Day 1 patch and shout outs

Hey everyone, here's a little update.

Framerate

I saw a few comments about framerate issues and wanted to provide the best experience I could.

So, I've been altering how the game loads chunks and handles lighting and should hopefully run a lot smoother. Special thanks to my friend Connor who helped me out today (go check out his stuff here: https://studiovoid.itch.io/)

If framerate issues continue to persist I'll try and review my optimisation further, but fingers crossed it should be much more bearable.

Menu

After making some assets for the itch page, I went back and added proper backgrounds to the menus to make them seem more professional.

Future

A lot of people are excited for a full build of this game, while I do have some ideas on how to take this prototype forward I also need to finish and upload my other university prototypes to itch. I also have an upcoming game jam with Connor, so updates for this game might be slow for a few months - but I do hope to come back and finished this little indie horror game when my other commitments are behind me.

Special shout out

Thank you so much to June for shouting me out in their last update, and for all the feedback and support they've provided. If you haven't already go check out their zines, essays and interactive fiction at https://juniperc.itch.io/

And a special shout out to everyone whose checked out my game and given feedback - it's heart whelming to see all the support THANK YOU SO MUCH, I LOVE SEEING ALL THE VIDEO PLAYTHROUGHS* <3

*hopefully with less intense framerate drops ;)