Oct 01, 2025 10:15 pm

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Howdy all,

There's some links to a couple of videos Tib's done I'll put here so they don't get lost in the shuffle:

https://predationdevstorage.blob.core.windows.net/devvideos/vhsshopexample.mp4

https://predationdevstorage.blob.core.windows.net/devvideos/elevatorexample.mp4

Sephra here again, come to regale you with things that have happened over the past month, for the second time now as the lovely drafts system on this site has betrayed me again, so I'm feeling a little sassy about things now; but, at least, work's been fine xD I've had a week out this month to host my partner who travelled over from America for a week, first time out of the US for them so it was quite the thing! Then there was a few days of complete dazedness and eventually back to it, where I've mostly been doing my usual thing of starting the day on mapping, laying out the levels now we're doing multiple routes with hopefully some different challenges, and then thinking of something that'll be needed for that new area and diverting off to that, something else occurs and I move to that instead etc. Rinse and repeat the next day; it does make my brain happy but it also means now I'm in the stage of collating it all together I'm also plugging up various asset gaps and the like.

And aside from all of that there's some assets for the other various projects we're entertaining ourselves with; one of them you know of already and another will be a while coming but I'm going to have a fun time putting that out I think! I'm not the most subtle with the cryptic comments but still I intend to make up for it in other areas; but for that first one, here's Tib to close this out:

Hey everyone!

It a me, Tib again, with a small update on what I’ve been doing! I did a bit of 3D stuff, mostly with audio, but what you’re all more excited for is Predation! Sephra did an amazing job with the new VHS shop, so I’ve decided to add some ambience to it, some quiet rustling about… someone might be nearby…

And we also got one of the elevators working that you’ll be able to use to traverse different parts of the underground! It still needs a bit of polish, but I’m quite happy with what we have already so far! I’ll keep going with the AI for the time being when able to do so, once we have all the AI finished, we can simply stitch all the maps together and get a new update out!

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Aug 31, 2025 09:35 pm

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Hey everyone,

Sephra here again, after what I realize is a while now but as you might've come to notice at this point, I suck at the whole communication thing generally; however I come bearing some updates, though at this point it's difficult to recall everything included or not so here's some things I've been working on lately:

Couple of the new robots first up, although the little guy at the bottom isn't a hostile one; I'm thinking what with the nature of the game and the humanoid enemies, for there to be a bit more of a fun challenge there should be some simpler enemies to deal with; also gives scope for pretty much anything we'd like, depending on the situation! Also I enjoy making robots generally, points for anyone who knows what the various references are I've shamelessly pilfered for my designs xD

This is here because I did the rotating part by hand, and I'm not going to let that slide without shamelessly telling you about it, and...

One of the main things that's been keeping me in gremlin mode of late, the Video store! However it isn't just this front bit:

And I'm cooking up a very special scene for in here too, which I hope justifies all this madness:

Now this is just a frame from the first part, with lucky ol' me removed by the time you all get to see don't worry, but I'm thinking this is going to be a bit more than a play/stop animation if it goes the way I want it to!

And also, as an extra even if it's not strictly for the same thing, a little change of work for me that always does well to shake things up:

( I'm just going to warn you there's a muzzle flash that'll look much less intense in-engine where it's a sprite sheet, but here in .gif format there's no opacity beyond 1 or 0 so, long story short, FLASHING WARNING BELOW)

Which is for a thing some of you may have seen floating around, which sometime we hope to get some more info out to you on but for the moment I'll just be awful and drop a screenshot with no further elaboration:

Anyway, these are all the big things I can recall for the moment, as you can see even when we spend a little time refreshing ourselves in a new genre it's still Predation related, though the main focus still remains with my unwieldy first love; I'd like to thank you all again for sticking around for my unprofessional and i'm sure maddening way of going about this whole game making thing, and I hope that these are some small sign that things are carrying on and we're still committed as ever to making the best thing we can!

Until next time though, have a nice late summer!

-S

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Jun 28, 2025 09:56 pm

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A small Devlog / Progress update! (2025/06/28)

Hey everyone! It’s me, Tib!

