I’ve Finally Added a New Biome to my Voxel Game - Lay of the Land 

Wishlist Lay of the Land on Steam :) store.steampowered.com/app/2776090 Support development and play the game early: www.patreon.com/Tooley1998

You've given the emu knees where it should have ankles! Bird knees are held really high up, close against the body and hidden under all the feathers. You wouldn't need to change the rig at all, just the animations to have the legs bend the other way. The eucalypts look really good.

Looks really brilliant man! Hadn’t even thought of other biomes in this game until now! Endless possibilities! Looking forward to seeing more of this!

Ahh, The Mythical Lands of Australia only heard of from Legends. beautiful.

You did a very good job with the realism of the terrain it actually looks very fun to explore

That looks so sick. I wonder what other biomes could look like in this style... Maybe swamp, jungle or mangrove swamp.

Rivers have verticality, dope.

Please add split screen co-op, I'd love to play this with my little cousin 😁

Love the little oasis that form between ridges!

Hahaha the ending, super excited to play your game ❤

looking forward for this game!

This looks so amazing! I cant wait to check it out when I get the time. One thing I might suggest is doing overlaying heat map type layers to create more realistic biomes, like what is done in a game called Vintage Story, as opposed to the cookie cutter type biomes seen in Minecraft. On my way to Steam to wishlist.

I cant believe how beautiful the style of this game is

Been following your game for a while now, can’t wait to see what biomes you add. This definitely has the potential to be better than Minecraft and any other voxel game

Really cool! The music as well! And I also noticed that the clouds and even the moon is voxelated, super cool!

in all my years being alive, I don't think I've ever seen a game with any more potential than this thank you so much for creating this game Tooley, excited for the release!

Really good job, I immediately put the game on my wish list, can't wait to try it out. I would be so happy to work on a project like this, so if you are looking for a graphic and object designer or need support with concept planning, I would be happy to hear from you.

I've been subscribed for a while now, but RU-vid just decided to push one of your videos to me. First video I watched was two years ago! Keep up the good work, this is really looking great!

The game looks incredible dude. Thanks for all the work so far!

This bar far the coolest looking Voxel landscape that I've ever seen. Well done !!

im so hyped for that game , i've been watching the devlogs since the very beginning i think , just hope that have more enemys when release

fire biome i guess average Australia spiders, but coming from an earlier video, the crafting system could be where instead of getting a set cut of an item, you cut the item yourself (like the tree from the earlier video), and you need at least a certain cut. (For example, you cut the tree and need 20x10x10 voxels or something to craft it. For nerfing purposes, you can only carry so many voxels at a time in a slot.

Absolutely stunning, fantastic work! BTW now that your game's listed on Steam, it should show up in the dropdown list of games on RU-vid under the Details/Category section, so you can set that and it won't autofill it with Minecraft. Anyway, really cool progress. Really cool emu!

Wow, amazing job. Seriously impressed with how believable the terrain atmosphere is.

I like how voxel trees look idk why

I remember one year ago people saying this project will die and will never be rełeased 💀

I'm sharing this game with lots of friends of mine, I'm excited to see in the future a game with voxels so tiny that we can't distinguish them from particles, creating the truly illusion of reality

I'll be super excited when the game is released, the project is really beautiful and it looks like a lot of fun!

That’s absolutely beautiful! Good job!

Bro every time you release a new video I get the warm feeling of discovery like early Minecraft and areas in Pokemon

It's sooo gorgeous, just wishlisted!

The animals are pretty impressive, it really look like a really realistic game with a voxel filter. It's hard to describe

So excited

Love it when people make terrain gen for their own local landscapes, it always gets way cooler results than generic fantasy hills.

Whoah, amazing work once again! Please consider adding dropbears...

Gorgeous :) You're gonna kill it with that game. I'm curious, at a high level, how grass animation works in an engine of that type. They're not separate entities, right? ps: that ending 😆

Awesome work! Can't wait to see what's next!

Top kek, im loving all all these voxel engine creators releasing their update videos close to each other.

add a small deltaplane, so you can enjoy the absolut Banger generation. All the rivers and clifs are not just flat. That' great.

In all seriousness, that's sincerely pretty. I, as an explorer type, am hype for a game with good biomes!

Thats awesome dude! Love the emu boop at the end

Absolutely amazing work!

this game is so beautiful! ive been so taken by its design that im just watching all the videos just to look at it. the textures and lighting and modelling are just so gorgeous!

I am jealous of your technical skills.

Excellent progress it looks great!

This game will be the best voxel based game i'll ever see and play !

Coooll

This looks so incredible! Good work!

This is an insanely underrated game, at this point it doesn't even matter how the gameplay is the looks alone are enough for this to be an unmatched tool for art or roleplay style stuff. Can't wait for the release!

this stuff looks gorgeous man if you havent already you should add some little ambient animals like fish and birds to make the experience more alive

So jealous (in a good way)! Looks so great. Such unique landscapes at high detail. Using compression of some sort? For mine Im using 3d tilemaps

The new biome looks sick as all hell, pretty hyped for this.

Absolutely beautiful terrain generation

Oh shit bro... this looks so compelling. Keep it up

Can't believe I missed this one,ove the water particles

Very beautiful! Great job 👏👏

Looks so cool, I want to just explore in this game, especially if biome placements make sense, so dry then gradually to wet ones, same for temperature and elevation

This looks stunning, phenomenal.

I think it looks phenomenal. Well done. But I do feel like there is room for improvement. Mainly in the atmosphere of the biome. I feel like you need to create a feeling in the player that its unbearably hot and dry(maybe heat shimmer effects or sort of a dusty atmosphere). I dont really know how to explain it, but so far it looks amazing.

