So for those who have not been spying on the discord (which is where you should be at all times - the link is on our About page), Titan Tunnels has had a major renaissance recently, which has resulted in a lot of focused effort to clean up. I have been regretfully ignoring Broken Build Simulator for several weeks as I focused on getting this to a more stable place. But anyway, the upgrade is that this is the first Lunatic Engine game to be in a higher resolution! It's 1280x720 instead of 640x480 now, and that makes for so much new fun.
(With so much resolution I actually have to thumbnail the images, click for bigger!)
Of course, the environment is still totally unpolished, and fully lit despite being a cave, and the weird red pillar is temp art for stairs leading up. But the HUD is cool looking! And things aren't too small onscreen, I think they just have enhanced cuteness. So I've been sort of diving into different menus and elements to make them make sense in the new resolution. Here's where the skill screen is currently:
Of course my character only has 3 skill trees at this point. When you have all 8, it fills the whole screen with a nice grid of icons (there are 10 trees total, but I don't think any class will have access to all of them. It does look fine with 10 though). There's also something going on with that little socket in the skill bar, but that's a tale for another day. I'm just having fun throwing in all my ideas and exploring.
What that means is that the game is in a very rough state. It's a combination of building out all the basic features, but at the same time having to cut away the old stuff from LL2 (but not all of it, of course!) so nothing is very clean as brand new tech collides against 20 year old code and entire vestigial features that I can't quite delete yet, and some of which I can't delete at all because it's still part of the game. It gets really tricky with things that are kept in lists, and I'd love to organize the lists better and delete some old stuff and new stuff... but every time I do that, it completely trashes my saved games because those are saved lists. So there's just a lot of clunky weirdness that has to stay inside my brain at all times. It's fun though!
