Well, v0.2 is finally here. It’s full of bugs, but it’s been a while since we’ve released anything... There are a number of improvements and there are lotsa broken things - unfortunately. There're even some things I had to take out in order to make the game playable...

In addition to cleaning out my spahgetti code from years ago, these past two years introduced a variety of problems. Among them, we had characters consistently falling through the ground for no apparent reason. I ended up swapping from Unity’s character controllers to custom made motors using rigidbodies and steering behaviours! There's still alot of tweaking that needs to be done with forces as you'll discover, but the floor clipping seems to be fixed. Nested prefabs and prefab variants were also introduced in Unity and have been very beneficial, but have required a lot of time to get used to and transition over to.

For the future we are going to scale back and focus more on the combat, probably making a quickplay game mode with varying arena matches. This will allow us to more quickly test and iterate smaller mechanics/slices of gameplay, first, and then incorporate them into the adventure. Our computers and software aren't the best and the build times, compiling, crashing, etc. that constantly occurs really starts to bother you after a while. Playtesting all the features, after making changes, with our team of 2 people is a daunting task... 

Anyway, I need a break from this game. Hope you enjoy it! And have a happy new year! 

-Jon