Progress
We've been receiving tons of new 3D models and animations for some familiar faces! Here's a look at the progress for one of Shovelbutt's idle animations:
Here’s another for Kodoki’s jump:
One of the team's favorite parts of development is watching our kinfolk come to life like this. We hope you’re excited about it too! There’s lots more where this is coming from!
A member of the design team has started generating ideas for puzzles both in and out of the game.
We've recently started using new methods to generate terrain for the game using real-world data. This is especially exciting because it will drastically lower the amount of time it takes to create the world map, without sacrificing quality or level of detail!
The VFX team has been hard at work generating new effects for attacks and abilities! Here’s a peek at one of the abilities:
The development team is using Unity's new DOTS Game Development Technology to allow for massive open worlds. This will be incredibly helpful for building an open world with optional co-op and advanced environment interactions!
Community
Starting next Wednesday, we’ll be making weekly posts to our Instagram and Twitter! We hope to give you even more interesting insights to the game’s development process this way.
The music contest ended earlier this week, and we were blown away by the results! Some of the songs are now on the devs’ personal work playlists, and we’re so proud of all the hard work and talent in our community.
We’ll be posting the final results this Sunday, May 10 at noon EST.
You can cast your votes for the fan favorite on the announcements channel of the Discord!
We have 2 new streams coming to our Twitch channel in the next few weeks!
Our next round of Chill with the Devs will be next Friday, May 15 at 3:00pm (15:00) EST! We'll be playing more Jackbox games with both new and old faces (voices?). You can submit your ideas for Quiplash prompts on our discord!
Kindred Talks 3 on May 29 will feature GymLeaderEd as our guest! GymLeaderEd is a gaming YouTuber who has been following Kindred Fates and creating some fantastic videos about the game! We’re so excited to get to talk with him!
Crank’s stream on the Fan Twitch channel this week was a ton of fun- artists had 1 hour to draw Nyazen pushing something off of a table while community members discussed several kinfakes from the Discord.
The Faters are looking for suggestions from the community! What do you think the next stream should be about? You can drop your suggestions at the Fan Discord channel
Thanks for checking in with us! We’ll see you next time, on May 22nd!
