Welcome back, only a few weeks left in the project!
We have had a busy week working towards our next goal of Softs, the Monday after Thanksgiving. I’m pleased to report we have cut our task list down to less than half of what it previously was. The animations are nearly done, all of them except for the celebration animation are done. They are being put into the experience currently. Which means our feedback loop for reading is being updated to its soon to be final form. Lots of new dialogue has been recorded for Bearic and most of it is in the experience. Part of this is introducing our new tutorial and our difficulty levels. The tutorial has been storyboarded and is just waiting on the final bear interaction loop to be ready so we can film it. Multiple difficulties are in and working. Tons of new amazing animations have been created for each page of the book we are working with. UI has been updated, especially the backgrounds for where Bearic exists on the tablet and the background for the main screens. The font has been unified across the whole experience and we are working on words moving between the screens. The words moving will serve as our indirect control to guide players to the right screen and as part of the celebration for reading. We are working on setting up meetings with a reading expert, and setting up another playtest. At this point it is mostly about smaller details and then verifying that everything is working.