Xero's Industrials and Stuffs

[minor moth]

tbh i have my own struggle too but may be somewhat better than yours

I will wait until your game are finished (it's a game or idk i can't remembered this one..,,,)

[mellow plaza]

it is :> this is a game project

[minor moth]

so i am right ✨

just pray to my new laptop don't crash lol (integrated GPU...)

[mellow plaza]

yeah lol

[noble briar]

nice(this is the 6 thousandth message)

[mellow plaza]

oh damn, i never realize how many messages was sent here

[mellow plaza]

the latest thing we build in Las Cherung, just from today
small snippets at a time

[mellow plaza]

Televised.

[hollow jay]

What a great opportunity to use this picture again

[mellow plaza]

lmao

[mellow plaza]

10/3/2025

First recording of the active factory of the underground (In-dev recording)

[silver rampart]

My brain thinks its made on unreal engine

[hollow jay]

This is insane holy

[mellow plaza]

ty ^^

[frozen current]

sadly my monitor is half broken so I can't admire this in it's full glory but it looks peak!

[frozen current]

Maybe add some like floating dust particles too
This is awesome!

[mellow plaza]

Testing las cherung in lowest graphics quality

our posterized lighting actually does wonders in low graphics, which even suprised me

more in-game showcase

(the place doesnt have any codebase from our dev branch since I havent introduced it into this place yet)

[frozen current]

Artstyle’s so unique

[delicate blade]

it reminds me of the escape sequence from the first portal

[round eagle]

I like that poster

[mellow plaza]

Our First Development Session with my friends in over a month <3

Today we worked on more on this underground factory of Las Cherung, a long side with the implementation of our own custom blooms based off of Source Engine's way of handling light sources. Here's the video to showcase the area you guys seen from me posting here as well with this lighting thing.

Thank you @earnest sage for setting this up ^^

[frozen current]

Yesssss!

Cinemaa!

[round eagle]

Wow, I have seeing this before

[minor moth]

THE DETAILSSS OH MY FAWH

this would be the most awesome game ever in Roblox without making everyone computer explod

yeah i think this is the first time i saw the video like going around this environment im really amazed

[mellow plaza]

thank you ^^
this is a whole area im happy to say is not another test build

i have the blue prints ready to go to work on

[mellow plaza]

Cherungian Capsule Shaped Lift

[proven schooner]

How do you get this lighting style, damn 🔥

[nova jungle]

I have no clue how you and your team can make such high quality content that quick, props to yall for all of it!!

[round eagle]

What is this?

[regal obsidian]

how the fuck is this made in roblox 😭

[mellow plaza]

Its a elevator, peculiarly shaped (and rather small)

[round eagle]

Okay

[mellow plaza]

Nonsensical Yet Computers of the Atomic Revolution
Within the depths of the Factory.

[minor moth]

👍

THE LAMP OUGHHAAAA

[frozen current]

Got to love nixie lights

[mellow plaza]

Rusty Water Fountain

[minor moth]

stay hydrated with 35 mg of heavy metal in the fountain

[mellow plaza]

too lazy to make fancy area showcase screenshot but drinking fountain is in

[forest tide]

Gonna be taking this out on the lake

[mellow plaza]

A work in progress, setting up the factory chaotic infrastructure.

Me and @unreal glacier will continue to work on this area. We have some schematics written down for other areas adjacent to where we are working on (Courtesy to Tix) ^^

[frozen current]

hll yesss

got no clue what the purpose of all those things are but they look peak

[forest prawn]

jesus this is good

[mellow plaza]

meticulous development

(in-game screenshots)

No order in these factory, almost organic in pathways, structures, just like i had in mind

though stairs painful to work with :(

[proven schooner]

Wondering the same thing, how do we get updates THIS fast 🙏

[runic walrus]

This gives

BATDR

[mellow plaza]

Going back to area i showcased a few days ago, this hull right here is, funnily enough a reactor

They're called "Fiseblaj bankoj" or Fissile Banks, and by some context, they are infact a tiny reactor, though this is something you cant really control as it runs autonomously, they are there to power specific portions across the entirety of any factoryvilles. A decent invention by columbia thanks to the atomic revolution essentially turning reactors into almost these portable generators.

meaning in las cherung, there is probably no centralized power station as these things are dotted across the factoryville

Now obviously this isn't realistic and I intend to follow science fiction for these, but I thought I want to let you guys know on those tiny schematics seen from our dev posts :)

as plenty of these props are not just for fillers or generic things, some do actually have some purpose or meaning

[frozen current]

can keep repeating but this is peak!

the style kind of makes me think of Lethal Company

[mellow plaza]

I was going to do another showcase but it seemed like I lost like, 2 hours of work ,-,

Unable to publish my save and realize its failing to do so, tried to download a local copy to save

... It apparentally did not

Saved locally

and unfortunately closed studio to refresh it and realized it too late

and i did have autosave enabled, but checking the file didnt seemingly did so too

I'll look around to see where it gone to since I did multiple way to save it but seemingly all perfectly failed?

I suppose not alot was lost, was just me buildiing more catwalks but this is rather inconvinent

Yeah seems like its like i never even saved it in the first place ,-, I suppose time to rebuild the area i was again

[noble briar]

😭 oh my

[mellow plaza]

There we go :)

today's dev progress, more catwalk inside the underground factory, added sounds to the wheel, and yeah

not done but just wanna show more ^^

[frozen current]

yessss I love that it's so much more reactive feels much more immersive

[mellow plaza]

the most peculiar... control panels?

[runic walrus]

This is so peak…

[minor moth]

Hell yeah,,,,,,

More art n stuff to eat

🍽️

[mellow plaza]

final screenshots for the day ^^

fences were a pain to align them but worked in the end

[dense field]

Why is there a weird effect that makes us not see the beauty of the game?

[mellow plaza]

hm?

[dense field]

don't you see the difference?

[mellow plaza]

Oh! its the new lighting thing I introduced when I came back from a month long break

Yeah it does dull out some details but I introduced it to finally achieve that grungy visuals I've always wanted for the project

[dense field]

Cool

But we can diable in game option ?

[mellow plaza]

Perhaps, I'll maybe keep it in mind to see considering I've esentially made post processings and other stuff to work well with this lighting visuals (Cant garantee but It could be something i will hold on to)

[dense field]

Alr

[frozen current]

yesssngsbadhtw

[frozen current]

It’s starting to feel less and less like Roblox
Very impressive!

[mellow plaza]

In progress of remaking my old models i made for las cherung in 2023 to re-introduce them to our current builds, first one being this interesting port / outlet thing :)

And now, their new up-to-date counterpart

[acoustic widget]

I like to imagine that the sound of the industrial fans is the sound of a NASA supercomputer burning up

Genuinely impressive, as always

I am curious how you got that lighting on a technical level though, do you have a document for the valve lighting you talked about?

[mellow plaza]

I'll gladly share! I believe its somewhat public knowledge, easy to replicate and saw some people here using it too.
Utilizing Roblox old fog system by exceeding their color values beyond 255

For some reason the higher the value, the more posterized the lighting becomes (In a way mimicing lightings seen from Lethal Company or Buckshot Roullete)

[acoustic widget]

Oh lmao I use the quantization effect myself lol

It is an incredibly interesting effect

[mellow plaza]

So i utilized it and set up my own color correction to match that grungy orange look i have for Current las cherung :)

[acoustic widget]

I see! Smart

I've only recently started using the full effects of post processing

It's much more powerful than people give it credit for

[mellow plaza]

It really is

[acoustic widget]

I feel as if I've only scratched the surface with my use of it

[mellow plaza]

The color correction helped me to avoid weird coloring artificats I dont want seen in this environment so, it does wonders

Without It vs With it

[acoustic widget]

I found that making certain color channels have a slightly lower value reduced bands of undesired colors

[mellow plaza]

mhm

but also the color correction at least makes me make the shadows or visuals more sharper with the contrast values

[acoustic widget]

Interesting

Can you stack them? I can't remember

[mellow plaza]

Oh you can definetely

this is what happen if i stack my same presets multiple time

which honestly

[acoustic widget]

Ooh fun

[mellow plaza]

has its interesting look but

for now las cherung doesnt need that lol

[acoustic widget]

Real

I may have to tinker with stacking them

[mellow plaza]

mhm, you will get pretty interesting results

for now i didnt need to stack, the lighting is good as is

[acoustic widget]

The only gripe I have with using the fog values is that you can't use fog :(

[mellow plaza]

yeah

granted i counteract that by making my own fog

... uhh thats a diff

[acoustic widget]

But you can kinda get around that with particles

[mellow plaza]

thing to showcase

[acoustic widget]

Yeah

[mellow plaza]

regardless, I'm really happy with the new visuals for las cherung, i always wanted to give it a grungy look with that posterized lighting

to give it almost like a uhh... painterly look in a way?

plenty of color divisions, no blending

[acoustic widget]

It kinda reminds me of an oil painting

[mellow plaza]

yeahh in a way

[frozen current]

what's the OST you're using in the background I feel like I'm hallucinating Sky's ost

[nova jungle]

that's interesting why can we hear the Internationale?

