EGX

On Thursday, we achieved two great milestones. We passed 100 followers on Twitter (Thank you to all our followers! We greatly appreciate your support!) and we were granted an industry pass to EGX Rezzed in London! I (Lee) will be travelling down to London on the 4th of April to show off Dead Heat to publishers and press! This is the biggest opportunity we have ever had and we intend to make the most of it!

We'll be aiming to have a fully functional demo ready for April. key among these features we hope to have ready is the highlight system; the games core mechanic. We'll be working hard to make this a reality in the following weeks.

Light & Shadow

Arguably the most important aspect of any Film Noir anything is lighting. Without dynamic and meaningful use of light and shadow, it just ain't Noir, sweetheart. This week we implemented something we've wanted since the earliest builds in Game Maker. A lighting engine. The chance to gain access to a good lighting engine was one of the reasons for moving from GM to Unity. Taking advantage of 3D lighting to interact with 2D sprites. Needless to say, we were more than excited about the new addition of intractable light into our game and the results speak for themselves.

GM Demo

Unity Demo (Jan 27th)

The next step will be to add dynamic shadows. This will be tricky to pull off as the shadows need to interact with the buildings, creeping along their walls as you walk down a dimly lit alleyway. Keeping the shadows from stopping at their base will be a challenge, but not impossible.

Thank you all for reading our first Devlog. We want to get as much feedback from you fine folks as we can, so please feel free to ask us questions about the project on twitter! We love talking about Dead Heat and would be more than happy to answer any questions!

Thank you for reading and we hope you'll stick around for more!