digiB

_Artemis Status Update

Added 2021-03-15 14:19:12 +0000 UTC

Spent the weekend going over the audio. The soundtrack and foley/audio effects are all chosen and placed where they need to be. Now I'm going through them and making sure the levels are all right. Worst thing to happen is playing this with headphones and your precious ears are torn to shreds by a cellphone ring or something.

But I'm pretty satisfied with the soundtrack. I find myself sometimes leaving the game open during one of the WMP events and just letting the tracks roll.

I also did a dirty run of the game just to see if there was anything I missed that I can address. Something I did notice was during the WMP events, the minimap app gets slightly laggy. It's not really an issue and doesn't really hinder anything. It bothers me because I'm one of those dudes who puckers up when the FPS drops by a frame... My testers didn't report it at all and they enjoyed the WMP events. So maybe I'm just overthinking it. But while I was looking into this, I noticed that I was using an old format pf code for a section of the game. It was tedious to replace the code, but wasn't difficult...just tedious. Did a full playthrough of the WMP events and the new code didn't break anything at all. So I marked that complete.

I need to stitch together the credits and write the ending code that hooks into Chapter 2's update, so I don't have to fiddle with Chapter 1's script. I also need to implement a little mini puzzle for the secret/not so secret? girl in the DataLeak bonus renders. Then do a little more promo stuff for the end credits. After all this, I need to play through it one final time before giving my final stamp of approval.

take care,

digi.B