"Also could try set walking to drop foot prints from what ever boots you are wearing. Would not be to hard to add."
Believe me it would be very hard to add. You guys get a distorted view of game development by using the likes of Unreal and Unity :)
(Edited: FWIW this basic shield system, etc. took at least 120hrs I estimate to complete.)
P.S. I'm suddenly receiving a lot of comments in the past few days, after none for 200 days... do you know why that might be? Just a coincidence? In any case I left a comment here ( https://itch.io/post/3401711 ) because I found that game/demo via your recent posts when itch.io notified you joined. In reply to your post there, you can help with SOM and this project as long as you can find a way to contribute.