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Down Ward - (jam beta)

7 years ago

Double Update - Update


A determined Gable flutters her way up through a tricky ascent.


vAlpha76b - (release 24.1)

  • Interactive leaves: Leaves are now jostled as Gable moves through them, and individual falling leaves flutter down out of disturbed leaf clusters. Leaf particles also inherit a bit of Gable’s velocity, so popping out of a canopy will take some leaves with you.

  • Mantle pictographic help: On the Pyramid map (4), the Mantle tutorial now has a pictographic representation of it’s usage in addition to the text. This gives a quick visual mnemonic for the Mantle’s behavior. More importantly though, I’m hoping this will help players who don’t speak English. Even if the exact meaning has some ambiguity, I think the pictographic sequence invites interpretation or at least attention. At least this kind of thing does for me when I play games in unfamiliar languages.

  • Tree leaves fix: Fixed leaves so they subtly move again. (Small fix after adding the interactive leaves system.)

  • Menu Particles: Menu buttons produce little sparkles as a small feedback effect.
    -Pyramid map (4): Small visual updates, and enabled dynamic leaves in some areas that shouldn’t have been static.

Palettes added:

  • Gloom

  • Poisen

  • Night Vision Device

  • Grassy

  • Graphing Calculator 2bit

  • Graphing Calculator 1bit - (only has 2 colors)

  • Ghostly Marble

  • Blue stone

  • StreetLamp

  • Bram

  • Turtles and Cheese

  • Sweetheart Jazz Solo

  • Neon Memphis

  • Doomed

  • Doomed Silhouette

  • Candella (vl)

Yes “Sweetheart Jazz Solo” actually corresponds to exactly 4 colors. Thanks to technology you can probably figure out why, more easily than you think. :]


vAlpha78 - (release 25)

  • New enemy variant: A much more aggressive type of owl skeleton has been added.

  • Keys intro page: Updated. Hopefully to make it clearer that it’s showing various control schemes that are all available at any time.

  • Keys intro page: Won’t advance when arrow keys are pressed. Makes it harder to accidentally skip over.

  • Three Story map (3): Slightly fiddly spot in level has been refined to be less fiddly. (That little hole you could fall through.)

  • Three Story map (3): Several small visual updates.

  • Hearts map (6): the outro camera animation has been fixed.

  • Mover code: (Optimized) Mover code no longer uses any CPU when movers are all sleeping.

  • Heart block code: (Optimized) Heart block code now more efficient when animating.

Any comments or feedback is always welcome. :)



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