In the past months, we have continued to develop our game Ostrich Farm. During testing, we noticed that it can be hard to tell what our ostriches are up to. Since the player may need to intervene with some behaviors to ensure that orders are completed on time, it is necessary to show what the […]

In our ongoing quest to infuse life into our birds, we found unexpected inspiration while looking for animation reference on Youtube. Previously, our ostriches had a rather mundane approach to mating, just standing there in front of each other. Not exactly the epitome of romance, right? This weekend, we implemented new behavior, so now the […]

In my last post, I explained how I created a custom model for our game. Since then, we were able to test it in the engine. The core feature of Ostrich Farm is combining ostriches with different colors and patterns to create cool looking offspring. To give our birds more personality, we decided to implement […]

After implementing the core loop in our game Ostrich Farm, I spent some time modifying our ostrich model so it supports the planned features. Prototyping with a placeholder When we started development, I purchased an awesome animated ostrich asset from the Unreal marketplace. This allowed us to start working on game mechanics before the final […]