Pavel Valakh | Lands of Koastalia 🐏

Lands of Koastalia is a relaxing city building game with a unique building system. Craft natural-looking villages, manage resources within and across them, explore an island, and meet the needs of your residents. Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2748140/La…

Lands of Koastalia is a part of the #Relaxing Event on Steam hosted by @rogueducknet! store.steampowered.com/publisher/rogu…

@echolead_ai Hey. Sure, but I'm just grinding development of the game right now + I have a fulltime job. So, not a lot of time for chatting...

@ValakhP I love city builder, instant like. As someone who create a city builder too, care to connect?

Having some fun lately testing new features. It feels like the game started being much more interesting and solid. Here is a part of my internal recordings. There have been a lot of changes, and I want to share a lot, but I don't want to spoil it with a lot of UI placeholders 🥲

When you forget how to properly export models for your project 😅 #indiegames

@MomoO82725 Most of them yes. But I also got help from my friends here and there.

@ValakhP Did you create your assets your own?

@flaghippogames Thank you. That's UE5

@ValakhP This is looking fantastic - style is great, and love the people movement, gives it a great lively feel. What engine are you using for this btw?

@TerraDevlog Those should be sandkings!

(imagine a description like in a million other gamedev posts) #gamedev #devlog #pixelart #indiegame

@Mente_Alpha_ At the end I was expecting to see another couple of people sitting inside the engine

Avanzando en la ingeniería aeronáutica en el futuro

@runevision I was thinking about that right after that post 😆

@ValakhP Seems like your post got some engagement after you wrote that, but still... Have you considered creating accounts on Bluesky and Mastodon? Back when I still posted actively here, I eventually got much lower numbers here than over there, despite having more followers here.

Playing my game in an early MVP. There were a lot of changes and experiments, and I think the core of the gameplay is settled now. This year I'd like to refine everything into a solid pre-demo state: content, bugs, balance, QoL, UI, sound... #screenshotsaturday

@ChanelLuat Thanks. Hard to say.. Every tough part of the game just need time to solve. So the hardest part is to find that time when you have a full-time job.

@ValakhP sounds like a grind but lowkey exciting. what's the toughest part so far? gameplay tweaks or dealing with the never-ending bugs?

@wodj4438 That's UE5 without all those fancy stuff like nanite and lumen

@ValakhP what engine？

@ciefa_eth Thank you! I created it as soon as I saw interest from other people and visuals were not too bad. I got in contact with game journals and asked to make an announcement article about the game and it worked. I prepared trailer, description, capsule art and screenshots.

@ValakhP This looks super cute! :D One question, how early in development did you get the Steam page setup and what was needed for it? Wishlisting the game for sure, gives me old settler vibes :D

@1tweetolder Thank you. There were some ideas about that, but I dropped them as they'll take a lot of time bringing not so much value. Unfortunately, that's not uncommon - working in your spare time you need to sacrifice something in order to finish the project not in 10 years

@ValakhP Looks great! Have you considered enhancing the fencing mechanics? Double fences on nearby buildings look wrong. Nobody put 2 fences side by side ;)

@DeveloperPerso3 Yeah, nice idea. I don't think it fits the core of my game, but that's something worth to be noted for the future.

Fair enough, crazy secondary idea. Can you draw two types of buildings next to each other to get cool hybrids? Like maybe a 2x2 house next to a 2x2 restaurant could create a "bed and breakfast" motel. This idea for drawing the buildings just seems so novel, would be really cool to see you expand on it.

@LazyTechie It might look like that, but it definitely does not play like that 😀

@ValakhP This seems closer to a finished vertical slice at the least. Why do you call it an MVP? Or is that what an MVP is expected to be nowadays in Gamdev?

@DeveloperPerso3 Thanks! I was thinking about something like that long time ago, but it didn't fit my vision. Although.. the game will have a fraction of this logic. It will matter, how you draw the shape of the building, but it will influence on nuances, not the core basics

Love this! What might be kinda neat, is if you didn't even really have a menu, but different shaped block outs chose different buildings. Like if a 2x2 grid was a farm, 1x1 was a house, 1x2, a hotel. Maybe have 3 types of grids colors like in sim city, green for residential, blue for commercial, and yellow for industry. And from there you could have the player unlock new shapes for new building types, some could even not be rectangular like a 2x 4 with 2 coming off the side: XXXX XXXX XX Could for example be a mansion. Would be sorta similar to how crafting in Minecraft worked, and people loved that. Just an idea!

@clemmygames I'm making a city builder with non-uniform grid and a unique building system x.com/ValakhP/status…

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