[mellow plaza]

lmao that was one of the music i was playing in the background

primarily for their factory sounding ish stuff

[mellow plaza]

there's actually no music in this video i believe

thats just the ambience of the factory

[frozen current]

huhhhh

it felt so much like Sky daylight prairie

[mellow plaza]

Today, me and tix worked on las cherung some more

This area finally now has a name :)
This here, is Station Hope

As part of a massive "underground" factory "Miller's Factory"

A snippet of a scuffed paint.net diagram of this area (that i will remake with procreate in the future)

Canonical In-Universe Logo of the Factoryville - "Las Cherung"

Not to be confused with the logo that represents Las Cherung as a game, as well with it being a corporation, consider this more like one of those "city flags" as Las Cherung is a "Factoryville", not a Company.

[mellow plaza]

Trying out a recorded audio of me walking (so i suppose my own footstep sounds) for Las Cherung

[gloomy shard]

peak

[mellow plaza]

not much to showcase today as we are currently making some meshes :)

so far all we made is some lamp posts and remaking the banner for Station Hope. ^^

[silver rampart]

Gives me Fallout vibes

[frozen current]

This feels like you recorded it in VR for some reason
Very nice!

[mellow plaza]

Models in progresses! Station Hope
Me and tix worked together on planning and modeling various things for this underground factory of Las Cherung.
Here is a massive motor-like thing, idk the schematics other than I suppose based off of Commutators according to tix?

As well with something I forgot to showcase earlier, belt wheels for the factory.

[flat quartz]

Xero, you never dissapoint in quality

[gloomy shard]

bros doing what i couldnt do optimized perfectly optimized

😭

[mellow plaza]

You'll get there eventually, my old meshes when i started blender were not optimized at all lol

[gloomy shard]

just gotta experiment with utilizing pbr more

[mellow plaza]

Today, added some bit of details at the bottom of station hope.

also today, me and my friend venerith was playtesting LC to check its performance and stuff, some screenie from our playtest

On average i got 55-60 FPS (mine was capped to 60 by default in settings)
venerith's fps averages around 100 fps

[mellow plaza]

i scripted something :)
-# which coming from me is suprising because i really do not have confidence when it comes to coding but with great thanks to GGshor's public tween module system that im using for this. ^^

the elevator works, just the base for now

[runic walrus]

Holy fucking peak

Demo when…

Omg…

This really does remind me of Bendy And The Dark Revival

[mellow plaza]

i keep hearing people referencing that game when seeing our stuff, im actually kinda curious how similar if its considering i think this is like the second or third time mentioned?

i am intrigued considering i never played bendy games before, i probs should consider someday,,,,,

[frozen current]

"I added a few small details"
the details:

[frozen current]

I think it's mostly the colour filter and maybe vignette that gives it that feeling
that sort of yellow orange combined with black lines for contrast and soft lighting

[mellow plaza]

did a bit of set up (with GGshor's help) to make it tween client sided :)

[shrewd fox]

this is just so good looking oml

the elevator itself is pretty cool too

[gloomy shard]

its seems like more of a combo of like bioshock, fallout, and bendy for me

atleast thats the vibe im getting

[frozen current]

That’s Peakk!
Do you plan to have it be an open shaft? It might be neat to have like a bulky almost prison-like cage door coming from the top to seal off the shaft when the elevator leaves

But ye that’s so cool

[frail vortex]

Three questions

1. Do you use the visual fog bug for this kind of effects on the materials?
2. Is the game open?
3. Is there a discord server for this game?

[mellow plaza]

still debaiting on if i should include doors or
not, will see

[mellow plaza]

1. yeah, i mentioned it here before if you are talking about the "posterized" lighting visuals by exceeding the old fog system color value beyond 255

2. no

3. no

[frozen current]

I feel the colouring is closer to the old old bendy game but the geometry is definitely way similar to that one

[mellow plaza]

Ohh i see it now lol

added the doors :)

[flat quartz]

The filter reminds me of those late 2000s and early 2010 games that used the piss filter, no offence tho i really like it and im exited to play it

[mellow plaza]

got some footstep sound action going :)

(footsteps sounds were recorded by me)

[wet schooner]

oh lordy the claustrophobia

this is so awesomeness

[kindred lion]

the footsteps sound great

[mellow plaza]

all i did is recorded myself walking around in a garage lol

[mellow plaza]

So we meet again, Florence Junction.

[mellow plaza]

Progress

[past raptor]

That looks so cool

[flat quartz]

Xero smokes that talent zaa, vary cool game

[mellow plaza]

Its surreal to revisit and re-establish that old area i included to Las Cherung from 2023, it really is.

[hollow jay]

Every year Xero's games get more orange lmao

jokes aside this looks cool as hell

[frozen current]

this is peakkk!

[frail vortex]

I really think his favourite color and simultaneously fruit is orange

[mellow plaza]

not far off considering its my second favorite color, my actual favorite color is Hyperpop Green (HEX: #14ffb3)

however i envisioned las cherung environment and overall atmosphere being very warm, i dunno why considering i view the atomic revolution or anything atom related to have this orange or warm color theme lol

[frail vortex]

le bobm is orang

[regal obsidian]

you know what I approve lol

its a nice green

[regal obsidian]

I cant really explain but I feel the same

[mellow plaza]

In my perspective for las cherung's world (referred as The Decay), the atomic revolution despite sounding futuristic isnt what seen in places like Las Cherung

I envisioned it to be very rustic, unorganized, chaotic, yet with implementation of atomic energy to every applications known. Not really something you see like "Atompunk" with sleek modernistic geometries or what not. Matter of fact I kinda envision the timeperiod of this world to be in a "Transitional State" from the industrial revolution to modernism, factoryvilles like las cherung are unregulated, they dont get the benefits or care seen in prosperity center in Columbia where sleek designs are enforced as factoryvilles are esentially just settlements with a factory operating it like a government that helps provide the northern world with nessecary technology

I intend to make it look like the place prioritzes efficiency and production than cleanliness and safety, a mindset of thousands of factoryvilles

[regal obsidian]

do you mean atomic revolution by we have nuclear reactors or nukes(im assuming the first one)

[mellow plaza]

esentially yeah, The Atomic Revolution (3rd industrial revolution in this world) introduces "Atomic Technologies", such as fissile batteries, conductors or anything that emits a power source, which quickly phased out older traditional means of energy production

Completely rewires the entire societal infastructure, as well with its culture in favor of Accelerationism

to push this wonderful, almost addictive technology beyond, a source of light and prosperity

[regal obsidian]

is the orange light all around a side effect of all of that

[mellow plaza]

Both in a literal and meaningful sense

More so I envision such lights in the era (or rather technologies in this world) to actually kinda not evolved from their predecessors

Such as those uhh.,. forgot the lights name that were made before 1910s

[regal obsidian]

arc lights?

[mellow plaza]

more so these

but yeah

despite the technological advancement from this revolution

[regal obsidian]

oh Incandescent

[mellow plaza]

Not many things came out of it aside introducing atomic energy, alot of inventions made decades ago never really evolved to be more sophisticated

In a weird sense, technology kinda plateued equivalent to 1940s tech, just only utilizing fissile tech

[regal obsidian]

isnt it like a carbon filament lamp

[mellow plaza]

i think so yeah

but i suppose you kinda get the weird seperation?

between the acutal revolution and, the tech that came from it

[regal obsidian]

so parts of tech evolved and parts didnt

[mellow plaza]

yeah, esentially repurposing already made technology for its new uses

[regal obsidian]

yeah the newer ones are tungsten, which run alot hotter

[mellow plaza]

a common thing seen in the industrial sectors

[regal obsidian]

did they have evolution in lighting and stuff before the atomic revolution?

or did they just not outfit this facilty with it

[mellow plaza]

i think in general new advancement in tech didnt really happen, plateued before the start of the atomic revolution (1932), appeared just the same with some cosmetic changes to accomdiate the new tech

it quickly becomes a focal theme for the atomic revolution, revitalizing what humanity made to this new way of processes

granted in this alternative universe, there was no world war 2, so there was no means of inventing rapidly new technology

[regal obsidian]

makes sense

did they have a world war 1?

