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I have been solo working on this game for quite some time and I had doubts about some of the systems, if they will be easy to understand and interact with. Last week there were quite a few of you testing the demo of the first level and giving me feedback, which had me change things, add features to make the game easier to play and balance some of the quests and enemies.
Here is what I have done since then:
- Skippable prologue (while playing it and from the menu).
- Checkpoints are now working correctly.
- Hold ‘E’ is converted to just Press ‘E’ in most of the cases, where it’s still hold, you will see a UI popup letting you know you should hold.
- The shooting range tutorial has only 1 task, which is a combination of the static & dynamic targets.
- The shooting targets count for the tutorial is reduced from 30 to 10 (but its repeatable if you wish).
- Enemy difficulty is toned down during the first level.
- If you break the collision in the cave level you won't fall down, but be teleported inside the cave again.
- Saving your progress after the level has been completed is fully working.
- Fixed full screen and windowed mode not switching.
- Small localization errors were fixed.
- Fixed small bugs in the UI.
The game saves automatically when you reach a checkpoint (I can add some interactable checkpoints as well) and there are 4 checkpoint files per level and once you reach the last fourth one, it will go back to the first and save your progress there. This is how it looks like:
This is what kind of data is saved inside a checkpoint file:
- Quest progress
- Inventories
- Dialogues progress (mainly variable changes if any)
- Location
- Date & Time
I’m also considering saving the health, but for now this won’t be the case.
Oh and lastly, I’m building a news station from where I will be broadcasting the news every 10 days, but more on that later!
Embrace evolution or face oblivion. May nature's favor be upon you, Soma.