Hello Everyone! We’ve got another development post today, to bring you up to date with what we’re working on and how things are going.
I touched upon this in the last Dev post but I’d like to start off by talking about the options menu re-work that we’ve been carrying out. It’s still very much work in progress and some of the options may not appear in the initial release but it’s coming along nicely.
As you can see above we’ve added an extensive list of video and audio options and we’re working on system to allow the remapping of base game controls such as; the camera, simulation start hotkey, etc. The options menu will launch with some basic control customization, such as rebinding the camera hotkeys, with more being added as time goes on. To the right of the options you can see a sample of game’s visuals which updates in real time as you alter the video settings. Please note that this is all still very work in progress, things are likely to change and much of it still needs a good layer of polish added to it. I’d also like to take this opportunity to give you a sneak peek at some of the things we’ve been working on that will feature in new upcoming campaign levels.
The next level update will feature the first fortress of Valfross and for the construction of this fortress we’ve re-designed the Tolbrynd physics brick system, giving it a new aesthetic to suit the island's frozen wastelands. Pictured below is a small section of the fortress and its new brickwork system.
Please keep in mind that all of the above is still very much work in progress and at this point we’re not sure exactly which things will make it into the next update and which ones might come later, but we wanted to try taking a more open approach with you guys and talking about what we’re working on sooner than we normally would like. We're going to be trying a different approach to releasing content for Besiege, in the past we've tried to assemble various features into a single update and have a specific focus for that update (Levels for example), but going forward we're going to try releasing individual items when we feel they're ready. I also want to take this opportunity to thank those of you that participated in the “Favorite Levels” poll that I posted in the last article, we had a really great response and it was interesting to see which levels you all enjoyed the most! The top five most voted for levels were as follows: 1st. The Duke’s Plea (Zone 16) 2nd. The Duke’s Dear Freighters (Zone 20) 3rd. The Martyr Knights (Zone 38) 4th. The Frozen Path (Zone 35) 5th. Aras' Refuge (Zone 34) Honorable mentions include; The Queen’s Fodder, Scouts of Tolbrynd, Wynnfrith’s Keep & Argus’ Grounds. We hope that this has helped wet your appetite a little and we hope to be bringing you these new features very soon. Cheers, Von