It's Christmas Time In The Nothingness

Howdy y'all! Hope you're all in good spirits during this wonderful time of the year. As we approach the end of 2022, I must bring forth presents of spoils to all you lovely little gremlins.

Dave.EXE's Community Update News

Some of you may have seen the announcement for the Dave.EXE Character Contest I posted over on my socials. It's a chance for YOU to create an enemy concept design and submit it for a chance to have it featured in the next content update to the game. Starting from December 15th 2022 and ending on January 15th 2023. We'll pick and announce two winners at the end of the contest and contact them via Twitter or Discord to work out how they'll be implemented into the game, as well as get to know any extra necessary details about the character.

You can check it out and submit your design over on the contest's Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/The_Toonimator/status/1603518158597398542

Now for the ACTUAL game news y'all have been waiting for.

Bookshelves and sliding/crouching under holes in walls won't be your only method of escape. Introducing a scrapped mechanic now seeing the light of day once again... Vaulting! And Fences? AND climbable walls!?

Yes! Every map will contain at least 2-3 Climbables to introduce new ways to evade enemies. Newer maps going forward will expand on this mechanic and be built around it more.

And perhaps you can already tell from the first screenshot above, there is a new dye cosmetic type coming into the game. Can you guess what it is?

And that about wraps up all the Dave.EXE news! I don't know about you, but it's been getting rather cold around here in the Nothingness. I mean yeah, perhaps it's just because it's that time of year, y'know. Christmas and all that. But I've been leisurely traveling around in the Time Portal recently and saw this small opening into another timeline I had never seen before. I felt a strong wind coming from it, as if it was upon high elevation. I saw dim lights appear in the darkness, then snuffed out, as if the cold air had snapped the powerlines. Then I saw something, almost frozen in place like a photograph. It stared back at me, beckoning me to enter.

I sense the aura of nocturnal evil within...

Vex Clock News

I've been working on Vex Clock in the background this month for a bit, getting some of the checkpoint maps for the city district done. I've been quite busy with Dave.EXE work lately that I've had less time to dedicate to this game, I will admit. But I'm hoping to make significant progress by the end of the month to have something to show and talk about on the next progress report over on Steam.

If you haven't already, you can read up on those progress reports over on Vex Clock's Steam page: https://steamcommunity.com/app/2106230/allnews/

And that will about do it for this news post. Hope you're looking forward to the Community Content Update for Dave.EXE next year! Been having a ton of fun working on both of these projects and I couldn't be more excited to show the fruits of my labor to you all soon. 'w'