Hello everyone and welcome to the fourth Elysian Log! This month we released our first demo for content creators and patrons, which was a great success! We reached over 3,000 Reddit members, 1,500 Discord members and $1,000 on Patreon! Let's take a look at all the new features that were added.

Milestone: First Demo and Sound Effects

Version 0.1.1 is the first time Elysian Eclipse has sound! While most of the music is currently meant as a placeholder, we still managed to create a good soundscape to immerse you into the editor. Shortly after the showcase video, the demo was released for testing and many content creators made some interesting creatures, including DarkEdgeTV, TerasHD and Callum Upton.

Milestone: New Editor Features

The editors received a lot of features, including: rotating parts on all axes (was already part of the 0.1.1 demo); An option to change the size of body structure parts and how much they merge with each other; New detail parts that merge into the body structure, which also have a 2D mode, allowing you to paint patterns on your creature; And most importantly, an experimental texturing system, letting you change the texture of your creature's skin. This system will soon be further improved, making it possible to have multiple textures blending together, just like it currently works with colors.

Milestone: Creature Leveling System

In cell stage, progression will work almost exactly like in Spore, meaning you get evolution points by eating. Though the bar doesn't indicate when the stage ends, but when you gain your next level. Each level will grant you 5 DNA. It can be used to attach parts like in Spore, but is also used to enhance existing parts. This way you could spend DNA to add an additional diet to your mouth or increase the attack damage of a weapon part.

Once you reach a certain level, you won't earn any evoltuion points until you move to the next area / biome, where bigger, stronger enemies await. This way you will never be the apex predator in a zone, letting the game keep its difficulty. The maximum level in cell stage is planned to be 20, meaning 100 DNA points. In later stages you will be able to level different skills like hunting and gathering, instead of being limited to a single progression system. This will add more variety in gameplay.

What's coming next for Elysian Eclipse

For the next month of development we want to focus on the following:

• Further improving the Elysian Archive and saving system
• Adding models for some of the upcoming combat parts for cell stage
• Adding at least 1 new biome to cell stage and creature stage
• New mechanics to populate the world with food and creatures

Thank you for your Support

Meme of the month by ...Wauzmons? I don't know why this happened.

Thank you to all the patrons! Without you this wouldn't be possible!

You can support the project here: https://www.patreon.com/wauzmons

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