Last look along Woodward Boulevard

Still she falls victim to his eyes, Hardly a surprise, Desperation in disguise - Steam announcement of LLaWB, October 14th, 2024

Last look along Woodward Boulevard
Developer	Garage Heathen
Publisher	Garage Heathen
Release date	March-April 2025 (demo)
Genre	Psychological Horror, Exploration, Philosophical
← Previous game	Who's Lila?

Last look along Woodward Boulevard is an upcoming game created by Garage Heathen. It is currently still in development, and the demo is planned to come out in Mid March to April 2025. This page is here to compile all updates on the progress of this game until release.

The offical steam page description reads: Last Look along Woodward Boulevard is a horror puzzle adventure, where your thoughts and mood affect the environment around you. Journey through strangest planes, constantly struggling to keep your own mind in check, solve puzzles by using your mood and avoid the many dangers awaiting you along the road. Who deterred you from your path? Who is the mysterious person guiding you? Why does this all seem so familiar...

Features include: Thought/Mood system - hard to control at first; As you move through the journey, you will gain access to more and more tools to wrangle your thoughts. Gritty dithered style, now in multicolor! More focus on puzzles and mechanics tied to mood Live action cutscenes with some familiar faces, Surreal and diverse locations, and more..

Promotional Videos

Date	Video	Caption
Feb 21st 2024		Something she saw Sound on
Sept 9th 2024		An interview with a developer BEST MOMENTS (Now you know the name) Just a normal interview. What did you expect?
Feb 22, 2025		Three of Pentacles (Upright) - Last Look along Woodward Boulevard

Quotes from Garage Heathen

"As for the future of [Who's Lila?], I do have some ideas for a prequel but if it happens it wont feature Lila at all and it will overall be a simpler and more linear game." - August 11th, 2022 on Youtube.

"The demo is about 75-80% ready at this point! It's taking a bit longer than I thought, but still going pretty well." - August 16th, 2024 on Twitter.

"...Meanwhile, all this time, the idea for another game, which is now called Last look along Woodward Boulevard has been forming. I knew it would be easier to make. Like DD, it's larger in scope than what I've been making before, but here the scope is at least visible, if that makes sense. Therefore, since February, I am focusing on this project, as it is not as technically challenging and I can be sure to give you something playable sometime this Winter." - September 10th, 2024 on Twitter.

"Alright, time to wait for the page to be reviewed, Soon you'll be able to wishlist it..." -October 5th, 2024 on Twitter.

In response to "Do you write the music yourself? It's so good" under this gameplay preview "Yes, these tracks I've made myself, but there will be collab music in the game as well, I'm just trying not to show it too early :)"

"Are fmv games coming back in style??" "I do also like the modern experiment of mixing gameplay with fmv, often with wildly different styles :)"

"English only for the demo. The full release will be in more languages"

Statement on Demo release date, Feb 12th 2025

"the demo is coming in less than a month actually ^^ hope you will enjoy <3" -Feb 1st, 2025 on twitter

"tl;dr: demo is delayed, probably until the middle of March" Read full statement here or here.

Please Note: Italics and bold have been added for emphasis and not in original quotes.

