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Devlog - July

 🔥 THIS SUMMER, WE’RE COOKING 🔥 ### (It’s really hot outside..) Howdy y'all! Welcome to a big catch-up devlog covering most of what the team has cooked up between the last update and **early July** 👽 So, what’s been happening behind the curtain? Let’s take a look! *Keep in mind that everything below is **WORK IN PROGRESS** and might not ship as shown. We’re still cookin’ for now!* ## The Zurkers keep crawling out of the spaceship Our new sci-fi invader faction, the **Zurkers**, keeps on growing! Their faces are a bit glitchy for now, since we still haven’t managed to get them to sign a release form for their image rights. (Actually, we’re still in the early stages of the army and have a LOT of work to do before showing anything too detailed to you all.)  *Concepts & 3D models by @Capp and @MashArt / Textures and rigs by @Adrian* ## New exploration POIs: Lighthouses A new family of **Lighthouse ** points of interest is now scattered across the maps. If you’re careful enough with your jumps, you’ll learn a lot more about your surroundings! Instead of getting the Anvil, Refiner, and Copy Press revealed for free on the minimap, you’ll now have to climb lighthouses and water towers, then play a minigame to reveal the whole map! The idea is to reward decision-making, not pure luck. You can still stumble onto any hidden structure by exploring on foot, but a lighthouse will light your way with ease. ***This feature is still WIP and needs some balancing and polish (sounds, VFX)*** [carousel autoadvance="true"]   [/carousel]  *Level Design by @Promium / Level Art by @Erton* ## The Jungle map needs some explorers! Mysterious places have been spotted deep in the Jungle… A questline has been added! Explore 3 underground dungeons and collect all the ancient scrolls to unlock the brand-new Hellfire map! *There’s also a secret, but since it’s a secret, I can’t tell you there’s one.* [carousel autoadvance="true"]    [/carousel] *Level Design by @Promium / Level Art by @Erton* ## The Hellfire map The **Hellfire** map is almost done, and it’s already crawling with Cryptics waiting to ambush you. [carousel autoadvance="true"]    [/carousel] *Level Design & Level Art by @Erton* ## The Redwood Forest map Work has started on a brand-new map: a **giant redwood forest**. Think towering trees wrapped in climbable wooden platforms, with vertical paths to fight your way through. Very early days for now! [carousel autoadvance="true"]    [/carousel] *Level Design & Level Art by @Erton* ## Melee weapons… are COMING! It’s time to get up close and personal, don’t you think? A whole rack of **melee weapons** is cooking! We’re still working out exactly how they’ll play and how to balance them with the rest of the game, which is why there’s not much footage to show just yet! [carousel autoadvance="true"]    [/carousel] *Concepts & 3D models by @Capp and @MashArt / Textures and rigs by @Adrian*  ## Skins? SKIIIIIIIIIINS! The art team has also whipped up some fresh skins!  *Original fanart by community member @Swolf, reworked and modeled by @Capp - The Aviator*  *Concept & 3D model by @MashArt - Bullet Bob! The new weapon smith!*  *Concept & 3D model by @Capp - Arizona Jones, the Jungle quest NPC!*  Rig by @Adrian ## A new element? Definitely. A most-requested one? For sure. I’ll just leave you with a screenshot that should be more than enough of a visual clue to guess what it is.  And since I love to cultivate mystery, I’m sending this one along too. (It’s a shield.) (This is no longer a mystery.) (The shield mechanic is coming.)  ## Jokers. More Jokers. And after that, even more Jokers. We’re adding some quality-of-life improvements to Jokers! We’re also cooking up a *LOT* (30+) of new Jokers, some designed specifically to make melee builds viable. It’s a first step toward our bigger goal of diversifying builds!   ## Two new members on the team! We’ve had two fresh faces join the crew recently! **PROmium ** is here to handle a whole bunch of level design and programming stuff, from quests to enemies and more. The man fears nothing. ** Teeto ** will handle everything tech-related, meaning more programming stuff, but not the same kind of programming stuff. There are a lot of different kinds of programming stuff, you know. He’s currently working on our network, a Discord integration, a Twitch integration, and a lot more internal tools to make our lives at Evil Raptor easier! ## Thanks for readin' There’s still plenty we’re working on that didn’t make it into this devlog, but for now, that’s it for this peek behind the curtain! 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