Alpha ~ Week 9

The Heart of the Forest » Devlog

2022-10-18 by LittleRedCap Studio

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Hi folks! Welcome back to our development progress log this week, this week’s devlog is a bit longer than usual as it includes all progress from Alpha weeks 8 AND 9! Too caught up in making the game to remember to post~

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𓍊𓋼 Hayley 𓋼𓍊

Weight painting for Tooth Enemy mushroom, refined and fixed up later by Holly

Salvaging Jesse’s weight paints that were having a multitude of errors (yay, Maya!)

Mixamo test to ensure all weight paint and rig issues were resolved

𓍊𓋼 Holly 𓋼𓍊

Finished mushroom bounce pad, glow mush and some mushrooms for decoration.

Ground 2D sprite test with rough coloured sketch also finished mushroom bushes and tree trunk sprites

Blend shape test between normal and pregnant mushroom

Refined Hayley’s weight painting and added controls to the Enemy Tooth rig, ready to start animations

𓍊𓋼 Jesse 𓋼𓍊

Weight painting for main player character, later came into problems with exporting as an FBX and exporting weight

Maps which were fixed by Hayley

Prototype animated shader for poison puddles or water in Unity

Experimental shader for heart fragment

Fireflies progress

Animation and concept Artwork for the Corrutped Forest God narrative cutscene

Animation for the Forest God sprite

𓍊𓋼 Azhwyn 𓋼𓍊

Worked on some ZBrush sculpts

Artists: Hayley Brooker, Holly Thompson, Jesse Lazarro, Azshwyn Sibley.

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𓍊𓋼 Zachariah 𓋼𓍊

For the past weeks I have been fixing the top level, where you can get soft locked if you don't collect the heart fragment. I have also been working on implementing the art assets to make the environments for the tutorial village area and top area. I have also been playing testing to find bugs and using the feedback from the pizza and pixels to improve and present feedback to the team.

𓋼𓍊 Paige 𓋼𓍊

I have been working on going through the feedback and making some changes with the tutorial. One of the things people did was not talk to the NPC’s so we have come up with a way to show how the game works by adding signs. With playtesting we will see if this works better for the game.

𓋼𓍊 Charlie 𓋼𓍊

Reworked original concept of bottom area to use the glow platforms more, after playtesting feedback reworked the opening section of the bottom area to be more accommodating. Reworked areas to guide the player easier as well as to create a more interesting experience

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𓍊𓋼 Bilal 𓋼𓍊

I've been finishing up the rest of the sounds and implementing them into Unity. Not all sounds are fully finished/polished, but they should all be in Unity by the end of the week.

𓍊𓋼 Brodie 𓋼𓍊

Altered the side level based on feedback, Stuff like not realizing where you should go and completely skilling the rotating platform where the big ones I needed to change there was also a complaint of not enough platforming which I am attempting to fix.

fDesigners: BrodieMaddren, Charlie Brazil, Paige Dowsett, Zachariah Narvarro-Bustos, Bilal Jilal

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Three whole weeks since the last devlog and a lot of progress has been made since then. Our programmers have been working on the last few systems required to reach the end of Alpha. Of Course not without plenty of bugs and bug fixes along the way.