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Video Development Diary 5

You can see the latest updates here:

http://youtu.be/1o-zd6h6eVw

Click the image for the Development Diary video.

Physical representation of agents has been added along with animations. Lots of bugs fixed with AI and generally improved speed and reliability of pathfinding.
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  1. Anonymous29 November 2014 at 04:27

    Just a quick one here - Your figures look tiny.
    A suggestion here would be to double or treble their current size.
    Also, your background is very busy, making it difficult to see anything. A suggestion here would be to (currently) not use any texturing or some texture that is very similar across it (thus making your figures stand out more)
    :)

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    1. Pickledtezcat29 November 2014 at 05:52

      Thanks, the background is just a placeholder for now, I'm going to be working on that soon. In the next few videos I'm going to be zooming in a bit to increase the size of the characters (already done it a little with the next vid). I'm happy with the scale of the game in terms of speed movement and size of doors etc... just need to be closer to the action. :) Thanks for the feedback!

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