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Ladders and Mantling

Hey guys! While a lot of recent work has been on things behind the scenes, we have started to develop some new traversal mechanics. Compound Fracture has and always will be a game about moving slowly and with intent. This means no jumping, sprinting, wall running, or anything of that nature. However...

Sploinkable Objects

I want to talk about some of the minor interactions that are available to the player. As a word of warning, many of the effects that follow are work in progress placeholders.The most basic type is the SHOOTABLE THING. These are often just for flavour, where we just want to acknowledge that the playe...

Gameplay

Hey everyone!We've been really busy as has become usual for us, but as you've probably noticed we've been neglecting our beautiful patrons. We want to share some of what we've been working on, but be aware that this is only an internal test demo, and most of this won't appear in ...

A Post About Writing Compound Fracture

Hey everyone, Cyrus here. Lately we’ve been working on some less exciting things. We moved over to a new version control system, Austin has been blocking out levels and Pete has been knocking out some of the less glamorous systems like saving and loading, menus, and world states persisting across ...

Toolin' Around

Happy new year! I'm Pete and I handle the majority of the programming on Compound Fracture.This month I'm going to show some of our editor tooling, and talk about why being able to make our own little editor tools has been really useful. This is going to touch on a lot of different parts of ...

The Journey to the New SMG Model

Hey guys, Austin here again; this time with a deep dive into how the weapons of Compound Fracture are designed/chosen and how/why we ended up completely changing the SMG.PART_1: THE SHOTGUNIt all started with the SPAS-12 shotgun model, created in May 2020.This shotgun model is so old, it essentially...

New Screenshots + Feature

Hi guys, Austin here.Sorry for such a long delay. We've been hard at work on mostly invisible improvements/reworks which makes it hard to find something worth doing a Patreon post about. The dinosaur AI and pathfinding system has needed a complete rework which has eaten a lot of time but will be...

Trailer Music Start to Finish

Hi everyone, this is Cyrus. This is coming a bit late, but I wanted to give you all a behind the scenes look at the trailer music. Click the links for the versions I'm talking about and I’ll have download links at the end for the final track and the version I decided not to go with.The song is...

Update #1

Hi everyone!For the past few weeks we've been busy working on a new trailer that will premiere at Realms Deep 2021. It will feature some of the mechanics and areas that have not been previously shown off and we're excited for everyone to see a glimpse of them.With the trailer complete we are...