After the facial animation team from LA Noire blew up, it doesn't seem like there's been a lot of interest in revisiting the technology. But I wonder if integrating video is truly the way forward to get the best human performance possible in a polygonal environment.

Picking up multiple things works by holding the interaction button (spacebar) and only works for like objects. This is a design idea I've been kicking around for a while to make an "inventory-less" AC game. Digging and chopping trees is mapped to the Z key.

It's been fun to "rectangle" out the game and kinda shows what you can do with simple shapes and tweening. I like animating in the prototype like this because you can more or less drop in textures later, and it helps flesh out timing in the game logic early to reduce refactoring.

I am enjoying the ECS implementation Bevy has. Building this was a lot of fun, and relatively simple (1 day of work). Think I might continue adding features to the game.

And it's open-source! Here's the source code: github.com/no1hitjam/10breat…

I feel like Jacob's Ladder has some of the most beautiful and powerful scenes of any movie, but in it's own kind of cheesy 90's way, where sometimes you roll your eyes, but then it just hits you so hard. SH2 managed to do that too.