The Jam Maker
Yes that’s right! Make Jam. A new fundamental and core system added to Swindonshire.
Here’s a video with some ideas on how to farm for berries to make jam.
We are expanding our range of objects throughout the world and of course thinking about their value. This is all important mechanics that will make Law and Order have more depth… I hope it’s all starting to make a bit more sense now.
More Persistence with Collectables
This is a feature upgrade. Have you ever been familiar with scenes like this:
You have just been on a kill Rampage and there is just so much stuff to collect, but if you walk too far away it will all be gone?
Not any more…
(Here’s the boring game dev bit) Lots of physics objects = bad for runtime, especially when they are left just hanging around. So Gaz decided that cleaning them up after you went away would be a “normal” thing to do. But what if you need to go back to the hideout to get the vacuum or you got killed while fighting a load of zombies? Since the objects are becoming increasingly valuable, we found a way to make them persist in the session. They won’t stay if you refresh Swindon (i.e., go to moon or sewer) but the objects should stick around and wait for you to collect them.
Time To Mount UP!
Unlock the Saddle Launcher (with jam jars). You should be able to shoot any living thing with it to add a saddle and ride it…
When you mount up, it might be easier to visit places you could not get to before.
But be careful.
Team up in the Sewer.
We’ve put some chainsaws in the sewer and a vacuum to make collecting things off the dead in the sewer more productive.
’Cos zombies carry loot too.
We don’t know what the fastest way to gather “stuff” is yet — what are you doing?
First Pathogen Dart Gun
We won’t tell you how to get it, but like the saddle launcher the gun will appear in the hideout when unlocked.
You can infect just about anything with a pathogen dart gun.
And try new things.
Yeah… there have been Fixes
There have been fixes and there are a few new outfits and unlockables and more Magic! I won’t go into detail. One notable fix is to make the treads on the tanks more deadly — and the tank shot explosions too.
As we move towards Law and Order and “1.0” (which is very close now) we are also refining some of the core components. Jam jars, saddles and pathogen darts all work with various aspects of the evolving tech that drives frog life in Swindonshire.
Unity 6
This was also another major step for us since we have moved the project to Unity 6 — this allows us to future proof the game and Unity 6 is very much becoming a requirement for us to roll out the console version when we hit 1.0 with Law and Order.
Also we should be “delivering” a new update very soon.
