Nobody probably cares, of course, but we’re still working — for the sake of that one single comment under the previous Steam news post from XXX-Defalt-XXX.

I asked an AI to turn the task list that keeps piling up during development into something like patch notes.

Anyway, soon — just a few small things left to finish, and I’ll slap out a playtest.
Make card sounds.

• Make menu sounds.

• Redo the resurrect sound.

• Make the player gun sound.

• Make the hobo reload-top-up sound.

• Test it.

• Rework the lighting.

• Set up the color correction.

• Figure out how to redesign the bullet steal.

• Hook up joker display on res.

• Make player count on the bottle.

• Make single-bullet reload.

• Add a reward for a successful kill.

• Hook up a PlayStation controller (might not work because of SONY).

• Fix the chip tower location and hook up color changing for it.

• Recheck bet-chip appearance.

• Fix bet-chip spawn: it now doesn’t fly out, but just spawns normally.

• Fix incorrect card and chip height.

• Fix incorrect bet-chip height.

• Turn the table facing the player.

• Don’t forget to hide the displacement.

• Fix card direction switching when picked up.

• Turn chips on the table toward the player.

• Add wobbling to cards when they are picked up.

• Add wobbling to the chip when it is picked up.

• Add wobbling to the gun when it is picked up.

• Figure out what to do with table height.

• Fix the bug where the stolen card flies off to old coordinates.

• Fix the bug where, when picking up cards, the active card instantly flies to the active point.

• Check that the chip count limit is working.

• Check the chip count limiter on the character’s table.

• Remove coin compensation for the debt chip.

• Call the wooden bet-chip by event.

• Fix the fucked-up debt chip logic.

• Properly make the chip display.

• Randomize chip location and color.

• Fix the top chip floating above bots.

• Fix the bug where a test card remains after stealing a card.

• Don’t forget to hide bet-chips.

• Fix the bug where the outline on the bet-chip only turns off when pressing left.

• Fix broken bullets and chips.

• Make the meat chip.

• Fix the dummy on bet-chip spawn.

• Recheck bet-chip appearance.

• Fix the bug with the disappearing swap card.

• Fix the bug where the swap disappears on click if you were the victim.

• Figure out what to do with death, swap, and sound.

• Switch the light during swap.

• Change target selection mechanics for aiming in swap.

• Fix it so you can’t choose yourself in swap.

• Change the bottle location after player death.

• Check observer target card reassignment during swap.

• Send transforms to multicast after confirming the swap on the client.

• Finish the swap: bet-chip, fox, timer.

• After swap, set the bool for the active character and observer.

• Pass active cards to new participants during swap.

• Deactivate the chip during swap.

• Fix the bug where swap matched timing with shooting.

• Make a death block for swap.

• Think about how to move the fox when swapping the player.

• Add hide at the start of the showcard.

• Fix the showcard error when used by observers.

• Change the owner picture on the showcard.

• Fix the bug where showcards do not disappear.

• Fix the bug where non-observer showcards do not disappear.

• Fix the bug with the showcard where the steal-card jumps around in the steal animation.

• Fix the bug with recoloring cards during steal.

• Fix the bug where after swap the cards got hidden back, and after tab the card stayed floating in the air.

• Fix the bug where cards in the pool wobble and fall through the table.

• Fix card rotations in the pool.

• Remove cards in the pool from the server array with cards.

• Check the situation when there are 5 cards and steal is in the pool.

• Move deletion of the active card pool.

• Throw your active cards into your own pool.

• Fix the bug where cards were taken for debt, but the cards did not disappear.

• Fix the bug where the edge card turned the wrong way.

• Check CanMove during steal / into active position.

• Forbid stealing non-stealable things.

• Polish the bullet steal.

• Pass an event with card activation plus a parameter of who is using it: spectator, victim, shooter.

• Polish player selection for cards with multiple targets.

• Rework the peek card into highlighting all cards except jokers and blanks.

• Fix the bug where bullets remain after peeking.

• Fix the bug with opening all cards.

• Fix the bug where the joker opens and the blank too.

• Add a check for a joker not yet added.

• Check steal card behavior.

• Make a card cancel system, plus adding a risk card and a cancel for swap.

• Fix bullet jitter when they fly from the fox to the bots.

• Compare bullet textures.

• Fix the bug where the gun disappears for a couple of frames when taken into hand.

• Fix the bug where the gun falls through when put down.

• Fix the bug where the gun does not reload.

• Destroy the bullet dummy during reload.

• Check revolver randomization.

• Sync the revolver lowering animation with the end of the round.

• Fix aiming.

• Add shooting effect.

• Fix the bug where the revolver breathes with the hobos.

• Fix the bug where during reset the revolver stays on the table.

• Check the bug where the fox gave the bullet to the wrong person during steal.

• Fix the bug where the shell did not eject.

• Fix the bug where the revolver does not clear the chamber on deaths and debt.

• Slightly increase the distance between bullets on the table.

• Fix the fuck-up with bullet positions in the revolver.

• Fix the bug where the bullet ricochet sound does not always play.

• Rework round values before getting the object.

• Fix the extra phase complete on client death.

• Check traffic.

• Fix the bug where complete bets came before complete shoot when the guy shot himself.

• Fix the bug where phases still sometimes skip.

• Bring back optimization for round-end calculations.

• Fix the bug where shot + fox took it for the bet and the round stopped.

• Fix round skipping after player death.

• Fix round skipping when only 1 player remains.

• Do not start a new search before the previous one ends.

• Sync the timing of showcard disappearance and shot start.

