PENITENCE

Devlog

• September - what work?!
  September 23, 2023 by Tony Cooper#design, #game design, #gamedev, #level design, #progress report, #unity, #unreal

  Hello all! It's been an odd month to be fair. Actual paid day-job work has been busy as we prepared a prototype demo, then dove straight into pre-production for a vertical slice. And personally I've j... Continue reading
• I'm still working on it!
  August 12, 2023 by Tony Cooper#blockout, #blockouts, #design, #game design, #gamedev, #level design, #progress report, #unity

  Hello! Yes, despite the lack of updates this past month I'm still cracking on with PENITENCE . Been busy with real work and some DIY so haven't had as much time and/or have been too tired to do any #g... Continue reading

  
• June and July work - solidifying!
  July 15, 2023 by Tony Cooper#blockout, #blockouts, #design, #level design, #unity

  Hello! Yes, " solidifying " has been the theme over the last few weeks. Finishing off the demo became priority for some time, and there were many things I had left on the back burner, to be decided up... Continue reading

  
• Post-demo work - the rest of the game!
  June 25, 2023 by Tony Cooper#blockout, #blockouts, #gamedev

  Hello! After releasing the demo last month and doing a couple of updates, it's now time for... Yes, that fun stage where I just have to make the rest of the game! Easy work. But it does mean I can get... Continue reading

  
• Demo 0.1.2 released!
  June 10, 2023 by Tony Cooper#demo, #releases, #progress report, #gamedev

  Hello! As promised, a new version of the demo is now available - 0.1.2 ! So what's new in this one? Glad you asked: Added saving! Saves the level you have reached, so if you quit mid-playthrough you c... Continue reading

  
• Demo updates - past and future
  June 07, 2023 by Tony Cooper#demo, #bugs, #progress report, #design

  Hello all! Just thought I'd give you a small update as to progress with the demo and full game. I'm currently working on a few updates for the demo, specifically: Upgrade project to Unity 2021 (done)... Continue reading

  
• NEW DEMO VERSION!
  May 20, 2023 by Tony Cooper#demo, #releases, #gamepad

  Hello again! I have updated the PENITENCE demo to fix some bugs and add some features: Improved gamepad support for menus and in-game UI, such as the notepads and can now select dialogue responses wit... Continue reading
• Demo update on the way!
  May 15, 2023 by Tony Cooper#demo, #design, #UI, #gamepad, #gamedev, #progress report

  Hello! :D Hope those of you who have downloaded the demo (attached below) are enjoying it - would love to hear your thoughts! Just so you all know, I am working on an update for the demo which include... Continue reading

  
• PENITENCE DEMO RELEASED!
  May 06, 2023 by Tony Cooper

  Hello! Yes, you read that right, after a year of spare-time dev work I am finally releasing the demo of PENITENCE :D This demo contains the first three areas of the intended full game, but should be e... Continue reading

  
• A demo is on the way!
  April 30, 2023 by Tony Cooper#design, #gamedev, #progress report, #demo

  Hello! Yes indeed, a demo of PENITENCE is almost here :) Stay tuned... This last month has been a mixture audio work, fixing bugs, sorting the Computer Terminal UI and making some more timeline cutsce... Continue reading

  
• End of March, and almost the end!
  April 01, 2023 by Tony Cooper#art assets, #animation, #bugs, #lighting, #progress report, #gamedev, #unity

  ...of making the demo! Hello, it's been nearly a month since the last update and it's a quarter of the way through 2023 already, which must be wrong. And if it's not wrong, it has to be illegal someho... Continue reading

  
• March update #1
  March 04, 2023 by Tony Cooper#design, #game design, #lighting, #progress report, #unity

  Hello! Almost a month since the last update already. What the heck is going on with that? Anyway, I've been pretty busy with stuff on PENITENCE, so let's fire off some bullets: Updated the main menu c... Continue reading

  
• February update - lots of work!
  February 10, 2023 by Tony Cooper#design, #prototype, #ui, #unity, #progress report

  Well hello! Yes, I know it's mid-month, but it's been a while since the last big update so... "Go, bullet-points, Go!" :D Much work on implementing the computer terminal! Designing and setting up the... Continue reading

  
• Computer UI Before / After
  February 01, 2023 by Tony Cooper#ui, #design, #gamedev, #narrative

  Hello! Just a quick one to share the painful progress of the computer terminal UI. There has been a lot of confusion, frustration and eventually resigned acceptance of how things work with UI, but I t... Continue reading

  
• January update - I see you UI!
  January 22, 2023 by Tony Cooper#design, #ui, #prototype, #unity

  Hello there! I both hate and respect UI. I say that because I've just spent the last several weeks updating and creating both the notepad and computer terminal screens, and while I finally have someth... Continue reading

  
• December update
  December 28, 2022 by Tony Cooper#design, #game design, #level design, #gamedev, #unity

