Deus Ex: Machine God

Phase 1

Vandenberg and Tijuana, iteration 1

Vandenberg

• Create barracks for staff
• Optional convos with scientists
• Agents to bypass, violently or sneakily
• Convo with Gary and JC, introduce the premise of the story
• Introduce Miguel

Tijuana: Slums

• Create hilly environment, dodgy houses made from sheet metal
• Meet Miguel's mother through a confrontation with the police
• Solicit the help of local gangs to enter the city
• Some NPCs for environmental storytelling
• Create transition scene to sim

Tijuana: Office

• Create corpo environment, a stab at Embracer
• Convos with CEO, ultimately just to mock him
• Introduce Hypnos
• Have a creative way to break out
• Escape sequence onto streets

Tijuana: Streets

• Meet Miguel in an assigned role, help him out of it
• Meet Anton Jackson, an old friend of Miguel's, who can help the player escape
• Populate the streets
• Escape sequence out of sim, alone

Tijuana: Illuminati

• Meet Hypnos and try to convince it to release the others
• Meet Julia, who apologises to the player and takes her to Morgan
• Allow the player to change outfit
• Convos with Morgan and Gary, introducing the premise of the next chapter
• Obtain a new aug, telepathy or possession
• Rooftop convo with Miguel
• Map exit

Phase 2

Vandenberg and Tijuana, iteration 2

General

• Set flag triggers
  • Helped family
  • Killed Luis
  • Stole Julia's gear
  • Helped Anton
  • Killed Jacksons
• Make pink the mask color for most textures
  • Make sure previously black masked textures are updated
• Update portraits in InfoLink messages
  • Gary Savage
• Revamp all character skins in toon style
• Set up automated flow for generating skins
  • Integrate Mike's textures
  • Integrate Anton Jackson's textures
  • Integrate JC/Helios
  • Integrate MIB/WIB
• Improve telepathy aug
  • Get rid of word salad, just the facts
  • Create a "secrets" manager that determines who knows what
  • Use outline to highlight relevant characters
• Improve possession aug
  • Use outline to highlight relevant characters
  • Fix dying after deactivation
• Remove the "outfit changed" prompt
• Fix leather jackets having black coat tails
• Fix jumpsuits having black helmets
• Fix pink masks on suits
• Change "Mike" to "Miguel" after slums
• Launch demo
  • Make website
  • Package LLC's launcher
  • Final playthroughs
  • Make announcement

Vandenberg

• Improve barracks design
• Entirely new path to lab
• Fix Carla's legs

Tijuana: Slums

• More people
• More pickups
• Mini-missions
• Fix BSP errors in the road
• Fix police killing each other
• Add goals and skill points
• Fix police being too hard for Julia to kill
• Fix Helios TV
• Exclude balaclavas from random humans
• Exclude funny frames and sunglasses from random humans
• Remove couch table from El Coyote's tipi
• Fix black lockers in the border area
• Create nodes for the PCs at the border area
• Add light to border area exit
• Fix hovering house
• Update Luis photos
• Fix blocked tunnel
• Generalise Luis' "fired" trigger

Tijuana: Office

• Expand building interior and remove glass walls
• Escape sequence way longer
• Fix inventory still present on start
• Remove *ugh* at beginning of MeetHypnos convo
• Remove skybox
• Fix vents all moving at the same time
• Fix transitioning sound
• Add goals and skill points
• Fix stairs loop collision
• Fix intersecting doors
• Enable killing Larry Winger

Tijuana: Streets

• More interesting layout in NSF compound
• More difficult to find manhole
• Mini quest to unlock Anton's cage
• Escape through sewer better layout
• Fix manhole bug
• Fix Mike's hiding bark
• Fix exit convo not firing
• Implement new voice lines for random NPCs
• Better startup sound for the train
• Add goals and skill points
• Fix corrupt sound in VA
• Fix exit convo not starting
• Fix vat goal appearing too soon
• Implement new voice lines for Anton Jackson
• Fix bar floor tiles
• Fix subtitle: "if can keep me safe"
• Increase enforcer radius

Tijuana: Illuminati

• More employees
• Make portals omnidirectional
• Larger scale
• Add technicians to the helipad
• Make VTOL
• Julia's apartment
  • Environmental storytelling
• Alex' apartment
  • Computer, gadgets
  • Gain access by reading his mind
• Morgan's office
• Morgan's apartment
• Fix Morgan's legs
• Non-sucky skybox
• New outfits
• Add goals and skill points
• Fix Julia going the wrong way after portal to apartments
• Fix player losing inventory after possessing
• Fix Morgan's question about Anton reappearing
• Give the secretary a few lines
• Fix apartments -> lab portal

Phase 3

Hong Kong, Tiffany's mission

General

• Fix crash when using ModernConCamera
• Clear mission objectives between missions
• Fix hologram effect
• Create inventory icons for Henosia vials
• Update generic faces with new design improvements
• Fix 3 line dialog being cut off in the subtitles
• Fix skin tones in torso textures
• Update character screen portraits
• Fix label on vent covers
• Update infolink portraits
• Fix Sandra Renton
• Fix white female torsos
• Fix line art on shirt front textures

