PeaceIsland

Peace, Confidence, and Control!

Added 2022-03-06 00:21:43 +0000 UTC

In the light of this week's events, we felt it important to say: There are patrons and fans of Peace Island in both Russia and Ukraine, and over the course of the project's development, we have been fortunate enough to work with talented people from both of these great countries.

What we are witnessing today will harm all of these wonderful people, and so many others. We can only hope that peace and sanity will prevail.

We also felt it important to mention: We are still 100% on-track to deliver the "Final Alpha" as scheduled. The only item remaining to be finished is the save/load system, and a few aesthetic details regarding indoor props and lighting.

The largest advancements this week again were in regards to the player controller.

Aside from finalizing the climbable ivy, we have also eliminated 90% of the issues with the cats getting hung as they walk or run across rocky surfaces.

The latter was of special import, because for about a year, I was advising players to avoid the beaches, because the cats tended to get stuck in a jumping pose if they were confronted with multiple possible landing surfaces.

Climbing & jumping from surface to surface are almost ready to go. The cat can now climb, strafe while climbing, and "parkour" from one vertical surface to another.

The one remaining action is the "highwire walk" that cats employ while walking along the top of a narrow surface such as fences. We were actually not planning to have this in the Final Alpha, but there's a good chance we can add a few preliminary instances!