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XR AI spotlight
I was interviewed for XR AI Spotlight a few months back. here is the full interview.
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Games Now! Podcast
A further Questions -podcast episode in regards to my AI presentation last year.
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Simple camera controller+
I had created a very simple camera controller for the city hall interior scene. But it was not very usable in other scenes. So I rewrote the code and made it universal and a lot easier to use!
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Footsteps audio refactoring
I upgraded my rather simple footsteps audio system to a fully fledged surface type / character type retrieval setup that I can expand in the editor. The old system had hard coded arrays, but this new one is user editable directly in editor!
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AI assisted location: Hamburger restaurant
In the first big puzzle hub, one of the non-linear storylines takes you to a hamburger restaurant. There will be a big, hamburger related puzzle in there! But this week, we talk about creating the AI assisted location.
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Closeup camera angles
With Magnific now being able to upscale all the way up to 16x I wanted to try closeup camera angles for the game.
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Animated hotspot icons
I was working on the Steam Deck compatibility of the game this week and the main pain point was the hotspots. As I was fixing the code, I decided to try to make the hotspots animated!
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Accessibility options
I am big into accessibility. It was now finally time to get started on accessibility options for Echoes of Somewhere.
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Project 1 year anniversary!
Happy birthday! Echoes of Somewhere has now been in “active” development for a year. Lets look back on the year!
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Echoes Of Somewhere demo release on itch.io
I have been actively working on the project for one full year now. And to celebrate this milestone, I am releasing a short Echoes Of Somewhere demo of the game for Windows & Mac OS!
