--- title: Designing a New Town for my Farming Game | daily.dev description: A devlog for an indie farming game called Homegrown, covering the redesign of the town area. The developer overhauled the town's navigation from a free-roaming... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/designing-a-new-town-for-my-farming-game-0d0uuzgby twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Designing a New Town for my Farming Game | daily.dev og:description: A devlog for an indie farming game called Homegrown, covering the redesign of the town area. The developer overhauled the town's navigation from a free-roaming... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/designing-a-new-town-for-my-farming-game-0d0uuzgby og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/0D0uUzGbY.png og:image:alt: Designing a New Town for my Farming Game og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Designing a New Town for my Farming Game **[ThinMatrix](https://daily.dev/sources/thinmatrix)** · 15 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A devlog for an indie farming game called Homegrown, covering the redesign of the town area. The developer overhauled the town's navigation from a free-roaming top-down camera to a side-scrolling, fixed-viewpoint system with discrete screen positions. Work included fixing shadow rendering for the new camera angle, adding a sky with gradient and scrolling cloud layers, implementing spatial audio sound nodes, updating the inventory UI for the town context, and blocking out the town layout in Blender with planned areas for a restaurant, farmers market, and upgrade shop. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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