SITREP - Week 031

Kim (ZPSHicks)
Game Director

"This week has been spent updating Uncle Gert's "Shares for Support Medals Giveaway" (Gert has decided to extended the Giveaway initiative for the entire 2012 (Which is where Interstellar Marines will change the world of online gaming :)) and Maria (My wife) is making sure that everybody receives their shares certificates etc. (Giant load off our shoulders, work-wise .. love you girl).

Anders and I have started making sure that we'll completely own how dynamic lights will enhance realistic gameplay and I'm making sure that we have some cool lights prefabs for maximum SOS!".

Mikael (heks)
Lead Programmer

"When I started out this week's SITREP I was pretty sure that I had nothing to say.

But then I recalled the moment from yesterday when Anders (ARTIST) taught Nicolai (COMPOSER) how to refactor variables into reusable and serializable abstract data types (ADTs), and I felt a sense of delightful accomplishment on behalf of both of them and our small team as a whole.

It's such a privilege to be part of this project (and community) and although I sometimes have a hard time writing SITREP's, it has time and time again proven to me the importance of stopping for a moment, looking back at where we were, and realize how far we've come.

And moi? - I've been planning and designing the backend of Deadlock and worked on getting the kill-and-be-killed loop up and running. Another small step for Deadlock…".

Jesper Andersen (Scribblehead)
Concept Artist

"SARA: Entry mismatch. Subject appears to be offline. No record stored this week".

Anders (cptKickASS)
Lead Artist

"SITREP:   yes, this week has been dedicated to dynamic lights script, fixing some small bugs in the weather system and helping Nics expand his coding skills. Utilizing dynamic lights is just so much fun :)".

Jess (NecroSonic)
Level Designer

"For the past week I have been working to get the new Deadlock map to a point where it (aside from a number of issues that we will address along the way) is playable.

This week I have added some trees and rocks to give it a tiny bit of polish and I have been placing some collision volumes so that you can't run straight through walls. The reason for it is that I am still using the old Running Man modules beyond their original intent. If you have played Running Man you remember that the individual challenges was linked by some corridors running through some caves. When you look out into these caves you are sometimes able to see the outer shell of the buildings. As the player would never go out into the caves the modules used in these did not have any collision. Now however I use these same modules to create the Deadlock map... This is very fixable but Anders that creates the modules is currently busy doing the player controller, why I had to make a temporary fix of placing some basic invisible walls inside the modules so that you cannot walk straight through them. These does not fit the models perfectly so you still have parts that have no collision but again this is just a temporary fix to get the map in a playable state.

I am pretty sure that the first iteration of the new map will not be as polished as CombatRange01. But hey, it is open development so I hope that you will enjoy being part of the evolution of the map.    ".

Nicolai (Reese)
CEO & Composer

"SARA upgraded my personal coding skills this week. I was implemented with a basic Coder cyber-module, which is why I've managed to implement movement- and footsteps sounds in Deadlock using my first audio script (with some help from Anders). I feel mighty and powerful but I assume this is based upon my coding ignorance :)".