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Hey Folks! A lot of activity today, though not a lot to show for it just yet. I spent a good half day or more working on stat reveals, while Chris and Bjørn talked next steps.

Also, big news on the publisher front: we signed!

Even though we announced our partnership a while back, we were still finalizing contract stuff over the past few. But we officially signed the paperwork this morning, and we can now move on to great things together.

Hey Folks! Didn't get a ton of time to produce anything today. Mostly admin work, feedback for folks, and testing a few things.

I did, however, get started on my next task: social combat UI.

Michael already prototyped this system a while back, and it's possible to social combat any NPC in the game once you hire them to your crew. And within it, you can interact with them, get their responses, and do a couple example exchanges.

Hey Folks! Hope everyone had a good weekend. Yesterday was Labor Day here in the US, so it was a long weekend. Friends, nice weather, good food...a nice mini vacation!

Back at the office, it was mostly catch-up today. Emails, contracts, planning, phone calls...I had just enough time in-engine today to snap the screenshot you see above. And to verify that the thing I need to resume working on tomorrow is mismatched tile IDs and zones after docking.

Despite the lack of work, other exciting stuff is still happening!

Hey Folks! Sorry for the missed post yesterday. Late phone call, then had to run and help with dinner. And unfortunately, both yesterday and today involved a lot of admin type tasks. So I didn't get much development done.

Fortunately, someone else did!

Chris has been working away on a revamped lighting model, and was able to get it checked-in today. And lucky you, you get to see it in action!

Chris's task was to take the existing lighting system, and make a few changes to it:

Hey Folks! Hope everyone had a good weekend. Pretty low-key here, but that was a welcome break.

Back at the office, I unfortunately had a lot of admin tasks to do in the morning. And only got a bit of development time in the afternoon. However, I think I'm starting to form a picture of what I need to do next. And how to do it.

I want to setup a way for AI to haul items to a designated zone, and for the player to be able to tag things for hauling. Pretty typical colony sim stuff, like Dwarf Fortress, Rimworld, etc.

Hey Folks! A good chunk of the day was on admin stuff, but I did manage to wrap-up most of the automated task system I was planning.

I ended up having to change the way IDs are assigned to objects when they mode switch. I needed the old ID applied to the new object before it started receiving conditions, so tasks triggered by adding a condition would have the right ID.

Hey Folks! Mostly a dev day today, though I did need to get a few important emails out.

I continued work on the tasking system from yesterday, this time trying to get automatic task generation setup. So far, we've generated new tasks whenever items of a certain type were added to or removed from the ship. This works if you explicitly define a listener for each named item type, but we're expecting to have multiple variants of each item type in some cases. And that could add-up fast.

Hey Folks! Hope everyone had a good weekend. Ours was a bit exhausting, as we acclimated to one parent not having a lot of mobility. We did get to see some friends, though, which is always nice!

Back at the office, I basically spent the day emailing developers and artists. Which was weird. I've never been in a position before where I had more than one or two contractors working at once. But today, I had messages waiting from no less than 5! And that doesn't include non-developers I had to follow-up with.

Hey Folks! Sorry for the second lapse in news this week. We had to visit the hospital yesterday to look at an injured knee, and we've been slowly getting back on our feet (both figuratively and literally). Everyone's safe, thankfully, and the injury might be mending faster than expected. So our fingers are crossed this was just a minor bump.

Hey Folks! Sorry for the lapse in news yesterday. I had a call run long, and then had to run for family stuff.

And today almost slipped, as well! Some errands late in the day, combined with some stuff I wanted to send out to unblock folks, meant I had to scramble at the last minute.

That said, I actually got a lot done this morning, and a fair bit yesterday. The screenshot today is a bit of a split-screen summary of that work.