A lot of Discover Our Bodies news! + ROTHT (Patreon)

Hey everyone! I’ve been very busy alternating between working on Discover Our Bodies, Ruins Of The Human Temple, and to a lesser degree, the steam version of Growing My Grandpa! Let me start with Discover Our Bodies just because there’s a lot to show off.

The structure of Discover Our Bodies (hereafter identified as DOB) is going to be of course built around the examination and study of different subjects undergoing treatment and/or bodily experimentation, much like the original Discover My Body. However in the course of development I had a few ideas that I think will be complementary to the principal part of the game. As you may or may not know, Discover My Body has you, the player, take the role of a med student studying the flowering as a part of your education. With DOB I hope to let your educational discovery, exploration, and school life not only still be the driving force of the game but act as the connective tissue that structures gameplay between subject examinations. I want there to be a sense of you, the player, being a med student in this weird and dark near future and to that end I am going through and planning out different locales on campus at which you can meet your educational goals.

This is a pretty rough mock-up at the moment but basically the gist of what I would think of as an “overworld screen” where you can access different functions of the campus. So for example, if you are scheduled to assist a flowering in the evening, in the morning you can request a sample from the lab and prepare it for injection, and then you can make your way to the office to drop off your collected data. Although there will be more to the game in terms of features and mechanics than Discover My Body I am still planning to keep the set of features small in number but not in depth. Before I put development of Discover Our Bodies on the backburner, around the start of the pandemic, I think I went overboard on my desire to just cram in as many medical science/sci fi related things as possible and I wasn’t really designing the game in the spirit that Discover My Body was. I had sort of lost the plot. However, I am really now excited to revisit this game again because I definitely feel freshly inspired and more in-tune with the realm where I drew the ideas for Discover My Body.

I hope that all seems appealing to you as vague as some of it might be. Once I start fleshing out the functions of each of the locations I’ll have more to show off, and I’ll also have more of the subject examination portion of the game to show probably later this month. In the mean time, Dr. Morrison has sort of a new look.

And here are some fancy new buttons.

Animating the appearance/disappearance of buttons really helps with the design of the neutron coronal scanner because it allows for different layouts to pop up for different subjects/phases of examination. I really didn’t want to *just* have digital/touchscreen style buttons.

With regards to Ruins Of The Human Temple I have been working on a navigation system that will hopefully allow for better exploration than the previous iteration of the game. Basically everytime you come across a point of traversal (or a point where you could conceivably transfer to a new area) a little side bar will pop up with the options available to you.

Going to work on the new and improved carving scanning system and some other more secret stuff for the game in the next couple weeks, but at least on the graphics front I’m feeling a lot better about the game, like, this is the cool post-human apocalyptic religious robot archaeology game that I was imagining when I set out to throw this game together. Hope you all are excited for it too.

Anyway this was kind of a longer post than usual but I want to try to get more in-depth with my posts bc I always feel like I never show enough. However I feel like a lot of the ideas I toy with in my head about games are sort of hard to write about until they are out onto the screen. But I’m going to try!

As always hope you all are doing well and please do not hesitate to contact me here or on discord if you have any questions or comments. Also if you did message me and have not heard back from me, please message me again, I try to make myself available for those who need me. Thanks so much for your continued support and hope you all are excited for more games soon.

Yours In Games,

Yames