Echoes of Somewhere

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Animated hotspot icons

January 11, 2024

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

January 4, 2024

I am big into accessibility. It was now finally time to get started on accessibility options for Echoes of Somewhere.
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Preparing for demo release

December 17, 2023

The beginning part of the game has been almost ready for release as a short demo for quite a while. But it was missing some polish that I am working on now.
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Using AI as inspiration for UI design

August 28, 2023

All throughout the project, I have been slightly tweaking the UI from time to time. Now that I have a better understanding of the functionality of the UI, a more polished look and feel begun to creep into my mind.
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PDA Part 2 – notifications

July 10, 2023

Now that I had stuff tucked away hidden in the PDA I wanted to let the player know of these a little bit. So I decided to do a simple on screen notify when new To-Do list items are added or then new messages arrive.
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PDA part 1 – interface

July 3, 2023

Adventure creator has support for objective lists and documents. I figured why not integrate them into the game as well? The player could be able to receive some text messages like in Cyberpunk 2077 and have a list of to-do’s for keeping the objective clear.
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Maglev transit system

June 26, 2023

Way back when I did the maglev scene, it was just a scene void of any connection to anything in the game. I just knew I needed one so I made it. Now I returned to the scene to add the transit functionality to it that it required.
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UI systems

June 12, 2023

Creating the UI for an adventure game is a fun little bite sized challenge I enjoy doing. The UI for Echoes of Somewhere is finally finding its groove.
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Creating a steam page

February 27, 2023

I have never created a Steam page for a game before. I have made some art assets for one, but I never did the actual setup. Now it was time to learn.
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Adding life to a simple 2D scene

February 4, 2023

The 2D locations can feel pretty static. Especially when there are no other characters around. But I want these scenes to be full of movement and life. Luckily the cyberpunk setting allows me to add all sorts of secondary movement into the frame!
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