Monday Milestones: Week of June 17th, 2024

Happy Monday Science Team!

BEEEEEEEEG batch of info this week. Everyone is grinding to get our Steam page launch ready, more sandbox goodness, and optimizing the builds~


The team's game plans:

• Jellody locomotion finished

• Sillica locomotion

• Unarmed combat animation

• Trailer editing

• working on an announcement (soon tm)

• facial intents rework

• future ocd content

• assisting in character fixes

• fixing bugs

• Debugging

• Reference reduction (going over scripts and removing hard references to make sure that things aren't loaded into memory that doesn't need to be loaded into memory.)

• AI work (Mass AI character should be less wobbly in movement and have better directional rotation now.)

• Debugging for performance improvement and remaining bugs created after 5.4 upgrade

• Learning more about debugging tools for more efficient debugging process and finding sources of issues

• Mass AI pathing for citizen NPCs

• Procedural sound for plaps and friction

• Procedural animation:

  • implemented fake physics

  • added extra projection to make the penetration less clunky

  • tweaks on IKrig

• UI:

  • Binded a lot of callbacks from the manager

  • fixed the animation loop generator

  • scene error feedback

  • Updated the keyboard hints

• Sandbox scene:

  • The animation can be changed at runtime

  • the location can be updated at runtime

  • the calculations to validate the location have been optimized.

• Sub-Chapter 20 draft 1

• Sub-Chapter 20 Review

• Marketing Writing

• Wrap up T1M intimates recording

• Aki moan upload for sandbox

• Aoi moan upload for sandbox

• researching steam festivals and other aspects of steam!

• steam page submitted waiting for steam approval!

• organizing steam launch event with Mel

• Steam launch merch currently in talks.

• Steam launch tease

• Upcoming collab

• Aoi Character Modeling

• Aki Supervision modeling

• Remaining characters and variants

• Texture edit for Helltaker

• Steam Page assets

• Character fixing for promo artwork

• Planning for in-depth corrective Control Rig fixes

• Continue working on fillers of VLT to make it more functional and also better looking

• Going to make some modeling update for Core of VLT

• Outer ring modeling update

• Retopology of some very high modeling stuff that related to some part of fillers modules

• Optimization! already reduced our memory footprint by at least 2K

• Optimization! Reducing Overall Draw Calls, Reducing Actor Count, Merging Materials into singular base materials / material instances

• lighting update (still ongoing, learning how to use the new "EV" light values

• yet another sky update (mistakes were made but it looks even better now)

• continue fixing issues resulting from the engine update

• preparing for steam page release :3

• preparing game for the end of the month build update

• preparing a secret little mini game release for soonTM

• working on a music system with the help of one of our freelancers

• continue to update the new game website

• many overlaps with Shallteir this week xD

Got some crazy big things brewing, and we can't wait to show you so very, very soon~