  Hello! What have I been working on the last four weeks? Two illnesses for a start: some fluey type thing that made me achey and lethargic for a week (not covid), and barely a week later I now have som... Continue reading

  
• Busy month and a playtest
  November 28, 2022 by Tony Cooper#blockouts, #design, #level design, #gamedev

  Hello! Well yes, it's been a month since I last typed up anything, but that's mainly because the last four weekends have been full of events, so I haven't had much free time. Having said that, I have... Continue reading

  
• Crawling around in the dark
  October 24, 2022 by Tony Cooper#design, #game design, #level design, #gamedev, #unity

  Hello! The last couple of weeks have been a bit hit-and-miss in terms of work. I had an event last weekend, and I've got another three the next three weekends, so I have been spending a lot of time pr... Continue reading

  
• Screenshot surprise!
  October 10, 2022 by Tony Cooper#blockout, #blockouts, #art assets, #level design, #lighting, #prototype

  Hello! I've mostly been doing some long-needed art updates to the early scenes the last week or so. I have also been making an interactive computer and tweaking the UI logic, but mainly doing work to... Continue reading

  
• Gameplay video - first few minutes
  October 01, 2022 by Tony Cooper#gamedev, #prototype, #video

  Hello there! Just linking a little video of the first few minutes of the game to show the progress I've made with various camera, dialogue and UI systems, as well as the art and lighting work so far... Continue reading
• Hola gamedev!
  September 28, 2022 by Tony Cooper#gamedev, #prototype, #dialogue system

  Well, not much has been done this last couple of weeks, as I was away in Barcelona for one of them! But before I went away I was experimenting with the new "two UIs active at the same time" feature an... Continue reading
• Two steps forward, one step back
  September 13, 2022 by Tony Cooper

  Hey there! Been a busy week at real work, so dev time has been limited. However I have done a major behind-the-scenes update to make life easier for myself and give me greater control over how I set u... Continue reading

  
• Bits of stuff
  August 29, 2022 by Tony Cooper#bugs, #dialogue system, #level design

  Hello! Had a couple of weeks of good progress, especially this Bank Holiday weekend. And it's that kind of progress where you see things coming together or improving instantly, which is the good stuff... Continue reading

  
• Hot innit?
  August 15, 2022 by Tony Cooper#game design, #blockout, #blockouts, #design, #unity

  Hello my sweaty readers! Hope you've managed to keep cool during this heatwave. We're due some thuderstorms over the next few days, so that's going to be exciting. As for PENITENCE, I've been on-and-o... Continue reading

  
• A covid pause
  July 27, 2022 by Tony Cooper#game design, #level design, #unity, #design

  Well, after diligently masking and sanitising in all the right places (oo-er!) for two-and-a-half years, I finally went and caught covid :( Looks like I got it from my wife, who got it from a packed t... Continue reading

  
• First rough art pass of area 1
  July 03, 2022 by Tony Cooper#level design, #art assets, #blockout, #lighting

  Thought I'd finally get round to putting some art assets into the first scene! This is the common area inside the metal temple, where the disciples live, and comprises their rooms, a couple of bathroo... Continue reading

  
• A week or so of work
  June 27, 2022 by Tony Cooper#design, #gamedev, #prototype, #unity

  Sometimes I forget how much work a manage to get done, because I only get to work on the game for an hour or two here and there, with some features split across several sessions before they are done... Continue reading

  
• Gamedev *sigh*
  June 18, 2022 by Tony Cooper#bugs, #gamedev, #unity

  Sometimes in gamedev your first attempt doesn't give you exactly what you wanted... So... you try again :) Tony. P.S. I've fixed it since then :D... Continue reading
• PENITENCE - What it's about
  June 09, 2022 by Tony Cooper#story, #narrative, #design

  Hello again! So far I've done a few posts about the technical side of the game, but I'm very aware I'm still to actually tell you what it is about. So... "PENITENCE is set many decades in the future a... Continue reading

  
• Fading walls
  May 27, 2022 by Tony Cooper#unity, #gamedev

  Hello again, Just made a new short video about one little piece of tech I'm using. As this is a top-down game with an angled camera I needed a solution for the main character walking behind walls and... Continue reading
• First prototype video!
  May 20, 2022 by Tony Cooper#prototype, #video

  First video of the project! Just showing off the player movement and some interactions Automatic doors opening - simple stuff, but they also lock/unlock from either trigger volumes or from dialogues U... Continue reading
• The tools I'm using
  May 08, 2022 by Tony Cooper#unity, #tools, #playmaker, #dialogue system, #top down engine

  Hello again! Just come back from a weeks' holiday and catching up with various things, including this post. Before I delve too much into the game itself in future updates, I just wanted to give a quic... Continue reading

  
• PENITENCE - Welcome to the project!
  April 30, 2022 by Tony Cooper#game design, #blockouts

  Well hello again! It's been a while since I've done a dev update - my last one was my "goodbye" post for Demon Detective when I decided to park it. That project was paused because I wanted to focus on... Continue reading