To Get To The Udder Side

Devlog

• Team: Final Post
  December 04, 2020 by Lajeeth Thangavel

  We have viewed the feedback that we received from the open beta playtest and made some fixes, our game is now in a state of completion!... Continue reading
• Lajeeth: Beta Playtest
  November 30, 2020 by Lajeeth Thangavel

  A lot of the feedback we received was super positive especially talking about the graphics and aesthetics, but there were some common complaints. One of them was camera control, many people had troubl... Continue reading
• Joseph: Beta Feedback
  November 30, 2020 by jehorak

  Since I mostly focused on art for this project, I looked at what our playtesters had to say about the art. A lot of people said that the lighting needed to be tuned a little bit, there needed to be mo... Continue reading
• Matthew: Beta Playtest
  November 30, 2020 by Onefin

  We shared a build of the game for the Open Beta Playtest. We received a number of responses that resulted in the following concrete changes that I made this week: I added dialogue at the beginning of... Continue reading
• Team: Last Changes Added Before Public Beta
  November 23, 2020 by Lajeeth Thangavel

  Since our last post, we have implemented post processing, added a more nighttime skybox and added some lighting to the level to make the aesthetic stick out more, however there are still parts of the... Continue reading
• joseph: last week before public beta
  November 18, 2020 by jehorak

  I finished implementing the art last week and am really excited going into this last week before public beta. The things I still need to do are fix the lighting in the level and also implement simple... Continue reading
• Team Post: Second Playtest
  November 11, 2020 by jehorak

  After discussing all of the feedback that we received as a team, we have a better idea of where we need to focus on in terms of polish and further development of ideas. Here is a compilation of some f... Continue reading
• Matthew: Alpha Playtest
  November 11, 2020 by Onefin

  Since I got ahead last week, this past week I primarily focused my energy on creating the passcode input system for the electric power box. I also assisted Lajeeth in coding scripts to check for level... Continue reading
• Lajeeth: Second Playtest Feedback
  November 10, 2020 by Lajeeth Thangavel

  We got lots of useful feedback that we will put to practice for our game. We currently have mouse control set to the arrow keys, which worked but wasn't very intuitive for people as people kept trying... Continue reading
• Joseph: More Playtesting Feedback
  November 10, 2020 by jehorak

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  After finishing our second round of testing this week, we have a ton of helpful feedback that we can hopefully address before release. The feedback is listed as follows: Should be able to control came... Continue reading
• Lajeeth: More Scripting
  November 04, 2020 by Lajeeth Thangavel

  Implemented the first powerup box that turns on the fans, now when you touch the box, the prefab fans will spawn and the off fans will be destroyed. This week I am planning to implement a keypad syste... Continue reading
• Matthew: Narrative Work
  November 04, 2020 by Onefin

  This week, I took several steps to fulfill my role as not just an audio designer, but also a narrative designer. The game now contains NPCs using the dialogue system I set up last week. These NPCs are... Continue reading
• Joseph: Art Art Art
  November 04, 2020 by jehorak

  This week I worked all on the art of our level. I finally finished a player model that I'm happy with and also started changing from white box to actual art assets. The level is starting to look a ton... Continue reading
• Lajeeth: Scripting Work
  October 28, 2020 by Lajeeth Thangavel

  Reworked the death and checkpoint system into one respawn system that acts as both, and fixes the issue of collectables reappearing after collected and dying. Also planning to add multiple collectable... Continue reading
• Matthew: Audio Work
  October 28, 2020 by Onefin

  This week, I did work for the project that falls under my role as the Audio/Narrative designer: I found a few ambient looping sounds, including farm noise, fan noise, and footstep noise, that play at... Continue reading
• Lajeeth: First Post
  October 21, 2020 by Lajeeth Thangavel

  We have built the entire level and it is now playable to some extent from start to finish. I greatly improved my part of the level so it works better narratively and gameplay wise. We made the camera... Continue reading
• Matthew: Initial Whitebox
  October 21, 2020 by Onefin

  After our first week of preliminary whitebox work, some actionable improvements on it are: To make the level less of a linear walk. As it turns out, my mind still thinks very much in 2D, so I conceive... Continue reading
• Joseph: First Post
  October 21, 2020 by jehorak

  So far, I am very happy with our level! After showing it off for the first time, I am very interested designing more branching paths so that the level feels larger and more interesting. The main note... Continue reading
• First Round of Playtesting
  October 21, 2020 by jehorak

  Feedback from First Round of Playtests: Less linear level design. Good theming. Barn looks too big for the scale of the player. Some people found it hard to assess since they couldn't be hands on with... Continue reading