We are JET TOAST - two passionate game developers who love toasts and jet engines.
Currently we are working on a voxel-styled mobile farm manager #BlockyFarm
Blocky Farm - Update #15 - Tractor improved, new pet - the Cat!
Hi all! Welcome to the next Blocky Farm devlog episode. This week we have two really nice feature for you!
Tractor
One of our goals in BlockyFarm is to engage and entertain a player at every stage of gameplay. Going this way we decided to add a tractor that is available to use later in the game. A player’s task is to repair this vehicle and as a reward it becomes our next tool useful for collecting crops. It is also possible to drive on the whole map. On the gif you can see updated steering system.
The whole GUI is hidden except three buttons necessary to drive the vehicle.
Is it wheat or rather mine field? Oo
What will happen when we connect Kerbal Space Program, Interstellar and Blocky Farm together? :D
Cat
Finally, our dog has a nice companion. Meet the Filemon - the second pet that is available to care of. Cat has special set of behaviours. Just look on it, how sweet our cat is! For example it can:
Jump on the roof
Catch the mouse
And get fun with just a ball of wool. Do you have any ideas for other cat’s behaviours we can implement?
Blocky Farm - Update #18 - Disco Mode, Pet houses and stroking animals
Hi all. We are happy to show you these great features.
Disco Mode
Disco mode is one of Blocky Farm’s special features that makes this game unique in our opinion. How does it work? Disco Hummer arrives to our farm from time to time and allows the player to start a big party. Huge speakers set appears, music is playing, animal are dancing and everyone is happy. Goods production is hastened by 50%. How do you like this idea? (Remember that we still use placeholder graphics).
We don’t want to leave our pets homeless, so we’ve added some simple buildings-decorations for Cat & Dog separately. There are several dog houses, a big pillow to lay on, some huge cardboard boxes and a cat tree. These are the rest points where pets feel comfortable and more happy. We are going to add tens of different pet houses in the final version of the game. Once again: how do you like this idea? :)
Stroking animals
One of our goals is to encourage the player to interact with ingame world as much as possible. One of the ways of interaction is stroking animals. Player can have fun with pets using simple gestures that trigger various behaviours. Our pet can jump, lay on the ground, chase its tail, etc.
Did you like this Blocky Farm update?
We prepared something special for the next week - new game graphics that looks awesome - trust me! :) See you!
Blocky Farm - Update #13 - Tractor prototype, buildings construction process and renders
Hi everyone. We have some great features to share with you as always. We would be thankful for your feedback! :)
Tractor prototype
One of our goals in BlockyFarm is to engage and entertain a player at every stage of gameplay. Going this way we decided to add a tractor that will be available to use later in the game. A player’s task will be to repair this vehicle and as a reward it will become our next tool useful for collecting crops. It will also be possible to drive on the whole map.
And remember: don’t drive drunk! ;)
Building construction process
The next big thing in Blocky Farm is improved, awesome building construction process. This process is separated into four stages: 1) The appearance of the scaffolding 2) The actual construction process - building is getting bigger and more visible 3) The disappearance of the scaffolding 4) Ribbon cutting How do you like it?
Renders
Bee hives - three levels of development
Cherry orchard - one of three levels of growth stage
Blocky Farm devlog #21 - Destroy stones and cutting tree animations with animal response
Hi, last days we were focused on improving UI, so there is not so much to share with you, but we still have two interesting new features.
There are some obstacles on the map that blocks parts of a play area. The player can destroy it with a saw or a dynamite and get useful resources: stone or wood. Just take a look:
Blocky Farm - Update #23 - New animals and new animations!
Hi there! We are back on developing Blocky Farm after Global Game Jam competition. This week we were hard working on UI design and new animals with animations. Just take a look on these sweet domestic pets :)
Pig
On this gif pig wears hipster glasses and winter cap.
Eating Sheep
Eating Cow
Happy Cat
Please, tell us what do you think about it. Do you like these animations? Is there anything that we should improve? Thanks from advance! :)
Blocky Farm - Update #19 - Totally new game scene, totally new graphics!
Hi there! Today we have something very, very special for you and for us. We are proud to show you completely new game map and completely new graphics. Just tell us how do you like it? We are so, so excited about that, but any kind of feedback would be helpful.
Here you have some screenshots from the game (actually Block Farm runs with over 30 fps on HTC One - no optimisation yet).
Today we have something special & hot for you: first UI preview! :) Please, tell us what do you think about that! We would be very thankful for every opinion.
Yeah!
Blocky Farm devlog episode #20 - our small jubilee :) - Animals selfies, dog chasing a cat and bonus
Blocky Farm new features:
Animal selfies
Animal now can take a selfie photo :D Then this image is used as an animal potrait in some UI panels. Just take a look.
Dog chasing a cat
Everybody knows that dog and cat don’t like each other. That’s why dog can start chase a cat. Sometimes the conflict is exacerbating and chase lasts a very long time, and sometimes ends after a while…
..or sometimes something goes wrong xD
Bonus
On the following gif you can see the whole process of creating game map.
Hi. I am a user of your game Bricky Farm. Can you please fix this mission when you get level 7 on the game... The mission is from Jerry,, the mission is where you need to trade with other farmers and additional task is put an item on sale and then if i click the trade center on the left side of the gate in the game. it says "Our Server is unavailable, Please try again later." I tried it many times but still it says that thing. How can I proceed to the next mission because of this. Please help me
Thanks for reporting this to us. Could you tell us what is your country, city, device model and internet connection? Kind regards, Tobiasz.
Hey, everyone! Hope things are going alright for you :) Friday is upon us and that means it’s time for Follow Friday!
Here are some blogs I’ve started following recently that you might like to follow as well:
Game developers and development blogs:
@jay-dude - could’ve sworn I’d already mentioned you in a FF! Sorry!