Thank you very much. It means a lot. It’s great to hear someone enjoy the thing you put yourself into.
This game is made by n UE4
yes, there are some very interesting tools out there already available. Thanks to AI you are able to record a video of yourself and convert it to skeletal animation compatibile with unreal engine.
Don’t want to promote any specific product but magical words for internet search are ” video to mocap”
One is especially good and it is produced by a company that also made a very popular and affordable motion capture suite
Update will probably be more problematic because the PC I build this project on got HDD corrupted so it is no longer possible to rebuild/update/patch the game (not in a traditional way)
Steam is out of my reach. For me Itch.io was and always will be home for small indie projects. You also need a registration fee and a lot of paperwork to be done in order to publish on steam.