Hello hello, here is your regular sprint round up of development through January! Read on to find out what we have been up to, and if you are one of our backers on the FIRST ACCESS level, what you can expect to see in the latest build update!
Content (Level Design and Art)
- Work on workplace level design and early game tutorialisation, mission scripting and character conversations
- Wrote some new AI states, goals and actions for a nuetral NPC character (using our new moddable, data driven AI behaviours)
- Worked on existing geometry in the Workplace level to get it closer to a completed level
- Paper sketches of new level designs
- Started grey-boxing on new levels
Greyboxing a new level
Gameplay and Mechanics
- Design work for data view & app use cost change
Controls and UX
- Added a crouching first person camera: the look from point is no longer parented to the rig, which improves camera targeting
- Reworking of character controller and camera to give finer control -Now players have better control of jogging and sprinting both on controller and keyboard and mouse using Space/ B to jog, and repeatedy tap to get a sprint burst -Crawling animations and controls have been fixed to work properly and feel nicer -There is a crawl sprint too!
- Turn animations and transitions in blend trees have been sumplified for better control overall but smoothing and polish is needed still for smaller movements (some finer turning / control has been lost and is to be fixed in next update)
- Started converting various UI elements to better font rendering and animation systems
- Support for displaying controls as icons in middle of text in the UI
- Rebuilt the AppWheel UI to better handle adding and removing apps
Converting the UI to Text Mesh Pro
AI
- AI function to prefer or avoid particular devices. Example: the coffee offer message, sent to a guard, will reduce the cost of the UseCoffee Action, meaning that Guards prefer that Action and will go out of their way to use it rather than alternatives.
- Added an optional personality requirement to have actions that are only runnable if an Agent has a particular interest (or not!)
- Added stats to the Agent definition
- Added generic actions to the Agent definition
- Added responses (to other Agent's actions), adjusting Agent stats
- Added reactions (stimuli in the world can thereby adjust Agent stats, based on personality)
- Added an audio attribute to actions in agent definitions, to be played when they are performed
Modding tools and Lua API additions
- Added support for loading apps from your current mission (as opposed to the global Apps folder, or app mod) full screen modal window,
- Updated gizmo icons in LevelKit
- Correct scale & rotation for bounding box when editing mission triggers etc.
Bugs fixed
- Fixed a shader problem introduced after updating Unity
Other
AND: WE MADE THE BRIT LIST!
http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2019/01/11/games-of-2019-british-games
Thanks for reading, look forward to seeing you next time!