Albedrío is becoming an island
Today I published the Patreon page for Albedrio Vista.To do that properly, I first had to publish the devlog entries I already had on the website, so they are available on Patreon too. I
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A 3D visual novel set in one living suburb of 250+ lives, routines, and secrets, a neighborhood that keeps living whether you are watching or not.
The devlog
Why Albedrío Vista?
I feel like I already wrote about this, but I want to go deeper this time.This game has been living in my head for years. Part of it comes from being a fan of
Tutorial: how to build Godot 4.7 from source on macOS
At some point I realized the game depends on a custom build of Godot. The original reason was my internal fork of spine-godot, where I added the 3D support I needed for the game.
Making the population visible
For a while, the population of Albedrio Vista lived mostly in data files.That was fine at the beginning. A few residents, a few houses, some jobs, some notes. But the list kept growing, and
From Unity assets to a baked Godot neighborhood
Characters need a place to live, so after the first character work I moved back to the neighborhood.I started with two licensed Unity Asset Store packs: Suburb Neighborhood House Pack Modular and Residential Buildings
Making 250+ characters possible
Albedrío Vista needs too many characters to build them one by one.That is the simple problem behind a lot of the technical work. If the game had five main characters, I could model them
Old Elena's Love Saga animation
I just wanted to show you the following couple of images that I could not attach to the other, public post. The images are from the first iteration of the game, when it was