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Toasty: Ashes of Dusk Kickstarter concludes with $105,536 raised!May 2, 2022 - Community AnnouncementsTOASTY: ASHES OF DUSK SUCCESSFULLY FUNDED OVER 400%!! WE ARE FLOORED!! We would have NEVER thought we would've gotten this far and it's because of ALL OF YOUR LOVE AND JUST BELIEVING IN US. We truly appreciate it. We raised $105,536 for Toasty: Ashes of Dusk. We will be able to make the game that we want to make! WHAT NEXT? {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37275467/e439cb37be8a7e7d6ff449aa00556890931eae2f.gif Most immediately, we're going to sleep for like 24 hours straight (believe me, we need it!) - after that, we'll begin organizing things like setting up the backer surveying and fulfilment tracking. This will likely come in the form of a service like PledgeBox or Backerkit, and we'll let you know more once we have a solution. And then, of course... making the game itself! You'll be able to look forward to at least bi-monthly update posts on Toasty's progress and what we're working on, and you'll also be able to see more regular sneak peeks/clips of particularly cool or WIP things on our Twitter. We have no intention of disappearing, and with the production assistance/management that our friends at Top Hat Studios are providing, you can be sure everything will be done to make sure Toasty is THE GAME that lives up to your expectations. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37275467/f03c7dd2da27edac55991acf18abdbebc823891c.png For now though, once again - THANK YOU!!! Toasty: Ashes of Dusk confirm a Native Linux build is planned, shown off on Steam DeckApr 6, 2022 - GamingOnLinuxToasty: Ashes of Dusk is an upcoming action RPG that honestly looks great, and now Pocket Llama has issued an update to confirm they will be doing Native Linux support. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/04/toasty-ashes-of-dusk-confirm-a-native-linux-build-is-planned-shown-off-on-steam-deck Toasty: Ashes of Dusk Dev Log - November 2021Nov 30, 2021 - Community Announcementshttps://i.imgur.com/34rbGJ8.png Happy November Toasty fam! I hope all of you had a very lovely and safe Thanksgiving, and are ready to move into the December holidays. October was a bit of a slower month for development as we were addressing a lot of tricky structural things and there was not much to report, however, Faulty did prevail and we have moved onto play testing the first boss fight, Roxide! More details on this to come in just a few with other fun points we have also been up to. Strap in because we got some fun stuff for yah! Here we go with the big deets. I will break up the update into 4 main categories this time: Art/Assets, Programming, Narrative/Concept, and Community. Art / Assets A lot of October’s work was based around art and asset work which also continued into November full swing. Brian and Ivy have been very busy whipping up both concept work, and finalized assets for Avarice City to be input into the game. Though there is still much work to be done, we made some great head way here including some of the following: Started working on Avarice City outdoor & building exterior assets Turning concept art of city NPCs into finalized sprites Interior room work on some major scenes (Such as the theatre) HUD UI assets for the Roxide boss fight https://i.imgur.com/qyG1zxK.gif Programming As mentioned at the beginning Faulty has had his hands full building the internal framework for the Roxide boss battle and getting multiple ingame mechanics to work fluidly so that way it will be easier for us to implement these mechanics into other areas of the game. So here are some programming details for the Roxide prototype: Controls - Movement - Roll - Shield - Sword - Knapsack - Hammer (even though you won't have that at this point in the game but just for funsies) Control testing for both PC and Controller use Mapping out the Intro & Death sequences Knapsack adjustments - you can no longer collide with it which means you can no longer push or pull it, but you can lift up still. However, this may change in the future to allow for these mechanics to be used during this fight, nothing is final here. Getting hurt or doing any other action will cause you to either drop or throw the knapsack Working out the combat sequences for the two stages of the boss battle Implemented HUD UI changes https://i.imgur.com/e7oFUD1.gif Narrative / Concept So there have been two major pushes here when it comes to this category. As briefly mentioned, Ivy has been in full swing drafting up all of the concept artwork for the Avarice City NPCs and other artwork for our Kickstarter campaign. In terms of the narrative side, Justin has been banging out getting the dialogue and portrait images made for more of our beautiful Shroomville characters! Worked on Avarice City NPCs, their art palette and emotions Dialog box work and speech placement Implementing portraits to the dialog boxes and bringing life to the characters in game https://i.imgur.com/7tNaAGH.gif Community We h...Toasty: Ashes of Dusk Dev Log - September 2021Sep 23, 2021 - Community AnnouncementsOh hai, hello! It’s Tanya here with a long overdue dev log for our marshmallow loving friends. I first wanted to start off by giving my sincerest apologies, I know many of you were reaching out asking about the Aug dev log and unfortunately, with personal life stuff butting in, both the newsletter and dev log did not go out. BUT, we are here now and I got the juicy info y’all have been waiting for! Our kickstarter campaign’s follower count is growing like the shrooms in Shroomville and we CANNOT thank you enough for your support! It honestly means the world to us that so many of you want to participate in the development of Toasty: AoD. If you have not already followed and would like to join the list to be first to know when we launch, you can click below to follow! pocketllama.com/ks Here we go with the big deets. I will break up the update into 3 main categories this time: Art/Assets, Programming, and Narrative/Concept. Art / Assets The months of July and August have been absolutely INSANE on our art front. There have been so many things tackled and completed that you would be shocked if you saw it happen first hand like myself! Brain has been like an art dev god and just ripping through their deliverables like they were nothing! It's cray cray y’all! Brian has also been streaming his artwork of Toasty:AoD on their Twitch channel (Twitch.TV/its_voxid - yes I plugged you Brian xD) Here is a little snapshot into their work for July & August: ALL animations for the first dungeon boss have been completed Completed all of the sprites for the collectible items available in the shops Started map tiles for the ghost ship dungeon Programming With Maya joining the ranks in the month of June, a lot of stuff has been getting done from our two programmers! Faulty has been nose to the grindstone working through backend code for the event system and ironing out all of that complicated alien code that I just don’t understand haha. Our lovely Doops (Justin East) has also jumped aboard the programming train just flying through some of the Shroomville stuff and more. He has even been streaming his work of Toasty through his Twitch (Twitch.TV/its_dooper - yes I plugged you too Justin xD)! So let’s get to the deets below: Maya added the “important item pickup” state for Marshall Doops condensed/revised Shroomville for better map feel Doops created the rooms for the first dungeon in the game Doops worked on the collision for the dungeons Doops worked on a surprise change to the great tree? (No idea what this is myself) Faulty revamped the transition system for travelling between rooms/levels Faulty added a pause menu with functional inventory and world map Faulty added some SFX & music Faulty updated the dialogue system and fixed a few dialogue bugs Faulty worked on backend code for the Event system that communicates between other internal systems Narrative / Concept The script is pretty much finished and ready for review and revisions! With everything written out, ...Toasty: Ashes of Dusk Dev Log - JuneJul 5, 2021 - Community AnnouncementsHello fellow Geldians! We hope y’all have been having a great start to your summer and are staying safe. It’s yours truly, Tanya, here to give you the low down of what the team has been up to throughout the month of June! As previously mentioned in the last development update, we have decided to hold a production Kickstarter in the upcoming future. The team has been busy with our publisher planning all the details and coming up with some really cool rewards for each tier. We are super excited for this and cannot wait to share more information on that. It would mean so much to us if you could follow us on Kickstarter. By doing so, you will be first to know once we launch! You can follow our Kickstarter page here: pocketllama.com/ks Same as last time, I will break up the update into 4 main categories: Art/Assets, Programming, Narrative/Concept, and General. Art / Assets Brian has been bustin’ out all the moves in the month of June with tackling some more exciting assets, and has moved into the realm of animation. Ivy, like always, has been working that brain stuff to whip up all different types of concept art. Some of the things worked on by these two are below: Hammer (key item) action animations Began animating the Phantern (key item) Menu asset creation Further dungeon designs Creating new NPCs and getting their concept art down Programming Faulty has been focusing on some technical details that have proved to be quite the challenge for him. But like normal, he has been thinking outside of the box to come up with those solutions. Our composer, Seii, is also now a part of our programming team! She has finished her schooling and is jumping in to assist Faulty with the many tasks ahead. We are super excited to have her join this side of development and cannot wait to see what she whips up! Here is a break down of what they have been working on in the month of June: Improvements to the workflow of creating levels with the GMS2 room editor The workflow will now look roughly like the below: 1. Select which template to