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Spent the day in the Level Sequencer, setting up the flow for Space Toms, and it worked really, really well. It’s so much easier to refine things with a visual timeline, and most importantly, it’s straightforward to test. You can start the level at any point, just by moving a marker. Honestly, I don’t know why I’ve never done this before…
The floating heads of Kevin Toms are in!
I decided to make him invulnerable. Nothing can kill the legacy of The Floating Head of Kevin Toms.
Added some audio, horizontal scrolling to the ground plane, and got Kev to fire footballs at the player. Calling it done, for now. I’ll come back to it when I integrate it into the game.
As *Nivrig* said: “Welcome to the Fantasy Football Zone”.
I’m blatantly robbing that.
Ok, back to reality. Time to make some rooms in Sandy Whites.
UE5’s had a toy – Cube Grid – for a while, that’s a simple way to block-out shapes. It’s perfect for the stuff I’m imagining in this zone, so I’ve started using it instead of creating modular pieces in Blender.
The entrance room is going to make use of the player’s Jump Cancel. It’s always been a “dive bomb” type thing; press B in the air, and any forward momentum is removed, and you fall straight down. Dead handy during normal play – I use it all the time – but it’s a bit of a pro-move. Needs some introduction…
This room will have a diving board that’ll bounce you into the air, if you press B , you’ll Jump Cancel, and hopefully land on a destructible box.
I got the destructible working, bar the effects, made a new type of Portal VFX for doors in this level, and snuck in a Pickford Bros joke…
Made the diving board, a placeholder doorway, added audio and visual effects to the destructible, and came up with a nice idea: The destructible spawns a new type of Duck! Similar idea to the one you carry; it prevents you jumping, meaning you’ll need to find a walkable path, but this one unlocks doors.
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