Thought I’d give everyone a little update! As you might have noticed, we’ve started putting out more frequent updates now, small changes, nothing too significant, as we feel like it’s much easier to show our progress this way!

Right now, most of the work on my part has been getting the enemy NPCs up and running (or walking, hah) so that we can re-implement them and scatter them around the upcoming maps. We already had Goldie, but now I’ve also finished the QRD guy (the one who will have no special scenes because it wouldn’t make sense canonically), and I’ll also finish the rat worker soon!

I have also started work on some basic quests that Amber can optionally do for some small extra rewards, ranging from just an item or two, or some hidden special scenes.

Meanwhile, Sephra has been focused on both creating new (animated!) game over CGs, as well as doing some mapping so we can progress the story further!

Thank you all for your attention!

Tib <3

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May 29, 2025 09:28 pm

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Small lore focused update (0.2.7.7)

Hey everyone! Tib here!

While Sephra and I continue to work on new 'content', I've been updating the already existing build by including more interactions and a few small bugfixes, basically a few more things to do!

Here's a brief changelog:

-Fixed a bug where if the player held down the "look up" button before a cutscene started, the camera would be stuck in the higher position without properly resetting

-Fixed a bug that caused a map load trigger to be triggered 9 times in a row after the RJ cutscene

-Fixed a few dialogue mistakes where BBCode was visible, instead of being properly converted

-Fixed the options menu not starting off with 0 scroll, making it so when the player opened the menu, the scroll bar was already half way down, not showing the first few options without scrolling up manually

-Added a new "inspect" feature, making it possible to inspect certain items in the world and have Amber comment on them, including more lore about the world

-Added a dialogue to the strange "teleporter" room at the bottom of the first open area, letting the player know it's unfinished

-Added Tib (hehe hi) to the bar with some dialogue to make it more obvious that the testbuild ends there

-Added a "skip intro" button to the main menu to skip the first few intro levels, and put the player right after the security room / RJ cutscene

-Made the metro / platform area spawn the train very soon after the player entered for the first time, to make sure all players see the event at least once

-Lowered the volume of the loading screen music, especially the more bassy ones

This update is public, and can be found on our Itch page!

Once again, thank you so much for all the support, and if you have any feedback, feel free to share anywhere, especially on our discord! ( https://discord.gg/hornedlizardstudios )

<3

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Apr 24, 2025 03:33 pm

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Public release of the latest testbuild! (0.2.7.6)

Hello everyone, it's me, Tib this time!
This post is simply a continuation from the last one, where we put out a new testbuild for our lovely supporters, but this time, we're giving access to this build to everyone else!

Furthermore, I've finally created a better build pipeline for our Linux build, which means that older systems running older versions of Linux should be able to run the game now again!
As it turns out, it matters where the export templates are built when building for linux, so hopefully that issue is now solved! I've tested the oldest, still supported version of Ubuntu to make sure it works, so if you run Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) or newer, you should be able to run the game just fine! (And if you run an older version, be careful, as support for 20.04 ends this May!)

As always, thank you so much for your continued support, we're working on bringing the actual content back into the game now, so it will have proper gameplay like in the old versions, and once we've done that, we can continue the story!

Some info for the current build:
Right now, Amber is invincible, because the game over system is still being updated (With some extra surprises coming soon, you'll see!), and the testbuild is somewhat empty past the intro bits. We'll continue to add more to this, and the "demo" ends in the bar, where the backdoor is locked, and you'll get a message that it's still a work in progress.

As always, if you have any questions, please don't be afraid to reach out to us on our discord at https://discord.gg/HornedLizardStudios and we'll do our best to help out or answer any questions you might have!

Here are the download links!

https://predationstorage.blob.core.windows.net/predation-testbuilds-public/Predation_TESTBUILD_0.2.7.6_win.zip

https://predationstorage.blob.core.windows.net/predation-testbuilds-public/Predation_TESTBUILD_0.2.7.6_linux.zip

You can also find these builds on our itch now!
https://hornedlizardstudios.itch.io/predation

Thank you <3
Tib

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Apr 10, 2025 10:35 am

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