use (Overworld, dungeons, interior house... etc) 2. Create a child room of that template 3. Select what tiles to use 4. Place the tiles and objects in the room Marshmallow health pickup (healing) Began working on the many key item pickups Working out the pause menu animations Improvements to the depth sorting system Narrative / Concept The directors have been having weekly brainstorming sessions to work out those important game details. There are many things that go into the making of concepts, and the points listed below have quite an extensive list of details to go through. June brainstorms include: Brainstorming more dungeon details and ideas How to work in the key item mechanics General / Community With the revamps to all our social media platforms, we are brainstorming new ideas and jumping onto more exciting things! We have been staying consistent with the following: Our June Pride issue of the The Geldian Gazette was sent out to o...Toasty: AoD Development UpdateJun 3, 2021 - Community AnnouncementsTanya here to send y’all a big “hello, hi, how are ya doing!?” from the Toasty: Ashes of Dusk team here, at Pocket Llama Studios! Now, I know many folks have been wondering about our development journey and outside of our monthly newsletter, there is no direct log of what has been hip and happening with the Toasty team. So I decided to write y’all this beaut of a mini novel called “Toasty: Ashes of Dusk Development Update”, original right? Thank you, it took me all week to come up with that name. So hold onto your socks folks, because we are gonna jump right into it! As many of you know, not too long ago we hosted a Merch-Kickstarter, and y’all blew it out of the park! We hit our goal on October 22, 2020, exactly one month since it’s launch! We were all so humbled and mind blown by the support and generosity. This provided the team with many opportunities to grow and take charge on things we otherwise would not have been able to. And oh man, have we ever been busy since then! To all of you who participated in this Kickstarter, from the bottom of our hearts, we cannot thank you enough. We are honestly blessed to have a community as supportive and loving as all of y’all. As there is a LOT to cover, I will break it up into 4 main categories: Art/Assets, Programming, Narrative/Concept, and General Art / Assets Our Art Director, Brian, and Narrative Director/ Concept Artist, Ivy, have been the busiest bees in all of the sea! Errr…. Well you know what I mean haha. They have had a very VERY long list of assets to be created and animated over the last few months, and honestly, I am blown away by their diligence and skills. As the team started to move out of Shroomville, there were naturally, entirely new assets needed. Everything from ground tiles, maps to characters themselves for the respective new areas. Some of the assets created, but not limited to, are as follows: Overworld Maps: Things like another big city, explorable areas, and caves which pop up along the early stages of Marshall’s journey Dungeons: THREE new dungeon maps have been created and we can’t wait to see if everyone can get past our traps and tricks!! NPCs: Did you think we had enough NPCs in Toasty? YOU DID?! WRONG!! WE NEED MORE!! ….so, we made more. Don’t get to comfy though, there are still plenty more to come *insert evil laughter here* Programming Our programmer Faulty is an absolute LEGEND. He has been tackling the massive undertaking of completely redoing the game’s infrastructure. In his hands, the original code behind the game has been turned into clean, bombin’ greatness. Once the ground work here was set, he was able to move onto more specific things. Some of the MANY things Faulty has been working on since October 2020 are as follows: Combat touch ups and polish Parrying projectiles with your shield Pushable boxes Object and tile depth sorting System to silhouette the player and enemies when they are behind a large object Ledge jumping Room transition system - For classic...Toasty Development, Community, and Where we are!Mar 31, 2021 - Community AnnouncementsGreetings! Toasty Dev Dooper here with an exciting amount of things to spill out. Where do I start... Toasty: Ashes of Dusk is in full development swing! We have done a massive overhaul to the current build that was uploaded to Itchio and Gamejolt. We have completely rebuilt the game from the ground up! What does that mean? Better combat, better interactions, fully playable dungeon, BOSSES, and a lot of quality of life changes! Many more mobs and really fun new abilities! Marshall can leap attack, charge, spin, and a bunch of other goodies! So when is this coming out? VERY SOON. We can't give you an exact date for....reasons, but you'll know when it drops because we will be uploading it to Steam! I want to make a huge thank you here to our programmer Faulty and our amazing composer Seiiccubus! Want to keep up with development in more detail? Maybe hang out with the devs? 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We hope you're having a fantastic week! ~Dooper
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