News: AEMoS Update, Downside , Upcoming Poll

First things first, I hope all of you had a great start into the year of 2024!
In my case it started a bit rough, which had me pause my work on AEMoS for a few days to change my routine a bit. The reason for that can be found on the Patreon section of my discord, where I post news a bit more regulary.

During that time I spent my time coding alot, beginning anew with Downside in a 3D enviroment. With the experience from this, I am sure I can handle it in a larger scale with better assets, and 3rd Person + First Person Camera.
The past days I have worked alot on getting an actually simulated NPC to work and I have made huge progress in what feels like very short time. Pathfinding and Navigation have been configured (as of now), which was one of my first concerns. Then I added different behaviour and below you can see the current state. As of now our NPC eats, digests, uses the toilet and takes a rest for comfort. More will be added and adjusted accordingly.
But with the pathfinding being my biggest concern, and now seemingly working flawlessly, I don't see any hurdles for at least the NPC.

The upcoming day(s) I'll be making a poll whether development on Downside shall continue for now, or be delayed until later.
The poll will be accessable along with the AEMoS update I announced, as I will now get back to finishing the update.

Alot of the scenes dialog will be re-written, for this update this only affects the general store enounters.

That concludes this news session, so I'll leave you to check out the current state of Downside below and let me know what you think! Preferably on the Discord, where one can speak more freely about certain topics!

Take care everyone and see you soon with that AEMoS Update and the poll!