March, 2019 | Skull Cracker Entertainment

Mapping Dev. blog

We would like to welcome you to our mapping development update! It’s been a while and we have been feeling somewhat guilty that we haven’t updated you on how the map is looking! Here is a quick preview on what we have been working on in the last few months – we are in the process of doing a huge mapping team development blog to give you a better insight. For now, enjoy!

New Temperance – Areas
When we first set out mapping New Temperance we had a certain look in mind that we wanted to accomplish. Here are few of the areas that we have partially finished now

Ferrers Green aka Little Italy

Oldest and most characteristic of any part of the map. It’s riddled with authentic Italian pizzerias, bars and market stalls.

Terminal Island Docks

One of the most rich in history areas in New Temperance that thrives from the import and export businesses that seem to thrive there.

Becken Gardens – Chinatown

Was originally an old Italian neighbourhood but with the influx of Chinese immigrants settling in the area in the early 70s it quickly grew and became China Town.

New Temperance will consist of 6 more highly detailed areas like the above to give you the full feel of the city. Each area of the city will be unique in it’s own way. Our tester team have already given us a lot of positive feedback on the way the map is shaping up.

Buildings

We are continuously developing new buildings to put into the map to provide a unique looking and feeling game while maintaining same art form through out the map.

Early Access – RUSH!

With early access creeping around the corner the mapping team is currently concentrating on finishing the outlines of the map ready for the buildings to be put in along with detailing of all the areas.

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Early Access & Discord

First and foremost we’d like to say we’re sorry for the somewhat late development update on the game. We’ve been extremely hard at work getting as much work done as possible that we haven’t had the time to sit down and compile a development blog for it all.

We had a very successful playtesting sessions with our private group of testers in January. We were able to gather a lot of feedback, test many features, find bugs and find out where our weaknesses were in the current state of the game. Since then we’ve already finished fixing all those issues and have made some fantastic progress on the game.

Vehicle System

We’ve been hard at work on the vehicle system along with many other things. We’d just like to give you a quick showcase of what we’ve been working on.

Vehicles such as sedans, vans, and coupe’s will have a usable trunk. You’ll be able to store guns, and stolen items inside these trunks. (We’re still working on the tidying up the UI a bit, before we showcase it.)

Lights on during nighttime.(Still have some slight tweaks to do to make the lights slightly brighter on some vehicles as well as some lens flaring)

Weapons

Our weapons system is 99% completed. The last 5% are some minor UI elements for the inventory, and some clean up of the animations. We decided to go with a more limited inventory for the player. You’ll be able to carry 1 sidearm(Handgun), 1 primary weapon(Assault Rifles, SMG, Sniper Rifle, etc) and 1 melee weapon(Baseball bat, baton, brass knuckles, etc.). The reason behind this is we wanted the player to think, and assess each situation they’re in, and handling that situation with what they have available to them.

Getting Drunk

You’ll be able to go into bars, and strip clubs and drink alcohol. If you consume enough alcohol you’ll become drunk, your vision will become blurred and you’ll notice you can’t seem to walk straight. Just don’t puke all over that nice fancy suit you just got, all right?

We’re officially on Discord now. You can join our official discord server via the top menu on our website under Connect. Or you can click here: https://discordapp.com/invite/d9fTvT2

Early Access

We’ve officially decided that we will be joining the Early Access system.
As we began development, we were highly against going into early access. But as things progressed and changed, we decided we wanted to develop this game alongside our community to give them the best possible experience. We plan on launching on Steam Early Access in June 2019.

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