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WE DID IT!🎆& Important Announcement

So yesterday when we launched the Kickstarter I said "Ok let's see how this goes but I'm gonna treat it as if it's not successful", so the development plan was just "let's just continue going with a February Release.

But then I checked in the first hour and it was almost $2k, I said "woah".

Then I checked a few more hours later and it was nearly $6k in like 5 hours.

Then I said "holy shit this might actually make it". So then development schedule started to slowly adjust as ...

🎊KICKSTARTER IS LIVE!🎊

REFUNDS AND KICKSTARTER!

Our Kickstarter is live! Go check it out! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sgthale/myrobot

In an effort to help the Kickstarter as much as possible, if you are a current member we are going to refund your current $5 or $9 tier!

😋If the Kickstarter succeeds: We are dropping our tier prices to $2

😐 if the Kickstarter fails: We are resuming the P...

🤖Local AI Hosting Tutorial - MyRobot

This is for January 2025 Build and above, older builds do NOT work with this.

🔠Local Text Generation

You can generate text responses (Offline and FREE) locally without internet connection using any OpenAI-Standard web API front end (Kobold, Oobabooga, LLMStudio, etc.). See Setting up an LLM (Text Generation) below.

📢Local Voice Generation

Undertale (Offline and FREE): repeating ...

January Build Release

Download link below!

WEW. This month was super busy with the addition of the Kickstarter which comes out this Saturday! If you are a $5/$9 member you will be fully refunded the month of the Kickstarter so you can help there instead! More details on this in another official post.

JANUARY BUILD COMES WITH:

• Emotions

• Poking

• Brainwashing (type in...

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January Build Trailer

January build is complete! The trailer drops tomorrow and the build comes out on Wednesday. Things it includes:

• Emotions

• Laughing

• Poking

• Map Scan

• Kobold LLM gen support

• Some new Clothing Accessories

• Bug Fixes

• Improvements

• And more!

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MyRobot Development Part 46

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

• Boombox

• Laughing

Boombox

 The boombox is a very simple object with play/stop and 5 music buttons. The 5 buttons correspond to the 5 songs that this game will have (hopefully if the Kickstarter is successful!). Each song will also have its own small dance for your robot to perform. Thi...

🎆KICKSTARTER!🎆

🎆🎆We are launching our Kickstarter SOON!🎆🎆

We hope we can fund VR and a proper Steam Release!

💣[CLICK HERE TO NOT MISS IT!]💣

What does this mean for Patreon users? Read below:

The month we launch the Kickstarter, we will refund all $5 and $9 tiers so that you guys can use those funds for...

MyRobot Development Part 45

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

• Poking

• Emotional Behaviors

• Prompt Assist

Poking

 The new animation pipeline is awesome, I was able to make 16 new animations each with their own logic, tweaks, and facial animations, in ONE WEEK. And so the new poking behavior is a new system that comes...

MyRobot Development Part 44

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

• Mini Map

• Emotions

• Session Improvements

Mini Map

The Mini Map will be used to navigate around the large map. It current displays nearby presents, iridium, fast travel points, and other robot heads (in case you lose yours somehow).

It's a ve...

December Build Release

(DOWNLOAD LINK BELOW)

Yey! I did another huge pass on improvements and bugfixes. Read the changelog but the overview is: better controls (no mode middle mouse), bugfixes, and new processor upgrade mechanics! Oh and multiplayer messages so you can leave around messages for other users.

The game is starting to feel like a proper game. The game loops are slowly but surely connecting with each other and becoming cohesive. And the controls are way way better this time around. Hope you ...

MyRobot Development Part 43

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

• Upgrade Abilities Implementation

• Multiplayer Messages

• Preparing For Release

Upgrade Abilities Implementation

I hooked up the new upgrade system to the robot abilities. These serve as quality of life improvements and most will not be required for traversing c...

MyRobot Development Part 42

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

• Robot Upgrade System

• Software Changes

• Revisiting November Update

Robot Upgrade System

This is adding another fun level of complexity to the robot. If you ever wanted to improve how fast the grapple hook reels in or maybe how fast it can run, surf, or maybe e...

