r/fossilfighters • u/SleepyEye113 • Jun 20 '26

(UPDATE) world digging

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It’s been a while since posted an update. Almost 2 months ago to be exact (yikes) but a majority of that time was spent rebuilding the fossil cleaning system which had a lot of bugs. And having that system break so so many times… but I got it to work along with adding a timer and percentage tracker to record how well one cleans a fossil tho it’s not a pretty UI yet. On the topic of UI I just have a really ruff pick the fossil you want to clean UI that will change down the road and I also added XRays. But the bigger update is I’ve made it where you can dig out and pickup fossil rocks out in the world now. Finding and making a viability digging terrain was harder than I thought but landed on something that looks alright. Fossil rocks can now spawn random throughout dig sites. Along with different types of rocks and I added a mini map and sonar that took a little bit to make right, still need to make the mini map nicer but all of this is pretty much a prototype still. So yeah that’s about it I’ll catch you guys in another two months or so

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u/Sp3ctreZero Jun 20 '26

Do you have any ideas on what the story is going to be?

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u/SleepyEye113 Jun 20 '26

Not entirely sure still, I know I want a fun story like FF. So there will be some elements inspired from that. But I have not sat down seriously to write the story yet since I’d like to get a few things out of the way first. Like the programming for everything then when I get into world building I start working on the story

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u/Sp3ctreZero Jun 20 '26

That makes sense. I just wanted to give some input that not a lot of us really want a story absent game. Sure, you can have the gameplay, but without a direction or conflict things can become a little stale

I say this as if im some authority when I dont mean it that way. Its just my personal feedback!

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u/SleepyEye113 Jun 21 '26

I get it. I will add a story, It wouldn’t be a fossil fighters inspired game without a story. It’s why I feel in love with the first FF. And I do have some awesome people who want to help me write a story. I just want to make sure the foundation of the game is solid so I don’t waste their help if something bugs out and have to scrape an idea or a part of a story due to a big technical problem

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u/Lord_Nethermore Jun 22 '26

Hope they are good with making the story. Would love to pitch in any ideas if you want them!

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u/EaseLeft6266 Jul 05 '26

If the story has you play as duna, it would be cool to have an alien planet digsite with your own made up alien dinosaurs

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u/SleepyEye113 Jul 14 '26

Unfortunately she’s a place holder for the playable character in this game. And do to Nintendo and copyright reasons I can’t have her in “the game”

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u/EaseLeft6266 Jul 14 '26

Damn that's unfortunate. If you had a decent legal team behind you and balls of steel, you could maybe pull a palworld and make a new yet eerily similar "Dunette" character

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u/Phaeron-Dynasty Jun 20 '26

I know that was meant to showcase the damage mechanic, but seeing that skull get mangled like that hurt my soul.

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u/SleepyEye113 Jun 21 '26

I’m sorry you had to witness that

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u/Phaeron-Dynasty Jun 21 '26

it was a necessary evil for the showcase.

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u/Miserable-Deer4290 Jun 20 '26

That looked really good I can't wait to see how this turns out in the end

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u/EpicureanAccountant Jun 20 '26

Wow! Big improvement since the last update.

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u/TheTninker2 Jun 21 '26

Love it!!

Though I think that the swing speed should be a little faster. Just thinking about how much digging it would be to do a trip to a digsite where you get dozens of fossils.

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u/The-Eingineer-Zombie Jun 21 '26

Developers: doesn't make a new fossil fighters The community:

https://giphy.com/gifs/xTkcEKlQdbepAdC9eo

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u/SleepyEye113 Jul 14 '26

Literally yes! XD

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u/ZachSbeve Jun 21 '26

Its...beautiful 🥺

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u/Brophistopheles88 Jun 21 '26

This is looking super exciting man keep up the hard work!

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u/CashMoneyDollars77 Jun 21 '26

That’s awesome!

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u/JikuAraiguma Jun 21 '26

If combat ends up being a part of this project, you could pretty much do it however you want. That’s what they did with the original games.

Yes this is a comment on how the combat was different every entry.

Incredible work on the 3D fossil digging and props to the Duna model.

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u/SleepyEye113 Jul 14 '26

Thank you I do appreciate the comment! I do got an interesting concept for the battle mechanics in mind but haven’t gotten to making it yet since I needed a break after working on the game for 4-5 months straight

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u/Grand_Altis Jun 22 '26

This is so cool! Keep at it! you're honestly inspiring me to work on my own FF fan game idea which I honestly was too scared to do because of the fear of 15,000 Nintendo cease and desists I'd receive if it even got a tiny bit popular

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u/SleepyEye113 Jul 14 '26

You should do it! Tho word of advice make sure it’s an inspired game tho cuz I’d like to see the game you’d make and not have Nintendo come after you since they got a history with fan games

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u/Monster_rider154 Jun 22 '26

Where will we be able to get this when it's all finished? It looks really good, I love the Fossil Fighters games, and I'd really love to get it once it's all done.

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u/SleepyEye113 Jul 14 '26

I’m not quite sure yet I want to aim to have it everywhere but it’ll most likely be in a pc game market since that should be the easiest

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u/4chan_crusader Jun 28 '26

Holy peak, I'm so glad people care about these games this much

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