Predation Devlog 3/2/21 (Patreon)

Hello everyone.
I hope your doing well today, sorry for missing the devlog date by 12-ish hours, whoops.

Nonetheless i’m here today to talk about how and what we have been doing here over the past two weeks.

First things first we should talk about patreon.
There are two hot things up on this plate today so first things first.
We aren't doing the draw anymore.
To make a long story very short it was going to be a massive waste of time to draw out however many animations for however many winners we had per month. That was coming back to seriously bite us in the ass in terms of work flow. So we dropped it.

The second point is that we have a dedicated “Bug Testing” Tag now, and we have given them their first test ‘thing’.
It's available to patrons that have pledged $10 or more.

It IS NOT the same as the $5 tier.
While yes anyone in the bugtesting pledge group gets access to predation earlier than everyone else. These version ARE NOT complete. The most recent one we put out had no enemies or tutorials. We plan to use this role to test things such as how levels flow, balancing enemies, and loads of other things. However most of the time the game will be a hoard of bugs, with many features not even present. There’s your disclaimer.
The good news is that any $5 patrons should get a complete copy with no missed bugs… Hopefully.


Now to move onto the crew.

As with me. I’ve been busy adding and playing with a new lighting system for predations. I’ll include an image with the devlog. Right now I’m mostly seeing what I can do with this system, and I'm seeing what's possible.

As for Sephra. He’s been combing over every animation amber has, and has been redoing ones that he believes are not up to the current standard. This would be things like ambers idle, walk, run, and things like that, the first animations of the whole project.


As for Vero. They have been hard at work on the rewrite of ambers movement system, along with rewriting a few smaller key components like dialogue displays, ledges, and other things.

We plan to keep working and improving our current systems, and I even have a secret for you.

It won’t be long till I can start designing level two. Once this lighting system is done, I’ll start level two’s layout. Exciting I know!


Well that’s about it from us. We all hope you’re doing well and we forever thank you for your support!


check out our discord channel at

https://discord.gg/5fU6SVr