I've decided to have the statistics behind the quests in Hensen Hopper be handled as actions reported to the quest manager rather than try to write variables into a whole bunch of scripts solely for quests.

Here's a short demonstration of the beetle shell power-up in-action! It's not very obvious what it does at the moment because I still need to work on a lot of the effects for it, but the functionality is there if you pay attention to the health bar!

Okay, so I've gotten the functionality for the beetle shell render over the player working! (using the first 3 frames from the beetle shell collect animation as placeholder sprites, these ARE NOT the final sprites)

@pm-studios ' Bandit Trap has an open beta RIGHT NOW! It's open until 3 am ET on Nov 30th.

Quests celebrating the beta have entered your quest log.

Play the game for FREE: https://bit.ly/BanditTrapSteam

I made some updates to the hints system! Now it reads from the message hub to determine when to show hints and the hint texts now come from the lang system I wrote yesterday. This simplified my the hints handling algorithm A LOT from what it used to be!

🏆Meet the winners of the Narrative Jam presented by Game Jolt and @NEOWIZ_QUEST ! Where every story finds its voice!

Oh yeah, also, I updated that algorithm for dash handling I shared yesterday so I can set the dash duration via the inspector window!

I am impressed by my past self right now. The algorithm behind the unimplemented dashing mechanic (that I wrote like a year ago) uses a sine wave to smoothly increase/decrease Hensen's movement speed for a dash. That is so clever! I actually wrote this!?

🥉✨ I won 3rd place in the Narrative Jam! ✨🥉

My game Luna Magica made it into the winners of the Game Jolt + NEOWIZ jam ÒwÓ They really loved the worldbuilding and the dark magical-girl vibe, 🌙

Thank you so much to everyone who played it! #GameDev #JotaDev

The beetle shell is now fully VISUALLY implemented! Next thing on my list is a unique sound for Hensen equipping it.