guess what, i did both things: polished the rifle mode and made cutscenes! so that’s something cool. playtested a bunch and found some pesky bugs that only occur when you use a rifle, like getting stuck sometimes between turns, plus enemy bullets not shooting properly during battle was a new one.

i want to change how weapons are set up but i’m almost sure it already works how i envision it, i just haven’t made new ones in a long time so i have to test that.

here are a bunch of bugs in action. we have to fix that muzzle, both aesthetically and the fact it’s still active during the victory screen too, and make like an actually good animation for that same victory screen! this one was made in a rush just to have a rough idea of how it should work. victory results are also placeholder.

more tweaks include giving everything more juice, like enemy animations upon impact, better particle effects, etc. there’s a lot to be done for this to feel truly satisfying, and after i’m done with the 2nd boss phase we’ll probably focus on that.

back to work after a well deserved weekend rest. been having some quirks with my vision so i’m gonna have that checked sometime this week and take it easy.

not a whole lot happened outside playtesting but we finally fixed the quirks with the targeting system and the bossfight plays out as expected. now i gotta make it look prettier and do a couple of extra sequences. Looks like i was right and the whole thing was going to be ready by now! I need to do further playests to finally get around a bunch of long delayed tweaks.

setpiece done except for the actual fight and a game over cutscene, puzzles done with their respective cutscene this time for real. lots of playtesting, sound tweaking, bug fixing, and building the boss fight. Everything works so far, game didn’t break while i was working on the sequence. I’m really optimistic in that we will have this ready by sometime this or next week depending on the number of snafus. we got this!! vertical slice soon my dudes.

lots of playtesting and tweaking and fixing, kind of glad most of the things causing issues were oversights from forgetting to set up stuff correctly.

• fixed an issue where the item crafting wouldn’t reset properly
• added a cooldown after battles so the battle area doesn’t spawn again in the same place, making you fight over and over until you step in the right spot when it ends
• added missing signal receivers to several playable directors that were preventing me from making progress
• initial set up for the setpiece is complete, now we start designing the behavior for the midboss
• made a bunch of new cutscenes for the puzzle sequences

gonna keep playtesting for a bit longer after this then gonna try to go to bed early-ish. stuff is going very well, and i’m actually a nervous mess since we are nearing the point where the vertical slice will be ready enough to get feedback from others. Would have loved to do this earlier in development but i wasn’t expecting this game to be such a learning experience. I think that if we began making this game today with the stuff we know already about how to build it, we would have this year’s worth of progress in about two months or so… which in turn makes me excited for future projects !!!!!

tomorrow i’d like to both keep playtesting and design more characters, there’s a bunch i wanna get ready for a trailer.

made a victory animation and worked some more on the level, this time scrapping one of the most important rooms for something completely different and it looks really good so far!

newprogrammer has been working hard on the rest of the items and a lot of it needs playtesting. one of them being the victory sequence but apparently the game is breaking when a battle is over, so we gotta look into it.

i’ll likely work tomorrow and i want it to be mostly playtesting to further polish things, and then begin on some promotional artwork.