Crazy Science Owls

Working and working! You have no right to criticise me if youre a ahit shipper/yumeshipper https://www.youtube.com/@TheLaboratoryArchive

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Well look at that another progress report very nice that were getting there.

Well I won't dilly dally anymore let's get into it!!

SIKE!!! This isn't a progress report!! This post is about celebrating my mods birthday!

Or so it was planned. But as you might guess this got posted a little earlier

On the 9th of July 2025 I've started this project as a simple level mod which actually wasn't about reimagining the earlier chapter plot for Battle of the Birds at all!

However the project just evolved into what it is now over time and honestly I'm happy with the progress and all the custom assets I've created for this mod, especially considering that I was working solo with minor texture and art help from my boyfriend.

By the way for others wondering what the current act progress is, act 4 had been finished and I would've worked more on act 5 and 3.... However things aren't always sunshine and rainbows and I feel like I should be honest to myself and reflect on my workflow and the future of my mod because if I'm honest a lot had happened last month alone and I'm not proud for most of it or what others have done.

This mod is especially dear to me but unfortunately I don't have the same kind of energy as I used to have a year ago especially since I had just gotten out of school and was practically just full of free time and without a job to hinder me I just worked on the mod nonstop. But now I have less time and a whole job which in most cases brings me home tired. This of course shouldn't be an excuse for the lack of content and motivation I have however my job isn't the only factor in this.

Recently (especially the last few months) I've drasticly lost interest in A Hat in Time mainly due to personal issues and the fandom as a whole. And I just didn't feel the same joy I once had for the game and especially for my former favourite character, Conductor. It evolved so much that the mention of the game or him just gave me mixed feelings and even after trying to "factory reset" my perception of ahit and Conductor these past few days it didn't work out at all. So as a last straw I just stopped interacting or doing anything related to hattytime in an effort to at least preserve a potential future interest I might have with the game and its characters.

So whats going to happen to the mod? Will it be cancelled or will someone else work on it?

Honestly I have no idea what to do with the mod at all but it certainly isn't cancelled. It's moreso postponed indefinitely.

I will probably take a bit of a break from anything hat related since this whole year of when I worked on the mod really just messed with me mentally to a point where I'd just agonise myself over tiny details and replacing and remaking models for specific sections over and over again, contemplating if I should even replace said assets with custom once and my personality especially compared to when I started to mod has changed so drasticly too.

That's what I have decided on, however I might check up on the tumblr in... a few years...

Was a fun journey but it really screwed me up so thank you to everyone else and thanks for nothing to the people that I dislike

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as somebody who's been trying to compile cut content info on the wiki, seeing the trainwreck of science mod youre working on is SOOOOO COOL!!! I wish everybody good luck with the project, it looks awesome!!!!

thanks bro take these as a token of bravery to talk to the almighty me

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Man........

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Welcome back to another stunning episode of me modding. Today with another progress report. I'll keep the introduction short so let's jump right into it. ACT1/2 floor overhaul The floor for the desert in the earlier 2 acts has been fully overhauled. It now has more detail and now is able to fully loop just like the canyon can in the full game. Thanks to this the fog on the front and rear ends is no longer needed making the scene look way larger.

Murder on the Science Express Changes/Updates All voicelines are now added to MotSE and things such as timed conversations have been changed. Conductor's suspect polaroid has changed, now being a remake of the original from MotOE The Boarding cutscene has also recieved the newer ground model as well as updated cactus assets

Theres now also a new furnace model for the boiler room and the train's exterior models have recieved a new lightmap (totally not because I broke it) Act Three Development started Act three (Off the Rails) has begun development. Right now the intro has been finished. Later on the main gameplay (which is ship shape) will be implemented into the act.

The Train Operator gets some tools! The operator was the only npc that I havent directly changed in one way or another. Because of this he looked rather basic and just had some random tools in his pants, now this was changed! He now has tools around his pants just like on a tool belt.. but without the belt. He also got a book and a few pens.. the book however is a bit interesting...

Moon Decorating Finished The Moon has finally been finished and overhauled from it's original incarnation which was, to be fair, quite terrible as the main asset (the floor) was just floor flipped 4 times. Now however its an actual floor custom made for the level.

The level has also been fully decorated and npcs have been added. There arent any enemies right now, neither are there any collectibles. The level will get slight changes however such as npcs moving from where they were in the previous act or newer things appearing and dissapearing depending on which act you currently are in. But as it is right now that is how the level looks, I might change/add/remove a few things and work on making it a little bit more optimised with draw distance and what not but for now I deem the level as done. And for the people who want a little more there is a video that shows camera cinematics in the moon. Check it out here: https://youtu.be/vRe2DSpZMO8 Something interesting thouugh is how the main area didnt change that much. smh....

