Major ZA Update


Hi everyone!

It's been a long while since I did my last dev log. So much has happened over the last few months and it's just been a blast working on this game ever since I started working on it back in 2018 when I had this idea of a fox trying to stop some evil robots from taking over the world. Ever since that day I’ve been working really hard on my game, changing the story from time to time and even the main character since Zruce was still a fox by that time. So much has changed ever since i started working on ZA and now we’re here in 2021, Zruce Adventures is half completed and there’s just so much I want to share with you guys so how about we start the dev log shall we?

New looks

That's right, if you've seen my twitter lately the game has a new look now and boy has it changed a lot, I was scrolling on twitter and I saw the first picture ever of my game which not gonna lie... it looked bad and honestly I'm so glad I changed the look of the game

Old Look(first picture of the game)

New Look

The game has changed so much and I even gave Zruce a new Cartoony look like he's supposed to look but we'll get into that in a second.

New levels

As you've seen in the screenshots of the game new levels have been added and some of them have even been re-made and turned into better versions of the levels. Some of this new levels are:

  • Mystical Forest
  • Fluff kingdom
  • Crystal Mines

While the we-worked levels are:

  • Zruce's house
  • Main hub
  • Fuzzy land
  • Furry city
  • Vex Airship

I can't show much of the levels cause I don't want so spoil anything so you'll have to wait until I make a new update for the game's early alpha build. But you can see in the screenshot above there's the new version of Fuzzy land

New UI

As you could see in the screenshot above there's also new UI, while the old UI was kind of "realistic" in a way, the new UI is more cartoony and more simplistic which makes it more pleasing to the eye since the other one was just a big no thank you.

New models

So as you might have noticed there are new models for Zruce and some enemies like the Wasb0t. And I've been trying to hide Zruce's new model so I can officially debut it later so it's finally time. So for the first time Zruce's new official model is here! and here it is!


(this is a render of Zruce 3.0 in blender)

I had to make a new model since the old one was not very good and also I've been wanting to make a new one for a while now. This Zruce has less polygons than the old model which is a big boost on performance and also I made this new Zruce to resemble more how he's supposed to look like.

What else has changed?

A lot more that I didn't mention has changed. Like for example the fact that the game will have voice acting. Right now one of my friends known as Zinjatale (Z for short) is willing to do voice acting for some characters. I'll be voicing my own character, Zruce.

Other stuff that has changed is the story. I can't say much since I don't want to spoil the story but I'm just gonna say it's going pretty well and there's gonna be lot's of fun, tragic, surprising and other sorts of moments so I hope you're looking forward to it.

When is the public early alpha build coming out?

I've been working on my game hard and fortunately so far progress is going fast but I can't say it'll stay like that for ever. For now I'm aiming a release of the early alpha on August 31st but I can't promise it'll release on that day so please be a bit patient.


Well that's all I have for today's dev log. It's been quite an adventure making this game but the adventure isn't over, there's still more stuff to come and I can't wait to keep sharing my progress with you guys!

Thank you all so much for reading, I might do this into a video for those ones who prefer watching instead of reading but it'll be a while till that happens. Thanks you all and I'll see you all in the next dev log!

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what a fantastic game, but my biggest gripes are the controls when it comes to jumping...it's almost as if it locked me only upside making it hard for me to jump ahead

Hey thanks for playing the game! Although you played an old version of ZA, the new version of it should be released on August 31st 2021. I hope you're looking forward to it, and thanks for telling me about the jump controls, I'll look into it!

nice! right in my birthday hahaha!