u/zoltiecodes

This is the cabin you start with in Pinewater, my cozy fishing game. When you first arrive it's dirty, damaged and abandoned, but as you play you can slowly clean it up, repair it and make the place feel like home.

I really love games where you can see a place gradually change because of the things you've done, so I wanted that to be part of the progression in my game too, without making it feel like a bunch of chores.

There's still a lot I want to add, but this is pretty close to the feeling I want the game to have. :)

Pinewater is currently in development and is on Steam if you'd like to check it out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3464790

If you have any feedback or suggestions, I'd be really grateful to hear them! :)

So I had an idea that I should postpone the announcement trailer to do one thing: add cute ducks to make the trailer feel more alive.

I worked for an entire day to make them behave naturally (I always see ducks when I'm out fishing irl, so I know what I wanna see), so I added group movement and group behaviour. I also made them slowly keep their distance from the player and fly away when the player gets too close.

You could say this was overengineered for the purposes of the trailer but... yeah, that's right. 😄

After I was done, I recorded the footage, edited the video for like 3 hours, rendered it and uploaded it to YouTube to watch it on my TV.

That's when I realized that the ducks don't show up ANYWHERE in the video. Not even in the raw footage I recorded. 🎉

If you're curious, you can watch the trailer on the Steam page here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3464790?utm_source=reddit