Hail Elyrians!

It is another shiny day!

I have to admit, I didn't spend the day working with the team the way I usually would. Instead, Caspian and I have been putting our heads together to tackle a couple of tricky pre-alpha questions related to how players move through the world, and so we we were sequestered today.

To be fair, I actually spent a chunk of the day describing how folks might dead lift heavy objects, drag things around, or topple over tall heavy things... so it was less about moving through the world and more about moving things in the world, but still: It was a deep design day as we re-examined our control schemes, talked about how these actions impact the world, etc. Days like these are a double-edged sword. On the one hand (and as I've mentioned before), they're a chance to look at what we've learned as we iterate and consider what changes, if any, we need to make. On the other, it means I wasn't in the thick of things the way I usually like to be. You'll probably hear me talk about review and retrospective analysis like that a lot; as more and more of the mechanics make it into the game, that becomes the larger focus of my personal work, so it's usually some chunk of what I'm doing every day. Today was special though; today it was an all day thing and I didn't really have time for anything else.

Buuuut.... I did sneak a few minutes in to walk around a place I mayhap should not have... and Maaaaaybeee I happened to be recording video at the time... I suppose, if I did, you'd see it right here, huh?

So, enjoy that totally smuggled look into the stuff we're literally right this second working on. ;) This is the level of "jank" that's pretty normal for the gray-boxing stage of setting this stuff up. You almost always start by shoving the pieces needed to work into the world, then when they work you start putting them where they're supposed to go, then you start making them look like they belong there... and then, finally, it all works well enough to get a true sense of the feel of things. This video comes from early in that process I just described, so don't expect too much player-ready material here, just yet. ;)

Stay shiny my friends!