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Happy New Year
Sometimes I'm a bit off and not too precise about the exact timing, but better late than newer - so ... Happy New year to all of you!  There's not that much snow this year compared to the past average, but it's winter nevertheless. And a new year ahead of us. Take care! January 02, 2021, 05:30:59 PM |
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Seasonal Steam sale and Kekri customs
Harvest festival sale is on at Steam and in the Far North we do celbrate Kekri. So let the new adventurers be respected with the discount, and the ancestral spirits with our special Kekri costumes and customs... During this festivity period you can grab the game for decent discount on Steam. It's Kekri, not halloween, in the Far North. Kekri is an ancient Finnish harvest festival celebrated in the fall when the annual agricultural activities were all accomplished and the harvest collected. Kekri meant the end of the crop year, which was a big turning point. It was the time when the souls and spirits of the dead wandered around and visited the living. The ancestors were respected and welcomed. Sauna was heated up for them, and meal prepared too. The living celebrated accordingly, and so do we. Kekri Goat Kekri time included tradition of Kekripukki (Kekri goat) figure. People would dress up as horned creatures, wearing furs or coats upside down, and went around in their disguises and were offered food and drink. So, what does a decent developer of tradition rich game do to follow the tradition? Yes. He dresses up as Kekripukki.  We wish you happy and haunting Kekri time, or Halloween - if that suits you better. Celebrate and participate!  October 30, 2021, 07:02:37 PM |
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Version 3.71 released - a small bugfix patch
A small bugfix patch, version 3.71, has been released to address the following issues: - fixed: some faulty animal snow penalty calculations On few occasions the fatigue rate of animals moving in the deep snow wasn't calculated right. This could result either in animals tiring too easily, or too little. - fixed: distributing offered traded items among foreign traders wasn't always working You might still end up in "can't carry" trade situation, even though the trading party would have capacity to carry the offered goods. Hopefully this is fixed for good now. - fixed: Crash/shutdown related character data loss on Windows systems On Windows system crash or computer power loss might result in character corruption which at its worst erased character data to the extent of making them unrecoverable. This issue has been now addressed with extra safety measures and internal backups which hopefully prevent the worst case data losses for good. Should you experience Windows crash the game now tries to recover character data automatically from internal backup files upon loading the character again. You may still loose some moments or few map loads in the character's life but the game hopefully goes on more reliably. - fixed: UrW mobile controller not working on some systems --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- That's all folks. Four fixes in total. You'll find the release on Steam, Itch and also available for Lifetimers. November 17, 2021, 03:16:00 PM |
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Season's Greetings
The midwinter and holiday season is at hand! It is time to send you our warmest Season's Greetings with a few moody photos from this very day. Thank you for 2021 to those who already roam the UnReal World, and welcome into the Far North, all you new adventurers.  We have just passed the Winter Solstice on northern hemisphere, and the amount of daylight now slowly starts increasing. Otherwise the winter in Eastern Finland continues in decent -20 degrees celsius temperatures with delightful amount of snow. Sami (UnReal World creator) heads towards the real world in horizon.  Merry Christmas, Tree. This mighty spruce grows beside the village road, not very far from the development chambers. Now let's survive the midwinter, and see you again in 2022! December 22, 2021, 04:22:44 PM |
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German Shepherd Dog Sprite
Hey all, working on a German Shepherd sprite change for the dog icon. I know it's obviously not possible for this breed to be in the setting, but I love my own GSD and seeing his likeness in game brings me joy. Sharing it here in case anyone is interested in it. Let me know what you guys think! January 08, 2022, 08:51:10 PM |
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Year 2021 now added to development history log
Briefing of the year 2021 is now summarized up at "Development history of UnReal World" section at the homepage. You can take a look at the development history since 1992 page here: https://www.unrealworld.fi/urw_devhist.html January 13, 2022, 02:02:07 PM |
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The 30th jubileum, 47th birthday, and sort of a year off
This year, in 2022, we are celebrating the 30th Jubileum of UnReal World. The game was first released in the summer of 1992, so the 30-year milestone will be reached this summer. Now what will this special year of celebration bring upon us, and the game? When it comes to coding and development, I will be taking it real easy. It is likely that we'll see some updates to the game, but mostly I'll be devoting my time for variety of other things. So I'll kind of celebrate the 30 years of development by taking a year off from the usual coding flurry. This also allows me to better contemplate on the future of the game as there some challenging overhauls in our sight. One is moving to higher resolution and modern aspect ratio. The year is early, and these thoughts are scattered, so more news on this front will follow later on. But yes, it is truly so that I will take a year off from the usual, practical, hands-on development. Planning, brainstorming and a little something easy paced remains, though. Nevertheless, during this year of celebration we will be bringing you some recreational content from the North, out and away from the development chambers. What it will be exactly remains to be seen, but I'm sure this year off will bring along many occasions, incidents, experiments or artistic projects to share or publish. There are some ideas bubbling under already. On this thursday, 27th of January, it will be my 47th birthday. I started working on UnReal World at the age of 15 and two years later, at the age of 17, the first version was released to the public. Now the 30th Jubileum, or 47th birthday, may feel like an occasion to offer me a drink or something, and for that purpose I quickly created "buy me a coffee" page. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SamiMaaranen It's a simple support channel I've been asked to allow even earlier. Now it's up and will remain so at least for this year. I'll reserve the right to decide the drink to buy with your support  , but big cheers anyway! (And surely the regular donations page also works for gifting some squirrel hides.) So these are the news to start this year with. Feel free to comment or ask if something comes to your mind. Yours, Sami (UnReal World creator)  The developer is currently out the office ...  He's skiing in the woods following two elks...  He will be back occasionally and eventually. January 24, 2022, 03:01:22 PM |
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Going with the flow
Well, hi there everyone! It's been a while, and time to cheer you up with a few pictures from the real world. I visited Erkka the last weekend and we refreshed ourselves by going with the springtime flow. The flow also lead us to playing and recording a piece of primitive music. The song is well in the post-production phase in my devel... err... mixing chambers and will be released as a short music video showing more footage in the vein of these stills. After a quite long pause in this kind of recreational primitive arts it was such a good flow that we found and followed.     May 12, 2022, 10:47:06 AM |
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A new piece of primitive music by Enormous Elk
We're happy to present you a new piece of music and a video. "Illalla, lammella" (In the evening, by the pond) can be viewed at Enormous Elk YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdSW9Z46DhE Like mentioned earlier this was recorded and filmed while I was visiting Erkka last month. You'll also see the authentic setting of the live recording, by the pond. Post-production took a little longer than expect because my right hand is still in a cast, but even though this was mostly edited with left hand we're happy with the mood and result. Cheers! June 12, 2022, 05:30:12 PM |
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Summer Sale on Steam - and a few pics
Steam Summer Sale is going on for those you seek an opportunity to enter into Far North for a discounted price: https://store.steampowered.com/app/351700/UnReal_World/ Otherwise, I just wish everyone a good summertime, and share a few photos around the development chambers.    Cheers! June 28, 2022, 07:15:29 PM |
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