Weekly Journal - Remember November

Hey everyone,

We can't believe we're already in November! Wait, who are we kidding?! It's Montreal, and already freezing cold, so we have plenty of reminders of where we are in the season! Before we know it, it will be Spring, and--after 4 years of hard work--we'll be presenting our game to the world. This is both scary and exciting!

We received a lot of pictures from your We Happy Few Halloween costumes and thought they were all wonderful. Thank you for taking the time to make, wear, and share them! It warmed our twisted little hearts.

Production

Sam

After lots of hard work from the team, we're pretty much where we wanted to be with "content complete!". For us, this doesn't mean that content is done - it's not - but it does mean that we have every quest in the game, with its objectives, journals and VO. That's an exciting milestone, because we can now review the entire game, and entire story, to make sure that it works. That work begins next week, along with localization, more finaling, responding to UX tests, bug fixing, and all the final tasks that we have on the project. The team has worked really hard to get here, and it's really shaping up to be a lot of fun.

Design Team - David, Hayden, Antoine, Adam, Ben, Eric, Roxanne And Benji

Adam

Holy Hell has this been a productive week. I've been working with Cary and Remi to blow stuff up. Big stuff. BIG boom... And you're going to love it when you see it. That aside, as most of you know, I'm in charge of the Mad Scotsman in its entirety. I finished up plugging in all the dialogue last week, and this week I've been focusing on realization (making shit believable), and blockers (bugs which halt your progression). I have to say, I'm super proud of the Mad Scotsman's playthrough… and I also find myself adopting a scottish accent from time to time. Gonnae git back tae it, ya weapons!

Roxanne

Lots of dialogue integration on my side this week. I also found some time to add five new "non-lethal" weapons, for those of you that want to avoid unnecessary deaths.

Eric

Well, Alex wrote a mountain of dialogue for Arthur, and we got most of it into the build this week. Thanks to Hayden, Benji, Ben, and Roxanne for helping me put in something like a thousand different Arthur lines across 30+ quests. Take that Alex!

Narrative Team - Alex And Lisa

Lisa

I'm...done? We've locked content for 1.0, so mostly what I'm doing for the game now is just dealing with missing bits and bobs, and making suggestions for polish. Happily, I am also writing the How To Be Happy book that will be in the time capsule, so I still get to live in the joyful world of Wellington Wells a while longer!

Animation Team - JR, Rémi, Vincent, Mike P, Jules, Raph And Franzi

Jules

Hey, everybody! So this week I've worked mostly on the doctor! Especially on his resurrect and healing ability. And also I've made a new hit reaction for the player when he carries the bone saw.

Somewhat Dangerous Mike

Hey guys! So this week I worked on some more cutscenes like last week for something again I can't tell you about. But I REALLY REALLY want to though! Cause it's great! But alas I can't. Guess you'll just have to play the game to find out. I'm on to something far more exciting now though. I know I know, you're saying to yourself: "Self, this seems impossible, with all the awesome." And you'd be right. But really though it's not impossible! At least not for me. It's super exciting. But again it's all hush hush. So that's it for me this week, so tune in next week, same Bat time, same Bat channel!

TL;DR: Super Awesome & Hush hush.

Engineering Team - Matt, Serge, Michael, Lionel, Rob, Evan, Maarten, Céline, Neil And Guillaume (Sometimes)

Céline

I've been working on the skills and skill menu with Evan, and we have a first working version! The team is also looking for the best skills that will improve and level the game experience. Additionally, they will be used to highlight some unclear gameplay features which are already implemented. It is progressing quite well and I hope you guys will like that new addition.

Michael

This week I've been taking a look at the conformity