Devlog 8: What comes next?

Hi everyone,

I hope that you've been having a good time in Southport. While you've been enjoying that, I've been working on adding more substance to the game. Yes, I've been notified of a few bugs, but the game can function well enough with them still present, so they'll be staying for now.

In terms of what substance I'm planning, here is the armour changing mechanic that I want to add to the game:

Going forwards, armour will update the appearance of characters. It was hard enough getting this to work with only body armour, so I think that I'm going to leave it all this way for now. You may have also noticed that Terence looks a bit different now, well that's just because the assets I have access to don't give me a way to recreate Terence exactly. That's not ideal for me but it's something I can deal with by changing him up a bit in terms of his appearance.

The armour change should apply to dialogues as well such that when Terence or Natalie speak their appearance shall update in their dialogues too based on the body armour they have equipped. Maybe at some stage in the future I'll find a way to make the other stuff visible as well, though I don't think the game is detailed enough to go beyond just a hat and some body armour in terms of what can be visible. 

I've also been going further northwards and expanding on the map. In red is the area where I'll add the newest town. The map is still WIP so don't take it too seriously for the moment:

That shall be all for today. That armour mechanic was a hard thing to implement and has taken most of my time. But now that it's done I'll be working on updating the world to incorporate it as well as working on the newest village in the world. This shall be the village of Ironmount. Though I might change my mind and the geography and make it the village of Woodland maybe.

Thanks everyone,

Best regards,

Milkerman