I was pretty burnt out after my 100 days of updates - but I'm back now after a wee break with an animated mead hall! Now I need a merchant to greet the player inside.

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This is the 100th daily post. I work on Reikning for an hour or two a day & I'd like to dedicate more of that time to developing the game again. So, I'll be scaling back to two posts a week. Thank you to everyone who supported & followed my posts so far.

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I was pleased with how this procedural material came together. It's a mask of rings + noise + height mask to blend a smooth glaze material with a rough clay one. That mask also works for the normals. The jug was inspired by Tating ware found in Birka.

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Added a few more props and wrote some more of the merchant music tonight. It's taking a long time but I do enjoy these parts of the process.

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A bunch more iteration and revision and I'll be happy with the mead hall interior. I'm not yet though.

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Splitting time between composing and working on this mead hall interior. Since the music I'm working on is for the mead hall it feels like both tasks help inform the other.

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Today's been mostly spreadsheets as I'm working on the set collection / engine building side of Reikning, to keep the boardgame feel.

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There, standing stones are now in the game. I visited tons of these as a kid so it feels good to include them...though in Reikning they demand a sacrifice.

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Another pass on the music based on some feedback. Also added standing stones which have been on my list for ages - but I now have a use for them, more on that later.

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Taking another stab at some of the music. I find the walking-around-the-island music hardest to write as it has to be the most neutral. Let me know what you think.

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It's almost 2 years since my first idea for Reikning so I looked back and found the oldest screenshot I have - from about a year ago. It's nice to look back and see how far things have come.

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Here's a first pass at animating the little props. I want it to seem like the player is checking under each of them, searching for tokens, as part of the tax assessment phase.

The taxpayer's homes are now much more detailed, but the animations still aren't where I want them to be. I'll share them soon though.

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It's taken days but finally the sea serpent Tyrren wakes - bringing Vetturóst, his furious winter storms which signal the player to leave the island before the sea becomes impassable. This is how most runs will end (unless you're forced to leave the island early).

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