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MyRobot Development Part 87 - VR part 2 of 3

Preferred VR Play Style POLL

MyRobot Development Part 86 - VR part 1 of 3

The Big Enchilada!

MyRobor Development Part 85 - Teasing and More Animations!

MyRobot Development Part 84 - Steam and Kickstarter Work

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This week:

• Steam Work

• Kickstarter Backer Fulfillment

Steam Work

So for all Kickstarter backers, a Steam Beta is meant to go live this week which is the beta before the game is complete and goes on sale on Steam. So a lot of backend and preparatory work had to be done to ma...

MyRobot Development Part 83 - Quality of Life Part 2 of 3

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This week:

• Self Host Offline AI Text to Speech

• Rebindable Controls

• Steam Workshop Integration

Self Host Offline AI Text to Speech

So this one has been in the works for a while, and it's a big one. You can now host your own TTS AI models completely offline us...

MyRobot Development Part 82 - Quality of Life Part 1 of 3

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This week:

• Quality of Life Improvements Part 1

• Preparing for VR

Quality of Life Improvements Part 1

So this goes hand in hand with the upcoming VR update. First, I need to make sure that the game feels good, is free of major bugs, and generally feels very fun to play. I'm ...

Happy New Year!

Development resumes next week due to all the holidays!

MyRobot - Winter Update (December 2025 Build)

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Winter themed biome has been added as well as new items and characters to speak to. Changelist:

• Added tundra biome

• Added scarf

• Added jetpack

• Added snow clan

• Added slippery ice mechanics

• Reworked player physics

• Reworked robot camera physics

• Left click while piggybacking now automatically commands robot to pickup/interact

• 50 new lore dialog l...

  2025-12-21 01:51:19 +0000 UTC View Post

MyRobot Development Part 81 - Preparing for Release!

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This week:

• Preparing for Ice Biome update release!

Preparing for Ice Biome update release!

So this update comes with:

1. new clothing items

2. new wearable robot upgrades

3. new robot clan

4. new quests

5. new tundra biome

   2025-12-18 02:06:41 +0000 UTC View Post

MyRobot Development Part 80 - Slippery Ice!

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This week:

• Slippery Ice

• Finishing Tundra

Slippery Ice

I wanted to add slippery ice because I feel as it that would make the level design more interesting. It also introduces the mechanics for speeding up A LOT by just running on it in a single direction. It's very fun ramp...

MyRobot Development Part 79 - Jetpack and Snowfights!

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This week:

• Snowball Fights

• Jetpack

Snowball Fights

Snowball fights are a fun feature where robots will start throwing snowballs at each other if they are hit with a snowball. Snowballs trigger all sorts of hit animations and random movements so that they look like they are...

MyRobot Development Part 78 - Extreme Weather Mechanics!

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This week:

• Fun Biome Features

• Weather Hazards

Fun Biome Features

So I added 4 new animations for the desert and tundra biomes. I expect to add more but this feels much better now that robot's idle animations change depending on where they are.

Additionally the tundra...

MyRobot Development Part 77 - Starting Snow Biome

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This week:

• Winter Biome Planning

Winter Biome Planning

So because the game is starting to get real close to being finished, some work was finalized for older features of the game. Namely, the initial spawn base has been moved! That's right, you no longer spawn at that same cave, well you...

YouTube Premiere this Friday!

Shows off what's new and what's coming!

MyRobot - Multiple Robots Update (November 2025 Build)

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Multiple Robot support has been added along with several NPCs and quest lines. Talk to them! Find them first! Fight them! Do silly stuff! Plus a bunch of new items and character customizations to find!

Multiple Robots Update 11/4/25

• Added Multiple Robot controls (R to select your party)

• Reworked controls (E is poking now)

• Huge optimizations (new graphics menu options)

• Added item outlines

  ...
  2025-11-04 23:45:25 +0000 UTC View Post

Next Update Releases Tuesday!

