DEVLOG #16 – GAME LOOP
Date: 2025-04-16 15:08:39
Howdy, partners!
Cowboy Life is a game where time matters. Days and weeks pass, and each morning brings a new mix of farming chores, crafting, exploring, and wild west trouble.
Daily Routine
Most days start on your farm. You’ll water crops, feed animals, and do all the work needed to keep things growing. It’s not just for fun, you and your animals need food!
But farming isn’t only for survival. The townsfolk will send requests and orders, and to fulfill them, you’ll need to produce more advanced items. That means upgrading your farm, building new workstations, and gathering resources like wood, clay, and stone. Later on, you’ll explore mines to collect metal ores, too.
Crafting takes time at first, but later on (in the full version of the game) you will be able to hire workers to help out. So don’t just stand around waiting – use that time to handle other tasks. There's always something to do on the farm!
The requests come through the mailbox, so check your mail every morning!
Neighbors & Quests
The nearby town, Bravestand, is full of unique characters – each with their own story, habits, and problems. Some want help. Some want change. All of them are part of a bigger mystery involving drought, bandits, and something strange going on in the hills:
you’ll take on quests, investigate, duel, deliver goods, search for legendary items, and uncover secrets.
Talking to people and learning their routines will help a lot – some NPCs only appear in certain places at certain times.
They will go about their days with or without your help and even initiate meetings on their own. Missed one? You’ll have to track them down and reschedule.
And we have even more NPC-related mechanics planned for the future, such as gifting and relationship-building!
The World
Exploration is important too. While waiting for the craft to finish or an NPC to return from whatever trip they embarked upon, you can head out into the world.
The map isn’t huge, but it’s open, and packed with beautiful, distinct locations, secrets, and treasure chests. Some may be locked, and the keys are often tied to story progress, so exploration and quests go hand in hand!
Just be careful – some areas are full of bandits. Bring a weapon, and if possible, upgrade it. Weapon upgrades cost money, so maybe it’s time to fulfil another job... But wait! You’ll need bricks for that, which means upgrading your stone workshop... which means chopping wood... which means…
Back to the Axe
In the end, it always circles back to the basics:
- gathering
- crafting
- building
- surviving
That’s the loop!
And here’s always so much more waiting to be discovered.
See you out there, cowboy. Yeah, and don’t forget to check that mailbox.
So what do you think? Don’t hesitate to reach out, comment, suggest, or share a laugh! Follow us and shoot us a message at our Instagram – @odd.qubit. We’d also love to have you over on our growing Discord server – here’s the [link].
Happy trails, friend.