Hello, all! It’s Jessica again, bringing you highlights of what we’ve worked on over the past week.
Probably the biggest news is that we’re letting 200 more of you into the Playtest!! Reminder to everyone that you need buddies to play with (it’s more fun with friends to betray help), so if your friends aren’t in the playtest you should definitely hop over to our Discord and join the Good Boy channels so you can find team mates.
Speaking of your team mates, we’ve added them to the HUD! It’s a helpful way to keep track of who is dead and who is not. Or who might be about to be dead. So you can be careful while you move that couch.
We’ve got new heists and new objectives created, along with a huge assortment of items to steal, and a bunch of masks. We’re working on getting little icons in for all the masks for use in the HUD, so you can identify your teammates on sight, rather than calling out “Uh, who has the cat statue head right now?”
We also decided to participate in this Steam Next Fest! So a lot of our attention right now is on getting our demo buttoned up. That’s involved a lot of meetings (what do we want in the demo? Is there enough time to get that in?) and then a lot of rearranging of priorities. For instance, this past week has seen progress on an Environment Helper Tool, so named because it helps optimize environments for a smoother gaming experience. We’re also working on getting some of the planned music into the game, and offering at least a few video settings in the options menu.
We are not actually updating the playtest build this week, since some of our demo changes have introduced fascinating new bugs that we’d like to save you from.
There are a couple known bugs in the current build, and if you’re playtesting we could use your help in tracking them down. If you experience a crash, please use the crash report to send us your logs. If you experience an issue that doesn’t result in a crash, we’d be super grateful if you hopped into our discord and shared your logs with us! Game logs can be found in "%localappdata%/GoodBoyPlaytest", and you can upload them along with a brief description of what you saw happening in our Good Boy Bugs channel.**
That’s all for this week! Happy Playtesting! GLHFDD!
**this is a direct link to the channel, you'll need to join the server first in order to use it. Link to join the server is the one above!