling me all these NPC's will be UwU'ing at me? Hell yeah

[@spacetrainbaby3737]

why would you say this

[@5xg378]

@@spacetrainbaby3737 The world needed to know, but maybe we werent ready

[@mjsugod1385]

OwO

[@htttps_trippy]

The compass text is a little hard to see with the white text, so there should probably be a semi transparent black square or something

[@Miziziziz]

good idea, will add

[@zigivo5770]

Broo I've been awaiting another devlog, I love these

[@spudhunter4384]

Cursed animal crossing is such a great sound for the dialoge.

[@lucasabratti598]

duuuuuuude... I love the yurts!! I love everything about the world... the creatures, the way you give explanations to thigns... I can't wait to be imersed in this world!!!

[@doorbell8132]

god this game looks so cool, no more karlson style games, or cartoony 3d platformers. This looks genuinely awesome.

[@Matthew-zx8cs]

I'm not sure if you've given any thought to a sound track yet but I actually really like the contrast between the chill vibes of your intro and outro music over the fast paced gunplay. The chill bumping rhythm really meshes well with the up and down movement of the character as they strafe over the dunes.

[@cblaklea9380]

I am unreasonably hyped for this, I love the setting and the style so much

[@DoubleMelonDragon]

I really love your devlogs, I usually watch em 2-3 times just because they are so great

[@eihwvz]

This shit is amazing, it's been a treat watching this game slowly come to life. Thank you for sharing such interesting ideas and how you're implementing them into you art. I can't fucking wait to play this.

[@MG-bw9hs]

sorry i cant support you on patreon but you bet im buying this game when it comes out. this is sick

[@amadoeckert3221]

The dialogue scroll sound is sick

[@0Smile0]

you're the only devlog'er i watch and you alone make me want to scrap my front-end experiences and get into game making thanks for this, and keep up the great work!

[@amuro9624]

These devlogs always give me a motivation boost to work on my own project

[@roryoconnor8959]

I love hearing about the lore man, very well thought out!

[@lepels]

I only just now found these devlogs and this is so much up my alley. I love the aesthetic of these modern PSX-style graphic games, it just tickles a very specific kind of nostalgia. Wish there were more devlogs tho, keep up the good work! The one art kit videos are also super entertaining. This is inspiring me to take a go at Godot, those courses look pretty enticing to be honest.

[@williamwallace234]

I thought Biopunk was about growing organic machines instead of building them

[@rando007]

Maybe its both

[@alexnoman1498]

To nail down any ~punk is a futile effort. Always ask for clarification, you'll be surprised constantly otherwise.

[@ChaosMechanica]

I think Solarpunk is more about that. Biopunk has always been about tweaking the body, whether for supper soldier enhancements or creating monstrosities. Some Cronenburg movies are considered biopunk. The upcoming Biomutant game seems to have biopunk elements. Choji from Naruto could be biopunk like because of his heavy use of soldier pills

[@livanbard]

@@ChaosMechanica combat drugs actually started in cyberpunk tho.

[@kpackama8985]

@@ChaosMechanica I think Shino is the biopunkest of all when it comes to Naruto. Bugs corridors inside his body? Damn

[@ResidentStump]

I love the questions you ask to build this world out. It always feels fresh

[@everydayispain6121]

i love everything about this, from the explanation, to the world building, to the animation, to the art style and even the windows xp skin

[@OrbitalfilmsAU]

It would be interesting to explore identity concepts in this - like if you can "choose" who you're attracted to and other parts of your identity that you're born with what is your "true" identity - the parts you choose or the parts you're born with? Can someone else alter the identity of other people and how does this affect them? Is it "cruel" to do so if they think of a change someone else made as part of their own identity? Is it "cruel" to remove that part of their identity if they don't wish it to be?

[@SpiritOvSkyyyy]

im a first year in college learning game dev, all this is very insightful and the game itself looks very cool. have been following since the first couple devlogs.

[@charlieloffler4713]

Having photosynthesis opens up more world-building ideas like different types of food that can give significant buffs or just unique lifestyle habits like farming nitrogen (idk). 😆

[@Soratern]

YO miziziziz do you want me to design some clothes for the colonists?

