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This is an important but boring blog post about my opinions of AI and the future of the game industry! First, I haven't thanked everyone for the RIDICULOUS amount of GLOBAL interest that Family Time has received since Episode 2 came out. It's actually insane, we are a couple ranks away from Call of

DOWNLOAD BELOW (This is a WIP Pre-Alpha)! Tons of secret new update features too never before seen until you find them! New Features: Added log splitting into planks Added F5 and F6 save/load Added fog Expanded Wolf Mama with new animations, sounds, commands, awareness, anger, protection, and cheeri

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical! This week: More Pup Behaviors Water Physics More Pup Behaviors Headpats, ear massages, and chin rubs have been implemented! There are still lots of animations I'd like to do including fun rare headpat animations. But more on that later. The wolf pup

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical! Episode 2 game release is approaching! This week: Wolf Mama Behaviors Pig Mechanics Wolf Mama Behaviors I thought the scare animation came out really well! But it's also very useful because boars can get very annoying: You can't outrun boars unless

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical! This week: Piggies Damage Mechanics Piggies Pigs are the second type of wild creature that you will find in the forest. For gameplay reasons the boars are males, the big pigs are females, and the piglets are whatever (Too lazy to make a boar piglet)

Work on Episode 2 has started! Video shows the summary, text shows the technical! This week: Wolf Mama Game Mechanics Chicken Husbandry Wolf Mama Game Mechanics The Wolf Mama is like an overseer to ensure you take care of the little ones. Every time you end the day she checks that you gave every chi

DOWNLOAD BELOW Alrighty so this is the very first release for the game! It's a tech demo with all the WIP game mechanics for you to mess around with: Feeding Attacking Sleeping Building Digging Commanding I made an in-game tutorial but as expected the game does not have an end goal yet. You can just

No progress video today because it's the week before the first demo release! Meaning I'm putting all my effort into making the demo playable. Teaser: This will be the first demo of Family Time. We will be doing something new and calling releases in an episodic manner: Episode 1: August 7th (next wee

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical! This week: Building Sleeping Building I designed the building system with cooperation in mind so that this game doesn't turn into another casual farming simulator. This isn't to say it won't borrow qualities from those types of games but Family Time

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical! This week: Commands Digging Commands Commands are a really cool feature because of how item management will work in the game. The player will not have an inventory system (for large objects). Instead you'll need to use your feral children to handle

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical This week: Uppies Food Mechanics Uppies So you can now pick up your children by just going over to them and left clicking. If you hold left click you begin charging a throw in which you can then aim anywhere and release to send them flying. Nothing h

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical! This week: Chickens Hunger Chickens The first few weeks of making a game are so critical because it's when you are laying the foundation of the game. So despite me working towards just a simple behavior as "Find chickens and move to them", given the

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical. This week: The Tech Planning Food Mechanics The Tech There was so much tech I couldn't fit it all into the video, but basically for the characters I had to roll out my own solution within Unity. I wanted thousands of characters, rigged, animated, co

The first juicy development blog drops on Friday! I've been working hard alongside on MyRobot patches to get this video finally out! I will be continuing the weekly routine and posting videos, blogs, and most importantly DEMOS here for members. Please look forward to it! And comment below for any qu

1) The Full Romantic Update comes out tomorrow for Steam, Patreon users get it TONIGHT. Premiere video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58uqJXvZmAs 2) The new game teaser comes out next Wednesday! Premiere video: Will be posted here next week! I hope you look forward to the demo for the next ga

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical! This week: AutoWizard Improvements Work on Text to Speech AutoWizard Improvements If you haven't noticed yet, the entire narrative for AI has been on SHAKY ground for the past few years. It's tied to many global economies and services and if they go

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical! This week: Romantic Update Improvements Next Game Teaser Romantic Update Improvements I've been receiving feedback for the Romantic Update; things that people would like to see, things to make exploring easier, and better AI suggestions. I'm listeni

Yes you can now take out your robot on a date, feed her lots of desserts and enjoy silly cute romantic behaviours! Download below! NOTE: the 3rd romantic behavior will be enabled on Friday (needs some more work before release), currently disabled. Several rounds of bugfixes will drop all week long!

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical! This week: AI2U Cross Promotional Campaign Releasing Dating Update Beta AI2U Cross Promotional Campaign We're gonna share character models and offer a bundled sale for both of our Steam games. It's still in the works but should release pretty soon!

