PeaceIsland

We're over 30!

Over 30 frames per second on 40% of the island, and we're finding ways to raise it higher- our goal is 30FPS, over the whole island.

Working on the intro/tutorial scene

New stuff!

Here's what our priorities are, over the next few weeks.

Integration of the project into the ORK framework has begun, with the creation of the Beta menu screen:  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhRKtxLfZjY  

And we're ready to bring in the radio broadcast, now that we've solved the issue of fading ambient audio, the closer one gets to a radio:

2019-06-11 19:17:55 +0000 UTC View Post

Second draft of the Menu Screen

This is just a screenshot- the actual scene is full-motion.  Butterflies and seagulls fly, deer wander occasionally in the distance, and the rays of light shift as the trees react to the wind.

I confess that the actual menu buttons need a bit of work- they really don't fit into the postcard aesthetic.  However, for now, I'm just glad we have a solid landing place on app startup.

I forgot to mention: we have a Discord:

2019-06-09 04:13:02 +0000 UTC View Post

No Twitch for Peace Island

I regret to say that after a few trial streams, I found little about Twitch that was beneficial to the project.

Call me superstitious/hasty, but I have a "Two Strikes" policy when it comes to introducing new avenues of social media to the work we're doing.

The first Twitch Stream (in which I attempted to construct a scene for the Menu screen,) resulted in a project file being corrupted.  Thankfully- redundant backups have been standard practice.

The second twitch str...

Spent the evening creating the scene for the menu screen.