Hello everyone!🙌

Pug's Coco Island is back with a patch to the game jam version, now updated to v0.2 so that you guys can see that the game is still alive. It's still in preview though, so there are still no clear goals/objectives or even rewards in the game. I plan to update the game incrementally, like when a new major feature is available, so follow along as the game gets only better!

So before I  made the new "build" mechanic, I polished the existing features like the visuals, the interactions and so on. I usually do it this way so that everything can be managed easily when the game gets more complicated. Anyway, It took me some time to wrap my head around the build menus because I wanted it to be as simple as possible. Now you can interact with the workstation beside the house and you'll be able to select (2) options: Wind Generator, and Coco Machine (still a work in progress). There are other things on the list and also on the other tab, but they would be blank, so just press "escape" to cancel if you get stuck with nothing to build with. Also, I went with a free-movement, rather than a grid-based kind of placement, although I'm still debating whether to add in some kind of snapping, but thinking about it just seems to be complicated. I'm still unsure on how to tackle this and might overlook it for now and focus on the other missing features.

Also another addition to the game is Unity's new input system! At first I was a bit hesitant to use it, as I was very comfortable with the old input system. I thought it would be too hard and complicated, but turns out I'm wrong! I was confronted with one hurdle though, when it didn't read inputs at every frame, which I really needed so that the player can hold a button for a continuous chain of actions. After a night of thinking, I managed to get through it and now it's very much worth the upgrade. I can now easily setup the controls universally for any gamepad or controller. Opening up possibilities for different platforms! 😃

So that's it for now, I tried to polish this version as much as I could so that it's close to zero bugs. Feel free to try out the game and if you would kindly leave some feedback, it would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks and update you later! 👋😉