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Progress update 8/21/23

Added 2023-08-21 15:49:33 +0000 UTC

Hello, everyone!

Quick update on what's been going on. Our sound designer, Evan, has delivered of bunch of great combat sounds which I'm incorporating into the system. The attached photo shows the incredible amount of layering that goes into one single "combat woosh". Yet another challenge of designing an underwater game: you can't simply buy a pack of pre-recorded combat sounds, because they don't sound right in an underwater environment. Everything has to be painstakingly handmade.

As far as progress on the demo experience as a whole, it's going slower than expected since we haven't been able to bring a qualified technical animator on board yet, so in that area I've been doing most of the work myself, and it's definitely pushing the limits of my knowledge in that department. But I'm happy with the progress, and hope to release a short video of the combat system in action within the next few weeks!

I hope everyone is doing well. It's great to see new faces popping into the Discord on a daily basis. The amount of activity and excitement on the server is a huge encouragement!

Swim on!