Hey there! It's been quite a while since our last update! The Sky Patch team is proud to announce our latest update!

New Player Character Design

One of the team's biggest goals in post-jam polish was to revamp our player character. To alleviate some scope creep, our team defaulted to paid assets so we could put greater focus in other areas of development. But since after Solarpunk Jam, our team had slowly but surely working on this update, along with other improvements.

Let's first go over the new character design! Our team wanted to have a character that matched the earthy and soft tones of Sky Patch. Our 2D Artist Polly (that's me!) took great inspiration from other solarpunk x cozy games like Loftia for our player character.

Concept Art for Sky Patch Player Character by Pauline Reinacher

Our team was later joined by Pew Pęksa, our 3D Character Artist. They stepped in post-jam to help with bringing our player character to life!

Part of our team's motivation for polish following the jam was to support the endeavors of one of our members; showcasing Sky Patch for their student exhibition. We had the month of July to complete our list of polish, and Pew demonstrated great adaptability to the game's core style and took great care in capturing every unique detail.

Pew's personal comment on development:

I mean, it was my first time making a character for a project where I didn't have a hand into its in-depth development. I was a little worried about capturing that essence and overall style as a late comer. But I was really glad when the final result ended up fitting in so well. I had a fun time putting it together and maybe it calls for more cute-style work in the future :) At least that's my little insight for what it's worth!

We hope you enjoyed this little behind-the-scenes piece on our new player character! Continue reading below for the full list of updates our team has pushed for V0.2.2.

UVs for Sky Patch Player Character by Pew

Textures for Sky Patch Player Character by Pew

Scale comparision of new player character model versus original asset

V0.2.2 Patch Notes

Changes:

• New character created by Pew has been added (character selection was removed due to only having one character at this time)
• Major improvements to bounce shrooms (trajectory is now deterministic and much more predictable) 
• Other minor visual improvements and bug fixes that were discovered during testing

Still To-Do (if time allows):

• Fully complete level 4 and level 5.
• Character grounded detection needs a higher tolerance to avoid land spam bug.
• Stop character movement during level completion overview.
• Fix bucket tipping over way too easily
• Fix any other identified issues in Miro and reports made by players on itch.io reviews.

See you in the sky! Let us know if you checked out the update + your thoughts. Thank you as always for your support!