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At long last, time for a new update... First off: 4th mission added The new mission takes you on a 2km x 2km size terrain. On the game's standards, it's absolutely huge, but I wanted it to convey the feeling of wandering in the middle of nowhere. The terrain type is inspired by t
I noticed using boats was broken with the last patch. Also fixed a small optimization hiccup in Mission 2.
Change of looks I've been constantly pondering whether or not to add a hood to the main character. On one hand, having the head uncovered gives more personality to the character and makes it easier to see what you're doing. On the other hand, it doesn't help with the game looking
I noticed and fixed a game-breaking bug: Trying to pick up a key in the second mission caused an error which blocked progress. Apologies to those affected. It came with the last updates, when I rearranged the objectives a bit. I also fixed some smaller things: torches no longer c
added optional bigger text for smaller screens (always on on Steam Deck) camera doesn't clip to walls in leaning anymore enemy vision adjustments for the difficulty options other small fixes
It's been a long while since the last update. My freelance work required more attention, and I also made a pretty massive blog post comparing the cinematic tools of Unity and UE, which took most of the time I would've otherwise spent on the game this year. If anyone's interested
I played the first level after a while and realized the new version of the tutorial was boring. I had cut out boat trips and climbing from the first scene in favor of speed, but I think it's more important to show more of the interesting mechanics right off the bat, even if they
I changed the layout of the tutorial (the route player has to go through, and updated the positions and content of the prompts). Now it's more linear and should be less confusing. The layout of the ship itself stayed almost the same. Some other tweaks in this update Doors connect
In the beginning of the intro level, mayor stood up automatically due to an AI mistake in windowed mode, window size was reset to screen size on scene load getting to climb ladder at the beginning of first mission was difficult, now player snaps to the ladder automatically made i
A couple of months have passed just twiddling my thumbs, but not in an idle way! I got myself a Steam Deck, which definitely makes the game more fun for me to test. With numerous iterations of test builds, I've gotten the game to a great shape with optimization improvements and o
These small fixes: -map view doesn't have weird extra panning movement in the beginning -made grappling hook glow in the dark, when it's not carried by player -fixed small objects not being selectable when right next to a body -grappling hook got dropped when winching, instead of
I did a couple of rounds of playing through the campaign, making notes, and fixing bugs and other details. I've also been working on the new iteration of the game's website that sheds some light to the game's mechanics with shorter and longer clips of gameplay: Here's a list of f
Having learned what the actual bottlenecks were in the trial and error process of optimization, it was necessary to go back on some of the changes I did on Mission 1 outro that didn't really improve frame rate but took away from the experience. I've now combined the best parts of
If you're interested in how the sausage is made, here's a blog post about various tricks and techniques I've used in Gust of Wind to keep the number of shadows, draw calls, dynamic physics objects and the overall number of polygons on screen to a minimum: ːsteamthisː Pretty much
I replaced the lightness indicator in HUD with a rim light for the third person perspective. The character is split in 8 parts corresponding the points in player that AI can see when they're lit, so that the rim light can be shown in those body parts separately. The indicator int
Added a lighting indicator that helps with keeping in shadows: Other changes: progress in the first mission was sometimes blocked by a notification "Enemies know the door is open, loading from save". Fixed a bug that was causing this. fixed double music sometimes on in mission 3
Pushing open doors from inside is easier guards unfrozen in the frigate in mission 3
The most visual change in this update is probably some layout changes I did for the interior of a huge frigate in the third mission. I split it into three sections divided by walls, so that only one section's contents need to be visible at a time, which helped a bunch with optimi
I made new vegetation models and textures for the island in the third mission, trying to match it close to the barren highland landscapes of northern Norway as possible. Here's what the island looks like now: If someone's interested in how the sausage is made, I added some time l
To start off, a couple of visual improvements. The first one I did mainly for optimization reasons. The rigging of this frigate, the Seashell, used to have 82 separate skinned mesh renderers for ropes and such. I replaced ALL of them with line renderers and static meshes (allowin