Witherspring Wilds

Description

Short Description:

Witherspring Wilds is an open world life sim. Build a village, tame wild creatures, and explore dangerous lands. Farm, fight, craft, and befriend NPCs - how will you shape the Wilds?

History

It all started with a recurring dream about a massive, evolving, procedurally generated open world game. I would wake up in the night or the morning and write notes at my bedside about what I'd dreamed. It was going to be a world that was open and full of possibilities. A world that the player could change in meaningful ways. A world where the next generation would take up the mantle of the previous generation. There was too much to do in one lifetime! I kept expanding the design document with cool ideas and features like a newbie gamedev. The more realistic (and experienced) side of me knew that I'd probably never be able to make this game, at least not alone.

That changed when I started talking to another dev team about potentially outsourcing the creation of Witherspring Wilds. While the partnership ultimately fell through, by the end of the talks I had hammered out the flaws in the idea and trimmed the scope enough that I felt I could actually make this game. Could doesn't mean should, but I decided that I needed to make something big, something I was really passionate about, and so I went for it.

Features

• Build - Build and customize your home and village. You can even create your own store to sell to NPCs (and visit stores NPCs have built).
• Befriend - You can befriend and trade with NPCs, but also give them jobs like watering your crops or building your house. You can adventure together and deepen your bonds, become best friends or even get married and have kids.
• Explore - Different biomes have vastly different plants, animals and materials. Some regions even have higher star levels for higher quality materials but also more dangerous enemies.
• Craft - Create delicious meals, improved tools, clothes, armor, potions, magic wands and more!
• Fight - Use swords, bows and magic wands to defend yourself from dangerous creatures and hunt powerful bosses.
• Tame - Any natural creature can be tamed and will have various benefits as a pet - from riding Goxen to having a Cattern defend you in battle.
• Farm - Cultivate wild plants and trees to stockpile food and materials.
• Mine - Mine inside mountains to find ores, caves and mushrooms.