Greetings to all Nine-Tailed Fox soldiers!
We are back once again with the new Developer Log! And this time it’s Christmas Edition! We want to wrap this year with some development progress, as well as some statistics and community artwork.
Rewriting In-Game Events
Most in-game events in SCP: Nine-Tailed Fox are exactly the same as in SCP: Containment Breach. So much that their code hasn’t changed for ages! And this leads to an issue where old events start to give issues, bugs and crashes. We’ve been working on rewriting some of the events for SCP: Nine-Tailed Fox. You might’ve seen some examples of that already, like with Tesla gates or the event where SCP-173 appears in a tunnel room in Heavy Containment Zone.
As the most recent example of a rewritten event – here is one of the appearances of SCP-049 in Light Containment Zone. It’s a small event, but this kind of event brings atmosphere to the game. Can you spot him on this screenshot?
Improving Difficulty System
In the original SCP: Containment Breach, Euclid difficulty relies on monitors that are statically positioned in some of the rooms. This however brings an issue where some parts of the generated map lack these monitors, and as a result – players can’t save. To fix this we introduce Save Terminals™.
The model is work in progress and will be improved later on.
With Save Terminals™ we have more control over the saving on Euclid difficulty. The system we’ve made allows almost every room to have the terminal™. Of course, we’ve worked on balancing this as well. Save Terminals™ appear with a check for a specific distance between each other. However, this is ignored with some rooms where the Save Terminal™ should always appear. One example is the Checkpoint rooms for each zone.
Translating The Game
To let the game support multiple languages, we’ve been working on the game’s translation. However, we are not a huge team and can’t translate the game ourselves. For this reason, we’ve created a page on Crowdin, allowing all fans with the language knowledge to help us translate the game!
The page is available here: https://crowdin.com/project/scp-nine-tailed-fox. Tell us what other languages we should add on the list!
Steam Stats
Another thing to mention is the statistics of the game’s activity on Steam. We have around 230 000 total downloads, as well as more than 2100 total reviews!
On top of that – we’re on the list of Top Steam Releases of February 2022!
We are happy to know that our game was one of the successful games on February, on par with games like… “Orc Massage”? Well then…
Community Artwork
As the last thing for this Developer Log, we want to share some artwork that was made for the game!
by Kolya7519
It’s been a great year! We have many things cooking behind the scenes that might see the light of the day within the new year…
Merry Christmas, everyone! And Happy New Year!
-Third Subdivision Studios