Small progress update

Hi there everyone!

Just thought I'd give a small update to prove I'm still about, thanks for your continued support towards Cryptid Farm! Work on the game is coming along slowly but surely with focus towards the Steam page these days. Plenty of small bug fixes along with some work on the UI of the game (turns out I had to update Unity and the project entirely to get scrollbars to work correctly again, you never know what snags you're gonna find). Here's a devlog just to show off some of the things that are new.

Here's a look at the new speech bubbles which make the in game chat a lot easier to follow.

Along with the updated chat box to replace the default Unity GUI one. This took pretty much a full rewrite of the old code so it's exciting to me at least x)

(Sorry for the video links from this point btw, I might edit the post and see if I can embed them later on, just a struggle with larger files and itch's 3mb gif limit)

Here's the Chupacabra's bite animation for those who haven't seen it in action yet.

https://i.imgur.com/0INh3nF.mp4

Here's a peak at the new watering particles I've added to make the gameplay a bit more satisfying.

https://i.imgur.com/T8hnGVy.mp4

Stealing has a bit of a new look to help make it a bit clearer (probably still needs work tbh)

https://i.imgur.com/verXCkq.mp4

Finally, a new item called compost has made it into the build. This is more of an experimental item but it fits with the theme of building up your farm so I thought I'd try adding it in. Compost increases the time it takes for a crop to grow, but doubles it's return value. Adds a bit more risk and reward whilst freeing up some time to do other things. I hope to add an animation of ripping open the compost bag at some point :D

https://i.imgur.com/lCQfjsG.mp4

As always, I'm so happy to see people still playing Cryptid Farm and I love the community and fan art that has sprung from it. Keep watching for some more progress soon and happy farming!