Happy start into 2025 everyone!

We hope you had a great holiday time and new year celebrations and arrived in 2025 in good health and company 🙂
Here we are all pumped to get this year going. There is a lot on the horizon and one of the first steps we are taking this year is to map out all the remaining steps left to do to finish the development for Wild Life and make a roadmap for you so you know better what's coming.
As some of our team members are still enjoying some longer vacations and will join us soon, many of us are already busy at work, here is what was done this week:

Level:
With the environment team gradually returning to the office, we resumed work on the various spaceships that arrived at Kerpal and continued the production of interior assets for Alpha Camp. At the same time, we focused on planning and organizing tasks for the year ahead.

Code:
We continued working on the camera post processing options. By default, the game renders as usual, but you can override global options like bloom, vignette, chromatic aberration, tonemapping, filters and many more in the level options. Placed cameras can additionally override these settings with their own when possessed.

Character:
In the character department we have been working on our hair physics research and have found a very promising solution that we will be fleshing out in the coming weeks. Our artist has been busy making an armored-up version of the male fantasy armor sandbox outfit and it's looking really great!

Animations:
In the animation department, we finished the animation set for the big feral bull enemy, so it is now ready to be put into the engine. Next up on the agenda is continuing with movesets for various weapons, the next to tackle are the small and fast ones - knives/daggers and cannibal claws. We are also now going into the final stretch of must-have minigames still needed for story mode and have started blocking out a Max x Riv minigame.

Design:
In the design department we have been mainly focusing on creating a solid plan for the tasks that we are facing this year. This includes quests, dialogues, combat, gameplay mechanics, balancing and more.


Thank you for all your continued support,
-Wild Life Team

Hey all, welcome to this week's progress report.

This is the last report of 2024 and most of our team have already gone into their well deserved Christmas holidays. It was a great year and we made some awesome progress in all areas thanks to your invaluable support. It's a great pleasure to build this game for you and with you. We are sure 2025 is going to be a very productive year and we are pumped to see this project make immense progress towards the finish line with you.
The next post will most likely happen on January 10th as most of the team resumes work that week. But for now let's relax, visit family, go on trips and recharge as we pass into 2025. Thanks again for your amazing support and we wish you all a great festive time.

Here is what our team has been up to this week.

Level:
In the Level department we have completed the blockout B state for Apoc and started an improvement pass on the surrounding canyon landscape areas.
The Alpha Camp has been getting some improvements and polishing done to many of its models, especially collisions and detailing.

Code:
The code-department has been collaborating with our game designers to continue to make various improvements and fixes on the combat system.
On the sandbox side we have started implementing more image features to the sandbox cameras like exposure settings, vignette, color grading options and more.

Character:
We have been working on more hairstyle upgrades, converting some of the older hairstyles to the new visual style.
A new outfit is in the making, as well, which builds on the Sexy-knight foundation we have built previously but now without the sexy aspect and instead going for a full-cover serious fantasy warrior/knight design.

Animations:
In the animation department we got the Gobbler and Hyena all ready to go for fine tuning by Game Design - both are already in a fight-able state now, but still need a lot of balancing work done. While Hyenas don't quite thematically fit anymore with the alien fauna of the Kerpal we have now, we still wanted to keep them. So they will probably be getting a little makeover in the future and then accompany the Blackrocks as fierce guard animals. We also continued our work on the Feral Bull enemy.

Design:
Most of our design efforts have been going into combat improvements and addressing community feedback. We added a new spear weapon with faster moves and tweaked various elements of the system. This is something we will continue to do next year.
We have also been working on getting the minigames from the demo into the new game world. Giving characters like Milanna and Kim a story update for the new world while trying to preserve the existing scenes.


Thank you for all your continued support, and see you in 2025 ;)
-Wild Life Team