Don't have a lot of experience in Blender, so scratch "happy", I'm overjoyed! Now then, if I'm able to make him move somewhat convinsingly I'll be ecstatic!!

Hello there! This has been my second Ludum Dare, and much like last time, I went way, way too far when it comes to planning. In the first few hours and in my naive mind, I set the bar sky high, thinking I would be able to include all kinds of stuff within the time limit. I would soon realise that I had my work cut out for me, to say the least, but a good mix of copium and hopium led me down a very stressful, yet at the same time rewarding and enjoyable experience.

So, what was the plan? Well I wanted the game to be about the life of a red fox. Put simply, this meant running around, looking for food, and avoiding humans and predators. The setting would be a forrest next to a small farm, one humand and several chickens included. The goal, other than to simply survive, would be to stock up (or harvest, if you will) food, bringing it back to your den to eat at a later time. I like low poly 3D games, so that was the plan.

(Really wish I got it looking something like this in the end...)

What went wrong? So I've played around in Blender before, sure, but I've done little to no character work, let alone animals. I'm all kinds of happy with both the fox and the chicken, (especially the eating animation), but it took a lot of time. A lot... Still, even though I spent far too long playing around with animating the fox (many of the animations I didn't end up having time to implement, very sad), and even though it was at the cost of cutting gameplay elements, and, well, many other things, I learned an actual metric ton of things about models and animation, both in Blender and in Unity. Worth it!

All in all, I didn't end up with the final product I set out to make, but, if nothing else, I'm very happy with the fox model. Looking forward to checking out what others have made, and looking forward to LD53!

Wallpaper; check!

Cleared Schedule; check!

Sufficient Caffeine; certainly going to consume too much, but that's a problem for future me!