Project Van Buren

Well, you'd be surprised. It actually starts to feel like a game, with majority of systems fully working now.

 

Honestly, no idea. I don't work on schedules and deadlines, because I don't have to. When I feel it's ready, it goes out for public testing.

 

Thank you. The combat is very, very simplistic at this point. AI doesn't have any navigation logic save from melee where it knows it has to follow its target to a specified range. All the shooters just stand in place for now though. There are no critical hits yet, no bodypart differentiation (even non-Called Shots will hit specific bodyparts - torso has the biggest chance, and as the bodypart gets smaller, so does the chance of hitting it - J.E.Sawyer's design). And no Called Shots. And about zillion other things that I'm forgetting right now.

However, all these things either extend the existing functionality or pose as a rather separate/modular addition. The main goal is to get this simple combat core working properly. It is almost there, most of the improvements I do now are in the code design (fixing broken programming principles, refactoring for better clarity, modularity and ability to be extended, that sort of stuff).

 

The goal is to create all the functionality and tools, allowing engine users to make content with it.
After that, I'd like to get some community feedback on the engine before continuing.
And after that, I don't really know what's going to happen. I have some plans, some connections have been made, but all that floats between daydreaming and complete surrealism at this point.

 

Does it look dead?

 

Many. That much is obvious, and you implied that yourself, so you apparently knew that answer.

In the post right above your first question, there's a partial answer to that question.

 

Is it? Because frankly, I don't get what is so mind blowing about it The most liked tweet I ever had and it's just a dull thing I rigged and animated in 30 minutes and posted as a common scroll-by content Twitter is full of.