Hey everyone!
For the last couple of weeks I've been working on the new design for the UI in Homegrown and I'd love to know your thoughts! Visual design has always been a bit of a weakness of...
2023-10-19 20:28:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The big UI makeover has officially begun! However, this first step had nothing to do with visuals. Until now my engine had no support for playing sounds, and seeing as I obviously want the UI (and ...
2023-09-29 11:49:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Before moving on to the UI update I wanted to spend one week adding content into the game, to make use of all the gameplay feature that have been added over the course of version 0.4. So in this up...
2023-09-11 09:25:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry for the delay on this one! It turned out to be quite a difficult update, both in terms of the design decisions and the implementation. I got a lot of feedback on 2023-09-05 15:53:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
The next devlog video is finished but it's not going public until next weekend, so I thought I would give you early access to it as a little bonus.
The updated version of ...
2023-08-18 08:29:23 +0000 UTC View Post
This month it's the turn of the compost system to get an overhaul! This update allows you to create your own compost mixes and choose what effects you'd like them to have on your plants and soil. 2023-07-19 14:50:28 +0000 UTC View Post
A bit of a quicker update this time! I've been making a few tweaks and improvements to the way plant health works, as well as making some adjustments the vegetable quality system.
Gamer T...
2023-06-19 19:45:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Building on the changes to the tool system from last month, I've now overhauled the way that you upgrade your items. This new system will hopefully provide you with more flexibility and customizabi...
2023-06-13 15:18:41 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been an intense month of programming! In preparation for adding more content to Homegrown I've be reworking a lot of the tool system to make sure it has support for all that I have planned. Ho...
2023-05-19 14:05:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Here are the latest download links for my games. Download the file, unzip it, then run the relevant jar file to launch the game. You’ll need to have Java installed on your computer for it to work...
2023-05-19 14:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Here are the links to download the code for my projects. Homegrown and the City-builder can be set up in Eclipse as explained in 2023-05-19 14:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Quite a bit of new content in this release! The main aim of this update was to add support for a few new object types, to allow for more variety in the game in the future. I implemented three new o...
2023-04-20 11:53:41 +0000 UTC View Post
In this update there's a new feature that allows you have much bigger gardens, one new vegetable for you to grow, and collectible trophies!
Gamer Tier+ patrons can download and
After quite a few months of working on the render engine the graphics overhaul for Homegrown is done (for now!) It's a big improvement from how the game looked back in version 0.2 and there are sti...
2023-03-09 16:38:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone! Hope you've all been having a good start to 2023. I've started the year by making some changes to the terrain system in Homegrown, to make it fit in better with the overall art-style o...
2023-01-29 13:48:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone! Some big updates to Homegrown this month, including a whole new area, some changes to the controls, and more improvements to the particle effect system.
Gamer Tier+ p...
2022-12-15 19:20:57 +0000 UTC View Post
This month I've been adding support for a much needed feature to the Homegrown engine: particle effects! Interacting with the world now feels so much more real and satisfying, with little rocks, du...
2022-11-01 09:49:29 +0000 UTC View Post
The graphical update to Homegrown has been progressing very nicely over the last few weeks! I’ve switched all the models over to the new art-style and finished working on the new rendering proces...
2022-09-26 15:59:37 +0000 UTC View PostHere are the links to download the code for my projects. Homegrown and the City-builder can be set up in Eclipse as explained in 2022-09-26 15:56:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Here are the latest download links for my projects. Download the file, unzip it, then run the relevant jar file to launch the game. You’ll need to have Java installed on your computer for it to w...
2022-09-26 15:55:18 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s been another solid month of development on Homegrown and things are really starting to take shape nicely! Earlier this month I completed the final update for version 0.2 of the game and I’...
2022-08-25 06:52:38 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone,
You can try out version 0.2.0 of the game by downloading it here:
Here's the download link for the current code:
2022-08-25 06:52:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
We're slowly getting closer to the completion of version 0.2 of Homegrown - only one more update to go now! Over the last month I've been making some important changes to the wa...
2022-08-01 11:59:45 +0000 UTC View PostHere's the download link for the current code:
2022-08-01 11:59:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
Here's the link to download the latest version of Homegrown:
Here's the download link for the current code:
2022-06-29 15:40:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
Here's the link to download the latest version of Homegrown:
Here's the download link for the current code:
2022-06-19 19:06:55 +0000 UTC View Post
I've just finished work on the latest addition to Home Grown: weeds! These unwanted plants will pop-up in your vegetable beds and start to negatively effect your crops unless you do some weeding. T...
2022-05-13 17:37:08 +0000 UTC View Post