Shouldn’t we have made these changes before the animators went to work? Sure. So I try to avoid changing the timing of the scene – I try to make the new words fit as closely as possible to where the old words lived, or at least take up the same amount of time, so I don’t bump other lines that are still working. In first person cinematics, you would have to create animation that would take the characters from position A, to do new things, and then back to exactly position A. In a movie, where the camera is third person, it’s easy to expand a scene, because the camera keeps cutting. It’s an interesting challenge rewriting the scenes so they convey the new information without requiring new choreography. I also recorded our Arthur, Alex Wyndham, and She Who Must Not Be Named, and I’ve edited most of the new lines into the cinematic audio. Fortunately, Jay Simon, who voiced the Honey Troll and Johnny Bolton, Special Agent, can.

Oddly, some otherwise brilliant actors cannot sing a lick. Yo ho ho, the wind blows free! O for the life of the rolling sea. I’ve always wanted to put “The Eddystone Light” into something or other. This past two weeks, I wrote a pirate into the pub, singing a sea shanty. The logic is pretty much there, but I’m still working on the layout as you can see I improved the layout so the player can climb in different places to avoid guard patrols and also find better loot. The encounter will now be a more open hooligans camp. You could watch Wastrels trying to avoid tripwires but eventually pass through them and die without you having to do anything. One funny comment of David our design director was that “it was the only encounter that completed itself”. It has such a cool layout but the encounter made little sense. I’m also doing a refactoring pass on Mine Mine All Mine. There’s now multiple ways you can go about entering the house and it should feel a little more solid in terms of scripting robustness. Changes to the house of curious behaviors are mostly to “open up” the encounter. I did the final blocking touches to the revamped house of curious behaviors and started integrating animations for the new shelters. I’ll go back and forth with animators on the right timing for turning a wheel in first person (an interactive object that’s going to surface more than once going forward). In this phase we’ll actively collaborate with all departments to bring to life all those new locations and work towards the final polish pass. This week we started the realization phase of the new encounters. See a sneak peak of the encounter in Sarah’s section! Lots of tweaky timings and whatnot in-between animations and lights blinking and turning on/off, etc. In-between beers, I managed to script a pretty awesome Simon Says machine. This week has been all working with Antoine on a small shelter encounter involving plague Wastrels… In there is a mini cutscene that needed a bit of work to feel right, and it was a good occasion to spend a bit of time on adding variation in the plague Wastrels blinded animation! Design Team

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