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 :)

people who do not purchase spectra will one day be at a significant cognitive disadvantage to those who do

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)

Spectra: the worlds only game where you can smoke a cigarette indoors while watching the entirety of Charade (1963)

working loading screens and main menus :)

taking renders of a bunch of characters for loading screen backgrounds :)

not something I can post screens of due to the nature of the medium, but I have been supplementing my visible dev work by writing excerpts of in game history and sociology books that draw on real events and anecdotes, in addition to readable notes. I think youll find them fun :)

injecting big needles into your arm brings the color back into life :)

messing around in my post process stack to write a screen desaturation per health unit function and accidentally made acid trip spectra

everybody rides the train- or should!

new signage and mosaic really ties the subway station together :)

I LOVE FOOD LABEL DESIGN

healing syringe use animation

spent the past few nights developing this procedural physics based hit reaction system; it was a giant pain in the ass

just spent like three hours with the knife tool making this bad boy

everybody is staring at you- is there something on your face?

the anime real life

did this week's game work in a single day so now all thats left for me to do is swim in a crystal clear lake and climb some mountains and drink in nature's boundless beauty I guess 🙄

drew this level map today and now my hand hurts

shotgun knockback :)

will be sequestering myself in the woods away from my desktop next week, which means I will spend an inordinate amount of time making another one of these hand drawn level maps

working on the ragdoll strength of the boxing glove gun...this feels fine

voila: electrocution animations

been thinking about throwing in an extremely secret load door to this unfinished level somewhere in the demo as itll be in the packaged file anyway, so i messed around with the traversal tools for a few minutes and it's so easy to break out of the map bounds its criminal lol

in game- absolutely love doing these signs with elements that extend beyond the standard rectangle

havent done a billboard in quite a while, so threw this lipstick ad together to wind down tonight's work

doing some taser work- need to create some "being fried by an electric fence" type animations. very much enjoy how the electrical arcs throw blue light

under what circumstances is this an adult video lmfao