Hello, Muties! I hope you're enjoying your summer break.
It's been some time since my last dev diary. The primary reason is a two-week summer break I took to recharge, especially as we approach 2024 when a significant release is slated. For those who need a refresher, our aim is to complete the main story by ...
2023-08-13 16:24:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, mutants! I'm back with more Fallout Yesterday goodies.
Speaking of the latest additions to Hoover Dam, you can now converse with Dorris the Receptionist, find yourself incarcerated, make a daring escape, or simply spend a quiet night in jail. Moreover, you can now engage in dialogue with the Police Chief...
2023-07-16 20:48:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya mutants, how are you doing? The temperatures are quite high where I am but that's how we like it in the wasteland.
As I mentioned recently, after finishing off with the dialog improvements, it's time to start implementing extra Hoover Dam contents. So now, the school quests are getting my attention along with the ...
Hello mutants,
I hope this update finds you well. As we move further into June, it's time to share the progress we've been making on our beloved project.
First off, we have some sweet news about grammar fixes throughout the game. It's important that the game not only plays smoothly, but reads smoothly as well. We ...
2023-06-22 19:04:54 +0000 UTC View PostHeya mutant brothers and sisters, the middle of 2023 is here, and it's time to take a look back and see how we're progressing and where we're headed.
Currently, I am working on dialogue edits, expanding them where necessary, and implementing missing quests. For example, Gabrielle now sounds like a proper teenager. So fo...
2023-06-01 16:17:38 +0000 UTC View PostHello my mutant brothers and sisters,
it is time for the latest news.
A bug which prevented you from talking to some NPCs was fixed. Thanks to Johnny Joe for pointing out something fishy was going on!
Additionally, I've made big progress on the intro location. What intro location you might think? Tibbets? W...
2023-05-14 18:23:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya mutants, I am back with some sweet news! The game will have a stunning total of 135 unique endgame slides! Of course, not all of them will be shown at once but they are a testament to the incredible number of choices and consequences this game has. It will be fun, writing a walkthrough :)
And in other news, I am w...
Hello muties,
some great news galore this time around! As some of you probably noticed, Fallout Yesterday uses Talking Heads from other mods or from other projects our resident THs artist Goat-Boy is working on. Those borrowed THs were always meant to be temporary placeholders because this game deserves to have its own ...
2023-04-12 07:20:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya muties,
it's PJ with the latest update on our beloved game. I've spent the last few weeks going over dialogs, adding missing topics, coding a mega quest with at least 6 different ways to complete and testing all of it. Hoover Dam has 22 quests in total so there's still a good few to finish but I am happy with the p...
2023-03-12 19:47:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi mutants,
I hope you are all well. For the last few weeks, I've been working on dialogs, quests, in-game cutscenes and scripting for Hoover Dam.
Lots of NPCs are there, both civilian and military, so I want to do my best to bring them to life. And during testing I've found and fixed a number of bugs w...
2023-02-19 20:35:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya muties,
hope you are doing well. I was away for a week on a business trip but now I'm back continuing to work on Hoover Dam dialogs and quests. As you can see this dude likes his whiskey a lot but is friendly enough to share. Guess what? He is one of the people running the place. Yes, it will be interesting t...
2023-01-22 20:35:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya mutants, it's been a while since I've reached out with the latest wasteland news. First thing first, all the best in 2023! Let's hope this will be a big year for Fallout Yesterday!
I've been working on 24 Hoover Dam NPCs at the moment. Some are less, some are more important but they all have a voice of their...
Heya mutants, it has been quiet here but for a good reason. I was writing for Hoover Dam as well as reading. Reading, you wonder? Well, I always felt writers subconsciously give most of their characters the same “voice” so I wanted to expand my vocabulary, styles, grammar and find some new voices for NPCs. Just like in th...
2022-12-12 16:35:24 +0000 UTC View PostHeya mutants, so here we are with a milestone behind us. The map work for Hoover Dam has been finalized!! It’s a big, big location and I hope you will have great time exploring it. I had to make two extra quests locations but now it’s time to start adding the NPCs. Their dialogs are mostly finished so now it’s down to w...
2022-11-14 07:41:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya mutants,
here's a picture of some nice acid pools to show what I am working on right now.
After I finish this Hoover Dam location, there is one more left. It will be good for a change to finally go back to coding NPCs and quests. You've been so patient with me but it's a huge, huge game. Not saying that as a ba...
