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Hi folks! Welcome back to our development progress log! This week we started our Beta work and worked towards finishing and polishing everything up

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Hayley worked on some 3D rock sculpts for moving platforms

Holly worked on finalizing her tree sprites for the background environment 

Jesse worked on creating finalized wooden signs, matching them to Holly’s tree sprites and also worked on some VFX for the heart fragments. 

Artists:  Hayley Brooker, Holly Thompson, Jesse Lazarro, Azshwyn Sibley.

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This week our programmers have been fixing bugs and making changes back on playtesting and feedback.

Lewis has been fixing some UI as well as Bug fixing issues arising from the burrow ability.

Added more options for finer control of glyph size & placement, and an editor button to refresh during runtime. 

Moved dialogue from world-space to screen-space for clarity.

Dialogue placement before and after.

Nick has been working on bug fixing village animations and camera pan.

Fixed animation root motion issues.

Bug fixing camera pan and villagers

Jazmin has reduced the number of buttons for the game and other bug fixes

Added mouse/cursor screen locking

Minor bug fixes

I (Nghia) have been altering cutscenes to better convey shortcuts and and the purification of areas

Zoomed in to points of interest for Heart Fragment Get cutscenes.

Pan across points of interest for Heart Fragment Returned cutscenes.

Programmers: Lewis Comstive, Nick Connell, Jazmin Fazzolari, Nghia Do

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Thanks for reading this weeks devlog! Keep a look out for next week's post along with possible early builds of our game that will be released incrementally up until our release to receive player feedback! Remember, 'Heart of the Forest' releases early December 2022!! 

 - LittleRedCap Studio Team 🍄

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