[mellow plaza]

inventions are still going through, just not seen at a face pace

in this world, yeah i envisioned ww1 to take place, in fact that single war is what lead to the atomic revolution due to how destructive it was

there is a reason why its called "The Decay"

just note, WW1 in this world is also different, especially with involved parties or nations, considering different entities exist in this world

however i havent really written these early lore down fully

so to me its up for me to speculate or change plans

[regal obsidian]

question, do they use steam

the industrial things

[mellow plaza]

i mean, i imagine so if they are utilizing atomic energy
boiling water in some ways

schematics wise? idk the processes lmao so dont ask me how it exactly works 💀

aside fictional methods

[regal obsidian]

just gives me slight steam vibes lol

[mellow plaza]

yeah, i mean after all, steam does wonder pushing things around

no longer burning coal when you have continious source of heat that never seemingly goes away

[regal obsidian]

which is why

we have these

they work

[mellow plaza]

mhm

however i do imagine equipments or lights use a diff way of earning energy from fissile sources

smthing smthing conductors idk

does mean the entire infastructure does not rely on a central power station

in the current build for las cherung, there is one little thingy that you may notice around

[regal obsidian]

time for very large rtg

[mellow plaza]

this

[regal obsidian]

also what do you mean by factoryvilles, are they just towns that are pretty much all factory?

[mellow plaza]

Factoryville is a term i made up for this world, it is esentially a "City owned by a factory"
Could be one factory, could be plenty

They are their own government as they dont fall under any authority and resides mainly in regions called "Industrial Sectors"

[regal obsidian]

makes sense, town serves a specific purpose

[mellow plaza]

Economy, jobs, and liveihood runs entirely around these factories

they are esentially the decay version of irl "Corporationvilles"

or whatever they are called...

*company towns lol

just factoryvilles are more overkill

[regal obsidian]

where do the workers live

im assuming in the town

[mellow plaza]

makeshift buildings around the factories

[regal obsidian]

since well

so pretty much apartment blocks

[mellow plaza]

there is settlements around, like a actual village

in a way, the best way i can show you is a older screenshot of a prior build in las cherung

^

actual in-game screenshot of las cherung "Factoryville"

[regal obsidian]

is the langauge on those a mix of stuff or what

[mellow plaza]

Esperanto

official language of Protomica (or more commonly referred as Northern World, Columbia is part of it)

do note i use google translate to do this so it is definetely by no means accurate

[regal obsidian]

I mean it is a language meant to be global so it makes sense

[mellow plaza]

yeah

if you scroll down a bit, i also mention snippet of the "mandatory industrialism act of 1958" that was mentioned alongside with the showcase of las cherung surface
that is one noteable event to keep in mind as that actually the point of this game, a experience of someone who was subjected to that rule

[regal obsidian]

were these towns kinda just thrown together as fast as possible

[mellow plaza]

In a way yes

^

[regal obsidian]

what type of government even is this thing

[mellow plaza]

to be honest, i don't really know what to refer to it as lmao
im still split with how columbia (and the rest of the northern world) operate

aside they all follow the share common ideals of the Atomic Revolution

[regal obsidian]

im guessing its not really a democracy

[mellow plaza]

they are definetely more on accelerationism

i suppose, though i cant say for certain until i figure that out

[regal obsidian]

what about for the Factoryvilles, or im assuming it depends on which one

[mellow plaza]

Factoryvilles governance are like, i suppose peculiar, as mentioned before they run autonomously, they act like their own territories by the factories that runs them, Grand Columbia doesn't have much influence on them (nor they want to) aside tying these factorvilles in large railway network to export or import goods from them that enriches the entire northern society

They make their own laws, their own regulations, whatnot

No factoryvilles are alike

it is a equivalent of a Wild West, just... very industrialized

[regal obsidian]

what about the one the game is based in

[mellow plaza]

i havent fully nailed it down about what is exactly las cherung aside it is operated by three different factories

[regal obsidian]

good to know

[mellow plaza]

all collectively working as like a single entity

[regal obsidian]

what do they even make or is it just a bunch of stuff

[mellow plaza]

Majority of the factoryvilles produces what is known as "Fissile Goods"

esentially these factory would either import mined fissile materials, and process them into something useable

In las cherung, the area i am making is a underground factory (the heart of las cherung) where those materials would be processed into enriched fissile materials, that would be sent upward to those three factories, those factories then use said material to further refine it, divide it, shape it

one may handle turning it into rods, perfect for fissile powering applications

other would turn it into powder for coating or what not, others may make potentially "weapon grade" fissile goods (the specifics of that is unknown though)

all would be then exported via rail-lines to be send away from the industrial sector to be sold onto the northern's world economy

Fissile goods runs the world, its everywhere

its deadly but addictively great

the atomic revolution esentially gives way immense demands for fissile goods

[regal obsidian]

Like lead!

[mellow plaza]

indeed yeah!

[regal obsidian]

It works in paint, in gas, in solder

But it can harm you

[mellow plaza]

mhm

[regal obsidian]

Did they atleast skip the part of people drinking it

[mellow plaza]

i'd imagine a craze of that occured at some point

but ironically quickly was phased out

so something you wont see in the time period where LC takes place (1964)

[regal obsidian]

Did they also figure out how to protect people from all of this or was it just hope you dont die

[mellow plaza]

they indeed did not figured out lmao
the atomic revolution although paved way for a technological revolution unseen before, also gave ways massive misunderstanding of fission

this sole fact alone would be one of plenty of catayists for the eventual "Ending" in las cherung or the decay as a story

In fact, the consequences of Atomic revolution is the makings of "Prolonging one's self"

It is so highly viewed by so many, that (especially seen in the industrial sectors) the practice of body modificaions or prothesis in conjunction with fissile tech

[flat quartz]

hello guys

[unreal glacier]

fun fact:
i dont think columbia uses anaesthetics

[mellow plaza]

In a sense this paved way for the concept of "Transhumanism" nearing the late 1950s

[unreal glacier]

1970s combine when, Xero?

[flat quartz]

can animals have prothesis like a super soldier dog

[unreal glacier]

uhh probably

[mellow plaza]

To adopt a mix of bionic-fissile technology to one self, in a belief that in rejecting the old self and embrace of new self is a symbolism of the Atomic Revolution

[unreal glacier]

just be an issue with wiring it up
dog nerves aint the same as human ones

[mellow plaza]

This is seen in the industrial sector where many work accident incapciate thousands of people on a daily

So majority of the time, many didnt ask for this

But outside of the industrial sector, it is heavily looked highly at

[flat quartz]

take it like building a pc different parts and such, like build a bear but a dug instead

[mellow plaza]

in some cases, almost to a near total body prothesis, something that the northern world dearly loves

with only resemblance of humanity being the organs now hooked to the new body

Granted being these individuals, its a horrible way to live

[flat quartz]

what contries in the northern world

[unreal glacier]

basically western europe, latin america and north america

if i remember right

[mellow plaza]

The northern world depicts esentially anything above the north hemisphere, only one fictional country i can list (being the main one)

is Grand Columbia (which is a massive nation in North America)

the rest i am still deciding

but yeah it located on what tix says

[unreal glacier]

we do still need to figure out the other countries

could do something with russia considering its massive but sparse

[mellow plaza]

If you are curious about Grand Columbia, here is a actual district / state map i made of it a while ago.

This one is finalized so most likely no means of further revisions until then

[frozen current]

doesn't feel strained and very tame I like it

[hollow jay]

Its just interesting to observe how your style was changing from the cold St. Rivera to warm Las Cherung through those years

[mellow plaza]

YEAH im actually glad you noticed that

st. rivera although had warming lightings was more on yellowish side, and often many areas uses white or blue lightings

which gives it a sterile feeling if anything lol

[flat quartz]

How do you achive that detail
And the gamecis so orange its gonna have the same after effect on my eyes like after i played fallout 3
Edit: no offense tho, it looks vary great

[surreal yew]

its mostly lighting

very good ligthing

[frail vortex]

The lethal company / buckshot roulette style bug? Is that what you're talking about

[frozen current]

Love that filter makes stuff just look so different

[mellow plaza]

The start, of florence junction

[frozen current]

looking empty but good so far! I like the cave system!