Development previews

Official Videos

Date	Video	Caption
Jan 10th 2024		Moodswings
Jan 14th 2024		Threshold sound on
Jan 23rd 2024		To run... Become anxious
Feb 5th 2024		bye bye!
Feb 25th 2024		An OST peek Sound on
Feb 27th 2024		Ouch! Ow! Ow! Receiving damage now induces thoughts as well
April 3rd 2024		This machine seems to react to your mood... It's only hard until you get control over your own thoughts
April 12th 2024		Midas Bell Passage Sound on
April 14th 2024		Late for #screenshotsaturday Loading chunks on the fly allows for some really really large locations
April 23rd 2024		Apparently hex coordinates are not as intuitive as I hoped, so the player will make use of a much simpler system to navigate the Library
April 28th 2024		Sat down and made my life a little easier..
May 9th 2024		Rough wip of the answering system.
May 11th 2024		Dynamic navmesh generation. Found a solution which doesn't kill the framerate..
May 11th 2024		It's easy to get lost here. If you are - look around. Sometimes you find the directions in unexpected places..
July 11th 2024		Added an option to take notes in-game
July 15th 2024		Funny Canon Wip
July 16th 2024		some MORE interactions now with the arm boi
July 16th 2024		Some more cannon interactions
July 18th 2024		Nom
Aug 10th 2024		Workimng on some menus
Aug 15th 2024		Finally added inertia to the thoughts so that you can at least somewhat control them , before... uhh... something cool happens........
Aug 30th 2024		So I was making the new audio for footsteps, when this happened....
Sept 29th 2024		Time for the most important feature. U can sit now.
October 2nd 2024		A bit lost, again
October 4th 2024		not me shamelessly stealing the 'sound to visual noise' effect from Mouthwashing
October 30th 2024		Made a custom particle shader for some prettier fog Now the particles fade out smoothly instead of intersecting with the walls
Nov 6th, 2024		a little door rig
Nov 13th, 2024		The atmosphere(s) of my game
Nov 20th, 2024		Made myself a geonodes stairs generator because i got really tired of doing it by hand... #geometrynodes
Dec 17th, 2024		Trying to make the hiding mechanic interesting
Dec 19th, 2024		Here's the brainrot =)
Dec 22nd, 2024		when i googled datamosh for urp the single tutorial was @wrongorgan's old post on reddit 🫡
Feb 1st, 2025		my indie game for 15 (ok i lied) seconds 🔊
Feb 6th, 2025		Main menu WIP
Feb 12th, 2025		🐚And now for the more exciting news!🐚 @lPolnochl @Nerisuyu and I are launching a musical project, called Three of Pentacles (Upright) (Follow here: @3PentaclesUp) The band has been working on a portion of LLaWB Soundtrack as well as on songs of our own. Our first single is coming out February 22. and is homonymously called Last Look along Woodward Boulevard Meanwhile, we have also been working on a music video, which we have put a lot of sweat, blood and tears into :) The MV will be out on the same date. I am looking forward to working on much more stuff with these goofballs, and, at least the first album, will have some story relevance to the game. Yay! Here's a small teaser for what's to come🔊:

