After a master’s thesis and a few months of freelance work I’ve once again time to work on Catcher!

The new release features:

• A tutorial (and it’s about time!)

• Particle effects for every enemy

• Better-looking player ships and improved feedback on taking damage

• Improved movement controls

• Performance rating after a level to provide context on “How good did I do?” aside from scores

• Self-made score server

• Lots of small bug fixes

The self-made score server was needed after Scoreoid, the service I previously used, decided to silently cease service and take all of my player’s scores with them. At first I thought it was just a short outage, but after a few months of not even being able to access the backend site it seems they just died silently. Time to depend more on the things I make myself, I guess.

It feels so good to be back. Expect more updates in the coming months!