[@Queezz]

Well

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

I better tell this to the children of the future that this is Cyberpunk 2077.

[@benjaminburns4412]

Nah fam cruelty squad. This will stand on it's own

[@Silent_Library]

Can’t wait to play the final product. Really neat to see how it’s changed over time.

[@AerixArtGames]

I can’t even begin to tell you what an inspiration you’ve been to me this year, lately I’ve been rewatching a lot of your videos as I grow closer to doing consistent dev logs of my own, you are the reason I’ve been able to wake up enough to even consider I could be capable and just wanted to thank you for that, here. Keep it up always.

[@gamesplusjames]

That was really interesting to see the world-based choices for the characters' designs and their motivations. Great videos as always!

[@kinoko6096]

This looks so awesome. I can’t wait until it’s released, it looks so fun to play and explore.

[@eliiannuzzo1294]

This project just gets better & better every month, keep up the amazing work Miziziziz! Only feedback would be to prevent the vowels & consonants from overlapping.

[@GoblinDepartment]

The NPC-loading trick is very clever and I will definitely use that in the future! Great vid.

[@dennisnordlund902]

Been following since the first dev log and I just gotta say, I can’t wait to play this! I just love the aestethic and the gameplay!

[@CanadianCat64]

I found this vid through the survival horror vid you did and this looks really cool, I love the quake like movement its very uniqe in an RPG and the world design looks super cool, I cant wait to see the finished product someday!

[@ObviousDev]

The windows xp UI is a mood. Anyways another great devlog - love your approach regarding world building.

[@chayyse3920]

This looks great. Inspires me to actually develop my own game idea i have been planning for a while. You make the process seem more feasible than i expect and It gives me confidence.

[@elchubacabra2840]

When you do other biomes I think it would be cool to do something strange like a mushroom forest or a goo swamp with plants that grow eyes. I can tell there will will be more typical biomes, but I imagine you could think of something very strange and imaginative. Anyhow, the work you do is awesome, so thank you for keeping us up to date.

[@damianmiguel2846]

This is amazing, the idea is creative, I love these types of graphics and I think many other people like the graphics. The fact that you could custimize your own body is amazing

[@loren9808]

I’ve been following your dev logs for a while and this game looks fantastic I cannot wait for it to be finished.

[@theoneface8551]

I think it would be cool if instead of the organs having a durability system they would decompose and if they are fully decomposed they would start damaging you until you take them out

[@--jefree--]

My scheduled appointment for becoming interested in developing a game and coming up with cool ideas from your inspiration before overthinking and giving up.

[@xororo936]

Your art stile is so unique, i loved!

[@GamesBySaul]

Wow this was incredible, the desert area looks really amazing and at the same it looks so isolated it's a place that can give chills by looking at it, nice work :)

[@bryancornejo3672]

I had an idea for a critter of some sort! A parasitic wasp that has an attack that injects an egg into your body which you remove before it hatches otherwise it does a ton of damage and spawns a (weak) larva enemy. I figure it’d be interesting to have to prioritize either finishing a fight and removing the egg from your body once your safe or during a fight by standing still and removing it while your vulnerable. Maybe you could get a powerful organ from the larva if you allow it to spawn, the wasp enemy itself could also drop an organ that modifies your finger gun to inject enemies with parasites of your own. Lore wise I like to imagine it was something that was built for war but was ultimately outlawed due to its horrific nature but obviously bandits are less inclined to follow such “conventions”. I just want to say as well your a great inspiration and it’s projects like this that really get my own creative gears turning with all sorts of ideas that I wish I had the confidence to make into reality!

[@reddeath707]

Became a supporter because of this vid, it's incredibly creative and unique. Looking forward to future updates!

[@paneri4322]

the dialogue text to speech sounds so strangely good...

[@daddylacus]

This is soooooo cool. I can't wait to play this game. I'm just getting into gameDev but watching you has given me some good good inspo. Keep up the good work.

