Thank you so much for your interest! Over 300,000 players have added Rooted to their Steam wishlist. That's great and once again, it's a great motivation for our team!
Another good news for us, and again thanks to our community for this, our Kickstarter campaign is a success! 135% of the goal reached, 11 days left to go. THANK YOU!
Let's talk about our progress
The open-world
Since the release of our trailer at the Future Game Show on August 22, we have been working hard on developing tools to create our open-world in order to generate the map, the environment with the most modular - scalable - optimized system possible.
This way, our environment artists can build the world you will explore, and it's going to be awesome! You know what? 50Km²+ of floor space, + the verticality in the city + the surrounding ocean... on a 100km² map.
For example, we shared a while ago an example of our workflow to create the post-apocalyptic environment using our advanced materials, to get a nice blend between bricks / foam / plaster in this example:
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This door generator is another example, to procedurally create thousands of variations of damaged doors, regardless of the asset used, at no cost.
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Gameplay
Gameplay is the key!
Our mocap animations are scheduled to be recorded in November. Right after that, we'll start sharing our gameplay mechanics, and we're really looking forward to it!
In the meantime, we'd love to hear what you'd like to grow in this greenhouse that you can build!
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Let me give you some information about the Greenhouse!
It has 3 states :
- Natural, the simplest
- Electric, you can add your UV lights once you can generate enough electricity.
- Irrigated, you can now irrigate your plantations to improve your production.
And this boat? It plays a role in the Lore, and imagine if you could drive it in the game ????
This is a WIP version but as you know, we like to share our progress.
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There's a lot we could share but the easiest way to track our progress is to join us on Discord :)
Next Alpha sessions
Yes, in early 2023 we will be launching alpha sessions on specific features and we are happy to have over 1500 people already signed up thanks to their pledges on Kickstarter.
And don't worry! We'll be sharing a sign-up form in the coming months for a chance to earn your access!
Thank you so much again for your interest and support!
ROOTED
