Devlog #6 - Finishing up sprint 1

Arena(Environment)

Hey everyone! Here's a quick update on the arena battleground for Beetlefield Blast:

🛠️ Work-in-progress sneak peek of the new arena!

• 🏛️ Visual style inspired by Mediterranean and North African architecture — sun-baked stone, bold forms, ancient vibes.

• 🌳 A pomegranate tree marks the heart of the arena — a symbol of life and power among the tribes. (Leaves still on the to-do list!)

• 🧩 The environment is fully unwrapped and ready for texturing.

• 🎨 Next step: adding color, grit, and lore to bring it to life.

💡 Thinking of calling it "The Oasis Ring"… not sure if the name will stick, but I kinda like it haha.  📢 Stay tuned — more arenas and development updates are on the way. 🕹️ Once it's finished and textured, we'll be dropping it straight into the game for some intense beetle brawls!

◎ Bumpers

- Added in bumpers.

- They will be used to divide the map up.

- They can keep the bomb from going straight into the goal from the beginning.

- Also made the arena itself bumper-y, making it so the bomb isn't constantly at the edges of the map.

◎ Accelerated Time Zones

- In these zones the timer of the bomb ticks down faster (currently 2x).

- This gets rid of the bomb instantly scoring when hitting a goal post, but still keeping an extra incentive to get the bomb to for extra points.

◎ Improved Character Selection

- The characters now animate and show light on selection.

◎ Aim Assist

- Weapons and projectiles now slightly curve towards the target to make it easier and more intuitive to hit another player.

◎ Ragdolls

- Ragdolls have been added into the game, no need to explain this one I think, it's just simply hilarious and adds more chaos to the game.

◎ New models!

- A new bomb model has been added into the game.

- Two new weapon models have been added into the game: a palm hand melee weapon, and a rocket projectile weapon.

◎ Podium

- A victory scene has been added that shows the top 3 players, as well as some stats about them during the game.

- Their team color is displayed by a light and with the color on their back, just as in the character selection scene.

- They play a victory animation.

- They currently display the amount of weapons they have picked up, the amount of times they touched the bomb and the amount of times they got stunned.

◎ Weapon showcase

Rounding off the first Production Sprint with a tiny showcase of all the weapons available to our brawlers:

During the next Production Sprint these will receive a new paint job that will make them really shine inside our game, so please look forward to that!