Hey everyone! This is going to be a quick little update to tell you all what’s been happening.

We’ve all been working very hard since the last blog update. We’re working towards putting out our first ‘proper’ gameplay video, and we’re hoping to have it done and uploaded fairly soon so keep an eye out!

Anyway, there’s a lot I could tell you guys about features we’ve added and all that but a lot of them are going to be in the upcoming video, so instead I’m just going to gather some tweets the team have been putting out there regarding the game/video so they’re all in one place. 🙂

House for sale!

Coming soon! @StaxelGame pic.twitter.com/sSVN8ojC3Y

— Damon (◕◡◕✿) #ilujam (@demanrisu) July 23, 2015

Market stalls

Go follow @StaxelGame we have happy pixels by @SteamPunkStein 🙂 if you know, you want to pic.twitter.com/l1ReUPf3sn

— bartwe (@bartwerf) July 20, 2015

Farming!

.@bartwerf taking some time off to look after his crops ;P pic.twitter.com/P8M0IUkFeI

— Staxel (@StaxelGame) July 11, 2015

Random tunnel

A tunnel just appeared at the edge of town! I wonder who – or what – will come out of it? @StaxelGame pic.twitter.com/CifW4mSbRl

— Damon (◕◡◕✿) #ilujam (@demanrisu) July 25, 2015

Testing out the new camera feature

Messing with the camera for an upcoming video 🙂 @StaxelGame https://t.co/LWvtj2JOVS

— bartwe (@bartwerf) July 21, 2015

Regarding the very last tweet, Bart made an awesome camera feature that allows us to create awesome, cinematic shots. It’s incredibly easy to use and will be in in-game feature that anyone can mess with! (Will most likely require the user to be an admin or something, we don’t know those super fine details yet. 😉 )

So yeah, like I said keep an eye out for the upcoming video! You can follow us on our Twitter, Forums, Reddit and our Facebook!

Hey guys, so Bart went to GDC a few weeks ago, and so we compiled a small video to show our progress since last year on the game.
Check it out!

~SteampunkStein

Over the past few weeks we’ve been working on shadows and lighting to work alongside our new village.
We’ve also worked on some concept biomes and other fun stuff,  so here’s some images on what we have so far! 🙂

The fairy biome could possibly have little light orbs floating around, we have a few other ideas we want to try and this is only the start of it all 🙂
Thanks for reading,

SteampunkStein

Been working on some new shaders for staxel and played around with bloom a bit.

It will not look like this in game, but some of these screenshots are just too much fun not to show 🙂

 

Hey all!

Today I started working on races.
Throughout the Staxel universe you will find different races ranging from elves to fairies and (maybe) even golems.

Races will have different purposes, a big part would be trading and selling or learning new craftable items.
There will be race specific items you would only be able to get this way 🙂

Here’s a little sneakpeek of the elf race and the awesome headpieces you could get by befriending them.

Mind this is only a small sneak peek of what’s to come, there’s still plenty more on my to do list.
Thanks for reading
~SteampunkStein

Hey all!
It’s been a while since my last update, sorry about that.

I’ve been working on a variety of things, some of them interesting, some boring and a lot of them a secret ;D

But! I wanted to update you all on some of the new character hairstyles, because I’m quite proud of them 🙂
I’ll be posting more about character customisation soon, I’ll leave you with a sneak peek though!

 

Thanks for reading

~SteampunkStein

 

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So if you caught my stream this week you’ll know I’ve spent most of the past few days working on tree designs.
I decided to hand pick my favourites and showcase them here in all splendour for all to see.

The crazy shapes and curves were inspired by bonsai trees (If you image search that you’ll see what I mean)
I’d really like to continue on this path making even more unique designs to make the Staxel world look really beautiful. (That is my job after all)

 

This is a small update as, well, all I can really say is ‘Check out these awesome trees!’
~SteampunkStein

We have been busy adding support for .bvh animation files in the engine and we can now make animations in blender and use them ingame.