Short post. I know, I know but hey at least its something. Had to take a two month break so yknow at least theres progress.

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Screenshotting my comments/semi liveblog from the spaceship/train rush video showcase just in case YouTube is buggy with them bc sometimes sending multiple comments at once get eaten on accident lolol,,,, I’m in autism heaven rn ty for ur service (feeding hat game cut content autism while also combining with the final game seamlessly and subsequently improving/fixing some of the final game plot holes (see: the train self destruction being a actual plot thing and not just “whoops Hattie you just stepped on the conveniently placed self destruction button Oopsies!” And as I said making Mus mirrored events of ALSO trying to get back/collect the time pieces before you be a present plot thread that impacts hat as she goes and accidentally gives her bad rep that helps sell everyone being so mean to her for no reason LOL😭 like man. Just. It’s such a small change but it helps SO MUCH GODDDD I LOVE THIS. SHAKES YOU. YOU UNDERSTAND THE VISION TYYYYY AAUUUUUUHG))

Thanks, again, for this ask (and the comments)! While the whole schtick with mu being on the train before hat kid was just for act 1 I kinda wanted to make a few npcs throw a few remarks at hat kid talking about how she looks like mu and what she might've done on the train before hat kid arrived. What I was doing though is make a few npcs reference previous events that happened in the mod, mainly science owls and conductor talking about Train Rush during the intro of Murder. Also! Thanks for the nice comment on the writing, even though it wasn't my intention to be as close as the main game with the writing especially for the stuff on the spaceship it kind of snowballed into it because I just played too much hattytime while growing up!

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HAIIII I LOVE THIS MOD IDEA SM i esp love the added changes to the models to make them more distinct/different it makes things feel super lived in character wise if that makes any sense hehes

as a fellow beta ahit obsesse I’m assuming you already know Shane Frosts cut content for the train wreck of science but even then I thought I’d include a link to my playlist that has all his beta interp compiled together! (Animatics + comics!) for some ease of access! :3€ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcsHWfp4LXnkzRiJo8wvJEX-zdOi9enA7

Thanks for the ask!! Nice that someone else notices the model changes Also yea! I'm a huge fan of shane's work, even if he got a bit stale and that the furries got to him over time. But I'm still a huge fan of his art and general works! A room and their textures also got inspired by the comic

I also was working on a little secret level, in which it would basically tell the entire comic's story but a little extended and with an actual ending. It was also suppose to have a weirdly disfigured long owl stalking you and white shapeshifter attacking you, but due to it being a secret level and me being unable to code this was quickly dropped and only the outside and caboose were made.

Also, considering the comic. There's three science owl versions directly inspired by their design!

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Hello everyone, I'm back! And I got some good progress today that I wanted to talk about, so I decided to make this it's little thing that I'll keep posting, that being a progress report, in which I report on what kind of stuff I've added/removed/changed from the mod!

First of all, the most important part, Murder on the Science Express has been finally finished. I took these 3 days to finish up all the endings, the intro and even added helper hat entities for the intro section if a few people get lost!

Theres also now two videos (hehe self plug) that showcase Train Rush, MotSE and the spaceship hub for the mod. Video for the Spaceship Hub and Train Rush: https://youtu.be/cbk1qB9w3GU Video for Murder on the Science Express: https://youtu.be/fmj4UH1qcfY

Multiple rooms have also gotten slight changes and got generally more props or npcs put into them to make them feel more busy and lively.

Speaking of spaceship hub, that's a thing now. Now you can enter the main hall of the spaceship, as oppose to only the machine room and gallery as it was in the older version of the hub for my mod.

Another area has been added, and that is the early spaceship laboratory! There's also the kitchen with an extra table as in concept art and Sand N' Sails hallway instead of alpine's but it's blocked off by plants...

This area was only in concept art, but now its here, and it replaces the current laboratory and the gallery's position. (Don't worry, its still on the spaceship) The planet has also been slightly updated, now having Sand N' Sails added with Alpine Skyline, making it the definitive planet (in my opinion.)

Now hmmm, what else do we have... Oh yea that's right! The Lazy Paw!!

I've been working hard to give these guy's a bit more character. Due to them being a major plot point for an act. So, I set myself a goal to finish these guy's during the end of my break before I continued on finishing Act 2, so these two versions of the Lazy Paw came out! In my opinion they are pretty good! Their general theme is slightly pirate themed, mainly due to a vote on the behalf of me and vic and due to their clothing being slightly pirat-y

The cat's will get a few fur patterns and a few recolors, they'll also have 5 headband colors! Them being: Red, Blue, Green, Yellow and Cyan! I might change their cloth colors to something else but as of right now those will be the colors. Their eyes have also been given an upgrade! Now instead of being static the eyeris can actually move and the eyes can close and reopen, just like on any other NPC!

