Here we are for another round of updates from the devs. What are those folks up to this week?
Bryan - This week I’ve been setting up special loading screens for challenge mode. Each challenge day focuses on a few specific mechanics that players may or may not have experienced before depending on their progress in the campaign and the choices they’ve made throughout it. We decided to include a few helpful pointers on each challenge day’s loading screen to make sure people aren’t going in blind.
Erin - Another exciting week of fixes to the final cutscene. The good news is that I'm in the final stretch! The timing of everything is nearly perfect, so I've been moving on to a final pass on animation. Ian and I both agree that this cutscene in particular will benefit a great deal from audio, so we can't wait for our audio team to do a pass on it! This week I've also been involved with our group of closed beta testers to figure out what's working and what isn't. We've been hearing a ton of positive feedback about the full game this week, so I'm in high spirits! Currently playing Deep Rock Galactic and Two Point Hospital DLC.
Ian - I am deep in the weeds getting our new multiplayer tutorial up and running. Creating a tutorial is hard. You are often twisting the game to make it perform in a very specific way. You have to be ready for players to accidently try to break it at every corner. When it comes to a multiplayer tutorial, take that difficulty and double it, then double it again, and maybe double it once more for good measure. It ain't easy. However, I am making good progress and I can already tell this new version of the tutorial will be way better then the last one! Hopefully it will be done soon so we can start some multiplayer campaign playtests!
Lauren - This week has been all about videos galore! I have booted up Tiktok, a new Youtube channel that features short clips of Cosmo’s Quickstop and we now have Reels on Instagram! This means that if you use any of these social media you’ll never miss out on what we post! We are putting up the newest build graphics from the final game so you can see how much we’ve progressed over the years of development!
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Youtube shorts: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHB1_-i2sRllZxmJPLBjQzQ
Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bigsirgames
And that wraps it up. Check us out next week to see what we are working on next!