Hey guys,
Sorry about the delay for this update, but I thought it only made sense considering we were going to reveal a load of stuff on Dawko's charity livestream today. There hasn't been much else going on anyway, so if I did one yesterday it would have been a bit dry, and next week's would have been full of old news!
This week I'll recap everything from the Dawko stream and go into some more detail. But first, fanart!
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POPGOES Evergreen:
Today was very eventful, as we provided Dawko with another big charity pack, full of POPGOES reveals to be shown off at specific global donation goals, this time for St. Jude Children's Hospital. The intention was to reveal something at $4,000, $8,000, $12,000, and $16,000, though plans changed after Steel Wool donated $5,000 all at once. That's cheating, guys!
Link to Dawko's event for St. Jude: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUjb8be_UN4
Regardless, we revealed four brand new things for Evergreen today, (five, if you count the Popgoes Hex plushie that Dawko showed off). So let me relay those reveals here and give you some more information about them.
The first thing that was revealed was this new phone unlock in the style of the Faz-Watch from Security Breach. This phone is special in that it has an animated screen, with scanlines scrolling down. This phone was modelled by Garrett, as you'd probably expect.
Also, real quick, this phone is based on the in-game model of the Faz-Watch in Security Breach. Not the 2D UI asset, which is different for some reason.
Some people are worried that we are spending too much time on cosmetic things/unlockables, or that we are prioritising them over more important things. And I want to clarify that these items take very little time to make, and we're practically done with them now. Almost all of our 3D development is on rooms and characters, and they can take ages. These smaller things do not add to development time very much, and they need to be finished for the game at some point, so why not get them out of the way? Don't worry about it!
Out of the 50 unlockable phones, I would say about half of them have unique bodies like this one. We've shown off HandUnit and the new television phones, but that's it. Tons are still secret!
So what do you think of the Faz...Phone? Faz-Phone? That'll probably be its name.
The next thing we revealed was... holographic trading cards! Our current plan involves different cards (as in different characters) having varying rarity, signified by the icon in the bottom right of them, and then a rare chance on TOP of that for each card to be holographic. This is entirely cosmetic, but I know that plenty of people love this kind of thing. And Emil managed to make these holographic/foil effects look amazing in his shader.
If I haven't clarified this already, the rarity of the cards is as follows:
Circle - Common
Diamond - Uncommon
Star - Rare
Moon - Ultra Rare
The chances of a card being holographic on top of this are totally up in the air right now but I can imagine it being something like 1 in 50, or maybe even 1 in 100. Depends if there's something in the game that actually requires holo cards to be collected (which I doubt).
As you can see in this gif (and Dawko's stream), there are different holographic patterns and colour schemes. Unfortunately the shader only allows I think three patterns in the game, but we have no limit on how many colour schemes we can use. The one applied to BB's card is probably going to be the default holo pattern, though we can apply custom colour schemes to each card (if we want). Morse's one will probably be used somewhere as well, maybe for some of the super duper rare cards.
As a treat, here is some clear artwork of the three cards from the .exe:
You'll notice that the BB card looks different from the version we showed in our original charity pack with Dawko. There are also some special decals on certain cards now that indicate what location, company, or IP they are referencing/promoting.
Oh and as a reminder, the character artwork for these cards was done by Ellie / StupidButterfly, and the background artwork was done by Sian / Turntail!
Our third reveal was a new merch product for the POPGOES series - a collector's set of pins by Youtooz!
Youtooz has already done pin sets for FNAF1 and Security Breach, and they're really cool. When Youtooz reached out to me about the possibility of a pin set for POPGOES, I jumped at the opportunity, if only to give some representation to the other characters in the series! Popgoes the Weasel is great but can we finally give the other guys some love?
Well yes we can, because this product will be launching in early 2023 for $29.99, worldwide. Youtooz' previous pins have also been available individually but I don't think that'll be a thing for these. I'll keep you all updated!
The pictures you can see here are mockups that I made using the artwork I've been provided. The characters here were drawn by @JayferGames, who did an amazing job at mimicking Youtooz' art style. But of course I have to give a huge thank you to Youtooz for giving us this amazing opportunity and committing to some seriously high quality Fanverse merch!
Our final reveal for Dawko's stream was a full body reveal of False Freddy (and his previous two phases)!
Dawko was able to spin the characters around in his build, which is a lot of fun but NOT a feature we plan to add to Evergreen. Though it looks awesome on a YouTube video, the amount of data in three sets of 280 pngs, loaded all at once, is... a bit much for Clickteam. An Extras screen is very likely but don't expect 360 turnarounds of each character lmao.
The reception for this character's full design has been surprisingly positive! I know how risky it is to modify a beloved character design, making it distorted and "weird". But most people seem to enjoy this guy, and understand what we were going for. I also love all of the comparisons with gorillas. I get it. But if you don't like how he looks, honestly fair enough. I wasn't expecting him to be seen as an objectively cool upgrade from Toy Freddy. He's a strange, beastly, nightmare thing.
Speaking of the False animatronics, False Mangle (and the middle stage) is still the only False left to model, and it should be done by late December or early January. But it's a huge ask so I'm certainly not going to rush Alexis, our amazing character modeller. Also another shoutout to TigeraRainbowra who made their concept art!
And finally, as a bonus from Dawko himself, you guys get your first look at the latest prototype of the upcoming Popgoes the Weasel Hex plushie. Again, PROOOTOOOTYYYPE. Most Hex plushies go through 3 or 4 phases, and this is Popgoes' SECOND phase. I think he already looks pretty great, but there is obviously some room for improvement, which Dawko and Warren James agree with.
With that being said, you should check out his FIRST phase:
Yeah...
So if you already love how the second phase looks, perfect, because it's only going to get better. And if you're not a fan yet, be patient because the finished product might be quite different!
As for some general info on this plushie:
Unique corduroy fabric, made to mimic the 3D printed material that the Popgoes animatronics are made of!
Detachable head, limbs, and for the first time ever TAIL! (Candy gets that too!)
Mini Blackrabbit head accessory! This is a standalone thing - if we do other POPGOES Hex plushies they won't have the other Blackrabbit parts lol.
ETA some point in 2023!
POPGOES Evergreen (again):
To make up for the 1-day delay for this devlog, and the fact that I'm just recapping what happened in today's stream, you can take these:
Nothing super important, just some non-spoilery props made by NeeTroo and Alexis (respectively) this week. Though I guess you get to see what the Freddy Fazbear's Pizza logo looks like in the Candy + Popgoes Universe! At least a version of it anyway.
Phew, that's it for now. Hope you all enjoyed the reveals, and keep donating to Dawko's stream (at the time of this devlog, it's meant to keep going for another 12 hours or so). And thank you Dawko for hosting the event, encouraging so many people to donate, and for giving us this cool opportunity once again.
- Kane
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