Nucleotide - Game development diary #6 video

Featuring: Ivan Mandić
Talking about: Tongue Knot, Tongue Curve, Grabbable environment elements
Background music by Davor Šimunović

Transcript:
Hello there! My name is Ivan Mandić,but you may call me iVan.
Welcome to the sixth Nucleotide game development diary.
This development diary covers the progress of the game Nucleotide.
Each episode number corresponds to the number of development weeks
that are behind us, and, since this is the sixth episode ,that means that we haaave,
yeah, that's right, six weeks behind us.Eventhough I don't see any.
OooooOOOOooo It's a game about a green cube!?
Of course it isn't! This and other models on the scene are just placeholders for the artwork that is going to come, but most of you already knew that :)
These doors seem to be locked but if use the almighty tongue I'll be able to get through them.
I hacked this in for prototyping purposes, It'll need a bit more coding to behave more naturally.
This week I continued to work on the tongue, and I have two visible changes.
If I start dragging this weirdly shaped object you'll be able to notice them pretty easily.
The tongue is now making a nice loop around the player, if the object is behind him.
If you remember the last development diary, the tongue was breaking and passing through the player, and that was really ugly.
A bigger change, that I'm more proud of is that the tongue is making a nice knot on the entrance point. Just like every other part of the tongue, it's generated in real-time, and I can change its appearance just by changing variables. For example, I can change the number of loops it makes around the tongue, its length or thickness, and that is kinda sweet.
Also it's completely integrated with the animation, but I'll have to improve a few details before I can call it done.