Project Hildegard Short Feature Demo September 2024

A small video to show off some mechanics. The player goes off to use a part of the cattail plant to start a fire, so he can brew some tea with the cattail stalk and horstail plants. Then after contracting some skin irritation while picking up a nettle plant, he cures it by creating a plantain poultice.

So a lot of work has been going into inventory management, the cooking mechanic and first aid. For the next update I need to implement decoctions so that the first version of first aid is complete and I can release version 0.5.0.

I am currently experimenting with a new kind of health bar, which has 4 parameters influencing your total health: stress, fatigue, thirst and hunger. So it sort of redefines the traditional way of looking at health, as it will be mostly an indicator of general fitness and the risk you run of getting ill or eventually dying.

If you are interested in playtesting, drop me a line. I have a discord group where you can post your feedback and report bugs.

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