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Mik is a story-driven & fast-paced first person jump & run game in which you explore a detailed & interactable abandoned facility. Run on walls, jump over cliffs and find out about the past of Revelo Robotics.

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Mik Devlog 6

Feb 1

Heya,

It´s the first of the Month, and with that another Mik devlog!
First of all, Mik passed 1300 Wishlists even tho I really neglected doing any Marketing the past few Weeks, which is pretty cool!

Also I have discord now so go join: https://discord.gg/R6fAPVCqbw

I´ve been able to work way more on the game the past Month as exam season is over (still no new Levels tho). Here´s a quick overview:

(almost) finished revelOS (the new custom (but fake) OS for the PCs you can find around the world)
changed Player Movement and started adding new gameplay elements
Volumetric Lighting!
localisation
leaves, vines & nature!

Revel OS

The custom operation system that I´ve mentioned last Devlog is now (almost) finished. The only thing missing is a proper way for it to react with the outside world (open doors, turn on lights... stuff like that). I´ve already talked about the Idea/concept behind it so go read that if you´re interested.

The Hardest part about making this was that I had to write my custom text styling and layout since I decided to do everything on the code side, meaning that the text is changed on runtime and it needs to know where to put text, not to put text over one another etc...
This was complicated by the fact that I also worked on a localisation system but more on that later.

Here´s a rundown on what it can do:

User System (each User also has their own logs)
User Perms (can´t do anything with perms rn tho)
Login with different Users
Menu Navigation
Launch & Display Applications
localisation

TL;DR: you can Login and open device specific Applications. The whole Application System is built modularly so each PC can have their own Applications. The only finished Application right now is "Personal Logs". Which allows you to view User associated personal logs (like a diary).

There is the menu page of the App where you can Navigate using the Arrow keys. With Up & Down you can select different logs. With the left & right keys you can switch the page to view more Logs.

Selecting & pressing enter on a Log will expand it and show it´s entire contents.

The only thing missing functionally wise is the ability to interact with the game world, like open a door or turn on a light (working on it rn tho). Apart from that I want to add actual content to the OS so it does not feel like a waste to have spent so much time developing it.
More in-dev Videos on my discord btw.

Player Movement changes

I started balancing&changing the movement as I did not like that you could easily get insane speed. There is also a differentiation between spriting & walking now. Here´s all the changes so far:

slowed general player speed
made jumps weaker
added sprinting
added wall jumping - difference to wall running being that it can be performed on any wall
added 2 gameplay elements. One pushes you away when clicking on it and the other one allows you to perform stronger wall jumps

Volumetric Lighting

I mentioned last Devlog that I´m trying to switch Render Pipelines, but that didn´t end up going anywhere because of bugs with the converter and the fact that I´d have to rework tons of shaders, materials, post processing stuff for it to work.

But fear not, as I have still found a way to implement volumetric lighting! At first I wanted to code it myself, so I used a 7 year old Github repo as a base but I realised that it would take way too much effort to maintain & optimise it so I chose to use a proprietary system.

There´s not much to talk about so just enjoy the screenshots (these are only tests btw, the implementation in the finished game might be different):

Localisation

I have added a localisation system into the game which is a mix of Unitys localisation solution and my own code. I chose to do this now since it would be a gigantic pain to add it later on when im already finished with revelOS and I´d have to rework it. It was still hard enough to get it working for the OS now since the text is created/loaded on runtime.

Nature

Last but not least: Nature!
I´ve wanted to add vines/leaves/grass to the game for a while since the whole theme is this abandoned facility. A large inspiration for this is the start of Portal 2 where everything is overgrown & destroyed.

Here are some pictures (once again just tests):

[imghttps://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images/44485089/8b3275d39b120142a6be2571e2061823464e9a83.png[/img]

You can´t see it on the pictures but the leaves move in the air to look more convincing. I´m also working on a effect where when you walk into the plants, they move (like in rdr2 or cyberpunk).
Currently there is just one type of leaves but I want to add some variation, grass and maybe some different plants.

That´s it with this Months devlog!

Sadly I can´t upload videos here (except embed youtube Videos) so if you are interested in more indev footage be sure to join my discord.
https://discord.gg/JXn6Xa4VC4

Also follow me on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/@stefaaan06

Mik

Mik Devlog 5

Jan 1

Heya,

It´s the first of the month, and not only that but it´s also 2024! The year where this game will (hopefully) be released. To start things of in this years first Devlog: Mik hit 1000 wishlists, which is amazing! Appart of that, I have been working on both Mik and a secret side project of mine yet to be revealed...

anyways here we go (yes this devlog is a lot of text):

Code rework

Like mentioned in last months devlog, I started reworking much of the older unstable and quite frankly shitty code to be more modular and not break all the time. Most notably I reworked the whole way levels are loaded but I won´t bore you with all the details and scripts I changed (I´d also be too lazy to even write all of that down).

Main Menu rework (again)

I added a few new features to the Main Menu:

1. New level loading&loading screen like previously mentioned
2. New Image pixelation fx
3. New scroll bar fx
4. Glow for all text

1. Go to "Code Rework" to read more.

2, Unlike before, where there would be little blocks appear in front of the Images to give the illusion of a pixelation effect, the Images are actually getting pixelated now, meaning that the texture is getting manipulated directly. I did this to make the effect more convincing and versatile to use.

