Phase 1

Chapter 1, 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

Chapter 1, 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
  • Outfit 1 (Default)
  • Outfit 2 (Classic)
  • Outfit 3 (Denton)
  • Outfit 4 (Baller)
  • Outfit 5 (Casual)
  • Outfit 6 (Casual)
• 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

Chapter 2, iteration #1

Demo post-launch fixes

• Change FullscreenColorBits to 32
• Fix crash on exit after using possession (hint: it's about the inventory slots)
• Fix pink mask leaks
• Reencode voice lines with better compression
• Fix frobbing Alex first breaking flow
• Keep Larry's liquor mission after breaking the faucet
• Account for player killing Jackson1
• Fix Julia last bark being played too soon
• Make office puzzle more obvious, or introduce more solutions

General

• Prepare questions for Ross
• Implement mantling
• Implement precipitation
• Different dialogue options based on outfit
• Fix double pink entries in indexed colour palettes generated by bright.exe

Hong Kong: Streets

• Introduce triad presence
• Quest: Find clues to the location of the compound with help from Julia and Alex
• Return to Mike at some point?
• Make bars for chance encounters

Hong Kong: Triad Compound

• Infiltration area: Temple grounds
• Underground area: Lab with advanced weapons and drugs

Hong Kong: Juggernauts Hideout

• Juggernauts hideout as a brothel