Completed the second smaller room for this first draft of our environment. Added some furniture in trying to make the space unkempt, dark and crowded. A dilapidated resthouse.
A bulk of progress this week though, was the completion of a first draft of the new conversation system.We now add eavesdropping to your insidious repertoire !
While best explained through video, the changes to the dialogue mechanic now allow the player to overhear people’s conversations while in sneak. Conversations that would otherwise change were the player’s presence detected by the characters.
A (somewhat hastily captured) video demonstrating changes and additions to the conversation system.
We have split the dialogues from their isolated wall of text presence to a simpler set of character-specific-dialogue-boxes.
The conversations now exist within the game world rather than as an overlay. This allows multiple characters to talk to you at the same time, and even with text it is now possible to simulate, in part, the noise of a quick conversation amongst a group of people. But most importantly it allows you to listen in on people while they are talking. eavesdrop !
While getting detected will feed into how difficult subsequent sneaking in that space becomes, it also causes the characters to remark upon your presence and hastily change the conversation, obfuscating from the clumsy player their private conversations.
Oh ! and we just discovered might be dangerous to let strange characters populate your game world.
This week our TIG - Devblog ( which mirrors these news posts ) was featured on Venus Partrol !
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Love the shading and the colors - great work! :-)
Thank you ! I guess we are finally getting used to circumventing Sketchup's texture mapping limitations.
The lightmaps are still very much a work in progress, somehow a bunch of the point lights ended up creating an extremely flat and reductive coloration.
The way the character just leaves the conversation and remarks is such cool idea. Makes you feel like you inhabit the world.
Yes ! In fact if you leave a conversation several times you get different exit and re-entry dialogue.
requirements to run this game?
While we are still in early development, and haven't really given much though to system requirements. But a dual core processor and a video card with Dx9.0c should do the trick.
We will test and publish a more detailed 'system requirements', when we releases our next build at the end of this month.
Wow great visuals :) Very unique!
I love the geometric style to this! nice colours too!
Thank you @Borzi and @Black_gargua. Really glad you like the art style !