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ØØ9 Happy Holidays

Billy Sweetman
Dec 14, 2021
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🎄 Happy Holidays!

I hope y’all are having a great holiday season and are getting some much-needed family time in and rest.

Game 4 Updates

I’ve been working on getting a few assets into the introductory level. The goal is to do a bit of world-building and release an atmosphere demo that people can walk around in and explore for a few minutes and end it when they’re done.

I’ll most likely get this out in January then switch my focus to working on the next level. There is going to be more interactivity on this next level and it will require more detailed assets so It will go much slower. However, I hope to release it in chunks and allow portions of it to be playable as I’m continuing to develop it. Overall my goal is to have a game that takes about 30 minutes to complete end to end with the main objective and a few other things for the player to do.

I’ve been inspired by the latest Metroid game so I’ve been thinking a lot about exploration and traversal. I’m not going to attempt anything too crazy but I do have some ideas for some environment/movement puzzles for the player to complete as they’re exploring the environment.

Currently, I’m thinking the next level will be more of a dungeon-like experience, all inside so I can easily control the space and how the player gets around. I’ve been looking at a ton of brutalist architecture for inspiration for the inside of the ship. I want the environment to be simple and dramatic. This Mosque is really exciting and I really enjoy how clean it is.

Sancaklar Mosque / Emre Arolat Architects,© Thomas Mayer

I also really like stuff like this. So I’ll be spending some time, I hope after January to really think through how this would work in an environment.

I’ve also got to start thinking about the branding for this game, not sure what I’m totally going to do yet but I do have some ideas.

Progress might be slow since the Halo Infinite campaign just launched, so you know…important distractions 😆

Inspo Central

As always here are some cool things I’ve found over the last month or so.

Twitter avatar for @RaviVoraRavi Vora @RaviVora
an expression of the soul.
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December 8th 2021

390 Retweets2,941 Likes
Twitter avatar for @WGMInterfacesInterfaces ◕◡◕ @WGMInterfaces
made some revisions... 👀
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December 8th 2021

248 Retweets1,772 Likes
Twitter avatar for @philpirkovicPhilip Pirkovic @philpirkovic
🕊🙏🏼✨💯
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December 4th 2021

1,159 Retweets8,612 Likes
Twitter avatar for @ianmcqueIan McQue @ianmcque
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December 4th 2021

79 Retweets1,132 Likes
Twitter avatar for @joeyabanksJoey Banks @joeyabanks
Working on design systems:
An image that shows how sometimes the time to create components is less than the time it takes to name them.

December 7th 2021

350 Retweets2,763 Likes

Once again, have a great holiday season and I’ll catch up with you in the new year!

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