This time we worked mostly on improving graphics. Graphics programming is time-consuming and sometimes gives nothing as a result. We were planning on changing our terrain generation algorithm from Marching cubes to Transvoxel, but it just took too much time. We have realized that we need to have a release plan and stick to it in order to be able to release the game.

Download Burnt Islands build 0.12 (Windows and Linux)

This time we worked mostly on improving graphics. Graphics programming is time-consuming and sometimes gives nothing as a result. We were planning on changing our terrain generation algorithm from Marching cubes to Transvoxel, but it just took too much time. We have realized that we need to have a release plan and stick to it in order to be able to release the game.

New features:

1. New "Look and feel" of the menus (GUI/CeGUI)

2. More burnt stuff on the islands - you can destroy them with an axe and gather some resources.

3. Sugar plants give sugar and sugar gives energy

4. New terrains on islands 3 and 4

Improvements:

- Better textures for terrain

- Improved models and textures for various ingame items.

- More visible terrain with decreased level of detail far from the player.

- More Mine monsters!

All feedback is welcome!

If you don't want to use the in game feedback form, email us at burnt@studiofreya.com