potatoptarmigans gamedev blog

I did a lot of necessary but boring stuff. I modularized the interactable system so now it's a lot more flexible than it was before. In the past I could only have an animated interactable or one that could be picked up. Now Interactables can do both, and have extra functionality tacked on them. Fixed a countless number of bugs ranging from the enemies not pushing the players when hitting them to preventing Lea from peeking past some room occluders. Added in nice things like restoring interactable states after loading (so you don't have to resolve certain puzzles after saving and reloading. Restoring current weapon held on the characters as well as removing key items after they've been used. I rewrote some convoluted code where the logic made no sense to me and it also fixed multiple bugs. Gui element lists scroll now. Basically things are a lot more polished now, with just a few things left like needing to save custom key configs and accessibility. Working on getting a dysl...

 I'm replacing a bunch of cgs in ALAWT. It's really forcing me to try harder at drawing and I guess that's good but it also kind of sucks. I've got 2 done, but I'd like to finish up a third before considering any sort of update. I've also rewritten some lore to make things slightly more mysterious. I feel like Lea was too knowledgeable before and I want her to be less omniscient.

 Updated the very old crappy falling animations with unique ones for both Sera and Lea. They'll also do a landing animation when falling. While the characters can't really jump (mainly due to control constraints) I'm planning on some puzzles that'll require going up and down. I updated the menu and dialogue GUI to be consistent, and the dialogue boxes are all in dark mode now instead of an eyebleeding white. I also updated the main menu with a new one. I'm still debating how I'll color it and there's some improvements I could make (I am held back by my skill in 2d art), but at least it's better than the current placeholder. The last bits of visual overhaul I have to do is fix up some of the old particle effects. Sera's slash has already been updated to be a gooey red one to fit her mutated arm. Then I plan to test and put out an (small) update. The big one will contain the boss and more character interactions as well as some rewritten lore. Ideally, ...