Happy Holidays!! Hope you are doing well! Thank you everyone who signed up to our playtesting form 🥰 we had a lot of interest so we will be going through them to start picking people for our first round of playtesting in January ♥️ Be sure to sign up to our newsletter to be notified about future playtesting rounds!
We’ve been doing a lot this past month and a bit! We had a push to get a playable version of the story mode for a local showcase night earlier in the month and we’ve been rebuilding rooms to allow for different sized rooms (getting tiling wall/floor assets etc.) Zac has also made us a hue-shift tool somewhat working so we and you will be able to change the colours of some of our items! Some of these include shelves, ottomans, beds, and paint tubes! Jasmine has been making the appropriate colour palettes for them 🤩🎨
(I did not intend for this to loop so beautifully… but it did)
Jasmine has also been testing out furniture that you could pop together and change around: kind of like modular IKEA prefabs.
Jasmine has also been doing some basic concepts of our level select, we expect this will change and evolve next year.
Julian has worked out some interval puzzle stuff as well as changing room sizes so we can have BIGGER and smaller and narrower and wider rooms. He’s currently working on system for some letters you can collect throughout the game.
I’ve been building the story branches in the engine, here’s a little sneak peak!
(Some of the art is still grey as they are temporary objects 😅)
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There's still a lot we’re going to add to this prototype before we show the early playtesters! We’ll be going through a lot of the rooms we already have and looking for what we are missing. I wish I could also show you what our sound design team have been doing because it sounds BEAUTIFUL but alas, you’ll have to wait!
It’s amazing to look back and see how much we have achieved in this year! We built creative mode to build story mode, as well as the story mode builder. We did a lot of development on the narrative design for Momento, as well as all the art tests and standardization. We have a huge database for furniture and items, as well as our hue-shift tool to change their colours! We also went to a few showcases both local and international! 🤯 I know it’s been a quieter year for us on socials but we’ve been making a lot of good work! There are a couple more tests we need to do by the end of the year but soon we’ll just be building the story, making tons of art, and getting it out to our playtesters!
Thank you so much for following our journey so far! We wish you a very happy holiday season and new year! You’ll be hearing from us in January 🎆
Lots of love
Jess and the Momento Team