--- title: HomeGrown Devlog - Finishing the Main Menu | daily.dev description: A weekly devlog for Homegrown, an indie farming game in development for four years. The developer works through finalizing the main menu, including improving... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/homegrown-devlog---finishing-the-main-menu-9x2x0kin3 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: HomeGrown Devlog - Finishing the Main Menu | daily.dev og:description: A weekly devlog for Homegrown, an indie farming game in development for four years. The developer works through finalizing the main menu, including improving... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/homegrown-devlog---finishing-the-main-menu-9x2x0kin3 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/9x2x0KiN3.png og:image:alt: HomeGrown Devlog - Finishing the Main Menu 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. # HomeGrown Devlog - Finishing the Main Menu **[ThinMatrix](https://daily.dev/sources/thinmatrix)** · 19 min read · 18 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A weekly devlog for Homegrown, an indie farming game in development for four years. The developer works through finalizing the main menu, including improving save slot UI with error feedback and corrupt file detection, adding a save info panel showing mod requirements, implementing a credits page with data-driven loading, and creating a new 3D-rendered background scene in Blender. Mod support is also expanded to allow mods to provide code in addition to assets, with a virtual joint assets folder simplifying resource loading. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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