Heya mutants,
as you can see from the screenshots, there has been huge progress on the external Hoover Dam locations. Beside some scenery and minor polishing to be done, I'm happy enough to move onto the remaining internal locations and wrap it up! Those are about 50% done. After that I will start bringing the city to l...
2022-10-09 19:46:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello mutants, a quick update with progress on Hoover Dam's Downtown as well as the Government's HQ. It's a huge area which would take about 50 or so screenshots to cover it all so I bring you some interesting ones with details.
Besides continuing on implementing that, I will keep adding music in high quality during thi...
2022-09-28 07:29:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya mutants,
while I am working on Hoover Dam, I am also in the process of updating the quality of game music. I think that the legacy ACM format is long overdue with its 16-bit, 22050 Hz format. So far I updated 22 songs with more on the way.
While I am at that, I will be adding new music too! That includes exc...
Heya mutants,
finally the Hoover Dam Rim milestone has been reached! The huge location-specific art which was broken into many smaller pieces due to the engine's limitations has been connected. This has been a real pain and struggle to get done but here we are :D In addition, the North Gate area is also finished!
Hello mutants,
work is continuing around the north exit of the Dam. Can you recognize our favorite caravan company? There's lots more buildings around it in this part of town. I didn't want to leave out any extra details that were originally planned such as the surrounding citizen homes.
In addition, sfall was upd...
2022-08-30 21:00:51 +0000 UTC View PostHello mutants,
I am back with a quick update on our favorite dam. Work is under way in the west side of the Dam. Police HQ, Caravan HQs, the Bar and a couple of other buildings of interest are there so it will be a fun, quest-heavy area to visit.
I like the area a lot as it houses the NCR power-players in the NCR-...
2022-08-14 22:23:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya mutants, as you recall I was trying out various ways to merge the isometric buildings and rounded shapes of the Dam and have found it! It works the best if I follow the concept art and make the Rim a bit more like Junktown, irregular and makeshift in its essence. Which makes sense since the NCR settled in and used what t...
2022-07-31 20:47:37 +0000 UTC View PostHey mutants, how are you doing?
It's been a quiet few weeks as I continued working on Hoover Dam's dullest part - aligning hundreds of pieces that are used to display it in all its glory. It's all technical, time-consuming work. I change the art piece's XY offsets and then check inside Mapper if it's pixel-precise or ne...
2022-07-17 19:16:34 +0000 UTC View PostHeya mutants, hope you are doing swell!
Where I am right now it’s very, very hot. And I wish for a nuclear winter. Oh wait, wrong game!
Anyways, what I have been working on lately is something I refer to as tackling the Big One aka Hoover Dam. It has the biggest art pieces, loads and loads of NPCs, quests and lo...
2022-06-27 20:11:50 +0000 UTC View PostHello mutants, how are you?
As some of you already know, I relocated to my home country and have settled in. I am much happier now being close to my family. And so are they 😃
As promised, I added more content to the game. Three areas got expanded: City Ruins surrounding the Boulder Dome, J...
2022-06-12 20:35:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya mutants, just a quick update to let you know that I am moving back to my home country next week to live with my family!
It has been quiet here for the last two weeks as organising everything took up all the free time.
Expect the regular updates to resume in June, with the first two catching up on the last tw...
2022-05-29 07:02:46 +0000 UTC View PostHey mutants, here's something different this week for you. Something to build up the atmosphere. A new music track by our talented composer 1982!
Enjoy!
2022-05-15 21:34:20 +0000 UTC View PostHeya mutants,
long time no see! We are still focused on implementing the missing Traits and Perks, mainly from Van Buren, Fallout Tactics and Arcanum Backgrounds. Most of these are not supported by the engine out of the box so we need to find clever ways to make them work.
And I think some aren’t suitable for im...
2022-05-09 18:28:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya mutants,
hope you are enjoying the spring time!
As some of you have probably noticed, there was no update last week. We are at the moment working on implementing lots of new and complex Perks.
So last week all of our dev time was spent researching how to best fit those into Fallout 2 engine. And now we...
2022-04-24 13:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostHello mutants!
Hope you all had a great week!
We are back to coding and have made updates related to the main story and some of its influence on the gameplay. So a new background mechanic is now part of the game which tracks down the player’s behaviour.
This info is then used to make some decisions regard...
2022-04-11 02:27:43 +0000 UTC View Post
