r/Vexalia

My creatures are assembled from modular voxel parts rather than being single meshes. Originally, that was just a way to get more variety out of a small library. It ended up becoming the foundation of the fusion system.

Two Vex go into the forge and one comes out carrying a part from the other, grafted onto its own body: head, torso, tail, wings. The transferred part is actual geometry, so the result is visibly descended from both creatures.

The bit I keep going back and forth on is that the player doesn't choose which part transfers. It rolls, and some grafts are much rarer than others.

I like the idea that you can plan a fusion and still be surprised by it. But that's easy to say as the developer and harder to defend once someone loses a creature they liked to a bad roll.

Anyone else built inheritance on top of modular parts? Curious how you handled the player agency side.

Eleven arenas from the creature collection RPG I am building on my own. Two seconds each, one continuous orbit, cut at matching points in the movement so it reads as a single take.

I am curious whether the cuts hold up for anyone else or whether you can all see the seams.