November Build Release

Link Below

Changelog in the link below as well. Ok so this update is pretty big. The map is now easily twice the size it was before and I cleaned out the entire backlog of bugs. There are a ton of new features including but not limited to:
New menus for:

• Graphics

• Input

• Microphone

• AI Voice Changing

• Member Services (AI Access)

• Help

• Language

The menu to connect to patr...

Server location

We are currently only hosting in the USA but we are looking into setting up a server in the EU. Where are YOU?

November Build Trailer

November build is complete! I added an entire new map zone with tons of fun stuff and secrets! Also I finished the entire backlog of bug reports.

MyRobot Development Part 41

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

• Pause Menu

• UI Improvements

• Primitive Larva Husbandry

• Bug Report Tool First Impressions

Pause Menu

This was badly needed. Previously everything was thrown into the Achievement Menu and that didn't make any sense. It was also ugly! But alas we h...

MyRobot Development Part 40

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

• Ongoing Tremendous Project Success

• Planning November

• Pause Menu

Ongoing Tremendous Project Success

 This project doubled twice in the past 20 days! And the trajectory is PARABOLIC! Where is this project going? It's going towards "First Massively Success...

October Build Release

Link below

This build feels very good. It's a lot more streamer friendly too! Framerate is WAY better, less bugs, the larvae don't lag, and map is slightly more organized, and graphics are better too! Also surfing is FUN.

Make sure you try out the QuickSave (F5)/QuickLoad (F6) so you can unstuck yourself whenever.

There is a new bug report tool (F12) allowing you to take screenshots and notify me automatically!

The auto head jack is very handy for connecting your robot...

October Update drops Monday!

I've been doing TONS of bugfixes and optimizations along with some new features!

Tune in for the premiere!

MyRobot Development Part 39

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

• WE WENT VIRAL!

• Multi-language Support

• Bug Report Tool

• Optimizations

WE WENT VIRAL!

WOO. This video by an unknown user racked up 30k views which lea...

MyRobot Development Part 38

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

• Hoverboard

• Misc Features

Hoverboard

The hoverboard is super fun! As I said a while back, there are two pillars for the game design for MyRobot: exploration and character behaviours.

The previous month was a character behaviour update, this month it's an exploration up...

MyRobot Development Part 37

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

• Camera Stability Fixes

• Beginning Surfboard

Camera Stability Fixes

First, the dummy character you see is a complete work in progress but I do want to represent you, the player, in a very simple way.

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September Build Release

Character customization is now a third complete. Hair and facial properties were important. Next on the customization list is varying animations depending on the mood (sad/happy) and mood-based AI responses. This will be for another update later on.

Update Premiere video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfoR5RPuU2w

Free/Old versions can be downloaded at 2024-10-06 17:29:16 +0000 UTC View Post

September Update drops tomorrow!

Tune in for the premiere!

MyRobot Development Part 36

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

• Polish

• Bugfixing

Polish

This week I improved and did minor tweaks to the new behaviours and items for the Slice of Life update. This is because next week I am planning to release this update!

One very useful new improvement was making the robot stand still whe...

MyRobot Development Part 35

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

• Paint Gun

• Hair Comb and Scissors

Paint Gun

Paint gun is really cool. I wrote a shader that mimics having a liquid inside and applied some fake physics to make it look like the liquid moves whenever you move the can. This was achieved with some signed distance ...

MyRobot Development Part 34

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

• Eyeball Behaviours

• Customizable Eyes

Eyeball Behaviours

The purpose of this update was to continue the Slice Of Life's robot customization part of the update. So for the robot to have customizable eyeballs, I wanted the ability to remove, change, and put back ...

MyRobot Development Part 33

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

• Hair Stylist Scissors

• New Hair Features

• Washing Machine Behaviour First Look

Hair Stylist Scissors

The scissors are a very simple and easy to use tool that will allow you to become a hair stylist! By moving near any wig, the scissors will highlight a ...

MyRobot Development Part 33 Delayed

No development post this weekend. Continuing regularly scheduled programming next week!

MyRobot Development Part 32

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

• Hyper Realistic Finger Grabbing

• Physics Woes

Hyper Realistic Finger Grabbing

This was needed because the robot was not able to actually wrap its fingers around objects. It merely added a joint to glue the hand and the grabbed object together. But this now prov...