[mellow plaza]

for some reason i cant seemingly use game capture on OBS nor nvidia experience for roblox, so i had to record this video with display capture (which absolutely tanks my fps in some cases..)
but further more a full walkway from the area we are working on to station hope, we had a dev session today and everything went well.

I was working on Florence Junction, Tix was working on industrial infastructures, GGshor helped us with patching bugs and refining my code.

Love to show you guys what we made so far since the beginning of october. ^^
-# music i was listening from "For All Mankind - Von Braun"

thank you all for your support <3

[frozen current]

happened to have this conversation earlier today so here

[frozen current]

that ambienceeee!!

loving this

I kind of wonder what do you plan to make the game

a showcase?

story?

will it have some kind of gameplay loop? I'm just very curious what the gameplay will be like

god that music fits so well
the elevator door still feels a bit odd to me but the map and stuff feels so good! amazing ambience

[mellow plaza]

Story
its been a long time idea to have this game have a storyline, akin to a gameplay similar to... the walking dead i suppose?

to simplify it

[frozen current]

Will it be more of an exploration game where you admire the map or will there be progression too?

[frozen current]

Also you should really consider using that music if it isn’t copyrighted

[mellow plaza]

No, i cannot use that music at all lmao, it was a soundtrack i was playing from a show i am interested to watch from Apple TV

For all mankind

i was listening a playlist

[frozen current]

sad tiems

It fits so well

[mellow plaza]

though for whatever the future hold

the orchastral and theme of the music is what i envisioned for las cherung

[mellow plaza]

i guess both? its hard to determine since its still too early for us to consider

[frozen current]

I see I see!

Will there be interactable things like maybe doors and levers and stuff that change the environment?

[mellow plaza]

yes

[frozen current]

Peak!

Ye no can’t wait to see what you guys have envisioned!

Best of luck!

[mellow plaza]

ty ^^

[mellow plaza]

doors :)

im happy with these new models i made

[gloomy shard]

it would be really cool if you made players use drag detectors to open doors lmao neat doors tho

[mellow plaza]

would be interesting though i feel like thats better suited for switches or levers tho..,

[frail vortex]

how did you achieve the light glare?

or well, I believe its lens flare

[hollow jay]

this is peak, the music really adds to the whole atmosphere

[frozen current]

This is Nicee!
Don’t forget to sleep too!

[wet schooner]

-# sorry about the emoji i reacted im having some trouble with my phone screen-

[frozen current]

-# don’t worry about it 🔥

I had no phone screen protector for awhile so I know how weird touchscreens can behave sometimes

[mellow plaza]

The blooms we made in Las Cherung was done with BillboardGUI and scripting to make them pop up when visible to the player's eyes.

Anteraska was the one that helped us set it up :)

[frail vortex]

Very cool, entire game looks kewl

Really want to see this game take off, is there somewhere I can get myself familiarized with the lore?

[mellow plaza]

I can quickly reply to all the nessecary "lore-related" things i mentioned in this fourm that are still valid to this day (ignoring the older one before 2024)
Give me a second. ^^

Project Description

Las Cherung (In-Universe) Description

"The Decay" (In-Universe name for the story) snippet - Mandatory Industrialism Act of 1958 (Cherifield's Society)

"The Decay" (In-Universe name for the story) snippet - Granda Kolumbio Atlas Map

[mellow plaza]

reintroducing my cursor i made a year ago :)

for las cherung (from the original skewmorphic UI)

[frozen current]

Looks nice but do make sure there’s enough contrast for it to stand out!

[mellow plaza]

i do intend these to be colored based on environment :)

[frozen current]

Perfect!

[mellow plaza]

manual slide doors :)

[frozen current]

dragdetector doors? peak!
is there anything specific you used? I know someone trying to do this with adjustable levers, but they often don't snap properly

[mellow plaza]

oh these arent drag detectors

they're tweened

[frozen current]

Ohh

Idk enough about Roblox to understand what that means but sounds gud

👍

[mellow plaza]

testing them in their environment and stuff

[regal relic]

Goodness

Xero you've improved so much

I dont always say it but

You are always inspiring

[mellow plaza]

hearing these words made me cried
Thank you friend.

It means a lot to me.

[minor moth]

Jeez the environment around 🥹 🥹

I don't even have some words to describe how much i love your work but man i rlly wish i could
play this game once it finished

💖

[flat quartz]

Nah its an effect on eyes i noticed when games have a lot of the same colour like fallout 3, after i played fallout 3 a bit everything had a purple hue to it and colours where messed up for some minutes

[mellow plaza]

The halls of Florence Junction

[mellow plaza]

this took forever to set up

[frozen current]

-# Maybe don’t forget to eat drink and sleep)
But that looks so good!

[mellow plaza]

the factory

[frozen current]

niceee!
what's the pole in the middle of the doubledoors for though

I see it everywhere in games but it seems so impractical

[mellow plaza]

to be fair, i was too lazy to actually make a frame without the middle

i just slapped two of my single doors together lol

[frozen current]

😭

fair enuf!

[mellow plaza]

these voiceclips are half a year old but some attempts of me practicing in the transalantic accent.

[frozen current]

no clue if it's accurate but it does sound like some kind of believable accent

is nice!

[mellow plaza]

to me, not really but for tone stuff, i suppose it fits for las cherung era

[frozen current]

if you do decide to add them do add some layers to make it sound more echo-e and stuff

[frozen current]

👍

[mellow plaza]

fine tuned and re-recorded footstep sounds for sands :)

[minor moth]

I never experiencing such an awesome ambience from electronic and especially foot step in, not alone the environment around itself

absolute,,,,... cinema

[mellow plaza]

Outside is still stale but i'm working on it.

from my sketch of this area

[mellow plaza]

I rewrote a old destruction system from a earlier build of las cherung and refined it to be as seamless as possible :)

[mellow plaza]

physics completed :)

[wet schooner]

me trying to pick up the objects of certain destruction:

ver very cool!!

[mellow plaza]

ty

[minor moth]

about that beer i owe ya

it's me gordon barney from las cherung

also this is reminds me a lot like some beer bottle exploded while i walked to them lol

[nova jungle]

thats actually so peak lmfao

cant wait to throw bottles at the little spinny fans

[frail vortex]

^^ will that do anything?

[mellow plaza]

implement the system to the main place :>

drag system is using a old free model from 2023, we havent set ours up yet with drag detectors. ^^

[frozen current]

the bottle going into the bin was satisfying

[mellow plaza]

Prolongevity

[frozen current]

bioengineering lore?

[mellow plaza]

series of idle animations

i recorded myself standing "still" and used that video to trace my animation manually with this IK rig.

[regal obsidian]

why does this game just give me vibes of this

idk why

[devout sage]

Cobalt science creator?!

Nice

Your games are holy peak

[mellow plaza]

lmao

[mellow plaza]

thats us yeah :)

and ty

[devout sage]

Yeah I never knew the day I’d meet you

[mellow plaza]

added some noise variation to the animation to give it a more "natural" jittery feel. ^^

its subtle, but i feel like makes it more organic when you look closely

[devout sage]

Holy extreme peak

[mellow plaza]

So I heard emission maps were released in beta . . .

[gloomy shard]

holy shit finally

legit about to start crying

took long enough for roblox to release them

[devout sage]

What that

[mellow plaza]

Emission Maps (or referred as EmissiveMaps) was just recently released as beta testing for studio

(im going to mention some dev terms here)
It esentially adds a new channel to SurfaceAppearance or Materials similar to Colormap, normals, roughness, or metalness but this channel dictates how much glow your mesh should have. Its esentially giving us properties seen in Neon material or cracked lava material.

[mellow plaza]

In this case I utilized it to make the part of lamp model glow without needing it to be a independent model, as well giving some varying of intensity changes to make the dust "overlay" the glowing lamp

and its something you can control its intensity or color

[mental bolt]

fire

[acoustic widget]

Oh that's beautiful

[frozen current]

Oh wait that’s a great update for Roblox then ngl

[frail vortex]

Also "SLIM"!

