Pre-Alpha 2 Grabs

Written by ♫Dex, published 2024-01-27

Note: This article was written on 2025-01-03, as a summary of the events happening on Discord back during this development log

After a prototyping phase, I transitioned to working on what I think is going to be the main content for pre-Alpha 2: new grabs and grapple animations!

First, on January 21st, I started with the idea of a "tie a boxtie" animation available when near a wall - which required "moving" a grabbed character:

Then, I added an animation to immediately gag a character on first grab on January 22nd.

The same day, I took a brief detour to add a prototype "upside down" animation, as well as an animation to start hanging a character upside down:

On January 23rd, I added a gag animation for a grappled character:

After which, I started the main topic on January 24th: animations for a character grappling another character on the ground!

On January 26th, I added an animation to drop a grappled character to the ground:

Then, on January 27th, I added a new animation to tie a character's arms:

Which I all added to the game on January 29th!