Not sure how to update the% value if anyone knows let me know, but I do have updates. Well since the last time I was here, I have learned a lot. Participated in a game jam which was fun.
1. Built a prison area. This is the are where you will pick the sad runner who will run in the arena. As the game is a simulator and you don't play as the runner, you will get to learn a little about the person who are you betting on surviving. Such as why they are there, their name, their health, I want to add more but that will be it for now. I just want to get the systems functional before really populating.
2. Lighting redone As I did not really understand what I was doing before I have learned quite a bit on lighting, and have made some changes. For these logs I need to remember to save some before pictures so that I can post before/after pics. But I did not know it was going to take this long, and it was iterative so did not thing about doing it.
3. Added hazardous items in the arena. This is just the start like I said before working on systems now, but exploding barrels now work, and they will cause some serious area damage. Which is really neat, and frightening when they go off. I find myself jumping at times LOL.
4. I also started pushing a web build to itch from now on. I find that no-one wants to download games, and I get better engagement with web. Sadly I loose the decals but I will continue to push a Windows build with higher graphics fidelity, and keep them in parity. Please feel free to play, and try out the game here
5. Added some crowd for the arena. right now its basic with one low poly model I made, as I am also learning blender, and that is all I can do for now. However I have been improving and am enjoying the process. I also learned about remapping a rig in order to import animations, as that is something I suck at, and I don't think animations should be unique per say, as we all walk by putting on foot in front of the other, so I am OK with not doing that myself. But this project is for me to learn so I will continue to keep that at a minimum.
6. Added a perks systems which will allow you to give your poor runner some additional item to help them survive in the arena. At this point its only 2 items, and only you can apply them. I plan to spend the next week thinking of and modeling at least 15 to 20 perks to start with. Again just want the system to function before I start populating. Make sure its fun first.
Finally added into animation at the start of the arena, with temporary free license music in order to get a feel for the tone, and intensity of the run. I really want the player to feel they are people running in the arena, and I have a long way to achieve that so I really want to make sure I get the tone right, and music, as well as atmosphere is going to be key to that. So with that I plan to work on crowd audio, more perks, more crowd models, and finally add the other wealthy betters walking around, and picking their runners as you do in the prison area.
Thanks you everyone who made it this far, I hope to have more done in the near future.