Hello there! It's been a while as we have been chipping away at PRESS REKORD and are now working towards the final stretch - the Gold build!

So, where are we now?

Thanks to Beta feedback and guidance from our project Supervisor, we have made many improvements... The biggest changes included:

• Altering a good bit of the Dialogue lines - giving more context to the story & making Kat more believable/not so up and down emotionally!
• Added more 'Live-Streaming' UI artwork including View Finder lines and a Camera-themed border
• Due to the confusion of the Emoji Hit Counter/Reactor (playtesters not realising what its purpose was) and for the purposes of aligning more to the 'Live-Streaming' aesthetic, we have changed this feature to a Comments Box! The emojis as still there, however, we now have 'monster' gibberish language texts that appear beside them - reminiscent of a genuine Live-Stream.
• A static Quest Objective bar that stays on-screen - letting the player know what they need to do always
• Decorated the Introduction Scene & Paced out the Introduction Dialogue better!
• We also added more interactable Dialogue moments - Kat can talk to the Hub Area Doors and a Hole in the Wall!

We just did a Pre-Gold Playtest with students from our college. We were delighted to see that all our new changes above were welcomed and received very well by our playtesters. Overall, they seemed even more enthusiastic about the characters (and some related to them), they loved the Live-Stream UI Aesthetics (including new Comments Box), found the extra Dialogue moments hilarious and felt very powerful while dashing especially. They also gave us pointers on our combat feel and other small issues that we are sorting out now.

We are now going into our final week of work - we are currently adding in the Final Boss sprites, the Train sprite, Train Conductor Dialogue Sprite & a new Battery Health Pick-up Sprite. All that's left for us to do next week is to make sure our Game Options/Player Preferences Options are running smoothly and to create a Gold Trailer! 

Check in with us next week to see PRESS REKORD - the GOLD build!! In the meantime though, you can check out our previous blog on how our Beta build went: Beta Build Reveal, Journey & Pre-Beta Playtest

Thank you for reading and we are excited to show you our next build VERY SOON!

Megan. :)