Here is the source code if anyone is interested: https://github.com/Stefaaan06/Unity-Image-Pixelator

3. The scroll bar now has animations when loaded in/out (see more on the video linked below)

4. All the UI in the main menu has a nice glow now!

Video on Twitter: https://x.com/Stefaaan06/status/1741058018018545802

Custom OS

As you may know, the game had some computers. Mostly just models standing around with text on them and not being intaractable, with a few input panels scattered around in the game to allow for little puzzles. I didn´t like that the computers couldn´t be interacted with tho so I set out on a journy to create a costum ingame (fake) operating system.
Now you might be thinking to yourself that this is largely a waste of time and won´t benefit the game that much compared to say... finishing the actual game. I´d agree BUT the beauty of being an independent game developer is that I can just do whatever I want!

Tho I´m aware that making even a realistic fake of an operating sytem would take ages, so my goal is to make it semi convincing and modular. The main goals are: a User system with custom logs for each user. A semi modular application system so I can create different (gameplay related) applications for different locations. And make all of that interactable by the player. Meaning that if the player has access to an Admin account he should be able to delete other accounts, delete logs... etc..... and maybe (very big maybe) even create custom applications? (not sure about this one since it would take even more time to create).

Switching render-pipelines

This is more of an "experimental" thing, but I have started the process of switching from Unity´s built in, to Unity´s Universal Render Pipeline (URP) which is one of the Scriptable Render Pipelines. I made this decision after yearly Unity-event where they announced new features for URP which could be quite useful for this game. Some older features are also not available on the built in render pipeline like Decals or custom render calls.

I said that this is an experimental thing because I don´t even know the results of how the project will look yet. To convert a project from one render pipeline to another one must use a tool to convert many assets, which can take ages if your game is moderatly large, so I have been stucking converting for 100 hours (I wish I were joking...)

TLDR; I started switching Unity render pipelines to get new updates, better optimisation, some new features and a scriptable render pipeline.

Year In Review

As you all now, 2023 has come to a close, so I decided to make a little edit documenting my gamedev progress over this year:

Thats it with this Devlog. Let´s hope that by the end of this year the game will be out and stay tuned for new sneak peeks regarding my rework of a certain old game of mine....

If you´re interested in the game follow me on twitter and join my discord:
https://www.twitter.com/@stefaaan06
https://discord.gg/JXn6Xa4VC4

Mik

Mik Devlog 4

Dec 2, 2023

Heya!

Sorry for the delay but here is Devlog 4. There wasn´t a lot of progress made because of some other projects I had but we´ll come to that later.
First: The game passed 200, 400, 600 and almost 700 Wishlists all in one month! We went from 191 to now 668 Wishlists which is amazing!

More Polish

I´ve spent a bit of time continuing to polish the levels so there can be a Demo soon.

This time I reworked the last part of Level 1, which you may know from older pictures (it was the one with the Green atmosphere but i scrapped that).
It now fits the theme of the game better and a I also added a few new areas.

...and thats it with the progress this month

Plans for the Future

So how will the development continue? Here is the stuff planned for the next month:

Migrate the Game from Unitys VCS to GitHub
- simply because it is cheaper and it has more features.
Rework most gameplay systems.
- essentially all important gameplay systems are outdated and not modular at all (for example I have like 3 Scripts for opening doors).
Continue polishing levels

The goal is to get out a Demo of the game in the near future, while also allowing me to quickly expand the Game with new levels by having modular code.

GithubGameOff2023

This month I participated in the GithubGameOff2023 gamejam, where I developed the game Aeterna.

"Embark on a non-Euclidean odyssey in Aeterna, a puzzle-parkour game set in an endlessly looping world. Explore mind-bending landscapes, solving puzzles, and going trough parkour challenges."

The game turned out really cool and I learned a ton of stuff, including how to ride proper modular Event Systems, meaning that I can just incorporate them into this game.

Play here: https://stefaaan06.itch.io/aeterna

Source files: https://github.com/Stefaaan06/aeterna

Mono Space

As a side note: I have been helping to develop this game, and it´s on steam now! Consider wishlisting it if you´re interested in puzzle-platformers

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2710430/MonoSpace/

That´s it with this months Devlog. Hopefully there will be more to talk about next month,

Cheers.

Mik

Socials

Heya, here are my socials: Twitter (X): https://www.twitter.com/@stefaaan06 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@stefaaan06 Discord: https://discord.gg/YP3JUmpS Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stefaaan06 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stefaaaan06 Ill also be active in the steam forums regularly, so ask away (in the FAQ thread)....

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Aug 12, 2023 @ 3:37am

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FAQ - Frequently asked questions

Heya, developer here. This is quick FAQ page with some questions Ive been asked. If you have more questions comment them down below. Questions Will the game be coming to switch? - 100% no due to hardware limitations Will the game be coming to other consoles? - there are no plans for that yet Will there be controller support? - probably not at launch but later down the road What FPS does the game run on? - it depends on your hardware, but it will run to up to 140FPS How much will the game ...

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Aug 12, 2023 @ 3:32am

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