With asking the player to 'fiddle' with so much within their environment, we want to avoid exhausting them with any interactions that don't offer an immediate benefit to them. This is essentially interaction clean up for the player. If the path of the cupboard door, when the player wishes to open that cupboard, risks colliding with an already open - or slightly open - cupboard door, we'll fire a message off to close that one too.

This is fine for a basic level, but our cupboards want to be smarter than that, next we look at taking into player intent into account. Here, you can see that when the cupboard collides with the player, it takes not of it's current state and stops itself from proceeding any further. I didn't manage to get much done yesterday as I was fiddling with the environment layout for the start, but here's some kitchen appliances to give you an idea of what I'm aiming for with the environments:Ĭlever cupboards should not clip one another or the player All models are sharp edge modified, but this means that the ink edge outline seen on most cell shaded stuff comes out a bit of a mess, so I've removed that from the shader. The Car and Interactive elements are using a modified Toon Shader (Though I'm contemplating swapping it out for a normal diffuse for a number of reasons). It takes two colour values and calculates both their starting and end points and at which point they should intersect. The environments are being done through a simple vertex height shader. I'm not traditionally trained in this stuff, and I'm no shader whiz, so I'm glad it resonates with people as game is being built in Unity - the free addition at the moment, but I'll move over to pro sometime you haven't, I've only placed the executable for Osx online, try this zipped file over here : Killer 7 was the target visual for this, such a crudely beautiful thing. I've tried to tackle projects in the past and have found progress gets bogged down by a overly long art pipeline. The art style is definitely a conscious one.

Thank you all so very much for taking the time to reply!

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