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Container Ships, Large Targets, Intel Teams - Devlog 04/08

The Early Access launch was a big success, and I'm very happy with the amount of players we got and the reception that the game has had. Despite some fairly serious bugs and glitches, especially during the first few days of launch, the game has around a 91% positive review rating on Steam. I'm grateful to everyone who has supported the game in this early stage, and I'm really excited to see where things go during Early Access. I started working on new content recently, alongside continued bug...

Early Access and the Future of Patreon

Early access rapidly approaches, after two and a half years of development. Thank you to all of the extra-early patrons who have supported me during this development period.

I will be sending out keys to patrons once early access goes live. If you have not yet contributed the $15 for a copy at launch, you will still receive a code which will keep working while you are subscribed. This means people who have subscribed recently will still get a code so long as they stay subscribed for at ...

Swag Bags, Attic Antics, and Character Customisation - Devlog 20/04

I've been frantically adding the final few touches which were needed for Early Access release over the past month, as well as getting things ready for Playtest 8, which is now announced! It will start on the 28th April, check the discord for details.

Swag Bags

Small stealables have long been the bane of any would-be completionist burglar. So far, you've only been able to carry up to two items at once, which means lots of runs back and forth to collect books, small electronics, and...

Guards and Cameras, Tase Effects, Spectating - Devlog 21/03

With the game set to release in Early Access this Spring, I've been making a lot of bugfix and polish changes over the past couple months. When you're only playing the game for a weekend, it's easy to look past janky or unpolished mechanics, but for a released game these things become more important. I have been adding small new features here and there though, which this devlog will cover.

Guards and Cameras

The mall level has always been a little too easy compared to t...

Rockets, KOs, Public Lobbies - Devlog 17/01

Yep, I'm still alive. I apologise for the shocking amount of time since the last dev update, for most of the end of last year I was head-down getting the last bits of multiplayer finished, and following the playtest I suddenly had a bunch more multiplayer stuff to fix. But the game seems to be in a better state now, so I've been working on some more exciting things which are worthy of an update. 

Rockets

The remote piston has been a staple of the game for some time...

Rewriting Everything, Keys, New Intel, Breaking Bad - Devlog 30/09

It's been a while since the last update, mostly because I've been focusing on re-writing most of the major game systems to work better. There's not much interesting to show off when you're just breaking everything and then fixing it to be slightly better than it was before.

State of the Game

At this point, these are the things I've re-written so far over the past month or so:

• Non VR movement
• Multiplayer character and animation syncing
• Level...
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Mission loading, locking up, stealing doors - Devlog 19/08

The main focus for this past week has been redesigning the level loading system. If you played the last playtest, you may have noticed that the mission preview images in the intel board mysteriously disappeared. I liked having those previews, but generating them for each level took way too long, so I experimented with removing them.

New mission loading

In the end, I decided it wasn't really worth having the mission preview images. The load times would be far too long once there ar...

Flatscreen Revamps, New Stores - Devlog 06/08

Last devlog I mentioned that there were a lot of changes and improvements coming to the flatscreen mode, and since then I've started the long process of swapping out the flatscreen character movement for a brand new system which should match VR player movement more closely. There's still a lot to be done on this, but I've got the main areas working to a basic level so I thought I'd show it off.

Quick Climb

The first issue with flatscreen climbing was when doing quick climbs up and...

Playtest 6 Post Mortem, Flatscreen Redesign - Devlog 27/07

Playtest 6 has finally ended, after a whole week of burgling! Hope you guys had a chance to play, let me know in the comments or discord if you have suggestions or questions about the latest build. In this post I'll go over how the test went, and then talk a bit about the new direction I'm taking with the non VR version of the game.

Playtest 6 - How did it go?

It went very well! Since the test was part of Steam's VR Fest, we got a lot of new eyes on the game from Steam itself, whi...

Covid, saving states, and playtest 6 - Devlog 18/07

It's been a cough-y couple weeks dealing with one of those new-fangled covid strains. Not the greatest timing, but I am at least mostly recovered in time for playtest 6 to go live and for me to do a week of hotfixing.

Saving the Game

One thing I did manage to get done in time for the test was saving the game. This is obviously something that's been requested for a while, but it wasn't all that important given how easy it was to rack up money and how little there was to spend it on...

Bikes, VR Jumping, New Mall Varieties - Devlog 03/07

It's been a slow couple weeks, hence no dev update for a little while. I've been planning a lot of marketing stuff to try and make the most of the next playtest, which should bring some extra publicity. I also took a week off to mentally prepare myself for the next test, which is coming a little sooner than usual. But there are a few additions worth talking about

Bicycle Getaway

As part of the new getaway system, I added an even cheaper vehicle than the pickup truck: the bike. Thi...

Taking a cut, New Unity, Performance, and Daves - Devlog 19/06

Burglary is too profitable. It's been very easy to build up money in the game in the past, because you can get so much from one mission if you get the right items. This needs to change to add some sense of difficulty and progression to the game, so as the first step in this, I've generously given a cut of your profits to the intel team and the getaway driver.

Ignore the blank space, that's a separ...