Monday Milestones: Week of July 1st, 2024

Happy Monday Science Team!

Happy July y'all! Already in the second half of 2024, and the crew is hard at work adding a whole bunch of juicy new goodness for you in our next build.


This week's game plans:

• Finish unarmed Combat

• Sillica locomotion

• Trailer editing

• OCD Update

  • New objective types for us to use ex. "Kill X enemies" or "Gather X items" or "go to this location".

  • Remove some back end bugs to make it easier for the ones using the tool to work.

• MassAI Update

  • Implement new code for more dynamic crowd behaviour.

• Clear out the remaining reported bugs.

• Data management:

  • Created several data types in C++ for the sandbox mode.

• Animations

  • Fixed reverse cowgirl manny fingers.

• Procedural animation:

  • Head is following the motion forward vector using the absolute dot product between the direction from the head to the pelvis and the motion forward vector as a multiplier.

• UI:

  • New and potentially final WIP widgets.

• Bug fixing:

  • Player character walking animation no longer gets stuck when switching to sandbox while moving (today)

• Finish Sub-Chapter 20 (she a big'un, fellas)

• Sub-Chapter 21 first draft

• Marketing writing

• Comic scripting

• Lee audio

• Monthly scheduling

• Script confirmations

• Goddess Session

• Cross promo marketing

• giving the itch page a makeover

• creating sexy shots for an upcoming trailer

• AOI Clean up and set up for painting

• Aki supervision, Closer to clean up and set up for painting

• Possible corrective Blendshapes

• Bonnie Tattoos

• finishing outer ring of VLT

• updating exterior core of VLT

• finishing City fillers with new modeled meshed and also importing those to city and decorate them as filler of VLT

• Fixing broken censorship area

• Corrective Control Rig bug fixing

• IK Retargeter finetuning

• Work on Sandbox UI

• Exploring current UI direction

• Finishing up Melody´s Melon Mania Arcade Mini Game

• Continue to prepare the build for release. Was supposed to happen last week but some funky things outside of our control happened.

• Kagura Survivors Open Beta Audio Pass

• Figure out the new 3D Hash for World Partition in Unreal Engine 5.4 and how it affects our current world buildingf workflows (positively I hope xD)

If ya made it through the whole post, make sure to drop happy birthday wishes for Helltaker, as his big day is Thursday!!!