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SSH #14 — Triskaidekaphobia

Lucien
Saturday @ Second Half #14

Happy Saturday!

It's time for some news about MEANWHILE IN SECTOR 80!

Last week, I revolted against the forces of the universe, so we didn't have a Saturday post! It felt great to unwind, relax, and express my radical freedom.

Over the past two weeks, we've been fleshing out mechanics and building more stuff than you'd ever believe!

Kits & Props— Laura

We've been building an array of new kit pieces to make it easier for us (mostly Harry) to make new levels. One of those new kits is a set of square pipes that snap together!

Imagine what you could build with all these pipes! Probably pipes!
Imagine what you could build with all these pipes! Probably pipes!

Just like the kits we're using for building levels, the pipe kit fits in several different ways, enabling us — or you, with our built-in level editor — to build the pipe sculptures of your wildest dreams.

The fluid contained within the pipes is mysterious and important.
The fluid contained within the pipes is mysterious and important.

Laura has also put together a few new props to help liven up (read: clutter) our playtest levels. This gives the player some much-needed furniture to cower behind when the killer robots come for them. If only we could all be so lucky.

I bet the people who used to work here complained very vocally about the quality of the equipment the company provided.
I bet the people who used to work here complained very vocally about the quality of the equipment the company provided.

We were all surprised as a team at how much better a room can look when it's full of little clutter bits!

It's like a disembodied IKEA but for scientific equipment.
It's like a disembodied IKEA but for scientific equipment.

A Good First Project: Fans!— Spencer & Rasmus

We've been fortunate to have a wonderful new person join our team for a bit: Spencer! As someone who's used the major commercial game engines in anger, he's had awesome feedback on our tools and APIs available for gameplay programming.

As his first project, Spencer designed and created a revamped electric fan part, which has all sorts of uses!

A homegrown flight system! It's a bit like that one superhero, [REDACTED].
Leafblower Simulator 2025, the hit game from Second Half Games, coming to a game store near you.
I bet you've played a video game with this puzzle before. If you haven't, maybe you can play ours? 🥺👉👈

Rasmus was clutch in assisting in the surprisingly complicated Fan Math. At the same time, we took the opportunity to revamp our heat system so that the fans could also be used for cooling.

The squeeze is worth the juice!

Looking Ahead

Next week, we have a short week on account of the Easter-related holidays coming up. We're all excited for the long weekend. Before that though, we'll be assembling a bunch of wonky off-grid levels, finishing porting the game to Jolt Physics (oOoOoOo), and beginning our plan to revamp our geriatric Steam page.

As always, you can check us out on Steam and you can join our thriving Discord community to get the latest news.

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