• Fix the bug where when it got to me, everything died.

• Fix the bug “Better call than borrow from somebody.”

• Change player light.

• Fix turning toward target.

• On leave, switch to AAIController.

• Check the bug “bot ate up and is sleeping.”

• Fix the bug where the player falls under the table on connect.

• Check connection order / init wait delegate if the guy connects under the table.

• Fix incorrect seating and the ready bug on host.

• Fix the bug where the head does not rotate.

• Fix the bug where the flashlight does not disappear after kill.

• Fix the bug where the fox became invisible.

• Add footsteps to the fox.

• Move the fox when swapping the player.

• Add alpha to head turning.

• Fix the bug where a guy disconnected, the bot head turned right, on shot it got squashed into the table, but the arm still lifted.

• Fix reroll with the arm bent backwards.

• Fix the flashlight for the bot replacing leavers.

• Rewrite the outdated pointer to the character in cards to AI.

• Check the BP error if the player character is not valid when exiting before game start.

• Remove the round text.

• Place the icons.

• Make a material animation on ready lock-in as a red underlay revealing itself.

• Move E/Q buttons and disable jumping between floors.

• Put together a rough sound pass.

• Polish bet dealing.

• Test taking debt.

• Polish light blinking on target lock and when a card cannot be used.

• Add a separate ready button.

• Fix disappearing ready button.

• Write card descriptions, action names and texts, and localize them.

• Make volume control.

• Add an event to trigger vibration on the character and on moments when an action fails.

• Add a hint about R.

• Change input by mouse movement too.

• Check menu inputs for dead chars.

• Add waiting for players.

• Fix the control error on pressing continue.

• Make a bot count selection window when creating a session.

• Check deletion and spawn of the R button, update ready for characters, add a range of random values as an array of 10.

• Make a temporary widget for number of card uses.

• Make a new viewing mode.

• Make the menu buttons and player list in the ESC widget one box so they do not overlap each other.

• Replace the password field with an invite game field.

• Fix tab for the guy on the balcony.

• Unhide and hide the player head when entering and leaving tabbing.

• Rework fonts in the revolver widget.

• Make an image widget.

• Switch controller mode after exiting the ESC menu after ready.

• Replace the font.

• Replace key icons.

• Finish the icons.

• Redo the menu.

• Add some haze into the lamp.

• Fix the effect with the dummy during steal.

• Fix the bug with displacement.

• Check the weird error in displacement.

• Fix scales on pool cards.

• Fix the bug where cards stick into each other.

• Recheck whether setback on cards would work better if done on use instead of on selection.

• Fix the bug where the first card spawns who knows where and instantly moves to the correct point.

• Fix the bug where the first card passes through others on spawn.

• Fix the bug where during chip steal the active chip sometimes remains floating in the air.

• Check the bug where the active chip rotated wrong during lagfest.

• Fix the bug where the fox just moved over without alpha.

• Make some other little effects.

• Add a ready check sound and some kind of effect.

• Fix icon material on cards.

• Figure out what to do with the shadow during showcards.

• Fix the shadow from showcards on the characters.

• Replace the hobos’ bags on the balcony.

• Don’t forget to turn on the music and slow down the fox.

• Fix the quiet sound after revival in the round.

• Fix the bug where after resurrect the music is a complete shitshow.

• Fix the bug where after stealing an NPC for a bet the music disappeared completely.

• Test the observer for lighting.

• Test hotsave, a bug with light was recorded.

• Add validity checks into the fox for hotsave.

• Hide the corpse and sync showcards with the observer.

• Fix crash after player death.

• Fix the bug where after death the resurrection and death animation did not play on host.

• Check ESC-ESC for dead and alive.

• Fix the bug where when a player leaves (not host) the game crashes with a pointer access error.

• Fix the bug where sometimes on disconnect the game stays paused.

• Fix the crash where the host disconnected and crashed during tab.

• Fix crash when exiting tab for the player on the balcony.

• Fix the bug where on flying out to the balcony the camera tilts a bit.

• Sync camera and item falling in tab + speed up their fall.

• Check lobby detection after password entry error.

• Fix the bug where on entering the wrong password the server no longer shows in the list.

• Remove the bottle-card.

• Don’t forget to reset the camera.

• Make auto-suck from the main menu.

• Check the yellow warnings related to physics.

The work hasn't stopped. Over the past month, we've done a lot, though a surprising amount of time and energy went into the Steam page itself. (Making the trailer, gifs, and decent-looking screenshots is way harder than it sounds.)

— lighting. I got feedback on the screenshots and trailer — many people didn’t like the lighting, so I redid it. You can already see the updated version in the re-recorded trailer.
I’ll probably need to start a regular development log soon, but before that, I guess I should explain what the current state of development looks like:

• Controls: Overall, they're pretty comfortable now. We’re currently finishing up the UI hints.

• Networking: About 90% complete, excluding the rehost system. Still need to do a bit more with Steam API integration, but everything is not only functional — it's tested. The system is built to handle high ping and packet loss without issues.

• Cards: All the card artworks are finished, and the code is done and tested for all cards except two. Two more still need visuals for their effects.

• Visuals: The 3D side — environments, players, etc. — is already in place. As for animations, all the essential skeletal animations are done, implemented, and working. Code-driven animations (card movements, VFX, and so on) are about three-quarters done.

1. Sound design (environment, interactions, etc.)

2. UI (images and widgets)

That’s the current state.

If anyone's interested, I’ll keep posting updates — and I’ll just be hanging out on Discord too.
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