As is now traditional for me, I prefer a more concise, low-tech timelapse. So here it is:

A basic world to walk around in:

Drawing some landscape tiles and the landscape map:

Loading a landscape:

Adding a basic house:

Adding NPCs to houses:

Showing house names in the hud:

Conversations with NPCs:

Houses crumbling and a smoke effect when houses are abandoned:

Adding inventory slots:

Picking up items (mostly buckets):

Adding a forge as a world object:

Adding the farmer puzzle:

Finishing the blacksmith puzzle:

Adding the doctor’s puzzle:

Adding Greta, the cranky cat lady:

Herbert, the dog lover:

A boring shot, but this was optimising the map display so I could draw huge maps at 60fps:

Adding roofs over houses, that dissapear when you go inside.

Doing the title screen:

The librarian:

Adding the vignette and noise overlays: