The last two weeks I kept working on improving the game’s underlying UI systems and now we have a new way to interact with the game world.

The Future is Mobile

Our main character now has access to a phone menu by pressing Tab/Select. This is designed to be versatile and easy to develop for. It resembles, and replaces, the interaction menu from the shops in the game. The plus side is that it will also provide other features that can be accessible anywhere in the game world and it has controller support.

Apps

Right now, you can play with 2 early apps, that are only available in FreeRoam mode. The VEC App and the Sandbox app.

The VEC app is a throwback to my first size game, It stands for Volumetric Enhancement Center. It allows you to size change at will. In the future, I would like to add more options to it.

The Sandbox App will provide you access to sandbox tools like restoring health and spawning enemies.

Both these apps are really early and I would like to improve them as well as create new ones. The heavy lifting of creating the system is pretty much done and these should be easier to implement going forward.

SizeCon!

Later this month I will be running a booth on SizeCon [Micro], an online size conference, if you are attending be sure to drop by. SizeCon will happen on from the 19th to the 21st, which happens to coincide with the end of my next sprint, so I will try prepping some special stuff for the game.

Patch Notes 0.1.12

• Phone Menu Added to the game.
• VEC App added to FreeRoam mode.
• Sandbox App added to FreeRoam mode.