Hey hey! 👋
Unity-Chan: Desktop Companion Demo just now became available for everyone for free - that's a great price! :D
I hope you will have fun playing it! Can't wait to see how you it will go, hopefully without any technical issues 😅
New UCDC videos
I made two videos to help with promoting the game
Video with Unity-chan figurine changing into our desktop mascot
This was a small experimental idea that had been lingering in my mind for a while, and I really wanted to bring it to life 😊
Demo announcement trailer
And more regular trailer with feature showcase 🎮
Game development update
As for now I am currently still working on Unity-chan movement logic inside the virtual room. It is mostly done, now there are some things left like attaching the old transition system to the new one, like instead of teleporting from chair to sofa executing tasks and animations.
After some work on animations I noticed how difficult it is to make sure state transitions are precisely fitting the objects. By transitions I mean actions like sitting down, standing up, positioning to interact with object. It is even more troublesome if we include furniture of various sizes and moddable character models. Working on it being a solo developer with little animation skills would take to long.
So instead of fighting it I decided to simplify it. Now instead of bad animation transitions the animation will be replaced with transition effect. Let me show it in action.
I know it isn't the perfect solution, but with my solo dev skills I need to cut some corners, after I tried creating matching animation transitioning I knew it would take too long to add more Unity-chan actions for me alone to develop. But I hope this new effect will not break immersion too much, we can always explain that her virtual world works in a bit different way that ours 😅
If you have any questions please feel free to ask in the comments or join our Discord Server - I'd love to see what you guys will come up with when chatting with Unity-chan! 😊
Thank you so much for reading!
JacopoDev