[warped steppe]

if you removed the roblox ui I would genuinely think that was a real picture

absolutely stunning

[mellow plaza]

i am experimenting some, designs for the underground las cherung

some urban planning

[frozen current]

-# It do be looking so good thoughhh

[minor moth]

It is sth my own lore "Lunarity" also looks like from some alleyway

except it doesn't rlly poor and extreme polluted like this since mine were about 1974~1985 and more modernized lo

[mellow plaza]

Experimenting with Photogrammetry

[hollow jay]

🔥

[mellow plaza]

Concept Map Blueprint - Underground Las Cherung

-# Known as "Lesser Las Cherung / Miller's Factory"

[lean kelp]

something about those caves is so strange

im not saying its like poorly made i mean its like

off putting

[mellow plaza]

I did envision them to be man-made, the underground factoryville i envision almost eerily organic, chaos with no good order or sense of predictability

especially the slums that will be seen inbetween junctions and stations

[lean kelp]

Also is this a guys face ripped in half with machines connected?

[mellow plaza]

its more of a overexaggeration illustration of "Prolongevity"

Mankind's addiction to surpass one's self natural decay

[lean kelp]

ahh

cool stuff

[mellow plaza]

ty ^^

[mellow plaza]

Drawing the junction itself of Florence (Prospects / slum)

This is a cropped version of it, the central is the actual lift itself.

player to scale drawn

These markings are paths, sidewalks, unsure what to refer to them

[frozen current]

I love these kind of maps

[buoyant vector]

AWESOME!!

[frail vortex]

Ooo, I like the way the "borders" look, am I looking at something made with a program or a humble paper and pencil thing?

[mellow plaza]

im using procreate (drawing app) to draw this with one of their brushes :)

[swift charm]

Lucky, i have procreate (which is where the original iac logo was made) but my tablet is incapable of running it anymore

[mellow plaza]

havent made much progress recently due to alot of personal stuff ongoing still 😓

but i love to show you guys the current map progression of a close up to Florence Junction (seen from lesser las cherung map showcased earlier)

with their respective path, i will be using this to trace in studio and began constructing the slums and building around.

a completely eerily organic city planning, reflected by the atomic revolution and the factoryville's ways of irregular planning to ensure all space is occupied as needed.

for those out of curiosity, i did drew a character's model to scale

The square in the center is what I envision the "junction" lift to be seen from earlier dev versions of las cherung, though I will be thinking hard on how to make it less geometric to add some unusual artitectures.

[forest tide]

I'm only just realizing the custom cursor

[mellow plaza]

lmfao

i mean i got plenty made :)

[forest tide]

Rotating 3D hourglass!

[mellow plaza]

mhm !

[mellow plaza]

Holographic (more easier to see) map of Florence Junction, I believe I finished mapping out the pathways and stuff

[mellow plaza]

not much of like, uhh showcase other than a clip from yesterday dev session of me tracing the map in studio :)

while listening to kurgezagts epic mountain music

[tiny jolt]

why dead

[mellow plaza]

Personal Stuff

[regal obsidian]

also happy birthday

[frozen current]

Ohhh
Happy b-day!

[devout sage]

Happy birthday

[mellow stone]

Can I ask some stuff about that
Is it 1:1 like, are you painting at the physical size that the map will be or
and how big is it in studs?

That map looks awesome by the way

oh god I didn't know it was your birthday wait happy birthday!

[mellow plaza]

I didn't really have a exact size estimate of the map other than being bigger than like, 1000 studs? i just uh scale it up to a size i think feels reasonable.

[acoustic widget]

Happy birthday🎉 checked discord at a good time

[mellow stone]

Interesting, very cool

[hollow jay]

Happy birthday, Xero!! 🎉

[swift charm]

@mellow plaza Happy birthday! alot of your stuff is phenomenal (same with the stuff your other devs make), great work!

[mellow plaza]

this means alot, thank you

[buoyant vector]

@mellow plaza HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

[lethal remnant]

Happy birthday!

[gloomy shard]

happy birthday

[frail vortex]

yeag happy birthday man

[nova jungle]

im late asf but happy birthday!!!!

[forest tide]

Oh shoot, happy birthday

[mellow plaza]

tysm everyone, this mean so much to me

[compact chasm]

hi i just woke up but bappy hirthday

[lone mortar]

happy late birthday!

[frozen current]

wait is that this

[noble briar]

yes

[frozen current]

Absolutely peak!

[dense field]

music name?

[frozen current]

soundtrack is Largest Star I believe

try searching for Largest Star – Soundtrack (2020)

[dense field]

Thx

[mellow plaza]

Thank you everyone ❤️

Yesterday, I was informed of the final nominations released by Astral Central 2025 event, and I cried for a hour upon seeing us being nomination over 7 different categories, something I never expected to even see considering how tumultuous this year was for me since September, especially seeing familiar names, groups, and games on the list I feel joy for.

I was personally nominated for: Builder of the year, Writer of the year, Developer of the year
Our group was nominated for: Development Studio of the Year, Most Welcoming Community, Most Anticipated Project, Community Creation of the Year

I don't know how to really put into words the emotions I feel, and even typing this makes me want to cry some more, its the idea that, we were voted by plenty, for us to be nominated, I always keep forgetting how much of a impact we made.

I'm forever grateful for everyone, including my friends who I view as the best of my life, to guide each other in this project, and I hope plenty of others get their awards and recognition they deserve. That's all I wanna say

[buoyant vector]

YOU DESERVE IT!!!

[frail vortex]

I've heard a lot get thrown around about Astral this Astral that Astral whatever, im in it but I don't quite understand the scale of such events as "Astral Cental", is it something 'universally' adored by QS / QS community?

Nonetheless, congratulations

Las Cherung is one of the most interesting things I saw on this server and you deserved every award you got!

[swift charm]

wouldve cried aswell but i was swept by confusion seeing myself on the best animator nominations 😭

[noble briar]

im so happy for you, and thank you for inspiring me

hope you win DOTY

[swift charm]

same here

everyone in the list has a talent of course

xero's work is just mind boggling to me

[frozen current]

^^^^^^^

I vited where I could on a lot of projects
I was lucky that all the games I liked were spread out between the options so I never had any conflicts between 2 games, well except Ostrov and TRG

And since I’m obviously very hyped for this dis definitely deserved my vote

[frigid sun]

congratulations very much and a very happy late birthday!!!!!!

why didnt i know about this very peak of a thread sooner!!! this is so good your work is so awesome sauce!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mellow plaza]

just a small blurb i want to make by combinding one of my art and station hope

[regal obsidian]

Do they have oil in that oil drum mug

[mellow plaza]

not wrong in a sence they do like oil barrels.....

perfect honestly

[regal obsidian]

Also damn thats a good poster

Not like I can read it

[mellow plaza]

while translating it for you from online i realize i forgot one of the text LMAO

lemme reupload it

-> translated from esperanto
Coffee
A great source for a good worker

One cup is all you need to thrive.
Get one at a local canteen near you.

[regal obsidian]

And how much is the coffee

[mellow plaza]

i presume its free in las cherung since its a very common drink

[regal obsidian]

How much do the workers get paid

[mellow plaza]

that is something i havent really consider (or any financial stuff, especially if said currency is very different in this world

[mellow plaza]

"Persevere"

[mellow plaza]

"Prospects, Progressive, Power, Prosperity, Profound"

[regal obsidian]

The hell are you making these in

[mellow plaza]

procreate + snapseed for additional edits

[regal obsidian]

Also why is it called protomatica

Or something like that

[mellow plaza]

PROTOMICA (can also be reffered as "Protomika" Prot - om - icah or smthing) is a name referred to a several major atomic-aligned countries in a form / or co-prosperity sphere (primarily the entirety of the northern hemisphere where the atomic revolution took shape)

Grand Columbia (the nation that las cherung resides under) is one of the major entity of Protomica

the other are still undetermined though aside it all across europe, sibera, and north america

[regal obsidian]

Where is it exactly

Also does/did the us exist in this universe

[mellow plaza]

North America (Grand Columbia is a 'sucessor' to the fallen united states, its a completely different entity though)

i had a map here, let me refer you to it rq

current map so far (at the present moment)

[frozen current]

Amerika

hadn't actually look at the map in detail yet

is it custom?

