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Rock Beyond Time
3 years ago

I'm gonna have to delay the Level-Up mode just a little more.

Why? Because it's awkward to release an update around Christmas.

So, you'll have to wait until after Christmas.

Level-Up mode is harder, and will require some strategy to play it.




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I might have gone too far in a few places, and not enough in others.

First off, you can't rotate a background with draw_background_tiled. However, you can draw anything on a BIG surface, and a surface can be rotated and doubled up.

So, the infinite floor uses a surface, and now it's not chugging so hard. Look at the FPS.

This background full of conveyor belts might make it a bit more factory-like, but it's still ominous.

Robots fresh off the assembly line from the prosthetics factory.

I call the ones that crawl "Gwendy", after the dolls from Small Soldiers.

A rather interesting thing I forgot about...

The only thing harder than animating a set of wheels is making it handle like a set of wheels.

...and making an infinite floor without resorting to the official 3D engine.

Trying to do that Infinite Floor thing (technically, it's a trick of the camera), and I think it chugs.

Makes sense, since it's drawing on one surface over and over for each scanline, then putting that on another surface, which puts that on-screen.

Hmm...

I was considering releasing the expansion today, but then I found a lot of bugs I should've spotted in the original build, and I made the minimap do extra stuff for said expansion.

Don't worry, it'll be out by tomorrow night.

I hope you appreciate what I go through for pointless details like this.

I don't plan on going this crazy too much, though.

I felt some mechanics were underutilized, so I'm making an expansion.

...more or less just a side quest and extra dungeon. No more than that here.

Coming who-knows-when.