May 10, 2024

Malevolent Planet 2D - Credits🎙️🔊

(to preface, the credits screen's text is currently partly a joke based on one of my favorite series, Metal Gear Solid)

Hey! I haven't yet finished my workday, but I thought I'd write this before becoming too tired to write a coherent text :D

So here's what we've accomplished this week, and next week we'll be categorizing issues per categories:

  • We now have a Spine license (💰) so I'm fully committed to making current and any future animations in Spine, meaning that as I learn Spine animations should look better and better since we reached the limits of what Unity could offer us.

  • We now have a lot of sounds that can be played during animations and I'm currently working on adding and synchronizing sounds across all scenes, only issue we have is lipsync which is difficult and it's probably not planned anytime soon.

  • We now have a relatively functional credits scene that's accessible from the main menu of the game. 

  • I have added NSFW Male Lower Body parts to the game, just need to play their animator states during dialogues and prevent the male characters from looking like Ken dolls.

I have also made some progress on this month's 2 animations but I'm taking my time a bit because I want to learn what Spine offers and take advantage of it instead of doing things the way I used to, since the limitations I had in Unity might have given me some animation habits/workarounds that we can get away from.

That's about it for now, I have to make a public release today to get more public engagement and next week we'll have some tasks to make sure we're aligned for a hassle-free release this month. The village map is also being prepared/drawn so that we can access it in the June update.

Thank you for your attention and I wish you a pleasant weekend!