Cacotopia

Devlog

• Announcement: Release 17th of January
  January 07, 2025 by StudyFun#Announcement, #Release, #Release date, #Launch

  Release is scheduled for January 17th! Due to the final memory footprint being around 11GB, down from about 20GB, it will not be released via itch at this time, but via steam: https://store.steampower... Continue reading
• New trailer released - 1st Boss Fight
  October 21, 2024 by StudyFun

  New trailer showcasing some aspects of boss fighting and gameplay in general... Continue reading

  
• Puddles... and tons of improvements to everything
  September 15, 2024 by StudyFun

  Puddles really make a huge difference to how the city in the first level looks! I finally opted for picking some materials that already had a puddle layer, so that I could just use vertex painting to... Continue reading

  
• Level 1 nearing completion
  August 26, 2024 by StudyFun

  Recent work has focused on level 1 and also polishing and sound design for level3. Currently, level 1 is about 90% completed and level3 is 99% completed. Level2 is 1% completed and those are the 3 lev... Continue reading

  
• Adding decals and improved floor material
  August 15, 2024 by StudyFun

  Replaced the floor texture with a more shiny one, which I think made things look much better... but a bit TOO shiny. Luckily, adding some decals to add dirt and wear and tear to the floor compensated... Continue reading

  
• More enemies and progress on the warehouse level
  August 13, 2024 by StudyFun

  Added two new enemy types - a fixed turret as well as a giant, moving spider robot, and a nice effect where the latter crashes through the wall at an unexpected time. Using unreal engine 5's chaos phy... Continue reading

  
• Devlog - working on AI
  July 29, 2024 by StudyFun

  Have been working on AI lately. The AI can now open doors in the first level. The level design will be modified a lot, however, so no screenshots or video from that level yet. Instead, here's a video... Continue reading
• Working on level design
  July 23, 2024 by StudyFun

  Working on level design for the first level, added a 3rd party asset for the robot enemies, created a prologue cutscene, and fixed collision settings for the powerups (they were incorrectly colliding... Continue reading

  
• Early sneak peak on gameplay (video)
  July 17, 2024 by StudyFun

  Super early gameplay footage, showing some potential gameplay elements in IndirectHit, in a test level... Continue reading
• First screenshot
  July 10, 2024 by StudyFun

  A first screenshot, very early development, much of this can and likely will change. This is the beginning of the warehouse level, intended to be the 3rd level of the first draft of the story (featuri... Continue reading

  
• Announcement: development has started!
  July 10, 2024 by StudyFun

  Happy to announce that development for the game IndirectHit has started! Actually, it was started two months ago, but paused in order to focus on the release of the smaller game PillowFight. Most of t... Continue reading