[mellow plaza]

yes

as mentioned in the post, i made it with both QGIS software and inkscape (for border contours, labelings, and additional details)

[frozen current]

so cool

must've taken long

[regal obsidian]

What happened to the rest of canada that didnt get taken over

What happened to canada

[mellow plaza]

at the moment i dont have any written backstory that fully answers all of the uhh events that conspired leading up to 1964

aside one general idea that the great war in this world was quite horrific (lasting several years longer than real world, and lead to the end of imperialism as a whole entering into the 1920s)

[regal obsidian]

When did the us fall

Also how bad did Europe get rearranged

[mellow plaza]

before 1900s

and europe was left in a really bad state for decades

as much i love to like go into super details, i cant answer all of them 😭 since like uhh

i havent gotten a full picture or line of events written down

that i feel confident to share

[mellow plaza]

from Esperanto

Oil is the PAST.
The atom is OUR future.

[wet schooner]

kicking the baby

these r so peak what in the world

[regal obsidian]

What about materials made with oil

Just came to mind

[mellow plaza]

i think more so like

industries that runs or burn on oil for electrical / production means

such material probably dwindle down in production but probably still around

[frigid sun]

peak

[wet schooner]

are there nuclear powered vehicles in this universe?

[mellow plaza]

yeah, i did even drew some concept here and there

though never sent it here

[wet schooner]

oop

fair fair

i was wonderin cuz ofcourse since oil has had a downfall i assume then so has gasoline ofcourse

[mellow plaza]

from Esperanto
"What's that language?"

Esperanto!

Everyone speaks of it
Why not speak with us?

LEARN TODAY
TO SPEAK WITH UNITY

[wet schooner]

duolingo needs to add esperanto NOW

[mellow plaza]

They do

Its been a actual course for a long time lol

[wet schooner]

pardon 😭

oh my it is real

wow

[lean kelp]

if you haven you should totally put this all on artstation

[mellow plaza]

pardonu :)

[mellow plaza]

hm, maybe..

[mellow plaza]

from Esperanto
YOU ARE THE GEARS
PROTOMIKA

[worldly crag]

Can you make one of those style posters for QIAD

special request

[buoyant vector]

oh my gosh this is AWESOME

[mellow plaza]

OH, uhh really?
i have to think about it...

since, im not the type to make assets for others anymore or for the time being (personal reasons, though i will have to think about it)
in favor for my personal project and stuff, but I'll uhh see

[frigid sun]

so cool!

[mellow plaza]

from Esperanto
"Be Quiet."
"Words can weigh too heavily on your progress."

(if you are wondering, I am on a much needed break from Las Cherung development after focusing on other things, just to replan what i needed to do :) so for now i am making myself a boatload of posters ready to be used when i come back to development ^^)

[lethal remnant]

Break from las cherung
look inside
las cherung poster making

[mellow plaza]

perhaps i find myself pondering what classifies as developing and not developing

[swift charm]

i mean whatever makes you happy is good stuff

[mellow plaza]

first character concept for Las Cherung (head view)

Mr. Vergil Hoffman
a perfect embodiment of prolongevity aided by the Atomic Revolution.

Survived the impossible, a new chance at life, a class of prestige.

Left disfigured, hidden by the marvelous tech that Protomika has to offer, progressed onwards, to know the ins and outs of the factoryville.

[wet schooner]

oh dear

thats quite

gruesome if you really put yourself to think about it

amazing tho

👏

[mellow plaza]

ty!

[mellow plaza]

will provide translations from Esperanto:

Leather (Ledo)
Jaw Hook (Makzelhoko)
Copper Neurals (Kurpraj Neŭronoj)
Cloak (Mantelo)
Uranium Glass (Urania Vitro)```

[wet schooner]

uranium glass

stylish

[hollow jay]

Holy shit that looks amazing

[lean kelp]

Obviously plague doctor but im getting songbird vibes too

wouldnt be surprised if in that large beak was a breathing apparatus

though I know plague doctors put herbs and spices in their beaks

[frail vortex]

Herbs and spices what is this kentucky fried chicken?

[noble briar]

songbird?

[noble briar]

ah i thought you meant cyberpunk songbird and i was very confused

[mellow plaza]

in a way yeah, nailed the beak purpose
at least... i envisioned it to be a replacement or prothesis to what happen to the jaw

today, i have began retinkering with my practices of skewmorphic gui and uh... wanting to set up a nice intro menu of some sort :)

none of these are scripted, but i already rendered and assembles each UI elements, ready to be scripted
the language options...

i do plan for at least like... 3 lanuages for las cherung (primarily UI translations, thats all)

English, Esperanto, and Spanish

i am learning both Esperanto (one week into it) and Spanish so unsure how reliable i am for translations when i do get to it

[regal obsidian]

Can you release it in binary too?

[noble briar]

this is so cool

[lean kelp]

its like bioshock with a bendy filter and I love it

like this looks damn close

[mellow plaza]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/837419537241997382/1451448783341883514/2025-12-18_21-20-06.mp4?ex=69463684&is=6944e504&hm=4bb5249b0a9e01711a9d868913f965a80dcf0128bd6bc01306996264ee3f347e&

experimenting with visuals (not finalized, may be changed + music was just me playing from a playlist lmfao, thats not part of the menu)

[frigid sun]

thats so cool!!!!!!

[nova jungle]

this type of ui should be normalised

[flat quartz]

Are you a protogen?

[minor moth]

i just leave for like a few months man your stuff cooked so damn good, it just keep improving in a really crazy fast

[minor moth]

well he is

[mellow plaza]

ye

[mellow plaza]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1157516514161864765/1451676168783794197/2025-12-19_12-41-03.mp4?ex=69470a49&is=6945b8c9&hm=8320ff714e1224cba7a4ca9383c412eff27aafe8b5a384b8c7d9737c5f819964&

laying out more UI

(again - not finalized, may be changed and music was just me playing from a playlist lmfao, thats not part of the menu)

[mellow plaza]

tv-like border overlay :)

[gloomy shard]

peeeak

[frigid sun]

peaker than mt. everest

[minor moth]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1144076020081766430/1309755119646277774/speed.gif

[mellow plaza]

loading buffer ui idea

[buoyant vector]

ooghhh,, this makes the game feel so REAL!!!

[mellow plaza]

did ensure the font we're using do actually support esperanto diacritics characters :)

[mellow plaza]

PROTOMIKA (Circa, 1960)

-# Major Co-Prosperity Influence in "The Decay" Story

Protomika (Officially known as Pioneering-Prosperity Sphere of Protomika is a organization of potentially over 30 (to be re-writtened) member states that all unanimously follow under a common ideological, economical, and societal standpoint from the Atomic Revolution. Each country refer to themselves as "Pioneering-Councils" governments, in which they represent their own territory and participate in aiding the revolution. Originally started as a small proxy trade alliance between Columbia and British Isles after the Great War for economic recovery, only excelled by the ignition of the Atomic Revolution from Columbia in the 1940s.

(Do note, this map does not depict any territories of respective Pioneering-Councils, only Protomika's Sphere of Influence and its representation of "The Northern Hemisphere")

[regal obsidian]

What happened to countries that aren't apart of this?

[mellow plaza]

dieded Some probably managed to survive the great war, though many others, especially one under imperial rules would subsequently has their regimes subsequently collapse, leaving behind brittled fragmented states (especially in Africa and Southeast Asia)

[regal obsidian]

What happened to the British anyway

[mellow plaza]

Considering i'd imagine the great war in the decay and being something i view as "the end of monarchy", i would imagine they probably like their other european neighbors, quickly loose control of their imperial power from government instability and horrific morales

though i suppose managed to kept together while their neighbors in continental europe fragmented in the 1920s

definetely not the same before the great war

[limpid slate]

just wondering, does the "xero" in your name come from the Xero Gas company from GTA?

[mellow plaza]

LMFAO

REAL ANSWER, NO - BUT I FORGOT THATS THE NAME OF A GAS COMPANY IN GTAV

i got the name because it suppose to be a wacky name of saying "Zero"

[limpid slate]

ohhh

[mellow plaza]

so yes i am 0

[regal obsidian]

I mean that did kinda happen in real life too

[mellow plaza]

you're not wrong, though i havent have any detailed insight about what really happen to britian in the decay as for now :(

[buoyant vector]

BEAUTIFUL!!!

[silver rampart]

It looks like an giant scary eye

[frail vortex]

game icon?

[minor moth]

Actually really frickin cool poster oh my god

the ey

[mellow plaza]

yeah ^^

[frail vortex]

beautiful

[minor moth]

i can feel i can play this game in about few more months left

🙏

[mellow plaza]

to be fair the main menu does alot of heavy lifting that makes the project looks like its halfway done when its not 😭

unless i prove myself wrong by having the most biblical development progress

[mellow plaza]

tinkered the warmth of the icon

[mellow plaza]

Official Recognized Flag for the International Organization - Pioneering-Prosperity Sphere of Protomika

[frigid sun]

you know, i wasn't excited about las cherung 2-3 months ago.

that was because i didn't know about it

this PEAK of a project was gatekept from me

[frozen current]

This doesn’t even feel like Roblox anymore I love it!

