Styxxfields - Tumblr Posts

sorry for people waiting on Ivory news, I have tragically started a new ambitious project...

on the good news....

I HAVE A NEW PROJECT! :D

it's called Styxxfields, it's gonna be an indie game, it's an island builder like animal crossing, but it takes place in the afterlife (which is called the Everlife for lore reasons) and I have a billion good ideas for it, I will be posting concept art with no descriptions to hype you up

something styxxfields related for the 1 person that cares (me)

concept art for the menu system and map, it's all in your book, your player info and outfit, your inventory, settings, map, creature collection log, residents and friendship info, all of it, and you can add post its to any page to keep notes of stuff you want to do in relation to the thing, like "look for this bug or fish in this area", "get an inventory upgrade", because people already do that in cozy games, why not make it a feature?

also the map has different pages for different locations, also topographical pages and cave / dungeon mapping

random idea I had for styxxfields that I went way too in depth with lmao

so, the main menu, I want it to be like Firewatch's main menu, with the pretty image from the world and then the menu on top, the whole point of the game is that every single thing you can think of is customizable, including the menu

you can set up a magic camera for the menu art, it will change depending on the time, it will sometimes have characters and can even be knocked over, it can be placed in houses, in caves, and outside sports games, anywhere, if it knocks over and you don't go to the location to fix the camera within 3 days, it will... (idk)

the camera object can only be interacted by the environment if you are in the menu it's broadcasting too, or if the player is close to it, it will auto hide if the player is in combat mode and the enemies will need to be defeated before you can interact with the camera, you can even have multiple set up and it will switch to a random one everytime the main menu is open, with an upgrade you can have drone versions that even move on a set looping track

the idea works way better if I decide the game will act in real time the way animal crossing does, but I don't fully know if I want to do that

the design of the player character for styxxfields was originally going to be the grim Reaper themselves, but it conflicted with the "everything is customizable" mentality, so they've been scrapped

there was plans to make 3 default versions, this one is the male version, and there were plans to make a female version and a nonbinary version

(you can see what I had invisioned for the female version on the map book concept post)

the old idea for the game was called Crop Reaper, it was going to be a farming game where this is what the grim Reaper does after retirement, but after conceptualizing more and more, I liked the idea of the afterlife setting, and the idea of the island that the Reaper owns, I then started getting ideas for intractable townspeople and it evolved from farming to community growing, I'm so excited for this project

There is now an Official Styxxfields Blog where you can find everything and more (eventually)