Posted March 27, 2024 by TheTinyGriffin
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The Beta build of the game included continuations of the work we had been doing. Here’s a summary of the main points. For even more detail on what the Beta build included as well the process of getting to it, see the playtesting report linked on this devlog.
Moving forwards, while we do not anticipate adding more acts, we are going to change the tutorial area to be a more fleshed-out foyer/entryway area (almost like a mini act 0), and add content to explore in the act 1 area even after the puzzle has been completed. This will also change our tutorialization process, which we’ve planned to do anyway based on player feedback. Additionally, we plan to add a setting to switch between the fancier lighting system and the old one, so higher-performance computers could run the fancier system. We still plan to optimize so hopefully it’d run even on lower-performance machines, but this setting is a good backup.
Note - only a Mac build of the Beta build is available, as we were using our own laptops to demo it.
For the field trip to Zynga, we made another demo with some of the above mentioned changes.