MULTIVERSAL: CONNECTED // DEVLOG - V0.0.4-00325 // Complete Remake (WIP)

DISCLAIMER 1: Just to clarify, -00325 as in snapshot 3 in the year 2025. While it's not public, it can still be devlogged I guess.

DISCLAIMER 2: Sorry about the delay between updates. The game development hasn't halted. The reason that I haven't worked much on the game lately is that I've been in a state of depression, but I'm feeling way better now.

DISCLAIMER 3: Development on this update started on August 11th, 2025. I've been trying to work with the other game until then but it's just too tedious to keep going. Which is why this is being worked on. And also, I'm a team of one person. Expect things to be slow lol.

This update is a complete remake of the game in order to make every single function way more efficient. For example, even in the menu, instead of having every single menu listed, I can just have a menu template, and whenver I need a menu I can always call it back. (for example when disconnecting from the server); It's simply to make it less tideous for me to work on the game, and to make it more sustainable in a singular session. Currently, all of the menus are done, but will be expanding to carousels and even the registration phase itself. You'll see below that there's still lots of things that need to be done.

UPDATE LOG

Removed:
Basically everything, restarted from almost 0.

Added:

- Added a silly crash screen. Quite helpful if you suddenly get a fatal error and your game just ends up frozen without you being able to do anything.
- Expanded Settings to include a "Change Track" option. This option will simply randomize the menu track, if you REALLY HATE the music that is currently playing.
- Refurbished the keybind editor to make it easier for players to know what to do to edit a keybinding.
- Added the silly sound when deleting a keybinding. And on top of that, a sound effect was also added when adding a keybind, or critical keybinds are overriding eachother.

Fixed:

- Made font bigger, & decreased gaps between specific objects, to make everything feel more even & tidy.
- Made menu brighter, but just by like 0.1%. I don't know why but it does feel nicer.
- Menu navigation is less tideous to implement and way faster in usage.
- The volume settings are now properly aligned and actually include a percentage.
- Keybindings settings before required not to be overriden at all. Now you can do whatever the hell you want, except you are just not able to create conflicts between the critical controls (up, down, left, right, confirm, cancel, exit). The rest, go wild. You'll know if you do something wrong. By being prevented from doing it.

Working on:
- Re-adding login/register features
- Re-adding an easily re-callable "contact" section, with the possibility of a custom background. Anything you want. This is to be able to use it in your creations too, rather than just be a one/two time thing.
- Fixing & tidying up audio system
- Finally adding menu customization, changes allow me to.
- Adding crossplay control compatibility. (for example you'll be able to play on a controller)
- Fixing menu jittering; This also happens in the previous game except I had left it in because it didn't affect much. But now it does because now the menu is much faster.
- Adding menu scaling. Feel like the menu is too big for your 128K screen? Worry not, you'll be able to make it a lot smaller rather than the default size. Why do I care? Well, ... I just love torturing myself for things that aren't even necessary I guess. I just want to make my game as good as possible for everybody.
- Adding a DYNAMIC keyboard. and I do mean exactly that. Imagine just being able to pull up an entire keyboard onto your screen when you are in need of it. Maybe you want to chat, maybe you want to log in, it's always gonna be there with you. And no, it's not your whatever phone may be's keyboard which will straight up push the game into the ceiling. It's like an actual keyboard, but just the fact that it's limited to letters and symbols to actually fit your screen. Now thinking about it, I could even make it customizable.

Remember, whilst it feels like a downgrade for now, it's gonna make up to be an upgrade for later. Except in Roblox's case where... You know the rest. And if you don't feel free to look it up. I'm not gonna read thru all this again, as I'm too tired. If I messed up somewhere oh well. It's 4am I need sleep. Sorry to all the people reading this. But I know the update logs are true. Anyways, enough with my rambling.

PUBLICITY:
Private, too early for testing. Although I am transparent about what I'm doing I guess.

# MISC
Overall progress: 65% of the previous iteration;

Overall playability: Idk, probably a 50% increase. Feels way nicer to navigate than before.

Special thanks to Toby Fox for making Deltarune & Undertale, the biggest inspirations
Special thanks to Some of my friends for testing the updates

And special thanks to you all for following this game's development! It helps keep motivated! Wish you all a fluffy day!