He’s One Shot, Bro

5 September, 2024 

Good evening and happy Thursday to you, dear reader. It’s time for the glorious Weekly Cheese, and I know you’re anxious to get into it, so why delay? This is your humble guide Squid, deep in sickness, and I am here to journey with you to the end of this weekly review of the team’s work. Let’s take a look…

The Craft

• Ryan

  • Redid the agent nameplates to show in screen space instead of world space.

  • Removed voice chat for now. Gotta rewrite a system from the ground up (no surprise).

  • Added healthbars + animations.

  • Added swamp junk to dev map.

  • Tried Unity Muse (their AI plug in). Super impressive so far but too buggy to use.

  • Implemented a base AI entity in preparation for the Kythera Trial.

• Bryan

  • Did more brainstorming than actual work on the Tier 3 weapon write ups & recipes. I'll get it done by your next reading of 'the cheese.' Promise.

  • Did my best to assist as Mike meticulously molded magnificent map models meant for massive multiplayer mayhem. Gosh, alliterations are fun.

  • Conversations around the hearth with Ryan over topics such as difficulty progression, cheese weapon utility, ragodoll vs. death animation, etc.

  • Made some 'afflicted' fan art in Wallpaper Engine. Please, please. Hold your applause.

  • Oh, and a happy opening day to all my fellow football fans and fantasy managers! Go, Local Sports Team!

• Daniel

  • Fighting the good fight against his collegiate schooling (he’s winning).

  • Taking the fight the leg extension machine as well. 200lbs for 15 reps. Can you do that?

• Marc

  • He’s here and he’s, uh, busy!

• Mike

  • Working on more sweet, sweet assets for the game. After seeing some of them within the last playtest, it’s super exciting.

• Alex

  • Continuing his holy efforts of building out the new swamp map.

• Cole

  • Dying a slow and painful death (I have a sickness).

In Closing

Times are good, people are good, afflicted is good. That’s all you need to know.

coughs, 

Squid