Funny NPC Physics
A quick Saleblazers story from The Immersive Update and how NPC physics chaos created an all-time dev moment.
We're about to release "The Immersive Update", which is a giant patch fixing 70% of the things I've hated about Saleblazers and adds a crap ton of physics, NPC, and narrative features to the game. I actually enjoy my own game for once after 7 years lmao.
I could go on about it, but I have to work on it still since I'm not done. Instead, this is a microcosm of what players will see in the next patch.
I was taking a picture for the patch notes to showcase our new Paramedic NPC that other NPCs can call when they see a dead body, who will use magic to revive people.
I was trying to get a better angle and thus unpaused the game, only for the Paramedic NPC and a random NPC to to ragdoll to the right at an incredible speed, leaving behind only a cloud of blood.
What happened? Our upgraded Police NPCs who can now drive golf carts decided to arrest me, and in the process ran over the paramedic as well as some other innocent NPCs who happened to be nearby.
This police that spawned also happened to have a super deep voice and lost sight of me (?) so he said "oh no... he got away". I laughed out loud soooo hard.
I don't know about you, but stuff like this is why I love playing video games.