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Week 15
Rick Raymo speaks on the focus of B2 and other cool stuff

Week 14
Jay brings us up to date on Blood 2's development

Week 13
Schlegel teaches path-finding class

Week 12
Bill V takes us through level creation techniques

Week 11
Jay takes a tour through a Cabal meat factory

Week 10
Dan talks about the soundtrack using IMA

Week 9
Eric shows us how to paint happy clouds

Week 8
Greg talks about possibilities of weapon modifications

Week 7
Ernie shows tricks of motion-capture and texture mapping

Week 6
Ben shows a day in the life of a Fanatic

Week 4
Kev picks the Blood movie actors

Week 3
Schlegel talks about AI

Week 2
Bill shows how to drive

Week 1
Jay gives a tour

Welp... it's time for a weekly update again! I'm Andy Mattingly, the newest engineer for the Blood 2 team... and my main focus on the game has been the interface and menus. Since that's what I've been staring at for the last few weeks, I thought it'd be perfect to let everyone else take a look at it as well.

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I'll start off by showing what you'll see when you start up the game. This is a picture of our main menu (coding by Greg and graphics by Eric)... it's pretty self-explanatory though, so I won't go into it. :)

Now, you may have seen a little of the interface in some of the screen shots floating around... and you might be asking 'What the #@*$ does all that stuff mean?' Well, that takes me to the second screen shot.

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As we watch the civilian beg me not to chop his legs off (thanks to Schlegel's AI and GIBs), we see the status bar at the bottom of the screen in its normal mode. From left to right we have health (with a beating heart that changes speed according to the value), armor with the beetle symbol, the currently selected item, the selected spell, your current amount of focus (mana), and the amount of ammo for the current weapon.

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When we want to select a new item or spell... the item tab unfolds to show the currently available inventory (as seen in this picture), and you can slide them around to get to the one you want.