Developer posts and news about this game.
These past two weeks were about finalizing the text and music. Chapter 4 was written and all the music was created. Other tweaks were added based on some feedback and testing. Both versions of chapter 4 are now written. Both are relatively short compared to the previous chapters,
No code changes this week, just more story! Specifically, chapter 4a (ground assault) has been written. I also put together the music for chapter 2 and decided on the music themes for chapters 3 and 4. Chapter 4 does not involve any choices, just reading and typing. It does intro
This week involved finishing the story for chapter 3 and the finalizing of all achievements. As a bonus, I put together a guide for unlocking all the achievements. There are now 28 achievements: 8 achievements for activating/defusing the 4 challenge word types, 2 for the modding
This week saw the completion of the encounter side-stories in chapter 3 and the beginning of the interrogation sequence. I also added a few debug tools to help with checking my work on the more complicated parts of the story. The final encounter side-story — waiting in the trees
This devlog series's purpose is twofold: to keep alpha/beta players up-to-date on what is happening with the game's progress, and to give fellow indie devs a peek into how I work through dev challenges. What I realized today is that I haven't detailed how I make these devlogs, wh
As promised last week, this week saw the implementation of Steam achievements and the completion of chapter 2. A few other minor changes were made, but those two ate up most of my week. Steam achievements were actually remarkably easy to implement... when running the in-editor ve
This week was all about implementing the other three challenge types that I had planned. Rather than hard-coding them, I decided to rework them to be more dynamic. The biggest change is that challenge types are now defined using a JSON file (similar to stories, achievements, and
Lots of non-game-related obligations have been popping up, which have prevented me from making much code progress, which is why I skipped last week's update. However, enough progress has been made to justify another update. The most important update this week has been the story p
This was a slow week, due to other obligations, but I still managed some exciting updates. Namely, modding documentation is now available! I also began on the HIA portion of chapter 2. You can now generate a sample mod in the user mods directory by going to the options page and s