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Very quiet, lately. But, of course, I am not dead, and neither is THF.

The reason?

I have found a job! In game development!

I won’t disclose any details right now, but it’s all very exciting.

What does this mean for The Hunted Few?

Currently, The Hunted Few won’t be able to meet its end-of-year deadline.

To that effect, The Hunted Few is having its release date pushed to Mid Summer, 2017.

That’s a good, appreciable distance from now, allowing me to focus on getting to grips with my new job, and allowing for free time to work on both this current job and my personal projects.

Will that work out? Who knows! Point is, it’s a delay, and will allow me to release a product I feel is slightly more finished and polished.

I’m not dead! I promise!

While working my way back to programming hardcore and focusing on THF, I also have been taking more Narrative writing courses in school.

I did however force myself to do some things this week, however small;

- Debugged the Network code causing player positions to flicker.

- Updated the player physics, esp. for handling when a player character is on an edge (up til now, with enough finessing, a player could end up getting permastuck on ledges and edges.)

- Minor UI tweaks for the Script-created Inventory system (It scales with resolution now!)

- Reworked player movement to make it as snappy and responsive as possible without making visual movement look odd.

The wearable equipment system was finally wrapped up and made fully functional this week! It took quite a bit of work, and a little bit of fiddling with some old testing code, but it shouldn’t break anymore.

I haven’t tested it in Networking however, so once I start messing with RPCs (to minimize network load) It’ll probably do something wacky like equipping all character’s armor to the client character and not the network ones.

However! This is a big step which paves the way for creation of additional armorsets and weaponry, as well as differing character models!

Mythical Monday resumes next week, and I’ve got some ideas rolling around. We’ll see what comes of it!

Did the base models for a lot of armor pieces this week! There’s still a few minor technical issues I need to sort out, mainly regarding the different pieces meshing together, but I feel like with a proper structure I can figure it out no problem.

As for equipment, I’m thinking there’ll be two/three tiers of armor sets, with two distinct class-set branches. That gives enough relief from creating art assets, as well as having enough variety in choices on how to kit your character over the course of a match.

Just kidding, nothing’s actually broken!

This week I finally snapped out of my funk, both in regards to development, and artwork.

I did the tedious work of reconfiguring the Player Prefab (which, thanks to a little script housekeeping earlier, wasn’t that boring/long this time around!) and setting up the dynamic model culling, so I can both cull parts of the model’s mesh, while also assigning separate textures to each part of the model. I could also possibly update parts of the model without having to go through a huge reconfiguring process thanks to the new structure i’m using!

probably gonna finish that tonight