[@haydennorris2913]

The other day I was discussing level design in star wars battlefront 2 (2005) with my brothers and we all agreed the best maps gave an option to fight through a narrow corridor or be in a large and dangerous exposed area. The worst maps had command posts/enemy spawn points spread evenly throughout and an amorphous globular shape and we're all wide open area. The best maps were winding corridors or multi level maps. Because of the speed and fluidity of gameplay you may want to consider adding wall running/sliding/ modern titanfall2 3d shooter mechanics.

[@cb2818]

The language system is super cool and I love how your bring in all these different interesting disciplines to your games. I am really excited to check this out

[@autumnhecatemoon]

Love the ingenuity of the structure's colour changing, minecraft uses a similar system for rotation of textures based on their position in the world, which could possibly be adapted into a slight variation in model for the structures. Maybe washing lines or solar panels could be added as model variations which then could be randomised similarly based on coordinates? Love the content so far, and I can't wait to play this one day.

[@duduken20]

This will be a hit. Too many good ideas fitting together.

[@gavin5402]

i love the sound of the green people when u use text-to-speech

[@zhifez]

The mechanic of setting random house colour by world position is dope man~! I'm gonna steal that. XD

[@simjans7633]

I would switch the capsule burning shot and the final zoom into the planet shot in your intro because the capsules don't burn until after they've entered the atmosphere.

[@LinkLegend0]

I just got your udemy courses from the link, looking forward to getting into making games, thanks for sharing dude.

[@coldstar5352]

I'm learning computer programming in school atm(Java, Python, C#,HTML) and find your videos inspiring for me to get into learning Unity. Cheers! GL to your game!

[@ReanuKeeves7716]

this game is really starting to look good, keep up the good work

[@NamidaSai]

Damn that was a great devlog. Think it’s the first time I watch someone talking about optimisation and making me completely captivated by it. Also, world building is SO fun!

[@charolettebacon6740]

I just stumbled upon this. This is my new favourite thing. I also have a weird idea. Maybe you can loot limbs off of enemies that lets you, for example, run faster or let you hold more weapons in your inventory. And maybe, if you ever add wielding and firing multiple weapons into the game, to be able to triple or maybe even quad wield weapons.

[@stealcase]

This is amazing dude. You've embraced the style and it looks amazing, and I was thoroughly interested throughout the video.

[@Barquevious_Jackson]

While the animals crossing sounds are groovy, they need a little audio remixing so the pops and hisses mix better with the 'ooo' sounds. I'd also give all voices a audio channel so you can adjust them separately from the rest of the sounds.

[@ezrawallet]

I agree, a nice transparent compressor and a multi-band de-esser should do the trick in terms of “gluing” everything together

[@mskpvl612]

So! You decided to really add the RPG into "Action RPG"! The game now looks so much more rich with this content you've added! Now it literally feels like an RPG! Now I want to play it

[@anton8064]

wow this is shaping up to be a real good game. I was worried there wouldn't be enough variety, but from all I've seen so far and the promise of other biomes, I'm not worried anymore.

[@baitposter]

Man, that text-to-speech is pretty good. Hope someone makes something like that for OpenMW Morrowind. New engine, new possibilities.

[@Facebook-gr3ku]

Always happy when I see your game dev videos

[@segatendo4705]

Damn… do I want to play this game. This man’s living my fantasy of making my own 2000s style game one day. Shit, Imma getting started tomorrow!!! Thanks for the inspiration!

[@pchris]

The most disappointing part of this video is the part where it ends 😂 I love this series

[@theonlycatonice]

You are an amazing source of inspiration and motivation

[@padawan95001]

Please god, add a threshold to the damage you can do before the colonists attack you. Nothing is worse than having to retry a fight because you accidentally nicked a friendly in the middle of the action and now you have to kill off an entire once-friendly village.

[@ForlornCreature]

Keep up the great work dude can’t wait to see how the final game turns out

[@axps4964]

It so weird that that kind of art style awake so much emotions and nostalgia in me

[@mellinghedd267]

first 30 seconds I see of this game makes me think it's some amalgamation of Ultrakill/general arena shooters, Kenshi, Morrowind, New Vegas, & the space bit reminds me of outer wilds (though I get the hunch that's not as influential). I think I'm gonna be in for a good time.

