i need some documentation on how doors work but i made them work anyway. Some qol stuff on the way, like item pickup notification and some puzzle clues in the form of uhh, the classic notes and logs i guess.

My fear is increasing, i don’t know if the final design will be as fun as i had envisioned, so as soon as this basic level is rock solid in my own two eyes i will just shoot a build to friends to get feedback.

that’s it, it’s sunday and wanted to keep it light.

• sometimes battles don’t end, cause unknown
• can’t equip weapons for some reason (this was already done months ago, dunno what happened)
• wrong attack animations showing up after one battle, like the pistol’s when using a rifle
• both weapons show up as equipped in the inventory

the game is so broken is not even funny but gotta keep on fighting. kinda discouraging to see a bunch of things that were working fine suddenly break like this, and it’s not like they weren’t playtested, those were the first things we ironed out before this phase.

other than that i’m really feeling the structure, gotta keep testing more but things are looking up.

I also need to remind myself to never let players fall like this.

Tried to set up IK’s for the feet and results were amusing.

I wanna be healthy again!!

Been using the puzzle tool to design this one and it’s going great so far, just need to remember to write down some documentation for these since i forgot how to use an inventory system i wrote.

tomorrow i should probably start drawing concepts for enemies, i wanna show some gameplay without using graymen.

i will keep the battles with an over the head perspective because battles were designed with a camera like that in the first place. cinemachine helps with another solution, in which it automatically blends cameras upon activation. that’s it! just a bool and it moves smoothly to the new one.

i surely hope this is the last time i have to fight with videogame cameras…

I love Tumblr because it allows me to bookmark a bunch of shit to use in my games and drawings as inspiration, from street photography to character design to box art, it all helps my brain to keep the creative engine going, so i’ve been mostly gathering a bunch of references for what i want. One day i will make a game that’s nothing but what’s in my brain, but the goal in many of the levels of this game are to make the player feel like they are in a lived-in world instead of a level designed for them.. or at least not make the latter bit as obvious, since i really like game-y levels.

Anyway, most I did today was die a bit and then keep texturing more rooms, plus the aforementioned research. I’m very close to give everything a solid look but the finalized look is still far away from being completed. Newprogrammer is likely not working this weekend so i’m gonna do some more environment things before we begin placing gameplay elements across the map.

>Finished the layout of the map
>puzzle tool should be ready to be integrated tomorrow (newprgrammer stuff)

things to do short term

>playtest the level once the puzzles are ready
>enemy placement
>more enemy types
>button/analogue-based movement integration
>maybe probably look into making interactive objects be triggered both by cursor and by proximity, for easier gamepad support in the future

I don’t have a clear idea when we’ll be able to fully get into this but i plan to make the level look at least somewhat textured fully in the meantime.

I also got the basic geometry for a new character, gotta review that.