Hi,

So I've been doing some thinking about how moving between room spaces is an important part of Nascent's DNA. Being able to move between spaces on the X & Z horizontal plane is standard and straight forward, but what if you could open up the play space into height? Being able to move between the rooms vertically and from a game design perspective add layers of rooms? I set to work a few evenings ago thinking it was a straight forward dev task, but it ballooned into all kinds of technical issues.

After a lot of work this feature is finally in place. Finally! Players will now be able to navigate up through layers of rooms which opens up all kinds of possibilities.

Crafting

Thinking more about the player inventory and how items work intertwined with puzzles I've decided to change 'Skills' to 'Tools'. Instead of collecting these, it now relays on the players doing some very light crafting - mainly combining two items to create a tool. I'm keen not to over burden the player in this new element so for now it's quite reductive.

I'm sure this feature will remain into vertical slice's launch, so I'll put this through the VS user tests and see if it lands. Below is a shot of ladders in action, finally some vertical movement!