commission wip

Ollie did the spectacularly cool Spectra keyart :) commission him!

dialing in the boxing glove gun ragdoll strength- it's both a mobility tool and a (potentially) non-lethal weapon

attack of the main menu

I've been expecting you

working on new npc running animations

UPA style skier for part of a commission

unwinding with a bit of pool

spent shotgun shells now exist in the world, and the shotgun itself is now integrated into the cigarette's per puff accuracy buff, which essentially makes it shoot slugs

some polish for the smg reload and ammo check

something is afoot

made ammo checking and reloading the revolver shotgun more snappy

use the boxing glove gun to uh...get the drop on your enemies

revisited sniper bullet trails one last time and i am really pleased with the results!

its a lovely day for nyc residents to find their early voting site and cast their early vote 🤗

added tracer bullets for snipers and made bullet trails more accurate, now maybe I should make their aim less so

playing long range tag with my friends 😭

renovating

added bloom

a side benefit of some work im doing with enemy npcs: fired bullet casings now appear in world

watching the bioshock infinite beta footage and getting a sharp pain in my chest

love how this effect came out- feels so good with the colorful environments

love how the dynamic weapon draw feels with the two handed weapon guards- you feel like a clay pigeon as they track you through the air

implemented an improved form of enemy focus; guards now track you with their entire upper body when you're in their cone of vision. along with some new animation states and barks, this makes perception a lot easier to intuit with ui indicators turned off

working on enemy ai stuff in my test level, which from far away strikes me as some kind of desert mirage

made some weapon equip animations- a small detail that really improves the feel of gameplay

new inventory ui element shows you how many bullets/cigarettes are left in each selected box/pack

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they're waiting for you...in the test chamber

put myself on a readable magazine cover lol

want to call in a distraction from across the map? look no further than the humble telephone booth

another night shifting data from one pocket to the other; read note data is now serialized in the save game

custom weapon hotkeys now persist across levels- it was huge pain in the ass to get the numbers displaying correctly lol

something that was very technically complex, but a must for enjoyability and item progression: a save subsystem that maintains your inventory as you advance between levels :)

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FROM DOWNTOWN

spent maybe 8 hours yesterday agonizing over this issue- tracing it through a dozen blueprints, monkeying around in my game instance and level bps, all to no avail. just sat down this morning and fixed it in 5 minutes lol

spent the day attempting to track down inconsistently replicable glitches in the save/load system to mixed results- one of those tasks that just drives you nuts

i <3 vertical level design

rebel leader

flechette rifle guard loading screen

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soviet style informational posters for tutorial

im in the lab polishing metal surfaces

the latest in deux-ex box stacking technology

secret main menu 🤫

created an inventory submenu that logs all the readable items you pick up :)

not the most flashy work, but important- implemented a multi-slot save system for level-start autosaves

putting some final touches on the inventory room :)

unwinding on a friday night by playing the favorite point and click game of my childhood: mysterious island (2004)