[Tinkering on a Niche Prototype thingy once again]

FInished the basic Bearyena behaviour, did some improvement to the controls and... added canibalism 😮

This feature has been requested many times now and I always thought it was too creepy to add, but it also happens in nature so I thought I'd give it a try. Nichelings now spawn "Nicheling meat" when they die. I'm thinking about adding a mechanic that the meat does not spawn, or maybe just less meat spawns, when the creature was very young, very old or died of hunger.
Normal Nichelings can not pick up Nicheling meat. But I added a new head gene the that gives you +1 canibalism and gives you the ability to collect it. Spooky.

Now I'm wondering what this head gene should be called/look like? 
I read about canibalistic animals a bit. Seems like rabbits, hamsters, polar bears, some apes, many insects and fish are canibals.

 

[Tinkering on a Niche Prototype thingy once again]

Added some basic behaviour for the Bearyena.
If it's hungry, it looks for food. In this case meat on the ground that can be picked up.
If it runs into a Nicheling or Rabbil it will try to turn them into meat too.
It can carry some meat around with it and consume it when hungry.
The rest of the time it roams around.
 

[Tinkering on a Niche Prototype thingy once again]

A bit of progress
- Particle effects! (they help so much to understand what is happening in the game and to find bugs)
- Nichelings can now finally eat. If their hunger is low and they carry food, they eat it.  And babies drink milk from their moms!

[Anniversary!!!]

[Niche Mobile Discussion and Bug Reports]

Just a down right bug ^^
Waterhole should be first!

[Tinkering on a Niche Prototype thingy once again]

Lots of ideas related to eating mechanics ^^
(I usually write down what I want to program before actually programming it.)
// Means it's a comment. These are ignored by the complier.

[Tinkering on a Niche Prototype thingy once again]

FInally got to keep programming a bit ^^
- Rabbils now roam around, search for food and eat grass (and run away from predators of course)
- Baby/Child Nichelings now follow their moms around
- There is now a multiselect function
- And all the bugs have been fixed (with Micha's help)

Please excuse the bad frame rate, my laptop isch an ancient potato.

[Niche Mobile Discussion and Bug Reports]

That is totally a bug @TundraKitsune^^

[Forum group hug]

*Hugs*

[Tinkering on a Niche Prototype thingy once again]

The random 8 is the amount of food on the foodpile (which is totally not recognizable yet)
Haha, well it's all just super quick placeholder art that only I need to understand (for now).
The text is squished because it's a 3d mesh text, which I would probably need to rotate a bit more toward the camera, but I don't care enough yet

Progress from yesterday and today:
- Huge code clean-up
- Lots of bugs I can't fix, need to ask Micha for help (see that's how good I'm with programming xD)
- Rabbil hunting
 

 

[A gift just cause]

Aww thank you so much @Green the Fiery Fox it's adorable ❤️

[Tinkering on a Niche Prototype thingy once again]

That is very kind of you @Kira.APK, thanks
However Unity and Gamemaker don't really work together.
And this project is mostly for myself to experiment and get better with coding.
But you can totally start your own project and share it in the forums too

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Folks, didn't we just have a conversation about calming down a bit?
I honestly don't find the whole "rebellion" and "piss on the law" stuff funny anymore.
If you have some specific feedback on what needs to be improved, you can always send me a PM.
I really don't mind you having some fun, but this has been going on for too long now.
Context: Since this is the rules section, I removed the comments I was referring too. 

[Tinkering on a Niche Prototype thingy once again]

I mean, I can try but I'm honestly not a good programmer at all
It's enough to make prototypes like this, but not sure if that is the best ressource to learn from!
I use Unity (free version) to make the prototypes and there are hundreds of tutorials out there on Youtube etc.
But maybe it would be fun to hop in a DIscord channel and do a screenshare at some point

[Tinkering on a Niche Prototype thingy once again]

Some more progress!
- Speed and sight radius are now gene-based
- Some bug fixing
- Added a predator that just stands around and blocks the way
- You can fight the predator
- When dying Nichelings spawn bones, predators spawn flesh that can be collected

[oh hey]

[Tinkering on a Niche Prototype thingy once again]

A bit of progress today: 
- Baby animals now inherit their parents' fur color
- Baby animals now grow into children, then adults
- Added a "stockpile" for food. Nichelings can gather food and place it there.


  

[Are any new feature requests actually getting used?]

Any suggestion is great, doesn't have to be for DLC

[Are any new feature requests actually getting used?]

We're currently porting Niche to Xbox and Playstation and need a frozen version for that.
Once the porting is done, we will discuss in the team how to progress with Niche.
Even if we decide not to release any more updates for the current game, we still very much appreciate people posting suggestions and voting.
They help us to see what people would like to see in the game, which is useful for Niche Mobile (we actually implemented a few there!) and who knows, maybe we'll make a DLC or even a new Niche PC game at some point. 
I'm usually prototyping around when I have time ^^

 

[Forums rules - Please read before posting]

For your information:
I talked to Silver and we agreed that it would be best for her to leave the forums permanently.
All her posts have been deleted and she is banned from ever making a new account.
Hopefully this will help her to move on and I'm sure she will keep growing as a person.
Goodbye Silver and thanks for all your suggestions, art and stories!

[Angel's Homethread]

For your information:
I talked to Silver and we agreed that it would be best for her to leave the forums permanently.
All her posts have been deleted and she is banned from ever making a new account.
Hopefully this will help her to move on and I'm sure she will keep growing as a person.
Goodbye Silver and thanks for all your suggestions, art and stories!

[Angel's Homethread]

@heyitsgeorgie
Sorry, but you need to seriously stop right now.
He has answered the question and I'm not going to tolerate any more provoking comments from you in the next days.
One more will result in a one month long ban.

[Angel's Homethread]

Again, if you see any posts/comments that break the rules (transphobic comments, insults, spreading negativity, ...) report them!
We will investigate them and give out warnings or bans if needed. You don't need to try and fix them yourselves.

What you just posted @heyitsgeorgie is against rule 3. So this is another warning to please respect the forum rules:
3) Insults and threats, stalking, bullying or any other behavior construed to be of a potentially rude, slanderous, accusatory, combative or otherwise harassing nature to/of another person;

[Angel's Homethread]

Maybe for you, but from what I'm seeing, certainly not for everyone, including me.
So let's please be respectful of each others feelings and calm down a bit.
 

[Angel's Homethread]

Honestly folks, it's enough.
I don't find this funny anymore at all.
It feels like most of you are just having fun, but it's really been too much in the past few days.
While most of you are joking, it only takes one misunderstanding to result in a fight again.
I've spent half my weekend checking in here, making sure nothing bad is happening.
Please do me a favor and all calm down a bit.
We can talk about everything, but I'd much much prefer to do this in a calm way.