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Staged: Open House Demo›Events›Intro Cutscene Improvements (Version 1.4.4)
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Intro Cutscene Improvements (Version 1.4.4)

Staged: Open House Demo · published 3 months ago

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Version 1.4.4 is live!

This update focuses mainly on some changes to the intro cutscene.

Behind the Scenes Video

For anyone interested, I made a behind the scenes video here on YouTube showing some animations and unlit footage:

Version 1.4.4 includes the following changes:

  • All of Maggie's shots have been re-animated. She now has more movements like head nods, shakes, hand gestures and blinks. I manually keyframed her fingers in each shot making her grip onto her phone better, adjusting her grip.

  • A while ago I had some comments about Maggie's phone being lit up while she's talking. I've made her phone screen now turned off as she is holding the phone to her head (accidental touch protection).

  • Replaced one of Maggie's shots with her walking instead of sitting (wanted this from the start but back then, didn't have the ability to get it how I wanted).

  • Frank's hands are now gripping the wheel better while driving. The previous steering wheel shots were old, from when I was just starting out, so I didn't understand Unreal's curve editor back then.

  • Reduced saturation of the red colour on the highway sign to increase readability.

  • Slight changes in some camera angles and animations for the intro.

  • I've had a couple comments about the scares being too cinematic, so I made one of the scares slightly less cinematic, returning the camera back to the player faster. I will use different types of scares in the full game, some will happen while the player can still move around, now that I've learned how to do that properly.

  • There are 2 Steam pages (full game/demo). I fixed a tiny little mistake where I linked the full game page to the "Wishlist on Steam" buttons instead of the demo page. Now it's easier to leave reviews on the demo as it takes you directly to the demo page.

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