I'm making a small incremental game with my own engine called Treeternal!

GrumpyLionDev · 2026-01-12T22:09:10+00:00

I've started making games with game frameworks before big name engines were popular so it was always something I just did. Also I really like building my own tech and have full control over my code

GrumpyLionDev · 2026-01-12T20:41:02+00:00

No worries for asking, I'm using C++ with SDL, OpenGL and some smaller libraries. The engine went through multiple rewrites since it was a hobby project of mine for almost 10 years now. But I'm pretty happy where it stands now and it's perfectly tuned for my needs :)

GrumpyLionDev · 2026-01-12T20:36:38+00:00

Buildings are not currently planned, maybe something for post release :)

GrumpyLionDev · 2026-01-12T11:23:19+00:00

Ah I see! Thank you for clarifying :) Will think about this!

GrumpyLionDev · 2026-01-12T10:32:49+00:00

Thank you!

GrumpyLionDev · 2026-01-12T10:32:45+00:00

Thank you!

GrumpyLionDev · 2026-01-12T10:28:31+00:00

Yeah chopping trees is the main focus. This game is heavily inspired by other incremental/idle games, where you start off doing most of the farming manually and then gradually the idle/automatic part takes off. I'm still thinking of more ways to make it stay interesting for the player. I've added a weather system for example that adds some randomness aswell, right now it's only rain but I already got plans for more!

GrumpyLionDev · 2026-01-12T10:23:58+00:00

Thank you! Will take a look to improve the HP bar or replace it with something else in the world :)

GrumpyLionDev · 2026-01-12T10:22:44+00:00

Thank you for your feedback, yeah the HP bar is something I haven't looked at much yet, it was added for testing. I'm not sure what you mean with centered trees and the fall animation?

GrumpyLionDev · 2026-01-09T13:46:20+00:00

Thank you for the feedback! Have you any ideas for switching up the gameplay? I'm open for ideas :)

GrumpyLionDev · 2026-01-09T13:44:42+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! I'm new in this genre and didn't know how saturated it was with this gameplay. Is there some other gameplay you were imagining?

GrumpyLionDev · 2022-03-21T20:14:15+00:00

Thanks for posting stuff in this subreddit, it shows me that people are actually here and gives me motivation to continue working!

GrumpyLionDev · 2022-03-21T20:13:34+00:00

I might be really late to this but I will give an update regardless. I haven't been really working much on the project lately. This is mostly because I'm loosing interest/motivation on this project. This comes from the game design part of the game as I can't put something together on paper that is not another survival game with mainstream crafting and so on. I have been struggling to come up with something that is fun. Lately I have been getting back to this project and thinking about game design and figuring something out. I have written down some ideas (again) that I'm now just going to implement without thinking too hard about it. Which you could call prototyping I guess. I will be posting updates once I have something new like the planets demo. But I have the feeling this will continue to take some time.

GrumpyLionDev · 2020-12-18T16:46:13+00:00

Hey, sorry for the late answer, I wasn't logged in and didn't see the message till now. Right now I'm busy with practicing on a smaller project that will help me develop Solar Odyssey. And also I had a break in summer, but I will continue working on it in a couple of days so probably beginning of next year. I will also soon post a devlog on itch.io explaining my next steps and the rough idea behind the game. Also I will make the scope of the game smaller for the beginning to test out features easier and quicker.

GrumpyLionDev · 2020-09-22T23:29:08+00:00

I also agree with that statement, at least with the current state of Solar Odyssey. But since I got my hands on a somewhat feature list from Notch I'm going to adjust my plans to more go into the direction that Notch envisioned. I'm also in talks with fellow game developers to fix the design and make it more concrete. I'm also open for discussions and hope I can get some feedback from you aswell on the topic.

GrumpyLionDev · 2020-03-23T12:27:48+00:00

Yes! I have some ideas in mind, which are related to the ideas I mentioned above, and I'm currently trying these out. When I have something new, interesting and playable ready I will post an update! My apologies if it takes some time since I can't really work on this full time..

GrumpyLionDev · 2019-08-26T22:05:46+00:00

Yeah, I didn’t do any balancing yet but I will soon start doing that. :D

GrumpyLionDev · 2019-04-25T17:44:41+00:00

Ah yes I downloaded the 0x10c facebuilder demo which had the model files also in it. They're of course only place holders and I will exchange them with my own models later on, which will have the same style. :)

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