Retro

• Fix hidden Mike in Vandenberg
• Dim down Vandenberg
• Better skybox in slums
• Fix Mike convo camera in slums
• Fix old people in the cartel
• Fix haunted police in the slums
• Update El Coyote skin
• Update Julia Montes skin
• Account for player killing Jackson1
• Improve visibility of Vandenberg parking garage
• Keep Larry's liquor mission after breaking the faucet
• Improve transition to sim
• Fix OverhearMorganGary not playing properly
• Fix inventory not getting entirely removed when going to office
• Fix frobbing Alex first breaking flow
• Make outfits disappear upon frob
• Replace Helios TV in slums
• Fix wooden planks in the abandoned house
• Add meelee weapon to Vandenberg
• Fix Julia last bark being played too soon
• Add tech bot to Illuminati nano lab
• Change FullscreenColorBits to 32
• Add Logan's music

Intro dream sequence

• Turn player into a kid
• Add transition to awake state

Hong Kong: North Street

• Tavern
• Exit: MTR
• Exit: Triad compound
• Simpler Helios screen
• Hide Gordon Quick better
• Hide the drug dealer better
• Decker Parkes rescue mission
• Iris skin
• Decker skin
• Erin skin
• Wayne skin
• Gordon skin
• Make someone talk about wanting to go to Wan Chai
• Fix ambient light
• Shorter intro infolink
• Give players more of a chance to hear the triad soldier convo
• Get Miguel back in the story
• Create male+female triad soldiers
• Create intro sequence
• Complete the hideout
• Random voice lines for people in tea restaurant
• Fix Decker's seat
• Fix Decker pressing fingerprint scanner
• Shop signs
• Voice acting
  • BartenderGiveQuest
  • BartenderShop
  • BumMale1Barks
  • BumFemale1Barks
  • BumFemale2Barks
  • GordonQuickBarks
  • MeetBartender
  • MeetDrugDealer
  • MeetGordonQuick
  • OverhearBums
  • OverhearDeckerBartender
  • OverhearTriadSoldiersStreet
  • RandomFemale
  • RandomMale

Hong Kong: Triad Compound

• Evidence that they killed the PM when he refused to cooperate
• Evidence and reason that they're developing Henosia
• Prevent player from leaving Tong's office until they dropped their weapons
• Skybox
• Exterior guards
• Better construction chute
• Loot in empty rooms
• More excuses to use the new augs, lockpicks and multitools
• Finish the kitchen
• Make Paul Denton skin
• Make Tracer Tong skin
• Turn lions into dragons
• Find out why boxes don't stack under the vents
• Fix Paul room vent cover UVs
• Fix guard bath vent opening the wrong way
• Fix dining hall door UVs
• Add ways for players to discover Tong's office code
• Add ways for players to discover Tong's computer login
• Improve MeetTracerTong bit
• Voice acting
  • OverhearTriadSoldiersExterior
  • OverhearTriadSoldiersGarden
  • TriadSoldierMaleBarks
  • TriadSoldierFemaleBarks
  • OverhearScientists
  • ScientistFemaleBarks
  • ScientistMaleBarks
  • MeetTracerTong

Gassed dream sequence

• JC as teenager
• Platforming puzzle to get basketball down from a tree
• Transition to Helios and credits

Phase 4

Hong Kong, Adam's hub

General

• Update skin export scripts to new structure
• Make Escape key invoke a menu during credits
• Add a drop shadow to the log window
• CarcassProxy becomes an empty inventory item
• Fix double pink entries in indexed colour palettes generated by bright.exe
• Fix intro playing again
• Ensure players keep their augs, inventory and skills when swapping characters
• Make PlayerPawn.Possess() work and use it with the possession aug

Retro

• Remove keypad in Vandenberg
• Fix vent clipping through in Vandenberg, same spot
• Add crowbar to office sewer exit
• Hide the capsule UI
• Decker keeps saying "load up" every time something is picked up
• Set flag when player kills any triad soldiers
• Fix being able to multitool your way right into seeing Quick
• Make NSF characters react if the player gets in
• Fix drug dealer still talking after you know his info
• Add generic barks to drug dealer
• Fix being able to mix responses in Tong's office
• Improve compound skybox
• Return player to dialogue choices after picking "my dad saved your life"
• Redo Tracer Tong's lines

Side quests

• Sabotage triad scramblers
• Autonomous MTR subplot
  • Turns out to be an AI
  • Purpose is to enforce good behaviour

Hong Kong: Mong Kok

• Exit: MTR
• Exit: NSF hideout
• Exit: Night club "Vongott"
• Exit: Temple street?
• Adam and Iris' flat
  • Adam's dossier text
  • Photo of Kubrick
• Fence
• Pharmacy

Hong Kong: NSF Hideout

• Include comment about Anton Jackson
• NSF hideout as a brothel

Phase X

The final development stage

General

• Dialogue cleanup