Experimental build: bones and a bunch of backend improvements

Remains

Fen is burping up bones again.. You’ll see them when the “visual violence” setting is on least “moderate”. On “intense”, bones can also be broken.

I rewrote the remains system so that remains can break apart dynamically. This will become relevant once I let Fen step on bones again!

I will later be adding other kinds of “remains”. Gibs time!

Other improvements

• Action prompts look a little nicer now.
• You can now hit enter to select a menu button before it fades into view. It felt very awkward when your input got missed!
• The gryphon accelerates slower, so movement should feel a bit smoother
• Turning the third person camera doesn’t rotate Fen. Great for staring at the gut.
  • This also applies for the gryphon in first person. This is sub-optimal when you turn you head 180 degrees, so I’ll be changing that next week…
• You can see an entity’s objectives in the Director. This is mostly to make my own life easier when testing things.
• Fen’s jaw moves when eating people.
• You can turn off perception alerts (the warnings for being seen and heard) in the Difficulty settings section.
• The concrete textures are now higher-definition. Hooray!

Backend stuff (ha-ha)

Each entity in the game is in a context, which determines how muffled sounds are and whether things are visible.

Fen’s throat and Fen’s stomach both have a context, for example, so anything attached to Fen’s stomach will sound muffled to anything in Fen’s throat, and even more muffled to anything outside of Fen.

Previously, these had to form a tree. You couldn’t make a cycle where A -> B -> C -> A. It wasn’t possible to have multiple ways to reach the stomach, for example!

That’s no longer the case. Nothing takes advantage of this yet, but it will be important if I get around to a certain other kind of vore (: