After an exhausting week at Gamescom we continued work as usual. Since then, we had to say goodbye to Baiba, Corné and Arber, who worked at SassyBot until school started again last Monday.

The pre-September 1st 2014 Crew

It was great having you all work with us and hopefully we’ll get to work together again in the future. As for that future, 2 new interns started work this week! Kaylee will be taking over from Baiba in the character art department where she’ll be finishing off some of Baiba’s work and add detail to the rest of the cast.
Maik will be working on environment art and has started working on one of the unannounced scenes. Hopefully he can show some of his work in the near future.

It’s been a while since we showed screenshots of Fragments of Him, so here’s a couple of them:

A small section of a living room.

A sneak peek at the bathroom.

An overview shot of the entire living room.

In the last screenshot you can see the environment art that Frederik Plucinski made for Fragments of Him. You can also see what Tino has been up to, with the interface.

The Unity3D update 4.6 introduced new tools to create interfaces, which we have been waiting for. Tino was very eager to start making the interface, and we have been making a lot of progress with that. Here’s a gif showing you how it looks at this moment. Do note that we’re still working on finalising a lot of things, and everything shown is subject to change.

Work in progress of the menu screen.

The menu is designed to support both mouse and controllers. If you’re a PC gamer using a controller we make sure to change the interface based on what you’re using. Hopefully this’ll make switching between these 2 input devices as smooth as possible.

Switching between input methods on the fly.

That’s it for this update, next blog we’ll be talking a little bit about interactions and gameplay, so be sure to check that out as well!