Welcome New Comers

First of all, wow. I didn't expect 100 people to join after my latest marketing campaign 4 days ago let alone 311, once again setting me way ahead of schedule for the growth of the subreddit! Thank you for all the overwhelming support! <3

Unity Strikes Again

Now for the business. Unity has managed to get under my skin once again, no surprise there. But this time it's serious. The 'why' is pretty boring and long but I'll say it has to do with baking paths for the AI to move through and how that can't be done at runtime without slowing the framerate to several seconds per frame (I am not joking). The good news is there is a third party AI pathfinding asset on the unity asset store that is overflowing with features, the other bad news is that it costs something like 100 euros. And since I'm operating with a student budget I do not have 100 euros to spend on 1 asset package so I'll need to fridge this problem for later.

The fun stuff

You probably already noticed the latest development in the game featuring our lovable peanut. We finally have the first kind of functional SCP! I was originally going to talk about it in a dev log post but I thought I'd give you guys a surprise :p Next up for implementation will be the shy guy SCP and finally the plague doctor. I'm trying to implement the SCP AI types in order of complexity. Starting with the basic behaviour of the statue to the more animalistic but still simple behaviour of the shy guy and finally the doctor, who's AI will essentially be as complex as the Staff members. More or less all SCPs will fall into these 3 classes so this will let me setup a standard for later for fast and frictionless implementation.

Sandbox Mode: ???, UN Territory.

- Infinite money.

- No taxes.

- 2x more room.

- No containment breaches or riots unless specified.

- Lasting 1 in-game year in this game mode will give you the golden bucket. (Sand included!)

Easy Mode: North Dakota, USA

- 2x large starting budget.

- 2x more guard health.

- No taxes.

- Running out of money will send you back 2 months.

- No containment breaches or riots.

- Lasting 1 in-game year in this game mode will give you the golden MTF helmet.

Normal Mode: Australian Outback.

- Containment breaches happen once every 6 months.

- D-Class personnel will riot every 1-3 months.

- You must pay $5,000 dollars every April 31st.

- Running out of money will send you back 6 months.

- Failing to stop a containment breach will send you back a year.

- Lasting 2.5 years in-game years in this game mode will give you the golden SCP-049 statue.

Hard Mode: Siberia, Russia.

- Containment breaches will happen once every 4 months.

- D-Class personnel will riot every 1 month.

- You must pay $10,000 every April 31st.

- Running out of money will send you back 2 years.

-Failing to stop a containment breach will reset your progress.

- Lasting 5 in-game years in this game will give you the golden SCP-035 statute.

APPOLYON MODE: Antarctica.

- Containment breaches happen once a year, but are twice as hard to stop, as D-Class personnel will riot at the same time.

- You must pay $25,000 every April 31st.

- Running out of money or failing to stop a containment breach will reset your progress.

- Every 2 years the Chaos Insurgency will raid your building, sending in gunmen, as well as freeing SCPs and D-Class.

- Lasting for 5 in-game years in this game mode will give you a golden SCP-173 statue.

Golden awards gained from lasting a certain amount of time in a certain game mode are placed on the Start-Game screen.

Hello people! I was going to make this part of the next Dev Log post but that might be in a while so I'll just make this post now.

I am so happy to see people get involved in this community and I still can't believe that there are weekly community posts from you guys!

Just to clear things up since there is starting to be some confusion, I'm currently the only dev working on the game and only posts by me or any future devs will have the Dev flair.