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical! This week: Hiding Ingredients ??? Hiding Ingredients Planning to release the next big update here on Patreon late next week-ish. That means I have to create the quests for the dessert ingredients which means scattering the ingredients at random plac

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical! This week: Finishing Restaurant For Dating Mechanics Foraging For Ingredients Finishing Restaurant For Dating Mechanics So you can order for the main course LITERALLY ANYTHING. Turkey blood was a morbid example but in the game you will die if you tr

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical! This week: Restaurant logic Restaurant Logic This week I worked on the features for ordering food and drinks. Each customer can order what they want and the waitress will ask everyone until they all are finished. Then, she'll go back to the kitchen

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical! This week: Restaurant Model Setting Up Restaurant Restaurant Model Hotep's food restaurant has been complete and will feature a bit more lore for its release (Scheduled for middle of May). The restaurant has a few chairs so that you can sit yourself

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical! This week: More Post Launch Maintenance Dating Update Restaurant More Post Launch Maintenance So because the game is live on Steam, I had to use a couple days to stabilize it throughout the week. Which meant mostly patching more bugs and glitches. T

"WAITER! WAITER THERE IS A FLY IN MY SOUP!" "I'll have the steak medium rare" "You look wonderful today my love!" Yes! A dating restaurant update is coming in May with an exclusive early download and release for Patreon members, meaning business as usual! Next week will feature the first development

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical! This week: Post Launch Maintenance Post Launch Maintenance So this past week I've been super busy gathering feedback and going down a big list of chores, mostly feature fixes and improvements. Various map zones outside the base have been polished an

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical! This week: Custom Torsos Miscellanea Custom Torsos Yes the feature is in now for the full Steam Release! You can now create your own torsos and use the mod tool to create assets which you can then share on the Steam Workshop! This was a big ask and

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical! This week: Steam Beta Monitoring Bugfixing MYSTERIOUS NEW GAME? Steam Beta Monitoring Just to remove confusion, ALL PATREON MEMBERS ARE PLAYING THE SAME BUILD AS THE STEAM BETA (the Steam release will contain a few more features and patches). These

DOWNLOAD BELOW WOO! VR + AI is a SUPER NICHE category of games! So I hope you cherish this build! Pause -> Settings -> Toggle VR This is the first BETA VR release and it does not yet contain full VR tutorials however if you've played mouse and keyboard it should be easy to pick up! THIS IS A HIGHLY

SO BUSY I can't make a video today! But stay tuned for Friday's release!

CHECK YOUR EMAIL FROM sgthale@playmyrobot.com because I just emailed everyone their monthly access trial keys! This is a temporary fix for the login issues! Thank you! This update brings major polish to random mechanics but do check out some of the new behaviors! Next week we will release the VR upd

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical! Note on the delayed release: We do need an extra week to make sure the in-game login system is fully functional! But since the VR update is coming in March it's very likely we will have two back to back updates released! This week: VR Compatibility

When you play VR games, what controls do you like?

Video shows the summary text shows the technical! A NOTE ON FEBRUARY'S RELEASE: We are migrating to the Steam branch, therefore we will release it in about a week (maybe less) so that Patreon login works (currently broken, but you can PM me for a trial key to bypass). This week: Starting VR Steam Be

Two important updates: 1) February's update was delayed for a week because we are waiting for Steam to give the thumbs up for a beta test. PATREON LOGIN ISSUES FIX depend on us switching to a Steam branch. Thank you for your patience. 2) VR is coming in March! A full development update will be poste

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical! This week: Teasing More Animations Teasing So if any robot is nearby any other character, and the right conditions are met, the robot will tease the other until it turns around. There are 3 new animations including the "L" dance, t pose, and generic

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical! This week: Steam Work Kickstarter Backer Fulfillment Steam Work So for all Kickstarter backers, a Steam Beta is meant to go live this week which is the beta before the game is complete and goes on sale on Steam. So a lot of backend and preparatory w

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical! This week: Self Host Offline AI Text to Speech Rebindable Controls Steam Workshop Integration Self Host Offline AI Text to Speech So this one has been in the works for a while, and it's a big one. You can now host your own TTS AI models completely o

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical! This week: Quality of Life Improvements Part 1 Preparing for VR Quality of Life Improvements Part 1 So this goes hand in hand with the upcoming VR update. First, I need to make sure that the game feels good, is free of major bugs, and generally feel

Development resumes next week due to all the holidays!