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Hi folks! Welcome back to our development progress log, this is our second week of beta and the end of our production is in sight. Our team has been working very hard to get the game ready for publishing 

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Hayley worked on 2D sprites of the villager mushroom to use inside the dialogue text box and fixed up some old textures including making a whole new texture for the corrupt enemy mushroom to better match the style 

Holly worked on finishing up all her 2D sprites including branches, grass, vines, flowers and trees

Jesse also worked a lot of 2D sprites for the GUI, creating polished versions of the player lives button and all the sign buttons for the main menus  

Azshwyn worked on retopologizing his ZBrush sculpts and worked on starting textures in Substance Painter

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

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Zachariah 

This week of devlog 12 i have been play testing to encounter bugs to announce the Team to bug fix and fix bugs within the level. Updating the GDD by adding the missing features and what has been changed. assigning tasks to designers with deadlines on what they need to complete for this week. And updating trello by placing in the work we have finished in there right spots in the completed tasks logs. 

Bilal

Updated and fixed up the bottom area and finished most of the sounds. Waiting on CIT for the rest of the sounds and music tracks. Will finish the remaining sounds.

Brodie

Updated the dialogue to be up to date, changed rotating platforms to be moving at different speeds and made the moving platforms still until you touch them

Designers:  BrodieMaddren, Zachariah Narvarro-Bustos, Bilal Jilal 

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Nearing the end of Beta we are all finding bugs, fixing bugs and creating bugs all at the same time. Regardless, the programming team is hard at work improving the game.

Lewis has been fixing player related bugs.

FIxing burrow related bugs

Nick has been working on fixing the pan camera system, fixing villager/enemy systems and set dressing.

Set dressing.

FIxing Spore Enemy bugs.

Jazmin has been working on updating UI and fixing platform related bugs.

Updated the NPC icons for their respective dialogue prompts.

Fixed platform related bugs and added final font.

I (Nghia) have been managing project progress, adding some final audio assets, and fixing map and cutscene related bugs.

Moved map legend for readability.

Added some of the final audio to systems.

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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