Planning out some randomized areas
So like I mentioned before, I want to add randomly appearing objects and extra rooms into the Abandoned Archives level, and later into future levels.
Some of these additions change the paths you can take through the level, some add some world building details, some will have a smaller chance to appear and contain something useful on first discovery, like a permanent HP increase.
This first addition is a bit of a special case. I’m adding a chance to encounter a larger single painting in the room with a bunch of small paintings. I might be a crazy bastard and spend stupid amounts of time on little details from time to time, but it would be difficult even for me to paint a detailed portrait like you see bellow just for this. The thing is, I painted this portrait around a year and a half ago and ended up not using it anywhere. It so happens that the backstory I came up with for it fits in quite well into this game and I will add a little lore explanation into the game to show that.
This game takes place in far future where extreme body modification is almost casual, even for children and pets. The idea is that the mother here is influenced by ancient fashion and from their perspective the Victorian times and the later half of 20th century when the gray alien look became popular are so close together that they kinda blend into the same thing. A lot of misinterpretation can happen in thousands of years and digital media doesn't exactly tend to be preserved as well as stone tablets either.
