Devlog 13 - 0.1.1.1 - Chapter 00 Pass 01

New build is available!

There were a few factors that resulted in having less content than i expected (i.e. it’s pretty stub). But there’s a ton of under-the-hood work :). Still this is the 2nd pass, so the focus was on adding content rather than features.

Sprint log:

Explanation and demo

General

• New!: Upgraded to 5.3.2 on windows and similarly latest on Linux
• New!: Added joystick support
• • Note: i had an issue with my joystick so that the camera control sucks at the moment
• New: Added new shader effects (not in use yet)
• • OKLab conversions and Lerps. Gooch filter. Edge detection. And utilities (Lerps, Average, Kernels, etc)
• New: Added test data layer to separate test functionality from actual game
• New: Added starting chapter feature. Helps on development and will be used for save games
• New: More animation curves (noise ramp, incubic)
• Performance pass
• • Removed unnecessary material creation among others
• • Removed a bunch of unused plugins
• Improved plugins’ documentation and settings
• Bug fixes and improvements all around

Flashbacks

• New: Added lights reaction to flashback system

Dialogs

• New: More dialogs on interactions
• Improved random dialogs
• Reworked flow for dialogs for looking at items
• Renamed plugin to avoid issues with another engine directory

Story

• Not much

Inventory

• Not much

Interactions

• New!: Puzzle system leveraging the interact system
• • Supports puzzles of type “combination” and “sequence”
• • Able to repeat sequences
• • No currently playable puzzle in game
• New!: Extended interaction lifecycle to have multiple states on each interact
• • Integrating the state management in the current flow and design
• • Extended texts, transforms
• • Works together with the Puzzle system
• • Added state reset ability that works with the puzzle system
• New: Optionally disable an interact while animating
• Cleaned and refactored the reward/fade/destroy cycle
• • Many fixes, improvements, and simplifications
• • New: Added reward actor
• Fixed issues with new materials and fade
• Ported two more interaction to cpp

Sound

• New: More noises
• New: Added sound to more elements (cards, batteries, clothes spots, etc)
• Improved noises randomization and levels
• Improved general attenuation settings (they still need much rework)
• Fixed an issue with self-destroy and trigger sound

Utils

• New: Add new actor pooling subsystem
• • Manages multiple pools by class
• • Non-intrusive, class agnostic and non reliant on interfaces
• • Actor lifecycle management
• • Allows to have pools that can grow or not
• • • Also allows to decrease over a configurable time
• Progress on the Significance Manager Subsystem plugin
• • Moved to a new plugin to free dependencies
• • Not in use yet

Chapter 0

• New: More interactions
• More rounded
• Interactions more connected
• Reworked the story flow
• Improved some collision and animations
• Attempt to improve the lightning
• パラメーター adjustments