A pause menu, with regular options like "Resume" and "Exit Game", which also contains a "Quack" button for some reason.
I'm currently fixing all the bugs caused by the migration and also further polishing the graphics. The shadow quality has been improved and aquatic stage is brighter now. But most important of all: There now is an useless button that makes duck sounds.
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A bad drawing of a purple, duck-shaped building, titled as the duck factory. It has a door at the bottom and a window as eye. The beak is labeled as chemical exhaust. It is also wearing a fancy hat. Next to the building, the "Saddam Hussein's hiding place" meme is depicted.
It is time to reveal the winners of the Architecture art contest! The third, second, and first places all go to... Wauzmons. Congratulations to the winners and thank you to everyone who participated!
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#ElysianEclipse 0.6.0 Comparison:
Version 0.6.0 is a huge step forward! While it doesn't contain any new features, it runs on the new render pipeline and brings lots of graphical and technical improvements. The file size has been reduced by 500 MB and it runs about 15% faster in a lot of places.
A cake (that is actually a creature) opened in the creation viewer.
Let's gooo! The render pipeline migration is pretty much done and all of the stages are playable again! I even improved some mechanics like the creation viewer (see screenshot) and the decal system.
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Kibby standing in front of a hut with cat-like features.
Architecture Art Contest
It is time for the fifth #ElysianEclipse #ArtContest! Our creatures are becoming more and more civilized and deserve a proper place to live. Now you can help to design a home for them, with the chance of your ideas getting added to the game! #ElysianEclipseContest 🧵
Nugget loaded into the freshly converted creature editor.
The render pipeline migration is progressing. The creature editor is already fully functional again. Some of the colors are different, but it is still looking decent. Has been pretty frustrating so far.
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Nugget standing in the reworked tropical valley biome.
#ElysianEclipse V 0.5.5 is here!
This version is available to test for aquatic tier or higher supporters and will become completely free once the next version drops.
Patchnotes for all 0.5.x updates: www.elysian-eclipse.com#/wiki/V_0.5_...
Supporter Download: ko-fi.com/post/Version...
Unity has finally deprecated the render pipeline used by #ElysianEclipse, which means that we have to switch to the Universal Render Pipeline (URP) to continue receiving updates.
A screenshot of the biome, described in the post, featuring a huge mountain and two beaches.
The tropical valley, will be the first biome to receive a rework. It will be much bigger and sandier. The mountains are higher and have more natural shapes with visible erosion. Still work in progress. Vegetation is disabled at the moment.
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A procedural landscape covered in dry, rocky hills.
I'm working on a new terrain generation prototype for a lot of different creature stage biomes! V 0.5.5 will include at least one reworked and one new biome. New plant editor updates have been pushed back a bit in favor of this.
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A crabfish swimming through an aquatic stage area. The tooltip for its age reads: Juvenile Age Get older to unlock more inventory space, as well as new social interactions. 435 / 2,400 (18.13%) Next Reward: 4 Inventory Slots Active Rewards: 8 Inventory Slots
The stat system has been reworked. Health and damage values are now much higher, making them easier to balance without needing decimals. Furthermore age and skill levels now have proper tooltips, letting you see the exact rewards you get.
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A notification popup of getting 5 fishing experience, after catching a Wiwaxia. The sidebar shows experience bars for different skills. Evolution is at level 20, while Fishing is at level 1 with some progress to level 2.
Instead of having just a single level, your species can now earn experience in different skills! These grant bonuses like permanent stat increases. Reaching new stages will also unlock more skills.
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Blorb and Kibby sitting on a bench in a space station. A golden statue of Blorb, aswell as several signs are visible in the background. One sign shows a Wooblor microbe. Another shows Blorb holding a "pls give me all your money" sign. And the last one reading "WauzTech". An energy core is positioned in the center of the room. It looks like a minature star.
#ElysianEclipse V 0.5.4 is here!
This version is available to test for aquatic tier or higher supporters and will become completely free once the next version drops.
Patchnotes for all 0.5.x updates: www.elysian-eclipse.com#/wiki/V_0.5_...
Supporter Download: ko-fi.com/post/Version...
Blorb Station constructed. Space Duck deployed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jDz...
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Blorb standing on a white cube, floating in space. Everything is completely empty, except for the glow of the galactic plane and other distant lights.
