Game Progress

Following the live stream QA Testing on Friday, we have sat down and rethought our approach towards the in-level instructions. This has been the focus of this weeks work along with some minor bug fixing from the reports we found on Friday. Bug Fixes:

• Spelling Mistakes corrected on the settings page.
• Fixed an FPS drop issue
• Re-Fixed 180degree instructions showing incorrectly
• Fixed the ability to zoom in further than the screen lets you
• Changed the UI for the head of the rope to make it always visible
• Changed the appearance of the Gallery name pop-ups to differentiate between them and the UI buttons.

After testing the new control system we are happy with the direction it takes the game feel but we know it needs tweaking to make it smoother. This is being looked at with 3 main points to address.

• Make the movement smoother/less snappy
• Address the camera movement making the player over-move if they are moving the mouse simultaneously.
• Find a better solution for pins that are far apart without forcing the game to zoom out.

We have discussed a method to address the in-level UI as currently, the UI often overlaps each other and simply making the UI smaller to prevent this makes it hard to read when zoomed out. We are trialling a solution this week of adding a UI bar with "rope selection" to remove all of the clutter from the screen and only give the player one set of instructions at a time. Check back next week to see what progress we have on this.

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