Also slight sidenote! During my break I finished windwaker HD and really got inspired by the forsaken fortress' spotlights, while in my version they probably wont due much other then... light the area up it'd still look nice! And it would fit with the fact that hat kit gets imprisioned when caught and lost her weapons/hats, just like link loosing his sword and getting thrown in jail when caught! So here's a lil test of how the light's would work in hattytime, they even move around!

Anyways, that is all the progress I have for you guys today! I'll maybe do work on act 3 a bit and then take another lil break and work on the moon some more. But take this image of all the cameras for the caboose and an image while I was in the process of changing the lighting and such for act 3.

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I'm back at it again. This post is singlehandedly dedicated to this silly lil lad I recently god from budies. Look at him,,,,,,, This lil guy CONSUMED my life

But before any mushy stuff gets thrown out, to celebrate this little lad I've made a video of me playing all the available stuff in my mod and explaining it in more detail to give you guys a bit of an insight on how the mod is doing! It even has some work in progress stuff too!

https://youtu.be/5ovfJ_WGwqc Its pretty much just me talking while playing the levels, not much to say. You can watch it here but I'd recommend reading through all of this before watching it. aaanyways. Lottsa visual stuff got changed since the 30th!

The Science Express Cabin and Caboose recieved updated graphics, moreso Train Rush has received a few more graphical improvements, such as added props, fixed cubemaps and materials and particle effects!

Other thing such as the Train Operator showing you the "hat kid" sketch and some dodgy matinee were also reimplemented/revised respectively.

Furthermore the Cabins for the science express now sport three unique versions! (the "windowless versions used in train rush have three unique ones too) The cabin without any pipeboxes are commercial cabins used for things such as the cafeteria, lounge and cabin with the sauna, night cabins ect. The cabin with a singular pipebox is the regular used by all normal cabins inside the science express. The cabin with three pipeboxes is an "advanced" cabin used by two singular rooms. Lab #02 and Lab #01.

A few models have also recieved custom collisions (mainly the cabins)

With this change it is more possible to examin wonky collision and per poly collision is no longer needed. This currently only extends complex custom models where UDK's collision tool cant create good collisions.

Speaking of custom models the control room has recieved a glow up.. in the back. It now sports a full model with pipes, boxes, levers, display and whatever you want else you'd need in such a room!

Some models also recieved updated UV's such as this old asset I've fixed up with a previously unused texture

Two graphisc that are also unused are these two for a screen's texture. Previously before the "VIP Key" got made doors with a special look had to be unlocked with a button, this never really made it past these two textures

Theres also a whole lot of other features which might get expanded upon but currently are only small concepts

And thats all I got, other then rewritten conversation trees for Train Rush (due to moving packages cuz im a big dumb dumb) there isnt really much to talk about.

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Hey! I'm making a little a hat in time mod and I wanted to show you guys the little progress I've been making!

The mod aims to recreate the early plot of Battle of the Birds (formerly known as Trainwreck of Science/Off the Rails) with the little modding knowledge I have! Currently only one act is finished (which is train rush) but other acts are also being worked on! Such as Murder on the Science Express. Speaking of Murder on the Science Express, did you ever wonder what it would be like to be a detective? This version is basically like Murder on the Owl Express but with a twist! More exploration, interaction and a real murder!! Multiple rooms have also been refurnished and remade such as the lounge or cafeteria. Other rooms have also been repositioned/remade from its MotOE counterpart.

This version even features the scrapped Conductor brothers, complete with a redesign done by @grammarrray and also additonal Murder Clue art done, again, by @grammarrray.

In addition, more colors and alternative outfits have been made for a lot of the birds in the chapter, such as the Conductor, Science Owls, CAW agents and moon penguins!

Act progression is very liniar, as it was during the initial development of Battle of the Birds/Trainwreck of Science. You'll visit each of the two locations three times and an additional fourth time on the moon for the boss fight.

As of right now the moon is in early stages. But It'll feature new plot elements such as the scrapped Moon Kittens(Lazy Paw Gang) being on the moon to wreck havoc. And in order to remove your debt from the moon town due to... a "minor damage" done by the Science Express youre now in charge to get rid of the Lazy Paw Gang's plan to sabotage the Big Parade and to also lead the Big Parade. The Club of 20 Groove's is also run by DJ Grooves, who in this version of the plot is a nightclub owner and potential mob boss.

That's all for right now!