Dev Diary 20: Something Different

Currently, the state of Lab 77 is as follows:

• 132 of 143 bugs have been squashed. Of the remaining 11, three require further work and eight require more testing or minor fixes.

• Artwork, music, sound design and voice overs are being worked on.

Over the last two weeks I have not made any progress on Lab 77. This is because I have still been dealing with the camera issue I mentioned in the last Dev Diary, and after hitting multiple proverbial walls I realised I needed a bit of a break and to come back to this problem with new eyes in the hope to resolve it again. This is of course not to say that I have abandoned the project, I simply want to properly resolve the camera issue and I need a different perspective to do so.

I have not been sat idle for the past two weeks however. I have started work on a demo project that I have somewhat larger plans for. Though I am not quite yet ready to share these plans here. In short, the game is a management game about whisky distillation which I find to be quite fitting for Distilled Productions Limited. Though I have not shared anything here or on Twitter, I have been sharing a lot about the progress on this demo to Special Supporters on Patreon through Discord, so if you are interested in seeing more about both this new as of yet untitled project and Lab 77 you should join now.

Lastly, as I am writing this I am realising that this is again a very short dev diary which was not the intention when I started these. I am going to try to be better about writing more during the two weeks of work in the future, but I would also be interested in knowing what people are more interested in reading about in these diaries.

That is all for this shorter dev diary, more to come in two weeks.

-Olav