[@Badabingu]

So far this has the makings of a easier to get into 'Cruelty Squad' I'm excited to see what you do next with it!

[@Vattsu]

Funny I saw you making this game before ever playing Cruelty Squad. But now I can't unsee the similarities between your game and CrueltySquad.

[@FoxRodhes]

I love text to speech done like this since I've played Okami in my childhood. Been putting my own version in almost all of my game jam games.

[@lucascoval828]

You already sound like a better writer than the guys who worked on the new Star Wars films. Always important to ask "why" to help stay on track.

[@darkstrideisi3346]

Maybe the older people would turn orange, red and yellow, kinda like how the leaves of a tree when they start to die

[@Miziziziz]

😳 very cool idea

[@ianthebee2301]

This is what i love about these devlogs. He only posts when he has a lot of content to share.

[@lambbrainz709]

I hate devlogs like this because now I wanna see the next one already lol Great job! Can't wait to see what's next

[@REDbird5]

cool devlog I think it's cool your making all this in godot this makes love godot more than I already do

[@P01z3n_ivy]

Give this guy more funds. This game is turning out to be even better than I ever anticipated.

[@kommisarreid821]

Just throwing a few ideas out there, hopefully something sticks. (Full disclosure, I'm not a game dev, but I have plenty of experience with homebrewing content for tabletop RPGs) Thoughts on organ durability: I enjoy the organ durability degrading over time, but for harder to get organs, I believe a more interesting approach would be these rare organs don't have durability, instead they have different effects based on the character's adaptation to that specific organ. Since you mentioned bandits raid the derelict ships for military hardware, an adaptation module (Think the large tubes used to store aliens in movies) has a random chance to spawn based on the encounters difficulty. For example, a bandit encounter of 1-4 would have a 20% chance to spawn an adaptability module. The function of the module itself would be to further adapt rare organs or monster organs, each rank of adaptability increasing the current effects, or adding new effects (maybe an adaptation tree of some sort?) As a side note, elite enemies would be a cool addition, dropping similar organs to their baseline counterparts, but with added unique effects. Player progression: Since this is an RPG, it only feels right that there's some sort of progression system. However, instead of levels, the player receives boosts based on the number of a specific group of organs metabolized (used until durability reaches 0). This would make swapping organs desirable, as well as discourage the player from using nothing but rare organs (if the prior idea is utilized). A rough example of this would be if the player metabolizes 5 lumps of fat, the health boost is increased by 10%. Maybe "perks" could also be unlocked, based on the mix of organs in the body. A few examples include Chimera being a mix of human and monster organs, Pureblood being all organs looted from humans, and Monstrous from using all organs looted form monsters. Below is a list of monster ideas! Screaming Trees: A brutal punishment thought up by bandits in their Killfuck-fueled psychosis. The victim is turned into a stationary, tree like form with their bodies twisted beyond recognition. Used as a food source, growing flesh-fruit that the bandits eat. It attacks by flinging it's Gib-fruits at you, and lets out an AOE scream attack when you get too close (think Sirens from killing floor) Hard to kill, but cannot move, vulnerable to fire. Lackeys: Another punishment created by the bandits, mixing Oxen DNA with their own. Their intelligence is stunted, with a constant flow of adrenaline and killfuck. Since they are constantly in a berserking state, they are kept in large metal containers, being released when the fight starts. Fleshstitchers: A faction of extreme bio hackers who drove themselves insane, they are now a mass of various limbs, eyes, and mouths. They travel in herds, and will attempt to grab the player, pulling them into on of their many mouths and begin eating them. There's plenty more I've thought up, but I feel this comment is already long enough. I love what I've seen so far, and I'm excited to see where it goes!

[@Grisznakerio]

The thing i like the most about this projects is, that its not grimdark like we get all the time lately.

[@nativechatter999]

I think a biopunk explanation for the innate compass would be cool

[@BlazertronGames]

This game's coming along really nicely, I feel like it will be one of the first big popular 3d godot games!

[@fulsame1]

I mean, cruelty squad exists

[@jordanmarturano3033]

So glad I checked back in can’t wait till it’s done