Welcome back!
It's been a while, hasn't it? And by a while i mean.. 5 months and 11 beta versions later. That means i have a whole bag of changes for you! (spoiler: there's only 4 key points i've listed here) Now, i still gotta be secretive/careful with what i share, So there will be some missing info.
Anyway, here is the small list of changes!
The demo levels are ready!
All of the levels i plan to incorporate into the demo are complete! That's a total of 17 levels! Now, when will this demo release i hear you ask. I plan to release it on Layerformer's planned initial release date which is December 12th 2021. Take this as a "wow i'm an idiot thinking i could complete a game like this in 15 months" apology type thing.
But for real, this is the least i could do for anticipating such an unrealistic release date. And even though this demo will release in December, i'm not putting any winter/Christmas branding on it at all so you can play it all year round. Some more Qs will be answered coming the day of December 12th 2021.
Better controller support!
You can now almost play the game with a controller now! The only things left for me to do is making the rest of the GUI controller friendly and some remappings (or maybe a tool to help you remap it, but i cba to make one lolll).
A ..boss?
Yep, i added a Boss. It's still a work in progress in my opinion as i recently pushed a change to the beta branch with some changed to the difficulty (2 months later and i'm still making changes to this awful thing)
So, this boss is a turret... with big metal legs!
I've been advised by my beta testers not to share more. Sorry!
But for real, i'm not happy with the state of the boss since it just stands there and dances yep, it's been like that for 2 months And i don't think its in a state that i'm happy with showing to the general public so i may exclude it from the demo even though i said all of the levels were ready. Hypocrite much? I'll find something else to throw in there in the mean time however. Maybe a demo exclusive level? idk.
Better mod support!
You can mod the game easier now with some of the non-critical assets being external. This includes skins, TV images (level 10, oh i haven't told you about this) and some video files (oh haven't told you about this yet either.) And also every string in the game is changeable as well (note: strings are located in the root directory, not /externalAssets).
Uhh what else have i done uhmmmmm
New intro animation that looks cool !!!
video playback wowzie!!!!!!!!
nice cool background pattern (no more creepy static !!)
the game now shows what level you're in on the title screen wew!!!
pride skins (includes rainbow, bi, non-binary, pan and trans) !! pan and trans are on the next page btw
u have friend now. i don't have a name from them yet so drop one below. or not.
a lot of smaller changes that have no reason to be here
uhh i actually don't know what else i can put here
HELP I DON'T KN-
fun fact: most of the changes i was going to list here i thought i added recently but they were all listed in the April - May 2021 Wrap Up devlog. how time flies :(((
Now, small reminder that i had to be *extremely* careful with what i could talk about because i am doing some major lore stuff with the game right now.
And hey, for fun here's a 4x5 png of the other levels that i hosted on discord because gamejolt doesn't like the image
Anyway, See you on December 12th 2021! or not if i forget
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