Monthly Development Update June 2024

Welcome to the June 2024 Monthly Development Update (MDU) from Warped Games. We have lots to share, including these highlights:

• Cinematic Intro Video released
• Accepted on Epic Games Store
• Substantial game play progress
• Marketing outreach
• Appendicitis; do not recommend - Deny

Let us know if you have any questions!

GAME DEVELOPMENT

• Combining weapon elements into basic shared system
• Enemy ship AI now have their own graphical look
• Extensive combat map work
• Weapon art - FX
• Wormhole travel map
• Enemy AI flying
• Fleeing scientist AI
• Space UI work
• Shooter AI implemented
  • Pathfinding, spline support, respawning support
• Cloth simulation on characters
• Improved Character Aim on weapons
• Started Character Editor for character creation
• Creating assets for Foundationalists and Luminaries
• Space HUD work
  • Added target lead to help with aim
• Storytelling sequences in and out of various combat maps
• Voice over and stories for missions
• Mission and Objectives System implemented so far:
• Waypoints ,spawners, kills, objects, dialog
• Asteroid system
  • Spawning, size, shape and velocity control
  • Collidable and destructible
• New controller system
• Balance and gameplay testing
• Character death FX
• Fixed fire/hit sounds.
• Navigation and AI crowd avoidance fixes.
  • AI can no longer walk off ledges
• Health, stamina, ammo and total ammo UI to realtime
• Camera tweaks to action gameplay mode for visibility
• Space mission and combat balance iteration
• Performance and memory optimization pass

Web Design & Development

• Website Redesign: Standout visuals and improved user experience.
  • Improved UI/UX
  • Tailwind theme completed
  • Realigned aesthetic to match game & branding
  • Component library
• Features designed and in development
  • About
  • Game modes
  • Gallery Carousel
  • Full Gallery
  • Media Modal for displaying images & videos
  • Interactive Lore Timeline
  • Team page
  • Media Downloads Desktop, Mobile and X Wallpaper and Banners
  • FAQs
  • Guides
  • Change Log
  • Partners
  • News
  • External Publications

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Business & Marketing

• Officially approved and listed on Epic Games Store
  • Activated Wishlist
  • Approx. 270m users on PC
  • Allows Web2 gamer access with options to access Web3 at preference
  • Epic Games Dev Portal fully active — Dev, Staging, Live
• Released our full Cinematic Intro Video
  • Over 80k views on the official account post, w/ many more shared via other accounts
  • Shared by influential accounts such as SpikeCollects, WendyO, and others
• Hosted our 5th Warped Talk Q&A on Discord
  • Live pre-release viewing of Intro Cinematic Video