Murder 4 Progress and Style (Patreon)

Here's what I have so far. Basically all that's left to do for Murder 4 is to actually finish the art. That means working with models and textures first, replacing my placeholder walls and furniture as I go. After the models are finalized I can set up collision and lighting.

That also means the map layout is pretty much finalized for release too, but I'll get into that in a future post. For now, I'm sometimes moving doorways/hallways around by a meter or so just to get the rooms to align with each other (the "placeholder" yellow doorways I was working with until now were actually pretty crooked).

And you might notice that each room has a sort of color-coded theme going on!

Rooms you'll see in Murder 4: Foyer, Dining Room, Kitchen, Lounge, Billiard Room, Backyard/Conservatory, Garage, Ballroom, Library, Study, Master Bedroom, Bathroom, Wine Cellar.

Room ideas that I unfortunately scrapped: Front Yard, Attic, Gallery, Observatory, and a second floor to the Library... these areas would either ruin the floor plan, obscure other rooms in the overhead spectator map, or would just result in way too many rooms (I have plenty already).

In a future blog posts (Backstage pass from the Extra Jar Supporter tier), I will go into much more detail about the models, textures, and floor plan!