Hello Hello!
We’ve been working on the new rooms that we chatted about in the last post, getting them laid out and getting all the new affinity objects in! 🤩 They look super pretty, Jasmine has done a really nice job with the art for the objects:
(I really just love playing around in creative mode every day to test stuff out)
We’ve also been working on creating different room sizes in the engine as we have been whiteboxing out all the levels so we now have the creative freedom to have small rooms, long rooms, tall rooms, large rooms, and deep rooms! 🤯 In addition, we also have room component blocks so we can make some cool overhangs and dividing walls.
(All of these are in engine! Apart from my rough drawovers haha)
We have our activity meter and task system set up as well! The more you decorate and explore the room, the more the activity meter will go up - you may even find some hidden puzzles and achievements which will give you bonus points. There are two extra special objects you can unlock on the activity meter.
(New UI in game!)
Zac has implemented our story tree so we can hook up rooms based on the outcome of previous rooms, so we’ll be able to play through our story and ensure that all the decisions are working and that the branches are making sense.
(The start of our story editor tree)
We also have a tech artist looking over our shaders at the moment and working out all those issues that we couldn’t quite solve (I do not have a math brain). So as well as being super readable, we have our occlusion masks working again and can hide things in bowls all whilst using a shader! 🥣
(If it fits, I sits)
What’s happening next??
Well, we’re going to continue polishing these new rooms for our demo. Jasmine is back from her holidays in Japan (Julian and I were very jealous) and is making the finalized furniture art for the remaining demo rooms! I’m helping out with a few of the more tedious tasks and then I’ll be jumping back into a second pass of whiteboxing (adding temp items to the new rooms).
Julian, on the other hand, will be some super secret squirrel stuff that we’ll be very excited to show you soon!
(It would be super cool to add little challenges to creative mode like ‘decorate a tiny space’ - what kind of challenges would you like?)
Hope you have a great week ahead of you! 🥰
Jess and the Momento Team