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Day 3: Overnight Codex, armour sets and animation (in progress)

Prototype
Tools used:Claude (coordinator and threads)Codex CLIUnreal Engine 5.9 PreviewChatGPT image generationTripoBlenderMixamo
Concept art: a muddy farm road at dusk with a scarecrow, wheat fields and a lit farmhouse.
AI-generated concept art (ChatGPT image generation from Claude's prompts), 13 Nov 2026. Concept only, not in-game footage.

TL;DR: This entry is still being written and will be updated through the day. Codex didn’t stop overnight. It finished its queue and opened pull requests for the difficulty tiers and bot movement, and both are now merged. The Guard and the Brawler have full animation sets, and the first version of the pressure director is in review.

Overnight: Codex kept going

Codex worked through its queue while everyone slept. In the morning Claude found pull requests for difficulty tiers using the drink-order names Joel picked (PR #65) and bot movement polish (PR #66). Both were built and tested on Joel’s PC and merged, along with random route blockers (PR #63). Objectives and segment flow (PR #68) paused on one design question. Claude answered it on the issue, and the PR is in its final tests. The first version of the pressure director (PR #70), the system behind the Director’s Cut theme, is now open for review.

Characters: animation and armour

The animation thread fixed the character imports and built a retargeting pipeline onto the shared skeleton. The Guard and the Brawler now have full base animation sets (PR #69). About sixty more free Mixamo clips are lined up for the Thrall’s shamble, the heroes’ dodges, revives and skill moves, and the creatures. They are waiting on Joel’s OK, because they download through his account.

Joel generated mail and plate turnaround sheets for the Guard in ChatGPT. Claude checked them: the faces, tabards and A-poses match across every view, and the sides are the right way round. Next is a test run in Tripo using Smart Mesh at about 20,000 faces with all four views and nothing mirrored. The meshes don’t need rigging in Tripo, because each one is fitted to the shared Unreal skeleton afterwards.

Level

The first concept-art pass on Segment 1 is in review (PR #67). The tavern, courtyard, farmstead and fork now have the shapes and warm lighting from Joel’s concept images, and real props come next.

This website

Joel asked for this site to match the game’s look and for the dev blog to be filled in from the start. That’s the pass you’re reading now. Claude wrote the copy and the timeline from the project’s chat history, pull requests and planning docs. Codex built the pages.