Hey all,
These late-night Gooter blog posts aren’t really that good for my health, but I have that thing where I always think of these ideas when I’m supposed to be sleeping and don’t wanna forget to go through with it the next day soooo
Anyways, I wanted to provide an update on what I’m thinking about right now for what the order of updates will be for Gooter even if it’s not set in stone. Here’s the timeline I’m thinking of right now:
0.16.0.0
The Crossing Fields Update | Adds alternate paths and subworlds to Crossing Fields (World 1) and overhauls the design of the main route of the world. Alongside that, new terrain features, monsters, animals, mechanics, and atmospheric elements will inhabit this world in order to make it feel more alive, challenging, or otherwise just interesting. Oh, and a complete main menu overhaul as well and an ‘aura’ system, among other smaller yet still groundbreaking changes.
0.16.0.X
Hotfix and small feature updates.
0.17.0.0
The First Bosses Update | Separate update dedicated to adding bosses to Crossing Fields as well as adding other missing features and bug fixes that may have slipped the cracks in 0.16.0. 0.18.0 will basically also begin development around this time.
0.17.0.X
Hotfix and small feature updates.
0.18.0.0
The Blue Islands Update | Reintroduces and completely overhauls World 2 in a similar, if not more ambitious, manner to 0.16.0’s World 1 update. Again, new monsters, animals, atmosphere stuff, and terrain stuff is going to be added in order to make the world not boring. There aren’t nearly as many planned alternative paths as World 1 will have other than a special side quest path I’m thinking about.
0.18.0.X
Hotfix and small feature updates.
0.19.0.0
The Sun Desert Update | The final major update planned for the beta before 1.0 begins development. Adds the greatly anticipated(???) World 3. It is planned to be much faster-paced and intense than the other two worlds which I think is quite fitting considering the higher temperature. Of course, new monsters, animals, mechanics (sandstorms and beach balls!!!), etc will be added. Alongside that, an important (maybe?) story character will be introduced in this world, and I can’t wait for you all to meet the goofball business-woman herself.
0.19.0.X
Hotfix and small feature updates.
1.0.0.0+
The full and finalized game and story. Contains 7 wacky worlds (not inlcuding sub worlds and worlds for the route to the alternate ending) and a whole slew of new stuff to find. Planned for release on Windows, macOS, and maybe HTML if I can??? After that, I’m going straight to doing something else lmao