lots of work to make difficult traversal feel natural, fraught and fun. the player controls which direction emmer faces, so you have to rotate her to walk across narrow stretches.

thwomp

some debug for walking the boulder. big red arrow is user input, big white arrow is the force i'm applying to the boulder, black circle is where i want emmer to walk toward, and the series of smaller arrows are lower level controller stuff.

emmer's actually an incredible athlete

riding the rocks

milk lake deck in skate story confirmed

you can try to cheese it too

fancy footwork

more work on shadow monster

flush!

you can politely decline some interactions

if you look in the river, the river looks back

yoink

highly recommend making a fully procedural character controller, there's no way you'll spend too much time on it.

haven't posted in a while, so here's a little gameplay

more ormr

ormr insists that you play with him

big ass tilties #screenshotsaturday

leeeeean

bending it in

the character controller is twin stick, so you get fine control for tricky steps

more darknessss #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity #unity3d #themilklake

the darkness can have a little fire, as a treat #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity #unity3d #themilklake

descent in gratuitous slowmo #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity #unity3d #themilklake

gratuitous slowmo in the woods #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity #unity3d #themilklake

some indiana jones shit #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity #unity3d #themilklake

lighting the way #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity #unity3d #themilklake

gotta watch your step #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity #unity3d #themilklake

you snap your ankle if you come down too hard on an uneven surface #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity #unity3d #themilklake

escaping the infinite hallway #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity #unity3d #themilklake

patience! #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity #unity3d #themilklake

there are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity #unity3d #themilklake

better cloak physics #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity #unity3d #themilklake

danger noodle #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity #unity3d #themilklake

working on a new environment #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity #unity3d #themilklake

i'm going for a mood