Triple Eh? Ltd Development Blog

Lumo Journal 16.12.2024 There’s a class of work that I very much reserve for days where I’m a bit tired, maybe hungover, and definitely not firing on all cylinders.

Lumo Journal 09.12.2024 Removed the placeholder for “Ball Room West” and replaced it with a little lava ball.

Lumo Journal 02.12.2024 Ok, we’re there.

Lumo Journal 25.11.2024 Not a super productive day – Storm Bert caused some flooding over the weekend, and I spent all of yesterday helping people bail out water… I’m physically drained, today – but I did get The Watch Tower where I want it.

Lumo Journal 18.11.2024 Decided to cogitate on Antesher and do something else for a bit.

Lumo Journal 11.11.2024 The reason I called the third location “Sandy Whites” was to get some 3D Ant Attack references in.

Lumo Journal 04.11.2024 It’s always the things you think’ll be easy… The Jukebox needs a list of clickable names, one for each of the collectable Boombox tunes, and each of those needs to reflect if it’s been collected or not.

Lumo Journal 28.10.2024 Thought I’d finish off the intro sequence.

Lumo Journal 21.10.2024 I’ve been umming and ahhing about what to do as the third mini-game.

Lumo Journal 14.10.2024 My little hamster wheel has pickups, and spikey things on splines that’ll kill you.

Lumo Journal 07.10.2024 Had a few hours over the weekend, so I made a start texturing the props for the intro sequence.

Lumo Journal 30.09.2024 Preeeetty much finished the Challenging Stage.

Lumo Journal 23.09.2024 I don’t know why this popped into my head, but anyone remember the cover of The Incredible Shrinking Fireman?

Lumo Journal 16.09.2024 Finished off the bathroom.

Lumo Journal 09.09.2024 Banged out two rooms, today.

Lumo Journal 02.09.2024 Typical.

Lumo Journal 26 - 30.08.2024 I’ve rolled this week up into a single entry because all of it has been spent adding missing audio, hunting out bugs, making little tweaks, and prepping a build for Milestone 2… otherwise known as, “2nd Playable”.

Lumo Journal 19.08.2024 Failed to pull my Steam Deck out of my bag during Zzap Live.

Lumo Journal 12.08.2024 Two interesting problems, today.

Lumo Journal 05.08.2024 Every Wand Charge in the level was respawning when the player died, which, er, isn’t right.

Lumo Journal 29.07.2024 Made new particle effects for the crumbling platforms, Under The Attic, and added a respawn point, half-way through the room.

Lumo Journal 22.07.2024 Orangery is done!

Lumo Journal 15.07.2024 Back from a week away – house sitting for my Mum, and sneaking off to Develop, in Brighton – and it’s good to be back.

The Commodore Amiga Port of Cecconoid -- by Ian Ford [h0ffman] & published by Thalamus -- is out!

Lumo Journal 25.06.2024 Started doing some tidy-ups and re-orgs for my August milestone.

Lumo Journal 17.06.2024 Guess what!

Lumo Journal 10.06.2024 With this game I’ve tried to place UI elements in screen-space, so button presses are contextual as possible – action button icons hover over their actors, etc – but I can’t think of a tidy solution for the paint pickups… so… I’ve…

Lumo Journal 04.06.2024 The day after EMF Camp and yeah… I’m not firing on all cylinders.

Lumo Journal 20.05.2024 After cogitating over the weekend, I pulled the Utility AI out of the Snake.

Lumo Journal 13.05.2024 I finished off the room I was working on last week, using the new Foxy Switches and Screw, then cleaned-up the Cube Grid pieces I’d blocked out, and textured them.

Lumo Journal 07.05.2024 Finished off the Portals in Sandy Whites (so you can move between rooms), and blocked out a little test-space as the second room.

Lumo Journal 29.04.2024 Good start to the week: Re-modelled the cube-grid blockout of the room and textured it.

Lumo Journal 22.04.2024 Spent the day in the Level Sequencer, setting up the flow for Space Toms, and it worked really, really well.

Lumo Journal 16.04.2024 It dawned on me, over the weekend, that I can “script” the entire level using a Level Sequence.

Lumo Journal 09.04.2024 The Player Character’s got a run animation, poses for the various positions on screen, and I can spawn NPCs across the floor.

Lumo Journal 02.04.2024 I’m not really a fan of long weekends, they always make me lose my flow.

Lumo Journal 25.03.2024 As you’ve probably noticed, I tend to work in passes across code and content.

Lumo Journal 18.03.2024 I have a stinking cold.

Lumo Journal 12.03.2024 Finished off some tweaks to the Exploding Room parts.

Lumo Journal 04.03.2024 Got the room to tilt.

Lumo Journal 26.02.2024 Milestone week!

Lumo Journal 19.02.2024 Added the spanner collectable to the Chimera section, and created a level sequence that shows the shield being lowered.

Lumo Journal 12.02.2024 Been umming and ahhing about this, but sod it, I’m going to put another nod to Chimera in.

Lumo Journal 05.02.2024 Blocked out 4 new rooms in the Moon base, and made the searchable computers in the Mission Impossible section persistent!

Lumo Journal 29.01.2024 Was asked if I had a logo for the game, and, er, yeah.

Lumo Journal 23.01.2024 Implemented player death, and as a consequence, finished off the respawn system.

Lumo Journal 09.01.2024 Banged through a load of TODO items: Added audio to all the things in the Impossible Mission room.

Lumo Journal 03.01.2024 I spotted a weird issue before the Xmas break that, I think, was related to the Niagara systems I was using as engine trails on enemy NPCs.

Lumo Journal 18.12.2023 More work on the audio side: Added player shot and impact FX, engine audio for the enemies, and low pass filtered the explosion effects, which made a world of difference.

Lumo Journal 11.12.2023 We have a shooter!