lots of work to make difficult traversal feel natural, fraught and fun. the player controls which direction emmer faces, so you have to rotate her to walk across narrow stretches.

thwomp

some debug for walking the boulder. big red arrow is user input, big white arrow is the force i'm applying to the boulder, black circle is where i want emmer to walk toward, and the series of smaller arrows are lower level controller stuff.

emmer's actually an incredible athlete

riding the rocks

milk lake deck in skate story confirmed

you can try to cheese it too

fancy footwork

yes! a spooky adventure game called the milk lake

more work on shadow monster

flush!

you can politely decline some interactions

if you look in the river, the river looks back

yoink

highly recommend making a fully procedural character controller, there's no way you'll spend too much time on it.

haven't posted in a while, so here's a little gameplay

i hope he's not all sweaty and anxious when you do

more ormr

ormr insists that you play with him

big ass tilties
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leeeeean

bending it in

character animation is very immersion breaky for me, so i'm trying to do the "simple" stuff well rather than something super comprehensive. also atmosphere and sense of place are more important to me, so i'll be happy if it's good enough to disappear in the experience instead of break immersion.

yeah i don't think that's a mischaracterization! i want the character motion to read as "plausible" enough with control precise enough that just moving around is a core gameplay mechanic.

the character controller is twin stick, so you get fine control for tricky steps

more darknessss
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the darkness can have a little fire, as a treat
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descent in gratuitous slowmo
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gratuitous slowmo in the woods
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