Arthur 'Mr. Podunkian' Lee

After working on some tropical fruits suggested by my Discord, my girlfriend, who often has, hmm... "creative" ideas, said I should add a "Durian that you can make into a weapon." While I haven't added a "stink gun" (???), as she suggested, I thought Durian would be fun to add.

I occasionally dip back into the WASTED discussion boards and it warms my heart to see you're (still) actively interacting with people about their suggestions and issues with it. You're a real one, king bore!!

I made some changes to how farm animals produce items. It's no longer a "this or that" situation, so some animals, like sheep, can produce multiple types of items at once (wool and sheep milk). Sheep milk can then be used to make Pecorino Cheese !!

Since the game takes place in the city, it didn't really make sense for the player to be building old rickety windmills, but I still liked the idea of having something you could build on your garden plots that would have some ambient motion, so I came up with these buildable wind turbines.

Worked a bit decorating the Marin Shores Aquarium today.

Quack

This past week, I celebrated my birthday! Secretly, I was hoping to have the game out by now, but I was happy to have enjoyed both my first camping trip in decades and some fanart from my longtime friend/collaborator instagram.com/lia_pchan/ instead.

I wrapped up Juliette's Summer outfit and her second event !! She starts out a little mean and more than a little judgy, but I'm hoping people stick it through with her!

I'm trying to avoid Early Access as much as I can, but I'm still aiming for this year for release!

I've hit 100k wishlists on Steam !! Thank you all for your support !! I'm open for questions about the game if you've got any !!

With some help of my Discord, I worked out Juliette's outfit in summer !!

I've been spending some time working on bird stuff. You'll be able to identify when certain birds are nearby by listening closely to the ambient noise! (birders, feel free to school me if that's not at all how cardinals sound irl)

Just a little work on how waterfalls get rendered ingame! I apply a little scaling near the top of the waterfall for the illusion of perspective, and so that it looks like the water is getting faster as it falls further downward.

After a week break, I returned to wrap up the animation for my splash screen!

Oh, deer!

I've had a Talent in the game to show how NPCs respond to gifts you've given them in the past, but it was kinda tucked in an easily ignored UI element. I think it's much easier to parse this way !!

I was just noodling with some music and was trying to write a theme for the Museum, but I think it ended up fitting in better with Phoebe's character. Here's her first friendship event with the music and all of the new character emotes I've been working on !!

Spent the day putting the finishing touches on her portrait and in-world sprite! Here she is ingame!

WIP of Hildegard (Hilde), who maintains the Apollo City Museum !! There're still a lot of details I've gotta fill out in her artwork, but it's been super fun working on characters again, since it's my favorite part of games like these.

FINALLY wrapped up the first draft of the ingame map. The map is drawn to scale, so NPCs are positioned exactly on the map as they are in the game world (with some logic to "group" nearby NPCs together so that you don't have a bunch of overlapping icons).

Only in rare cases -- I kinda want players to choose dialogue choices that they wanna see responses to as opposed to getting worried and having to get worried and have to Google the "optimal" response!

Recently I've been all over the place in terms of work on Sunkissed City, but one thing I can share is that I've added more of those cute Animal Crossing-y reactions/emotes to the game, which I've been peppering into the game's friendship events!

(I'm also one of those HL1 > HL2 sickos...)

a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen . ALT: a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen .

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Worked a little bit on the farm animal movement! Baby animals, like chicks, follow adults, but also, if you've nurtured an animal's friendship high enough, it'll approach you when you get close and follow you around too !!

665 + 2 - 1 = 😺. You mean I *have* to get myself banned??

If you put me past my goal, I'll be very upset with you, Arthur.

I appreciate it. I need to craft a post that appeals to exactly one other person. So here it is: Any other Arthur's out there ??

Of course I'd be stuck at this number instead of the cool next one...

Thank you !!