Just figured I should share this with you guys, inform you about what's going on with my life. Also share a few little projects I have been working on!
As you may have known, March of this year I took on leadership of Old World Blues as Overall Coordinator ( Essentially, Administrator ) when Happy stepped down.
As such, a lot of my work over the few months that followed was mostly organizational and managerial sort of work. I inherited a lot of responsibilities after Happy left and ...
https://zusk.neocities.org/
Neocities is a fun little site, essentially trying to aim at bringing back the glory days of web 1.0.
Posted some links in there, to OWB, Argonaut ( The RPG thingy I have been sharing ) and a few Doom wads I made recently!
My unity stuff has been playable only by me for like.. five years at this point. Finally figured out how to host a neat little WebGL build for my stuff.
This is mostly a little engine test, so its not veery playable. E is inventory, C is crouch. UI is made for full screen right now!
Check it out here!
I essentially went into full time crunch for this. Check it out! Was a huge hurdle for me.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CeTyQjSq06L/
2022-06-09 10:35:39 +0000 UTC View PostAlongside the actual Hearts of Iron Old World Blues project, I also do quite a bit of development on tangential side-projects related to it!
One of them I have been working on for about seven months now on-off is a little RPG framework in Unity! The idea of which being that you could make OWB-related vignettes that have OWB characters in a more traditional fallout aesthetic as a isometric RPG, sort of alike to the dating sim we did for 2.0's release, but bigger scope!
Please rep...
Been, in the last few months or so, essentially in a big dev push to try to wrap up 4.0's development and ship it out to you guys! I get that players are really interested more in the design side of things rather then implementation ( Why I didn't post here about the bug fixing stuff I did for 3.4's launch, even though that took like 100 hours to get done right.. )
Tension was a fun mechanic to code. It, in one way or another, was in design from all the way back in 2019. The relations ...
I had a lot of fun putting this together with SovietCyber. The first glimpse into the Brotherhood in 4.0!
2022-01-20 20:32:21 +0000 UTC View PostThis time, we actually reached outside of the team for this one. I reached out to Retcon Raider, a Fallout youtuber, who graciously offered one of the pieces he had commissioned for one of his videos to us!
This is a bit of a smaller post, as currently a lot of the stuff I am doing is either.
1) Kind of boring ( Most of November-December was just bug fixing related to No Step Back )
2) Polishing unannounced work that I will reveal first in big Developer Diaries!
For this ...
She was born into the world that preceded the Holy Flame, before the war with the giants and the heresy of the Saviours. The Flame-Crowns ruled all lands from on high, yet bore no mind to their vassals.
The factory worker’s wife was first approached by the Lord of Veils, a name by which he had not taken yet, and was spoken to.
“In you is One-of-Three, the Smothering Storm. Nurture her well until the Lord of Hammers arrives in some months time.”
She didn’t understand, so was s...
With the recent big Reddit teaser, I finally had the chance to show off a big chunk of my 4.0 work in a public fashion! It really felt like a weight was lifted off my shoulders.
I put a lot of thought into some of the countries being added in this update! Particularly those in the area where "Desert Rangers" used to be. Ill give a brief synopsis...
In 3.2, there was a lot of content I had to scrap as it was iterated through design. One thing of which was the use of the Scarlet Cultist you see in "Lanius's April Fools Tree".
For those that haven't played it, at the end of Lanius's Kaiser's Legion game rule tree you eventually meet a cultist in scarlet robes. He offers Lanius a pen, then tells him to write his name.
The trick is that he can actually put whatever he wants in there, the pen is a instrument of change.
I enjo...
As a part of my western brotherhood content, I really needed to get every brotherhood nation on the map settled in their lore and gameplay functionality - this actually extends to The Cause as well!
Thus, they will be getting a bit of a micro-tree in 4.0!
Eagle-eyed viewers will also notice that in this teaser The Cause gets a few more leader options, one of which being closer-to-canon interpretation of "Betty" from Fallout Extreme. Another thing to note is that none of these leader...
This is for a AI leader. Wanted to try to move away from the "Scan Line / Glitch" sort of vibe a lot of our AI leaders go for, felt like a "Wet" leader was a neat concept - reflect degradation through a drippy, faded aesthetic where its hard to make out who they even are.
Ended up going back to a more traditional design for the character after this iteration, but still figured this early design was neat enough to show you guys.
Now hat I am doing things actively in 4.0, its going to be a bit until I can talk about what I am doing squarely openly, but here is a fun teaser for one of the trees I am doing.
Its for a raider nation! Have to be careful with what I show off this early in development, since at this point in development things change a lot. To the point that it would probably be more frustrating then reassuring to hear about the behind-the-scenes.
( For example, the California politica...
With 3.2 right around the corner, I figured I would give a different sort of update this time. More of a post mortum of how 3.2 came to be, why it was made and what kind of content you can expect in it.
3.0 in OWB, directly following 2.1 and the inclusion of the Oregon and Utah updates was always slated to be a big update. It was so big that it took us a solid nine months to complete it - with most of the team of 5-15 active developers focusing on the update itself.
Zapdude, the ori...
Heyo! Here is another little preview for something I have been working on in tandem with Senor Sentro on the public OWB discord - its a Summers Federation tree!
Not particularly huge, but a cute little one that a skilled player should be able to pilot to give Lanius a early upset.
Should be in 3.2, which will hopefully be coming out sooner rather then later!
This is becoming a bigger tree then I originally intended! Lanius will, after getting the chance to revolt switch to a entirely new tree.
Something I am experimenting with is letting this tree have unique continuous focuses just for them!
Hello! Back again to talk about some of the stuff I am working on in a update coming soon.
For 3.2, I am working towards addressing some of the common player issues with Lanius's Cohort and the design of focus trees in 3.0 in general.
The biggest issue? Not enough player freedom! 3.0 had a lot of "No, don't do this!" design with the smart faction triggers and the general lack of alternative routes.
In 3.2 I am working on a new alternative route for Lanius that they can take! Now,...
Its honestly the brightest moment of my day when I saw you come in here. It warms my spirit to know that there are people out there this interested in the stuff I do.
Figured I would start posting up some teasers here!
Most of the last few days for me has been doing back-to-back test games for the new upcoming "Last Patrol" focus tree. A nation of former national guardsmen turned ghouls trying to keep themselves from going feral through their commitment to duty.
Been doing lo...
