Hello, explorers and adventurers!

This devlog is all about new faces appearing in the world of Alaska Gold Fever. The village is slowly filling up, and while gold is important, a town without people is just a cold collection of wooden boxes. So let’s fix that!

We’ve added several new villagers, each carefully crafted to look like they’ve survived at least a few harsh winters, questionable life decisions, and one or two bad deals.

Every NPC starts the same way - as a rough 3D sculpt that slowly turns into a person with clothing, gear, facial features, and that distinct “I’ve seen things” expression.
From Blender to Substance to Unity, it’s a long journey, and sometimes the character changes along the way. Usually for the better. Usually.

For now, these villagers don’t have fixed jobs or schedules. They’re here to make the town feel alive - standing, walking, existing, and waiting patiently for us to give them proper tasks. Shops, dialogues, daily routines - all coming later.


Every town needs a bar and a bartender. Ours looks exactly like you’d expect - calm, confident, and fully aware of everyone’s secrets. He’s the kind of man who’s seen bar fights, gold rushes, and customers who swear they’ll “just have one drink.”

His outfit is a bit cleaner than the miners’, but not by much. Leather apron, rolled sleeves, and that posture that says “I’ve been standing behind this bar for years and I will outlive you.”

"How will gold seekers react to pumpkin spice latte?"
See you in town,

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Baked Games Team

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Hello, explorers and adventurers!

Today’s devlog is all about interior design!
When we started working on building interiors for Alaska Gold Fever, we had one simple goal:
make them feel like places where people actually lived, worked, slept… and probably complained about the cold a lot.

Wooden buildings are tricky. On the outside they’re just logs and planks. In the inside: they must fill a specific role.

All interiors are built using a shared modular asset set: wooden walls, beams, floors, ceilings, doors and windows that can be mixed and abused in many creative ways. The idea was to reuse smartly.


Most props are hand-placed. Yes, by a human. It pays off because that way nothing is perfectly straight or look "too good". Nothing is perfectly clean. This is oldtime Alaska. Perfection froze to death years ago.


The shooting range interior is simple, practical, and slightly threatening. Thick wooden walls, heavy support beams, basic benches, weapon racks and just enough clutter to suggest that safety regulations were more of a suggestion.


Fun fact - it is slighty based on the shooting shop/range from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly movie!


The hotel is where things get… optimistic. Wooden beds, small tables, rugs that have seen better decades, and walls decorated with paintings that may or may not be historically accurate.


Then there’s the shop. The heart of civilization. This interior is denser, more organized, and slightly more serious. Someone dropped coins here. Someone slammed the register too hard. Someone definitely hid something they shouldn’t have.

See you inside,

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Best regards,
Baked Games Team

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