Well that's embarrassing! 6 months since the last update... SO sorry to anyone who was following and thought I'd given up. Quite the opposite, I've been super busy! I ended up taking on a bit too much freelance work to help pay the bills in the 2nd half of 2016 and it took up most of my time so I didn't get to work on my game as much.
Having hardly touched my game for a few months I decided to book the whole of December for myself to only work on my own stuff. At about the same time I discovered PlayMaker and thought I'd give that a try out to see if it would be useful/helpful and OMG is it ever! I stared over from scratch with a new Unity project and kept none of my old scripts, and after 1 month I've done more than half of the demo I had planned. All of the main systems are reworked (pick up/carry/drop, ghost mode, object interaction etc.) and I'd say are better now that the old versions, plus I've added a bunch of new stuff inc. interactive UI puzzles, made most of the puzzles in the demo and overall made a lot of progress.
To be honest I was feeling a bit concerned about how things were going in October/November having had so little time to work on my game and I started to worry if it was ever going to go anywhere and self doubt is always lurking around the corner to leap out and ruin my day but after a concentrated burst of activity in December I'm back on it with a vengeance!
So what am I actually doing right now? I'm currently working on a short demo, what you might call a vertical slice of the game that serves as an introduction to what the game will be like. It starts off in the mansion, as the full game will, and introduces the main elements of the game with some basic puzzles and environmental storytelling. Once that's done I hope to be able to take it to show shows/events, get some feedback from people and get on with making the rest of the game!
Here are some screenshots of part of the updated mansion level in the demo...
So again, definitely still working on the game and sorry it's been so long between posts! I'll definitely be posting more stuff now that things are moving along again. I am still doing everything by myself so my progress isn't going to be as fast as some others, but I'll get there in the end! If people are interested I'll post some more details about how I made various things and how I set stuff up in PlayMaker etc.
Thanks for looking!