[mellow plaza]

visually painterly rendition for the menu thingy :)

(sounds are not part of the menu, listening to some stuff from a playlist + just more bare bone concepts)

[frail vortex]

Off topic, will there be more than 3 languages in-game?

I know of spanish, english and esperanto but any more?

[mellow plaza]

so far those 3 languages are one i plan (primarily because i uh, am familiar with spanish and (as of current: esperanto)

[limpid slate]

At Astral Constellation right now, your booth looks awesome!

funnily enough your booth is right next to the one im representing

[regal obsidian]

xero how the fuck did you make something this cool

its amazing

[frail vortex]

The game lags way too fucking much, can you send a pic of your booth? ^^

[frail vortex]

^ disregard

[mellow plaza]

i'm glad you guys liked our booth ^^
granted it seems in some occasion it seemingly breaks but i suppose now the event started, i can send video clips here (of our booth in our dev place)

[devout sage]

Oh hi peak maker

(Peak maker= absolute greatest developer I seen)

[mellow plaza]

our booth doesnt show alot as its just mostly a mysterious, environmental storytelling?? witnessing almost like vauge memories of life in las cherung
all voice acting was made by me

each scenes has their own name we given

"The Introduction"

[regal obsidian]

wait it had voice acting?

damn I need to look at it again

[mellow plaza]

^
yeah

it was working in the main server

not in the other server tho

"The Watchers"

`This entire dialogue is in Esperanto, the translation is provided here

Character 01: Hey, have you heard the news?
Character 02: uh, sorry?
Character 01: The news Civil unrest all over columbia!
Character 02: Oh really?
Character 01: yes! I am quite worried. Whats gonna happen next? War, Attacks? I cant stop thinking of this!

[regal obsidian]

if I go into a private server will it work

[mellow plaza]

do try

"The Diary"

"The Factory"

[regal obsidian]

does it just go on a loop or does it trigger when you enter

[mellow plaza]

it loops, triggers once every 5 mins before u can trigger it again

(client sided)

[regal obsidian]

so when I go in it should trigger

[mellow plaza]

This dialog contain some esperanto, this is the translation if anyone is curious about what the other character is mentioning
translation from Esperanto (second character) "Hey! What are you doing? Where have you been?? Come with me, we need to talk to your supervisors. No Excuses!"

"Isolation"

[mellow plaza]

ye

"Outsiders"

and lastly

"Riot"

Character 1: No sir! We know your plans. You've already taken our peoples, we simply reject the practices of the Factoryville
Character 2: DOWN WITH COLUMBIA! DOWN WITH COLUMBIA! 
Character:4: EVIL! WE SAY! EVIL!
Character 3 (Officer): Trankviliĝu! Ne batalu! (Settle down! Do not fight!) (if i recall?..)

Character 1: We WILL NOT SETTLE, NEVER, WE'VE ALREADY ACCEPTED OUR CONSEQUENCES
Character 2: THE ATOMIC REVOLUTION IS A FRAUD! IT POISONED US!
Character 4: EVIL! ALL OF YOU ARE EVIL!! 
Character 3 (Officer): FINA AVERTO (Final Warning!)
Character 2: MAKE US!

[regal obsidian]

whats the dialog with the pen

[mellow plaza]

like the entire transcript?

[regal obsidian]

wait is it just one big thing you trigger when you enter or is it different zones

[mellow plaza]

oh they are all seperate zones so you can trigger then in any order

it just that they each have like a 5 min cooldown after triggering (individually)

[regal obsidian]

and how many are there

[mellow plaza]

7 "scenes" in total

the video i sent are all 7 recorded from our dev place

but yeah i think it has some issues :(

something that we cant seem to replicate in our dev place, mostly just audio permission issues

[frigid sun]

wow this is so cool

the booth

so good

[regal obsidian]

ok so I have found riot, isolation, the factory, the diary, the watchers, and the introduction I think

I did just discover a new area

ok found outsiders

[regal obsidian]

im guessing they use a mix of both languages

[mellow plaza]

mhm

Esperanto and English

[regal obsidian]

Google translate translates it to "Shut up" lol

[mellow plaza]

to be fair thats what i wanted it to say lmfao

lately ive been actually learning esperanto though :)

since december 7

[regal obsidian]

this government is quite direct with what it wants

[mellow plaza]

i do imagine those are factoryville curated posters

[regal obsidian]

https://cdn.eilioimacat.xyz/u/Kk3pQF.png

what does this one say

I cant find it if you posted it in here

[mellow plaza]

oh i actually never

send it here before, i made it few months ago

TRUTH IS PROGRESSION! LIES ARE REGRESSIONS

(on the nose) LIES```

iirc

[desert bay]

@mellow plaza grats on the awards btw
i woulda dmed you but you had them off

[mellow plaza]

TYY!!! oh oops 😭

[desert bay]

xd

[mellow plaza]

Thank you everyone, for I will now share great news to my friends when they wake up
That we, not me, we won three awards.

"Builder of the Year"
"Writer of the Year"
"Most Anticipated Project"

I cried so much to see all the support for a project that has been ongoing since 2023, a project that i still have a burning passion for.
A project that otherwise would've stayed as a concept, open possibilities thanks to my friends who stuck with me

GGshor, Anteraska, Ender, Venerith, mr_tix6v2
❤️ and im so proud to see so many others get their awards.

[frigid sun]

congrats!! also congratulations for winning the best showcase booth in the mars gallery! though it was a tie, i consider it!

[mellow stone]

Your awards were well deserved, this is a project I honestly feel very excited about

[noble briar]

Congrats xero!

[lean kelp]

Thats so cool

Wish I could've made it

[frail vortex]

Im fairly sure the game is still open, so if you want to check out booths feel free!

[buoyant vector]

BEAUTIFUL

ALSO FORGOT TO SAY BIG CONGRATS ON THE AWARDS!!!

[lean kelp]

Me and my gf walking around your booth rn. love it!

[mellow plaza]

Main Menu(?) Thumbnail 3: The Industrial West

(this was a mix of a real photo + edit to make it look semi painterly)

original

-# Joshua Tree National Park, California

[regal obsidian]

Damn they got the mountains

[frail vortex]

How did you achieve that look on what wasn't "edited in"? Is this heavily bumped up contrast alongside hue and saturation values?

[mellow plaza]

hmm.. kinda? the filter does the heavy lifting with most of these thumbnails (high contrasts)

[mellow plaza]

Just a random fun fact
As I am now five week into learning Esperanto and setting it as my official second language (with the goal of becoming fluent in it this year), I want to give you guys a small fun fact ^^
The game name's and the factoryville is called Las Cherung but in-universe, considering how Esperanto language work, that name wouldn't make sense (at least when coming to grammatical rules of Esperanto)

The official (and canonical) in-universe name for Las Cherung to account the Esperanto language would be:

Lasĉerungo

(To quickly recap, I remove the space, merge the word together to indicate its a single object / place since Esperanto is not like english with how context works, replacing the "ch" in Las Cherung with the character ĉ from the Esperanto alphabet as it is the character that can take over the -ch sound, and lastly adding the -o at the end to turn it into a noun, in otherword this is the translinguated name of Las Cherung to Esperanto)

for those anyone curious to know what that is pronounced as, here is me pronouncing it (In Esperanto)

Was excited enough to share this snippet considering my knowledge of Esperanto as of right now, and probably just something to show what Las Cherung would actually called in-universe :)
I am keeping obs the name "Las Cherung" for the game and the fact i do imagine the character that speaks in this game will be english, so most likely referring to it as "Las Cherung" compare to its actual name, Lasĉerungo

[desert bay]

I didn't actually consider that it would need to be translated, that's really cool :D

[mellow plaza]

it was something that dawn on me now that im familiar with esperanto, especially when it comes to nouns (usually places) being said as a single word, i suppose for redundency

Las Vegas -> Lasvegaso
New York City -> Novjorko
United States -> Usono

[swift charm]

whenever las cherung comes out im setting the language to esperanto just for the realest experience

[regal obsidian]

They should make it the default for the best experience!

