Development Update: Stream Campaign & Base Model!

Hey everyone! 👋

I wanted to give a quick update on where the funding from the StreamElements campaign is going and show you what we’ve been working on. Thank you again to everyone who supported the stream!

Right now, the funds are going directly into the development of Alpaca Picnic. I recently hopped on a call with Curricle to get a base model going for the alpacas. I like to foster a collaborative environment and body doubling is a very useful practice for when one must get something done but lacks the motivation to sit to task.

Making a game is quite an interative process. Here’s some images curricle just doodling about trying to get warmed up for alpaca actions. Sometimes, because life get’s busy, there is sometimes alot of time in between developement and while curricle did actually supply a prototype model for use in my alpha version of the game (which you can find here), we kind forgot how that was structured and moved on.

We don’t know really *who* this alpaca is yet, but he was blessed with a name by Kaybee and Curricle. We really like his look but he certainly isn’t how we want all the alpacas to look.

First, we’re trying to define a basic form that we can use when starting to create alpacas. This design is meant to be generic and the idea is to eventually tack on other features.

During the process, I make some notes about how I think the form should be generally. I screenshot and upload and curricle immediately gets it. Then begins the iterative process.

Here is a full image of how iterative this process is.

I do need to ask the community, though: does everyone think the booty on these alpacas needs to be larger? :3

Check out the game here with our current assets to see how it’s all coming together: https://waplagames.com/games/alpaca-picnic/alpaca-picnic-styled.html

(For those curious about the deeper design direction and core aesthetics, there is a file you can reference named “Alpaca Picnic”.)