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Cat Powered UFO




3 years ago

Big changes to the start of Cat-Powered UFO!

Have a look at the article to see how I dealt with player pathing problems.

New Version is out now!

Give it a try! I'd love to hear your thoughts!

https://thesneak.itch.io/cat-powered-ufo


The new version is out!  :D

There are A LOT of changes, I won't get into them all here.

But I will go through the changes to the early game and why I think they are necessary.  

First up, the way the game allows you to progress is significantly changed.

In previous versions, you could unlock the roll ability and the lift ability, and you would basically have free reign over the world from there.

The problem is, there are some situations later on that require the purple plasma attack, a player could do all the work of getting up to such a part, only to not be able to finish that section due to not having an ability they had no idea they could even unlock.

These smoking flowers make clear that they can only be killed by a purple plasma attack.  They block the way to several key areas and items that would usually allow the player to collect cats and travel to different dimensions.  Now the player needs to unlock the attack to make this possible.

Another problem was players not understanding that they can travel to different dimensions at all.

Now the player is forced to explore the slime dimension in order to unlock the ability to lift things.  This new Slime creature NPC is key in explaining this.

To make more obvious the importance of the Riddle master NPC he now has his own tent

TLDR:

So basically now the player is made to unlock the roll, lift, and attack abilities before they can get themselves in a dead-end situation due to not having said abilities.  

If you want to check out all the new changes follow this link

https://itch.io/t/1004572/change-log

Want to try Cat-Powered UFO for yourself?

Check it out here, don't forget to give me your feedback!

https://thesneak.itch.io/cat-powered-ufo

I hope you all have a wonderful day!  

Have fun!  :)



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