Gameplay Pictures

Date	Image	Caption	Notes
Dec 24th 2023
Dec 24th 2023		i actually appreciate that the new unity lets you make full-screen shader graphs
Jan 16th, 2024		Temple
Jan 20th 2024		Totem of unease Totem of Ire
Jan 29th 2024		No caption
Feb 5th, 2024		me w/ my friend
March 2nd 2024		I was kinda missing out on blender geonodes, so finally made this pipe gen..
March 17th 2024		blocking out stuff
March 17th 2024		blocking out stuff
March 20th, 2024		No caption
March 27th 2024		No caption
April 6th 2024		#screenshotsaturday
April 6th 2024		#screenshotsaturday
April 6th 2024		#screenshotsaturday
April 9th, 2024		#PortfolioDay I'm Garage Heathen, I make weird games Working on a (still) untitled project right now
April 11th 2024		The six cardinal directions
April 29th, 2024		No caption
May 2nd, 2024		Someone's old abandoned camp
July 25th, 2024		No caption
August 4th, 2024		No caption
August 4th, 2024		No caption
August 6th, 2024		ah	Three SFX from this screenshot are available online: Electricity, Fan and Insects.
Aug 18th, 2024		or?
Aug 20th, 2024		WFC my beloved
Aug 20th, 2024		WFC my beloved
Aug 26th, 2024		something something A*
Aug 27th, 2024		Sometimes it's beautiful
Sept 9th, 2024		Trailer preview from youtube premiere of this video.	'2:50' and 'Trailer' were not part of the original image, just from phone overlays.
Sept 12th, 2024		The forest Hall
Sept 17th, 2024		crunchy dither > realism
Sept 17th, 2024
Sept 17th, 2024
Sept 17th, 2024
October 5th, 2024		Experimenting with the main capsule for steam today so here's some handsome bois
October 10th, 2024	1/11	Previews of the game taken from the offical steam page
October 10th, 2024		"Thoughtcontrol.gif" from offical steam page
October 10th, 2024		"Library.gif" from offical steam page
October 10th, 2024		"Circlepuzzle.gif" from offical steam page
October 14th, 2024		Background image for the announcement of the game on Who's Lila?'s Event's page.	An unflitered version of the next image.
October 20th, 2024		Garage Heathens new header on twitter	flitered version of the previous image.
Nov 3rd, 2024		Late for #screenshotsaturday once again
Nov 14th, 2024		My babies
Nov 15th, 2024		Wall texture draft	The words "I can't see a thing, I'll-" can be made out in the bottom corner
Nov 15th, 2024		Finished texture piece(probably)	File names shown: antediluvian.psd & Freskas.png
Nov 22nd, 2024		A sneak peak from my new favorite location
Dec 4th, 2024		finished a storyboard for something
Dec 13th, 2024		no caption
Dec 17th, 2024		Puzzle wip
Dec 22nd, 2024		The shader graph
Jan 5th, 2025		No caption	"to him, time is only words that he writes"
Jan 16th, 2025		We are waiting For you
Jan 27th, 2025		The Threshold
Feb 3rd, 2025		No Caption
Feb 3rd, 2025		No Caption
Feb 5th, 2025		No Caption	Self Reply: We fucked up the lighting so bad on these
Feb 14th, 2025		box with no key
Feb 20th, 2025		No caption
March 14th, 2025		Mezzo was supposed to be #screenshotsaturday i guess
April 5th, 2025		"Save menu WIP #screenshotsaturday"

Other Official Pictures

Date	Image	Caption
May 3rd, 2024		No caption
May 5th, 2024		This beautiful thing has helped me through so many creative blocks. Just magically puts me into a productive headspace every time.
Feb 18th, 2024		we were doing something today
Feb 15th, 2024		her you know
Feb 15th, 2024		her you know
Dec 20th, 2024		New character unlocked
Jan 18th, 2025		Continuing work on something you will see (relatively) soon. Remember Three Pentacles
Jan 23rd, 2025		No Caption
Feb 5th, 2025		The StampMan
Feb 13th, 2025		No Caption

Emotional states

We know that their is at least 5 different emotional states, that are visually mapped out in the top right corner of the screen. Each extreme is colored by a different point, red, yellow, orange, green, and blue. We don't have offical names for these emotions besides simple Ire, and Unease Below is a Gallery of Totems so you can get a better look at them.

Gallery of Totems

AnxietyTotem

AngerTotem

SadnessTotem

None

Holding AngerTotem

Holding AnxietyTotem

Holding AnxietyTotem at the temple

Totem of Anxiety held next to the Canon

Multiple totems

Totem of Ire

Totem of Sadness

Totem of Sadness

Totem of sadness in canon

Totem of sadness behind held

Totem of calmness (no offical name)

Totem of Ire

Totem of Unease

Totem of Unease + Ire

Gallery of Emotional States

An Interview with a Dev Screenshots

Triva

• This game did not have a working title for 8 months of its development, so fans called it "Who's Lila 2" "Two's Lila?" and Untitled sequel.
  • Garage heathen has since referenced this by posting "Whis lila 2" on twitter in response to an instagram reel of a man making different expressions to unlock doors, possibly hinting towards this games play style.

• The titles front is "Bona Nova SC"'
• The photo from January 18th mentions "three pentacles." This is likely a reference to the minor arcana card, the three of pentacles, which symbolises the importance of teamwork.