Revenge Of Grugga (Patreon)

Hello, I've been working on numerous, small fixes and things I needed to finish up on the new Offense and mineshaft tiles. Mostly I've been trying to get Grugga to a good-enough state, but the rate of progress is never linear.

Today I created a new shot (likely the last one for the foreseeable future) which I call Action Grugga or Paparazzi Grugga. You see its best moments in the video here... but I had to cherry-pick. He currently loves this shot type and is switching to it when he shouldn't be. In the video you'll also see more of the new Offense. I've widened up a lot of the paths on Offense as well and added new stairs to the ship, since the layout was a little too linear.

Today was actually one of Grugga's worst showings in the history of his life. I would say it's looking quite grim for him, but there's only up from here, so I will be giving him a little more time. (And it also may be because of literal errors in the code rather than Grugga's honest judgement.) I would say Grugga's personality right now is either completely anxious and unconfident, or like a 4-year-old filming home movies.

So that's it, I've been bugfixing. My energy level dipped and I've been kind of unhappy, but I am currently improving. Over the next two weeks I hope that I'll be able to fix up Grugga's worst issues, then start on more new creatures. Right now, Cinematic Spectate (his formal term) is an optional button which is not enabled by default. I don't expect I'll ever get it working reliably enough to make it the default, and I might make it something that needs to be enabled in settings as well if I don't just decide to scrap it. There is a lot of playtest notes to go through once again tonight, so I'm hopeful, but it's also the worst that it's ever looked for him. There is still a lot of promise in fleeting moments, and going back to normal spectate does feel kind of odd and drab!