In the meantime, Happy Halloween! Then we start on the next updates, VR and Winter Biome!

Stay tuned! 🎃🎃🎃

MyRobot Development Part 76 - Preparing For Release

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This week:

• Clan Behaviors

• Preparing For Release Next Week

Clan Behaviors

So now that we have multiple robots, I wanted to add a couple clans for the game. A clan is just a group of robots that hang out together in a certain location. You can talk to them, and if you talk t...

MyRobot Development Part 75 - Fighting Behaviors

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This week:

• Fighting Behaviors

• Kickstarter Backer Hall of Fame

Fighting Behaviors

So this was the last piece for the Multiple Robots update. The fighting mechanics:

You can select multiple robots and choose Group Fight and they will all fight each other.

Or you ...

MyRobot Development Part 74 - Crowd Interactions

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This week:

• Automatic NPC to NPC Interactions

• Map Work

Automatic NPC to NPC interactions

So the bottleneck for these kinds of interactions is actually the AI. By default, NPCs will not speak more than 3 chains of pure NPC chats to prevent them from talking forever and eatin...

MyRobot Development Part 73 - Crowds of Robots!

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This week:

• Robot Optimizations

• New Controls

Robot Optimizations

Okay so the goal is to have as many robots on screen as possible (minimum of 10) with the best most acceptable framerate (minimum of 60). In came the initial benchmarks: they were TRASH. Since the game was des...

MyRobot Development Part 72 - Starting Multiple Robots!

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This week:

• Preparing for Multiple Robots

• Identifying Feature List

Preparing For Multiple Robots

So before I even start this month long incursion into multiple characters, I need to do some code refactoring and create tooling to easily test this new game feature.

At t...

MyRobot - Beach Update (September 2025 Build)

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Beach Biome is here as well as A BUNCH of new items and behaviors:

Beach Update - 9/16/25

• Added princess carrying

• Added shoulder carrying

• Improved robot water malfunction mechanics

• Robot can now swim on water for a little bit

• Added Beach Biome

• Added Military attention behaviors (Ten hut! Salute, etc.)

• Added bikini

• Added swimsuit

• Added...

  2025-09-17 01:22:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Slighty Delay by 1 Day for Release

YouTube showcase vid and the update drops tomorow!

MyRobot Development Part 71 - New Upgrades!

NEXT BIG UPDATE COMES OUT NEXT WEEK!

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This week:

• Water Upgrades/Items

• Return of the Texture Generator

Water Upgrades/Items

So, the hoverboard can now be upgraded to surf on water. This is great for faster travel because you can maintain your top surf ...

MyRobot Development Part 70 - Beach Clothing!

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This week

• Beach Clothing

• Photo Behaviours

Beach Clothing

Can't have a beach update without beach clothing in a doll simulator. So I've made the following pieces (some were asked by the Kickstarter people):

• Onepiece

• Bikini top

• Bik...

  2025-09-04 02:41:58 +0000 UTC View Post

MyRobot Development Part 69 - Beach Behaviours!

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This week:

• Beach Behaviours

• Beach Biome

Beach Behaviours

So there are a few and they are all 90% complete:

1. Suikawari: Watermelon smashing game where you have to blindfold the contestant and guide them with words to where the watermelon is where they will then sl...

   2025-08-28 01:22:09 +0000 UTC View Post

MyRobot Development Part 68 - MORE BEHAVIOURS

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This week. I got a lot done:

• Crawling & Self-Repair

• Handholding

• Carrying

Crawling & Self-Repair

So crawling has been on the todo list for a while and I figured it was a good time to start it now since I needed to add behaviours for multiple robots. Why ...

MyRobot Development Part 67 - New Behaviours

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This week

• Drill Commands

• Polaroid Camera

Drill Commands

So this month it's nothing but adding behaviors. All upcoming behaviors were picked to work alongside a beach themed biome and the multiple robots update.

First one is drill commands and will work excellently with multipl...