Two years of Particular Reality Well, not really two years

Time flies! It's the second anniversary of #ParticularReality, celebrated with a new #DevLog entry.

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Advanced Prototyping - Week #34 Guiding through portals

#ParticularReality #DevLog, week 34: making use of the hint system, it's time to teach players how to open portals...

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Advanced Prototyping - Week #33 Guiding out of the limbo

#ParticularReality #DevLog, week 33: after working on the hint system, it's finally time to make use of it!
Let's start by teaching players how to get out of the #mixedreality limbo...

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Advanced Prototyping - Week #32 Smart particles hints

This week on the #ParticularReality #DevLog: using captured #bodytracking clips to teach gestures, another building block of the tutorial/hint system!

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Advanced Prototyping - Week #31 Smart particles hints

The #ParticularReality #DevLog is back! This time, we work on the hint system particles, one of the building blocks needed to teach players how to play.

Read it now!

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Advanced Prototyping - Week #30 Particles and portals

The implementation of the smart #particles continues, this time crossing paths with the #portal subsystem, which keeps evolving.

Check the latest #ParticularReality #DevLog!

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Advanced Prototyping - Week #29 Smart particles basics

The new #ParticularReality #DevLog marks the start of a new journey: the design and implementation of the "smart particles" which will be a key element of the game.

Don't miss it!

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Advanced Prototyping - Week #28 Improving portals (again)

#Portals are a key element of the #ParticularReality #locomotion system. In this week #DevLog, they get a bit of love with significant refactoring and a couple of important fixes.

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Advanced Prototyping - Week #27 Leaving the limbo

In the natural prosecution of last week post, we handle the embodying of the (test) avatar when exiting the #mixedreality limbo...

Read now the #ParticularReality #DevLog!

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Advanced Prototyping - Week #26 Revisiting the player avatar

#ParticularReality #DevLog, week 26 of advanced #prototyping!

We go back to the avatar and prepare it to handle different modes...

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Advanced Prototyping - Week #25 Designing the next steps

The latest #ParticularReality #DevLog is quite special: a long write-up fleshing out design ideas that will guide development in the upcoming future. If you don't care about implementation, this post is for you!

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Advanced Prototyping - Week #24 Enemy attacks and player health

Though the road was bumpy, some progress was ultimately made!

Find out the details in the latest #ParticularReality #DevLog: "Enemy attacks and player health".

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Particular Reality: Year One Prototyping Recap

Here's a special #DevLog entry, discussing the development of #ParticularReality so far. Are you ready for year two?

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Particular Reality - Prototyping Reel - Year One Let's recap one year of Particular Reality prototyping, with a montage of clips from the DevLog entries published so far. Check https://www.particular-reality.com for more info, and if you're interested in following the development remember to subscribe to the DevLog at https://particularreality.substack.com Music by https://www.bensound.com/free-music-for-videos License code: LMFR8BB8JXXQG1H1

Let's recap one year of #ParticularReality #prototyping, with a montage of clips taken from the #DevLog entries published so far.

...and coming soon, a new article!

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Advanced Prototyping - Week #23 Clearing Enemy Waves

#ParticularReality #DevLog, week #23 of advanced #prototyping!

Let's pop some enemies and test the "waves" management.

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Cover image of the post, with title "Interacting with enemies". It shows the player avatar punching an enemy.

The #ParticularReality #DevLog is back!

In this 22nd week of advanced prototyping, it's finally time to hit some enemies.

Are you in? Check the article, then!
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Advanced Prototyping - Week #21 Enemies life cycle

The enemy management work started last week continues in the new entry of the #ParticularReality #DevLog: the basic life cycle has been defined, implemented and tested. Enjoy!

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#ParticularReality now has a dedicated Bluesky account too, for all the updates strictly related to the game and its development.

The important links to learn about the project are:
- www.particular-reality.com - main website
- particularreality.substack.com - DevLog