While our Twitter has been more consistently active the past couple months thanks to #TLTuesday efforts, the blog has definitely dragged this year. So, with the recent completion of the new player camera functionality I figured now would be a good time to say a few words about it and where the engine is going.

Been awhile since we posted any new music tracks, so here's one from Mr. Oni Foetus's recent lot that will accompany TLT's jet skate mini-game segments!

Race Theme

It's a new take on fAB's original composition, Motorhorse Showdown. We thought it an appropriate track for these segments and it seemed to be well-received by Legends fans, so we had Oni Foetus work his magic on it and are quite pleased with the results. As always we can never sing enough praises for the quality of TLT's soundtrack; having everyone experience it in-game is a prime incentive for finishing this project. XD


Speaking of which, Unity 5 just released today! I'm not expecting it to be a magic game-changer like I wrongly assumed Mecanim would be, but it's still exciting for the engine as it looks to be a very major upgrade in pretty much everything (not to mention it sounds like some nice Pro-only features have gone free), so I'll be diving into that soon.

Oh my, it has been a while hasn't it? Well as I tweeted some days ago, it's time to get my head back into this game and hopefully start making some steady updates again. Starting off simple, I converted another model from the old style shading to the new, the minor Ruin Entrance.

As usual, progress was helped by listening to tracks from the incredible TLT soundtrack. Speaking of which, we neglected to report in January that after months of technical issues Mr. Oni Foetus sent us three new tracks, one revised track, and one that's still a WIP, so things are moving musically again as well!

To recap since it's been a while, we announced in July that we would be doing some design revisions on our main character based on issues that became apparent during the development process. It was great to see all the community comments voicing approval over the intended direction--even with the tiny preview we gave. Now, as I recently tweeted, Tuttle's overhaul is finally complete!

Greetings, loyal TLT followers! Let's face it, you have to be a loyal follower to still be visiting the TLT site after this progress drought. As always we apologize for the slow pace but as we say to our volunteer staff, do what you can when you can, and that goes for Blyka and myself as well. And lately, what we can and when we can hasn't amounted to much.

Whenever I do manage to grab a bit of time, I'm putting it toward a pretty major element--Tuttle himself. I've been working on him off and on ever since we announced that we'd be changing the look to a dynamic cel-shaded style. As I've mentioned in the past, the Tuttle model was the first thing created for this project, which means my modeling ability still had a ways to go, and so did our entire vision for the game. We knew there'd eventually be changes, and now we're making them.