#TheGreyRoad

Screenshot from The Grey Road WIP

Little thread for progress shots of The Grey Road!

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Screenshot of a very long playround climbing... "thing?" It's themed to look like a mosquito, and disappears into the fog.

I love spline meshes.
This rusty boy was made by @viviannebarburne.bsky.social
His name is Mikey Mosquito.

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WIP screenshot of the grey road

I feel like I'm at a crossroads with this project.
(Crowd Booing sfx)
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WIP Screenshot from the game The Grey Road

Playing around with some distant scenery.
In the isolation zones, there are pockets of super-dense radioactive fog that you can't pass through.

I've added these "roots" around those areas to give them some character.

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Been working on some level design for #TheGreyRoad.

Honestly Im feeling great about it tonight, but I will say that level design has always been some of my weaker points.

I think a lot of my issues come from a lack of direction. Forcing some rules/goals for each level has helped me overcome that.

Screenshot from the grey road showing the truck on a long foggy road with large monolithic objects barely visible in the fog

Happy screenshot saturday
(I'm in a different time zone, so it's Saturday for me, actually)

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In game screenshot showing some items from The Grey Road

Some more items for #TheGreyRoad

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The car from the grey road showing inside its hood. The geometry is basically random.

Dang if I have the car hood crumple during a crash, I'll have to model under the hood....

What *is* under a car hood?...

Car parts. There are car parts in there.
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Still in that "convince yourself to make it bad and then improve it later" phase with the enemies.

This is just a proof of concept with some temp animations, but I have a little attack system setup for the enemies with configurable tracking.

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Here's the second monster we're trying out.
These ones are small hornet enemies. They can't really do much to you if you're in a car, but they can really mess you up if they catch you out or group up.

Thanks to @bridgetishere.bsky.social for the sculpt :)

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So my wife @bridgetishere.bsky.social
has been doing a bunch of art for #TheGreyRoad
So I wanted to show these fellas!

They're called buddies and you can collect them by doing different achievements :)

She's also doing the monster design and sculpting!

Lil screenshot of the current progress for the monster.
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Also dont worry, this mechanic is still in the game! Ive moved the winch to the back of the car tho

I just need to sit down and make a bunch of assets for this at some point

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WIP screenshot from the Grey Road showing the map

WIP screenshot from the Grey Road showing the status bars and weather

WIP screenshot from the Grey Road showing the car HUD

A few misc updates for #TheGreyRoad:

- Finished up some map icons (The red ones show up after you visit them)

- Added weather forecast to the HUD (The arrow fills so you know how long before the next starts)

-Added a clock to the car :)

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Sorry no update for #thegreyroad tonight. I think im getting sick 😷

I have some cool stuff to show soon, though

First pass at the UI for the player map in #TheGreyRoad

I didn't want to make a map for every level, so this is mostly generated by the game. The only manual thing here was recoloring the water.

Explanation below: 🧵

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WIP screenshot of The Grey road, showing the player inventory

WIP screenshot of The Grey road, showing the player inventory

WIP screenshot of The Grey road, showing the trade inventory

WIP screenshot of The Grey road, showing the truck inventory

New #TheGreyRoad progress shots.

Did some Ui Layout stuff recently - Still needs quite a few art passes, but I'm happy with the general layouts.

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Todays Progress:
Finished a first pass at NPCs / Trading

Npcs will be rarely found in the world, You can have a short conversation with them and trade items/scrap.

This girl is a stuffed animal collector - She likes to find stuffed animals and repair them.

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Made some really good progress on #TheGreyRoad recently.

I probably already have enough for another dev diary tbh 🤔. I had said in the last one that i was going to do more enemy work, but i ended up working on pretty much everything else :B

Screenshot from the grey road, showing an inventory filled with miscellaneous items

Made all the inventory data for the new items today.
Vivianne made this 100x easier with some blender node magic to generate the icons

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A spread of several 3d item models, A sports drink, caffeine pills, canned food, an energy drkin, and two adrenaline pens

Some more item models for #TheGreyRoad

I think the adrenaline pens are a little oversized, so maybe ill size those a bit better.

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Pill meshes for my game. The label says: Sta-Up : Fast acting stay awake pills

New Caffeine pills for #TheGreyRoad
Pretty happy with them!

Anyone get the reference? :p

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Either way - I've fixed up door / window navigation. The AI monsters will now navigate through and break windows / doors.

Kinda fun to slam a door behind you and run while the mosnter works on breaking it down.

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Hey folks, Ive just sent through the first devlog for #TheGreyRoad!

Feel free to share and follow for more updates over there :)

(Also - no clue why its compressed like that. I'll try and fix that for the next one, sorry 😅)

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Lil speed build using my new modular kit for #TheGreyRoad
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Update to the modular house kit for #TheGreyRoad

Since I'm likely going to have to make - a ton - of houses, I've been working on a modular house kit. I added in the roofs today.

Still needs a detail pass, but I think this is passable.

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Just finished up recording voice over for episode 0 of my "Dev Diary" for #TheGreyRoad

It'll be a quick intro to the project and its mechanics. I plan on releasing a couple of these as I go.

Now I just gotta get good footage...

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Lil thread about safehouses (1/3)🧵

In my survival horror road trip game #TheGreyRoad you have to find a safe house and sleep in it to save your game. This also heals you and your car a set amount.

However, you need to board up the windows to make it "safe"

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Next up for the grey road is building out a vertical slice.

I want to do an entire area and have it mostly complete.

Asset-wise i really just need to do an exterior kit for houses.

Ill then work on populating it with enemies and making their ai better

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Screenshot from TheGreyRoad, showing a road with small details like leaves and cracks.

Screenshot from TheGreyRoad, showing a road with small details like leaves and cracks.

Screenshot from TheGreyRoad, showing a road with small details like leaves and cracks.

Screenshot from TheGreyRoad, showing a road with small details like leaves and cracks.

Some added details for #TheGreyRoad
More foliage, decals, etc.
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