Devlog #2: Eye candy, even more eye candy, and a new publisher!

Hey guys, we hope you’re all doing well!

While the work the everything else continues as planned, we’d like to show your progress on the visuals! The idea is to make the world more alive and vibrant. See for yourself if that worked :)

Designing new tiles

First on the list was a texture for each biome to offset plain and flat colors we had before, in various shapes and forms:

Then, we made a tileset going on top of the texture for color variations to truly fill the landscapes of Nova with color:

To give the decorations more character, various flowers, rocks, and grass types are mixed into the tiles:

In the end, we’ve got a number of tiles crafted for each island type, each looking much more natural to its biome, instead of randomly scattered elements:

New tiles in motion

The last step is to put it all in motion. We won’t spend words covering that, just take a look for yourself!

Grasslands

Snow Island

Forest Island

Desert Island

Purple Island

Rock Island (groovy!)

Signing up with HypeTrain Digital

This sure was a tough decision to make, as we were approached by a whole number of publishers, all offering to take up Nova Lands and help our game become even better and more well-known.

We’ve decided that HypeTrain Digital is just the right fit, as they have a ton of experience with releasing indie titles all over the world. It’s not your soulless triple-A publisher, and just to assure you guys, our development roadmap is not affected in any way by signing up with HypeTrain Digital. They will be helping us with marketing, translations, platforms, and many other things, all the while we focus on the game itself—so that you can start playing the full release sooner!

Participation in PAX West

That's not all! Nova Lands will also participate in PAX West 2022, which begins today! What's more, you'll be able to see our brand new trailer and some more (secret!) stuff on the main PAX stream, on the 3rd of September, 12 pm PT.

And that’s all for now! Hope you enjoyed looking at what’s to come in Nova Lands, and more news coming soon!

Ed, Douglas, and Lucas @ BEHEMUTT