Hello everyone,
During the second week we achieved important improvements to the general stability of the game. Though there are still many things to accomplish, we feel that the project is going through the right path. We wanted to share with you the changes made during this week, as well as the upcoming changes for week 3:
Ariel Verion 0.8.0.5
- We eliminated various debug keys that needed to be removed.
- We tweaked some values for the decreasing stats.
- We finally set a stable version concerning the food processor, the batteries, the liquid processor and other panels, such as the repair panel.
- Atmospherical conditions are now more coherent.
- While reading documents, the main stats do not decrease.
- Gustave Atkinson is now searchable.
- The player now falls normally to the ground when dying.
- Many bug fixes and general improvement.
For the upcoming week, we plan the following changes:
- A more stable setup for gamepads: We are working towards a setup in which the software recognizes the input accordingly. Also, the default setup for Ariel will be the keyboard and mouse; We noticed that many people played with gamepad because it was set as the default input if the gamepad was plugged in.
- Field Of View (FOV) slider will be available.
- Depth Of Field (DOF) option will be available.
Asides from this, we wanted to let you know that Ariel is still in a very early phase of development. We are working towards a version that will fit better the overall ideas that we've been listening from you. Once we achieve this, probably in two weeks, we will dive fully into the optimization and loading times. We are aware of the typos that people have mentioned to us, and we will correct them in the following updates. We wanted to thank everyone who has been patient. We can assure you that we are working towards a more desired gameplay. We will deliver a better product with each passing week. Thank you again for your interest.
PS: We developed the whole project with a GTX970. We recently found this video and we wanted to share it with you since it runs pretty much the same as in our specs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oli2qg49_A4