This looks amazing. I'm not sure if this is something you're interested in but I feel like this game could be really cool in VR if you added support for that

Bro really just pecked you😂 Amazing work once again

This is so awesome as usual. I'd be interested in knowing how you generate the clouds and sky? They look really good a suit the rest of the style.

Finally i'll play a finished Cube World. Thank you so much

Looks amazing as always

With a Canyons biome we need HORSES YEEEHAAAAW

1:18 Weird that you scaled the spiders down compared to actual Australian spiders... Amazing work so far though!

im hyped for this game even though there is a 0% chance i could ever run it :>

I love how this is just Minecraft + Teardown with a touch of medieval fantasy.

Life in the game continues to evolve

it looks incredible! if you wanted to add a new enemy, i think a zombie kangaroo would be funny and thematic

Beautiful as always

At first it seemed to me that this was 2D (in 3D) with large pixels, but the voxels here are also cool looks

The map is starting to seem like it would take a long time to travel. I wonder what kind of transport you might add. Biome looks comfortable btw.

Nice!

I'm actually more excited about the release of this game than other games from big studios

Why doese the game look so good, i wish i would be as talented as you

Please add VR and online as an update after the game has been launched. Would be revolutionary for mankind.

Impressive ! You should try to make a karstic / Mediterranean inspired moutains , you would make it look awesome ❤

The biome looks amazing. Please tell me there are going to be some comfy game mechanics like making a campfire, rounding up some animals or making pets? Because the game is looking like prime comfy material with the amazing shaders and landscapes!

This looks cool af, can't wait for it to come out

Simply amazing.

Released on the same day voxray demo is out, what a day for voxel games

This looks incredible, though I still hold that a user customized spells like in Noita or some old minecraft mods would go incredibly hard with this games general vibe

This is weirdly cool. Make the kangaroos spend 95% of their time grazing or moving to find new places to graze. Idk if you're from Australia but if I were to go outside right now I could film some reference of kangaroos and I guarantee they'd just be grazing endlessly. And yeah as others have mentioned the emus look like a person in a suit because the legs are all wrong lol

So cool! Can’t wait to play it

Out of the 142 games I have on my wishlish, this one is now on #2

If the end isn't completely scripted then that's awesome lol, I love AI that has some liveliness compared to what most games do :p

I love it. Great work.

For full immersion you should make the game very poorly optimized in this biome so that your computer fan heats up your room by 500 degrees. - An Australian

One day I'll be in my own home smoking playing this game and everything will be okay for a little while

Looks great, but...If there's gonna be a new minecraft, i'm not sure if having voxels that small would be practical for building stuff or terraform imo, rather get the current minecraft's block size and make it half that size then adding lots of building blocks(not as in current minecraft with just few vanilla blocks and no way to rotate blocks, like for example stairs).And we are all using stairs to build roofs, but they are called stairs for a reason(the lack of blocks makes us use stairs as roofs so..)It's pretty obvious why people would get bored of playing minecraft after a period of time.

That looks very pretty. I have noticed something while watching this video. The animals blend in with the landscape. Generally speaking that is a good thing. After all animals don't want to be seen. But I speak of a different type of blending in. I speak of texture. Usually the texture of dirt, plants and animals is quite different. So on close up they are very easily distinguisheable. That's why the animals have pattern to break up the form to blend more in on the makro level. But in your case the texture of dirt, plants and animals is all the same. It's all voxels that only differ in distance, color and shading. And that leads to a type of blend in that is not normal in nature. I just wanted to point it out. I think if you find a way to improve that it would improve the liveliness of this world.

Bloody amazing!

looking good! do you ever talk much about the technical side of development? ive gathered youre using ue5 but id love to hear more about the tools youve found / made along the way

Lively oceans is this game would be so fucking cool

I can’t wait for the release of this game

Hi, Tooley! I want to suggest some additions regarding atmosphere. The reasons why so many people love games is usually far from technical part, it's more about the overall atmosphere: fitting music, ambience, small details that are there just to add to the experience. You have most of them already, though so far i still feel a bit of that "regidness", it's like if the game is a mannequin compared to an actual human - it still lacks dynamics, liveliness sometimes. And, i think, it's not really about the movements of grass or trees but rather the lack of details such as fireflies or other insects(that will probably take only a few pixels), small animals and a variety of them, as well as more random particles of leaves, dust etc. The small animals don't always have to drop useful items such as meat or furr or whatever upon killing them, they may be just to be there, just to convey the feeling of presence in a different world that lives it's own story(something videogames actually are, heh😊). I didn't play the game so i dont know if it has a storyline or some lore behind it, but if it's more like Minecraft than Terraria then deep atmosphere and the right ways of conveying it may be the very few key elements to make this game very revisitable. Survival games are often about spending plenty of hours just to wrap your head around of and land your hands on a single part of it like, for example, building or looting. It all will likely to become boring after some time so this is why i say this word again - atmosphere! Sometimes it's just cool to boot up a game simply to enjoy its digital realm rather than actually playing it. Though some of the things i mentioned above may be already added, i still think it wouldn't be unreasonable to bring up the importance of atmosphere and the sad fact that the majority of gamedevs nowadays don't pay as much attention to it as they do to technical part or graphics, which are part of atmosphere but the most primitive one. Games that lack atmosphere are not bad but they dont make you come back to them as often as games with dynamic, "alive" worlds do. That said, the beauty is in simple things and simple things are conveniently easier to add!😊 The building and looting systems of Lay of the Land seem very satisfying, to say the least and i hope one day it will be seen by millions! (Actually the first game to give me very similar feelings Ace of Spades would give, i miss the times....)

Seriously the coolest looking thing ever.

This looks so great! How did you manage to make the voxels so small? 🕵

Even if there wasnt a game to go with it this is wonderful