That spinning disc was too profoundly ugly for me to keep staring at... this is better, though the color will probably change. And the fade in needs to be fixed.
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Autosaving on an independent thread to avoid gameplay hiccups implemented... thread safety in Unity has some weirdness I hadn't expected, but wasn't too tricky. The gross save icon will be replaced!
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An early look at the save menu system... boring and time consuming, but def needed for the game's basic function! The bones are all in place, just gotta flesh it out now...
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Shield recharge and icon done... outside of battle, a shield will recharge after a few seconds. You can also see the changing icon for the UI as well. Still gotta make it remain upright, regardless of ship orientation...
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Design notes for the save system here! This is one of three large, remaining systems that need to be completed on the path to a demo. (The other two are fleshing out the planet editor and making the trading system).
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Menus, menus, menus... boring to work on, but important to get right. A good menu is barely noticed, because we only really think about them when they're confusing or glitchy.
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More work done on the speech system lately. Ben helped with some audio engineering to reduce popping in speech synthesis. Also, we put together a voice for the Bassurians which I really love!
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After many hours of slogging, all data structures are now hierarchical, ensuring that in game data contamination is staved off. But. Instead of that, please focus on Possella, who is entirely too nervous to say anything.
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Just a li'l tidbit today! This is one of the concept designs for the corvette class of the Helpers. I think it looks like a little VMU from anyone who remembers those! Gave me a cool idea for a minigame that will be fun to make...
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Got a nifty little frame to the conversation window now with an open/close animation and compatibility with dual conversation mode. Also took the time to write up the roadmap to the game demo! Lots of work left, but it's on the horizon!
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These look great! If you complete the deck and publish, I will be super excited to snag a copy. ^^
Encryption! it's not in game, but I'd like to stave off miners for at least a bit. I just miss games being enigmatic, and I want folks to be able to dig into mysteries of the game's story. It's ok to be left wondering if there's anything left hiding, too.
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This weekend, I worked hard on getting the voice synth system under better control! It had been making pops and gross blowouts a lot, so I wrangled it a bit and have the constructive interference problem way better in hand!
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Krampus takes children, but brings cake.
Say hello to the sketch designs for Bassurians! These little critters will be skittering around the galaxy, and are a pretty cheerful bunch, despite having drawn some short straws. The mech augment arms were Anne's idea, and I'm exited to work them into the lore!
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Wowza, I am just getting into graph shaders now and starting to appreciate how powerful they are fore really fast creation of cool looking effects! Check this thingy out.
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Some work done on the conversation UI! I tossed together a shader for the background that I think is nice. I'm not 100% sure I'll end up using it in the game, but it came out well enough as an experiment. It's starting to look a lot more together, though!
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A bit of work on some of the menu stuff! Experimenting with colors, but the magenta was just garish. All of the metal on the menus is rusty now... your ship is pretty beat up with the game begins!
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A bunch of cool stuff here! A tiny preview of a killer new musical piece by Ben, a really nicely revamped background for the Y'tori from Anne, and configurable control over background animation speeds. More things come together every day!
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Many boring things and optimizations ... but! Now all backgrounds with windows have a transparent view to whatever location/planet you're currently at.
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This was one of those things that should have been easy, but was very not due to some naive architecture from earlier in the project. But now that this is done, multiple person conversations will be very straightforward!
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Mourn the poor Macrourans. They've fallen victim to editing, and we will not be seeing skunks in Transience. They were too similar to the Hyäne. However... now we'll be seeing the Basurians! They're lovely creatures who just want to drink ranch dressing and hang out...
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So much refactoring... so many bad decisions made two years back XD. This video might look more or less identical to stuff you've seen before, but it's finally ready for some very significant updates from behind the scenes. New features incoming!
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Deep digging in the guts of the code for Transience over the last few days... reworking how animation functions so that multiple characters can all animate properly on the screen at once. But to folks over, check out these cool ship concepts from Brendan!
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More work on the UI for the battle system here! After this, I'll be giving it a bit of a rest and moving to some more work on the backgrounds for the Conversation menu... and a big project will be making conversations able to support multiple characters at once.
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Happy bday! :D
And here's the nifty lock-on animation when you manage to zero in on your enemy for long enough for the computer to train missiles on them properly! Obviously there will be a cool sound to go along with this eventually as well...
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Missiles coming together... Still need to finalize a bit of the system, but I'm able to assign prefabs arbitrarily to them now and the validators ensure that all items of this type have all required objects and animations...
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Things are finally looking more lively! NPCs fly around and change course in planetary systems/location now... more ripping out of very old, very naive code to accomplish this. XD
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