Hello cosmonauts!

Another month goes by and we have some new content to share.

Aliens!

Surely I didn't hear you right, did you say that you are getting tired of punching robots? That would be a potentially treasonous sentiment, but don't you worry, because we are receiving reports of Aliens landing all over the planet!


Currently the Aliens are mostly functional, and can do everything a Moonbot gunner can do. I've been making some refinements to core systems that should allow all AI to more seamlessly share abilities and behaviors. For example, AI now use multiple separate Behavior Tree assets for their search, pursue, and patrol behaviors, as well as their "High Intensity" and "Low Intensity" combat behaviors. This is really good because it makes it easier for us to get new AI up and running with reasonable certainty that their core behaviors will still function. Adding new behaviors is then as simple as making a new BT for combat behaviors.

Currently the Aliens are fully fightable but they are using the same BTs as Moonbot gunners. For now Aliens can use all the weapons currently in the game (Revolver, SMG, and Protoype Beam), but we have plans for a special Alien weapon that will add variety and deepen gameplay. Players will be able to loot these guns from fallen Aliens and use their weapon against them!

All the good stuff is classified

Unfortunately, there's nothing else we are ready to share yet. We've been working a lot on some important character designs as well as refining the overall vision for our demo. We should be ready to share much of that next month. 

In the meantime... you should check out some of the lore threads we have been posting on Twitter.

Lore: Faster Than Light Travel and Colonies (NEW!)

Lore: AI: Planet America's Super Server

Lore: Captain McSpacebiff: Backstory

We want to hear what you think of this project so far. So join our Discord community and hit us up!

Later cosmonauts. Skunkape Team, over and out!