[mellow plaza]

although the in-game language for las cherung is esperanto, the main language will be set to english for simplicity lmao

not everyone speak or understand esperanto, and those other language are there as a option if they want to experience the game with the language that the story was build on :)

(if the language thing idea goes through, but its not often you see... Esperanto language support as far i can see on roblox.. curiously enough)

[mellow plaza]

Lasĉerungo In-Universe Logo

Did some redesign of the in-universe logo to include the correct translation of Las Cherung and made it resemble a city logo, with some bit of elegance and class to the factory that resides...

Bronze Plaque Version

[buoyant vector]

oghh.. this is really cool

[frozen current]

I do love the colour palette this game has

[regal obsidian]

Imagine you make this

Bet you could 3d print it lol

[frigid sun]

this is so nice!

[frail vortex]

What exactly is the planned gameplay for Las Cherung? Based on what I've been seeing this doesn't seem like a typical reactor game

[frozen current]

Wait it’s a reactor game?
I thought it was a story-type game

[mellow plaza]

It is ^^

Story-type game

[mellow plaza]

I will explain in a bit, but short summary would be its kinda like a interactive sci-fi novel like game?

[desert bay]

"For the masses of Columbia, Established 1905"?
did I read that right?

mm, actually no. amas, amor, love?

it seems to have a lot of Spanish loanwords

[mellow plaza]

Esperanto

you got plenty of words right :> but

amas in Esperanto is present tense of "ami"

which is "to love"

so the translation is "For the love of columbia"

[desert bay]

I know it's Esperanto but it has a LOOOOOTT of loanwords

[mellow plaza]

yEH i dont blame you LOL

[desert bay]

hey I wasn't that far off, lol

[mellow plaza]

though i think i should correct the wording "al"

to de... since i think al is more like saying "to"
like Mi iras al la vendejo (I am going to the store)

while de is "of" like as in, 'of something'

Botelo de Akvo (Bottle of Water)

it was something i missed i think lmao

[desert bay]

okay so from what I can tell purely based off the stuff you've sent is that Esperanto is a very latin based language, with some Spanish loanwords and apparently some French too. most of the words are similar enough to understand if you know some amount of either

fascinating

[mellow plaza]

YEAH it is

Spanish, German, French, English, Italian, Polish (I think romanian?

and others i cant recall

[desert bay]

I can see a bit of the Germanic languages. Italian and polish, not as much but I don't know them as well

[mellow plaza]

but yeah i will do a quick fix on the logo to replace "al" to "de"

[lean kelp]

Esperanto is the minion language

[frail vortex]

Oh is it like a...multiplayer story game?

[torn ruin]

Poland mentioned

[mellow plaza]

atm as it stands... yeah? like a campaign thingy

now i cant make full promises on that as its something we never done before

but its in our planned things

[mellow plaza]

a very glimps idea i have for one of the playable character's story (so far no in-depth story in mind, but will consider putting them as actual playable characters to experience as)

Granda Frato

-# Big Brother
The story of the Sanchez brothers
-# The Decay: "One's Loss"

[mellow plaza]

while brainstorming for some lore writing, i decided to try my best to do a.. mock early rendition of the Green Ideals (Columbia's Main Party) from the 1930s?...

not much for me to explain in def because i havent written out exactly about the party's foundation and whatnot

-# i did drew this in real life and scanned it to inkscape, here's the picture i taken of it drawn on paper

[nova jungle]

does it represent the liberty bell?

[desert bay]

awww that's COOL

[desert bay]

I blame you for getting me interested in making my own language again btw xero

Esperanto was a rabbit hole I didn't mean to fall down but I did

[mellow plaza]

LMFAO you are welcome

[mellow plaza]

it was a random bell i imagined in mind but yeah it does look like that...,,

[frail vortex]

when next ls devlog

last one was like

2yrs ago

https://tenor.com/view/blissful-malevonence-gif-10192619856801101589

[mellow plaza]

there was one almost a year ago but i should make another one...
i am focusing on like the main menu aspect and stuff (and my tendencies to feel like "i will show when i feel like its done" 💔

though ive been posting on my community page ever since

with stuff im currently doing in las cherung

[frail vortex]

actually yeah wtf

it showed devlog 01 as most recent one for some reason

now its back to normal

[mellow plaza]

lmao

[main yoke]

hi I didn't make this thread but did make the song
this is in fact made for xero's stuff so worthy to post here 🔥

-# yes xero gave permission to do so

[mellow plaza]

he did an amazing job at this so give him the apprecation he deserves ^^

it honestly makes me feel like its absolutely perfect for "The Atomic Revolution"

[main yoke]

-# no joke I remade this song cause I was bored btw lmaoooo

[mellow plaza]

LITERALLY YOU LIKE
randomly brought up a old apm music we had for las cherung in its early development and just
fucking readapted it to our current version of LC 😭

im still flabberghasted

[main yoke]

that's just simply me

bored
do something random
it becomes absolute peak

[frozen current]

John Music himself made a song for Xero
What a way to start off 2026

Anyway does actually round really nice I liek it!

Sounds like some scene in a space film

[main yoke]

not the first time i did it but it has been like 2 years or something since i last made a song for his stuff lo

[mellow plaza]

^ estas vera
-# is true

[silver rampart]

https://tenor.com/view/earth-globe-explode-gif-14366757

[frigid sun]

absolute las cherung

[minor moth]

when the cherung is last....

[frigid sun]

when the last is the cherung

[hollow jay]

First cherung when

[wet schooner]

on the first day of cherung

[mellow plaza]

wow that was a nice break from working on the dev branch of lc (ignoring times i spend designing)
we'll soon begin posting stuff from LC again especially regarding main menu, i will be talking with my friends about our next steps and ideas :)

made another propaganda poster meanwhile (more of a fun thing for me to do to test more art style, but im gonna figure some usage / meanings behind this one)

"Listen! We have work to do
Light the way workers"

"Work today, build tomorrow, we hope together."

[minor moth]

https://tenor.com/view/writing-too-fire-fire-writing-writing-fire-friendcord-gif-7801118907023267493

Oh my god i haven't see your art for a while

awesome core

[mellow plaza]

ty ^^

this poster was also the first where i confidently typed in esperanto :)
nine weeks in learning it, im getting the hold of the language

[frigid sun]

we love proaganda

[frail vortex]

How is LC doing map completion wise?

[mellow plaza]

i havent contributed much to it the past few months (mainly AC25) so its at a limbo of 40%?? if accounting all together

(the topside is what holds majority of the map that i need to revise, gulp)

[winter cargo]

idk why but this music somewhat reminds me of infra, also probably a dumb question but is it possible to make the glass shards damage you if you step over them?

but the destruction is peak

just realized i replied to a really old message

either i haven't checked this thread in ages

or discrod sent me up for some reason

[mellow plaza]

honestly, i will keep it in mind but i wont garantee we will do that idea

[winter cargo]

alr

[desert bay]

i mean unless youre like, not wearing shoes, stepping on glass usually doesnt do much

[frozen current]

depends if it's annealed or tempered

annealed can go through shoes

[mellow plaza]

PROTOMIKANO

Mirdina Mundo, Ĉu vi estas unu ni?
-# A wonderful World, Are you one of us?

11 weeks in learning Esperanto, I am able to read, write, and speak relatively so far, heres a poster thingy that i made :)

Process Behind: Protomikano
Protomik (root word) - a fictional esperanto name for "Protomica", a major prosperity alliance in The Decay
-an (suffix) - denotes the word being a member of a group
-o (ending) - denotes its a noun

Protomik + an + o
Protomikano (A member of Protomica)

-# i was too lazy to fill the space at the bottom right.....

not alot of update on the dev side of las cherung though considering how much ive put the time aside to learn Esperanto
which i will put towards the project :) i think i got this

[mellow plaza]

got over it

updated text
(left)
-# A wonderful World
-# Are you one of us?
(right)
-# All to believe, our world, you ARE PROTOMIKANS
-# Do you believe in us?

[torn ruin]

Wowwwww, i love it man!

[mellow plaza]

OKULOJ SUR NI!

"Eyes on us!"

A prominent televised news network broadcasting in Grand Columbia.

"Saluton Kolumbio!" Hello Columbia!
"Hodiaŭ Ĵurnaloj!" Today news!
"Ĉefrolanta ... Maikelo Opej" Featuring ... Michael Opay
"Aŭgosto 2, 1964" August 2, 1964

at least, the idea of it

[silver rampart]