Dev Diary 9

Currently the state of Lab 77 is as follows:

• 94 of 109 bugs have been squashed. Of the remaining 15, five require further work and ten are awaiting further testing or integration.

• Controller support is being worked on

• Artwork, Music, sound design, scripting and voice acting work is all in progress.

Over the course of the last two weeks I have mainly been busy with controller support and improved menu navigation. I wanted to have a system for navigating the menus with either keyboard input (WASD or Arrow Keys) or using a controller. I am happy to say that, after a hard fought battle with Unity's new Input System, I have managed to at least implement a functional version of this though some fine tuning is still needed.

I still have more work to do on Lab 77, but implementing this feels like a big hurdle has been cleared. Especially for the possible use of either the Xbox Adaptive Controller or the Playstation Access controller which is an important aspect of inclusivity in games. That being said I can not yet promise a release on the associated consoles, but it is something that I want to look into. In the upcoming weeks I aim to do more QA and polish work on Lab 77, as I still am awaiting the input of the work done on music, artwork, sound design and voice acting.

I have also spent the last two weekends working on my "little" project "The Story Of E. Rose". I am happy to say that I have now been able to implement the full functionality of the game, but a lot of polish is still needed. If you are interested in learning more about this you can do so in the #sneak-peeks channel on Discord, which you can access through becoming a Special Supporter on Patreon (patreon.com/DistilledProductionsLimited).

Lastly, I have decided to include one more benefit for the Special Supporter tier on Patreon. From now on you will be able to get any games uploaded to itch.io by Distilled Productions Limited through the Discord, the first of which will be "The Story Of E. Rose".

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

Thank you for reading.

- Olav