Roots of Pacha: a pixel prehistoric life simulator

That looks really nice!

Hey Vilgotsky,

Love the artwork there. It very much has a oldschool harvest moon type feel to it. The animation looks to be pretty well done from the trailer as well. In particularly, I noticed the flowing water around the crops and the action animations such as picking a plant and fishing. Can only hope at this point that the game I'm working on will look at least this good. ?

So, how far does the evolution go? Meaning, does this go through all the manual growth and expansion into more automation of like the industrial revolution and end up in some futuristic state by the end of the game?

taby said:

That looks really nice!

Thanks a lot!

BinaryToshokan said:

Hey Vilgotsky,

Love the artwork there. It very much has a oldschool harvest moon type feel to it. The animation looks to be pretty well done from the trailer as well. In particularly, I noticed the flowing water around the crops and the action animations such as picking a plant and fishing. Can only hope at this point that the game I'm working on will look at least this good. ?

So, how far does the evolution go? Meaning, does this go through all the manual growth and expansion into more automation of like the industrial revolution and end up in some futuristic state by the end of the game?

Thanks for your reply! It's actually set in the late stone age and early bronze age. The game tries to evoke the feeling of discovery of that time. When inventing a new farming technique like irrigation channels or discovering how to work with clay were important achievements. We do take elements outside this age that still fit in the game but you won't evolve into the modern world.

Vilgotsky said:
What do you think about the style, graphics quality and the animation technique?

Some inconsistency: Trees in the first image have no outline, but the others do. Tree shadows look somewhat blotchy. Maybe a smaller / lighter shadow, and only one shade like for the characters would look better. The shading of the trees in the middle image feels to high contrast and detailed - they dominate over the characters. Those form the first image are more flat, but match the rest of the image much better.

Because of the overall high detail, the animated gif looks too static. Foliage bending a bit with the wind (or some other animations on the background) would help i think.

Yes, really nice otherwise! : )

@JoeJ thanks a lot for your feedback!

This looks really neat! I had a look at the website too, nice little intro video.

What are some of the technologies that you're using to create this?

Keen to see what it becomes!

@SanCoca thank you very much!

What are some of the technologies that you're using to create this?

Unity as engine, mostly Aseprite for sprites. C# for programming and some shader stuff.

Expanding your influence over the world, you will discover many wonderful ways of community development. Of course, you need a map for distant travels into the new lands. And you will have such an option in Roots of Pacha: a mini-map mode will help you to observe the territory you own.

Development team humbly asks you to rate the graphic design. Also there’s a question, does the mini-map look comfortable?

Hello everybody!

Maybe, some of you are interested what the game's title means. Who - or what is Pacha? Well… it's not a secret. Pacha is the goddes worshipped by the inhabitants of our primal world. The more favorable she is to them, the better life they have. To appease the goddess, these people often dance ritual dances around the fire.

Of course, the goddess Pacha will be very favorable to those who will support the project on Kickstarter. A list of awards is already available on the game's official website. As well as here:

@Vilgotsky
Hi!

The graphics look really good, I would personally define more contrast between UI and environment especially on the hotbar,
just to make it a bit more recognisable.

The minimap feature is great! how did you guys achieve that? must have been tough!

Cheers.

The minimap feature is great! how did you guys achieve that? must have been tough!

Thank you! Our maps are hand made so it might be easier, we picked a scale and redraw it, then we instantiate elements like trees, houses and NPCs accordingly to the scale. Every element that has a minimap representation has a script attached to instantiate itself into minimap.

@Vilgotsky Ahh that's very clever! thanks for sharing ?

Hello!

One of the most interesting features in Roots of Pacha is a possibility to establish the romantic relationships with some of the NPCs. There are 43 NPCs that will be included in the game and 8 of them are available for relationships. On of these romance-able Roots of Pacha inhabitants is Frer, the fisherman. We're excited to present him to you.

The concept art was created by artist Boris Torrandell. And this is how Frer looks in the game itself:

What are your thoughts about the character?

Is pacha somehow related with the mother earth? I am from Bolivia and in my country we have the goddess Pachamama, it is really nice to have it in the title