Mesh's Museum

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Added the beatdown ability, which unleashes more punches based on how many melee abilities are in your moveset.

It's easy to punch when you can just grow more arms.

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Polished up the sounds + fx for the Dreadhorse, a powerful minigun-wielding centaur creature.

It didn't have a wire skeleton, so this was my best solution for posing...

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A bit of organic interior design. Had a lot of fun making the skull props for this area.

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Ended up balancing the multi-projectile reflect by having parries damage your weapon's durability. It won't break until the animation finishes though, so you can reflect any number of bullets at once.

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Found a bug where you can reflect multiple projectiles at once, but I'm tempted to keep it in...

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Working on the intro cutscene

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Made it so if you stun multiple enemies, you can execute them all at once for a big score bonus

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Stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself!

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Playing around with an execution mechanic, where you can finish off stunned enemies. I don't think he was using that anyway...

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Given the player forms all of their weapons by eating enemies' flesh, I made the guns look a lot more organic and fleshy. Otherwise still been working away at the tutorial level and general polishing.

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Started work on the factory environments. Making the machinery textures from clay was a lot of fun

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Cycle of life

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Added some new gib graphics and optimised the particle system. Made enemies always explode into giblets when you kill them to test it out.

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Welcome...

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Worked on some spawn animations for the enemies. Still working away at finishing up the tutorial + intro area

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Working on some more city environments and made the lighting a little gloomier.

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Improved the transition animation that plays between rooms. The sprites and effects also get more intense the higher your combo meter is!