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In case you missed it in the newsletter! We might still tweak the timing of the sounds.

Coding

• Updated basic ground movement logic based on playtesting feedback.
  • Made turns much more responsive.
  • Improved the acceleration/deceleration logic.
  • Improved logic to help with paws "sticking" to the ground rather than sliding.

Ground movement has been a sticking point for awhile, and we're happy it's feeling better! (Even if only to prevent testers from going insane from slow turning (@_@))

• Added in basic Venna logic and spawners again to help with playtesting.
• Tested basic networking starting points -- currently it's failing tests (as expected), though with fewer breaking points than we anticipated (it's probably fine to have a bug that crashes the game any time a player leaves the server, right?)
• Did most of the work for camera effects when diving, namely a small FOV change that enhances your feeling of speed. Note that you will be able to disable camera effects in the game for motion sickness.
• Minor movement bugfixes.
  • Falling now should "stick" less to objects.
  • Falling-> Walking is a bit less temperamental (though it still needs some debugging).

Art & Audio

• Started cleaning up the 2D concept of a Scoria skin to make it ready for 3D painting.
• Did some concept work on future post-demo wyrms.
• Made more progress on the loading screen event art. It's in the detailing phase and will soon begin colouring!
• Finished up the audio for Iceclaw's Friendly call! We might still tweak the timing of it. Which real-world animal do you think inspired the call and animation?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BP9BZjc5rKo

Thanks for reading! The next newsletter will be on August 7.