Blorb has been sent to the new space stage prototype. Here he will construct a space station, the Blorb Station™, which will serve as hub for testing space stage mechanics. Wish him luck, as he ventures where no Blorb has gone before!
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A red plant with a twisted stem and thorny branches. The stem ends in a broad cap, which branches into a circle of tentacles with a bush in its center.
Some more progress on the plant editor. You can now create twisted tree trunks. The "cap" of this plant is a work in progress version of one of the first fungus parts.
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A simple bamboo hut, made in the hut editor. The chimney is selected and the inspector shows a selection of different materials for it. The selected material is marked with a checkmark icon.
The material selector is here! It lets you change the material of the individual regions of hut and plant parts. It even lets you change the leaf shape of foliage. Here, I used it to create a bamboo hut.
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A crabfishing flying through the sky at dusk. The camera is zoomed out further than the usual maximum.
I made several improvements to mount and camera controls:
- The mount will now try to land by itself, when you jump off while being in the air.
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Before: Hard edges on letters. Titles and buttons use small caps.
Elysian Eclipse now has new fonts! The text is now more stylized and rounded, especially for headings. Small caps have been removed completely to make everything more consistent.
Here is a before and after of the archive.
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A garfield-like creature, riding on a crabfish. Two additonal health and energy meters are shown on the HUD. Mount health has a horse icon, while energy has a carrot icon. The hotbar contains the dash and dismount abilities. The space between them is filled with empty slots.
Mounts now have their own ability hotbars! While riding the crabfish, you can let it perform a spin dash, just like in aquatic stage. Its health and energy are shown too while riding.
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A bunch of creatures on a beach, each shaped like one of the digits of 2026.
Happy New Year! So, this is it. The first year ever, I'm not employed anymore and can fully focus on Seven Ducks Studios. 👀
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A hut with a two-layered thatch roof. The top layer has a triangular window, while the bottom layer has multiple round windows that are partially hidden under the layer above.
The sub-part system has been added to more parts. You can now for example place windows on both layers of this roof and they will be automatically rotated correctly. Previously only the top layer was clickable and you couldn't attach parts to it at all.
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Two trees. One with long, red leaves, shaped like a sphere. The other with curvy, green leaves, shaped like a big dome.
While I've been busy with space stage, @roseae.bsky.social has been experimenting with some more leaf types.
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The "Elysian Archive", showing a bunch of creatures. The category selection now contains a button for vehicles with a minimalistic car icon and a button for starships with a rocket icon.
Categories for vehicles and starships have been added in preparation for the second space stage prototype. There won't be an editor yet though, since you'll fly a premade ship. Development will start directly after christmas.
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A cat-like creature, standing in a dried out lake, with the notification "you can't fish here" on screen.
#ElysianEclipse V 0.5.3 is here!
This version is available to test for aquatic tier or higher supporters and will become completely free once the next version drops.
Patchnotes for all 0.5.x updates: www.elysian-eclipse.com#/wiki/V_0.5_...
Supporter Download: ko-fi.com/post/Version...
Various plants in the plant editor, including a blue cactus, a tree with golden leaves, and a branching structure with bulbs at its tips.
The part selection is still small, but the plant editor is slowly coming together. I plan to release a new version this weekend.
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The plant from the following concept art, rendered ingame.
![Needle Rock concept art. Desert dwelling epiphyte from [DATA LOST]. Slowly saps metal from rocks and incorporates it into its signature thorns and "razor flower".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xyznqldxegsr3j7krsfw2spq/bafkreialoawrivtj2hs2t5oxsqyejpfto5mcmf5bxpyprvivd2yvkiqg7e)
Needle Rock concept art. Desert dwelling epiphyte from [DATA LOST]. Slowly saps metal from rocks and incorporates it into its signature thorns and "razor flower".
The first plant from the art contest, the "Needle Rock", designed by EquippedHats has been added to the game! All of its parts will be available in the plant editor.
Try giving it a hug.
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A willow-like tree in the plant editor. The leaves are green and hanging down from different branches. The texture just consists of squiggly lines.
Tried to make some different types of foliage and ended up with hanging leaves, similar to weeping willows. This is just a quick test, the final part will have a prettier texture.
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A jumbled mess of shapes and colors, made in the plant editor.
The sub-part system has been implemented! It basically allows a part to have multiple "attachment points" that have control over the snapping and rotation of all parts placed on them.
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