Shit. We're complete retards and forgot to pack in one of the BGM tracks, 'thief - a thief pushed you off a roof'. You can find it in the download section now. Just toss it in the /audio/BGM/ directory and you should be all good.

Sorry!

xoxo

OMG

I'm sure most of you have long written off this game as just another project, destined to go unfinished. Today, you're all wrong. Though it has taken years, many trials and tribulations (which I wont detail here, life happens to everyone, etc...blah blah) we're finally about a week away from releasing not just a demo, but the entire first episode (well, not exactly the first episode, youll see,) fully playable. Currently, not in dev-mode, its clocking in at around 4 hours or so of gameplay.

Long ago it was decided that a full length, 40+ hour rpg was just too big a task for two guys with full time jobs to pull off within a reasonable amount of time. We didn't want to get discouraged by giving ourselves insane goals, and then fail to achieve them, so we decided to split the game up in to far easier to manage episodes. Besides, episodic games are all the rage now, anyway.

What we've done is focused on finishing the entire 3rd chapter, The Road to Gobbler's Knob, and making it as awesome as possible, just so we can actually finish and release something. It prolly seems weird that the first release is actually episode 3, but as work progressed, we realized that we were having the most fun working on that section, so we decided to finish that, first.

At this point, we're about 95% done. The only thing left is to tweak the art on some enemies and polish up the final dialogue. Ideally, within the next week or so, we'd like to release the first final build and (hopefully) have people play through it and give us feedback so that we can polish and tweak everything as best as possible.

Also, though there will be a full, dedicated post on this a little bit later, we're looking for people to help finish the rest of the game. The main thing we're looking for is tileset/world/environment artists and character spriters.

As you've probably noticed, most of the sprite work so far is from other sources that we've appropriated and modified for our purposes. In most places, I think we've managed to blend everything together to create a pretty awesome and unique look, however, we would really prefer to be using as much completely original artwork as possible. Unfortunately, it seems that we pretty much suck at creating tilesets completely from scratch. So, if you like Weed Universe, are totally awesome at sprite work and environment design and want to help, please hit us up either here or at vlexin@gmail.com.

More to come soon!

<3 Shanghai Pete

Here it is.
It's still somewhat early and all of this may be subject to change,
but here is a look at some of the custom environments, characters
and enemies that we're using.



Stay tuned, further news as events warrant.

Also: Shanghai bought root beer for the first time in several weeks
and it is frosty and delicious. He is also trying to play through
Star Ocean: Till the End of Time and just got to disk 2, so hooray for
him.

one love, space kids.
<X3 HKR

Holy hell, how has it been this long? Just a quick update to assure people that we are still here, still working on the game and intend to have to demo finished by the end of April.

The Ambulance Factory is our business in the real world, too, and shit has been absolutely crazy for us so far in 2012. Fear not, however, loyal fans of Weed Universe, things have finally begun to settle back down and we're more or less back to our normal routine.

This means we'll be getting back to regular updates and posting media to keep you up to speed on our progress. Expect some screens of the 'Uptown Bobbi Dating Sim' mini game you'll be encountering in Gobbler's Knob by the end of the week, and possibly some clips of the music we're working on, too.

On a side note, we're currently playing the WoW Mists of Pandaria beta, and it kicks ass.

xoxo

So I have been working on the sprites for the main characters, which is something we've been putting off because building sprites is such a fantastically tedious pain in the ass. However, we must press on. Next is working on combat roles and each character's unique abilities and weaponry, which I am looking forward too even less than the sprites.

However, I should not be bitching. The sprites are coming along well and we are close to being in the final phases of work for the demo, which is also going to serve us as a model for the rest of the game, so that's good. We're also going back and overhauling the outline of the Gobbler's Knob chapter and making sure that all of the events and crap that we've scripted flow together and make sense and just feel right as far as story and pacing are concerned.

In other news, we bought some hamburgers and right now there are some ghosts in the kitchen cooking them for us while we sit back here in the office and toil, which is highly convenient if not fairly creepy.

I've been done with DS9 for a few weeks so it is onto voyager, which may as well be called 'Star Trek: Ship of Bozos*'. It's just amazing how often this crew manages to just fuck everything up beyond belief.

Okay, stay tuned. We're working.

-HKR

* starring Tom Paris, Galactic Douche