Salutations! Have you been enjoying Armour mode, Hardcore mode or Tasty Pies recently? Have you left us a Steam review yet? Is your name Boris? If the answer to any of those questions is either "yes" or "no", we have a special treat for you... More new cool features in Friendship Club of course!
More Furniture
Grab the latest update right now, and open up a game in Timmy's House. You'll notice a heck of a lot of new furniture, including...
TIMMY'S NEW TOYS
- 2 x Armchair
- 2 x Standing lamps
- 1 x Fruitbowl table (with 3 x fruit)
- 1 x TV
- 1 x Wobbly Sidetable & Vase
Some of those items sometimes generate in odd places, such as TVs facing walls. Issues like that will be phased out as time goes on, much like analogue TVs!
The Wonky Wagon has some furniture and decoration updates too. Items hung on the wall are now sometimes interactive: wagon wheels will spin if you shoot them, and WANTED posters burst into flames. Other things too, check them out in-game!
They're all cool!
Turbo Bullets
We've made a slight modification to the biggest type of turbo bullets -- they now blast right through furniture and other room objects! If you get one of these in The Wonky Wagon, see if you can catch your friends offguard by shooting them through walls -- amazing moments ensue.
BAM! - GIF of this is at the top.
Updated Statistics Menu
We've added a menu to the end-game stats screen that lets you replay the game you just played really quickly. If you - like us - are always in that "one more go" mood, this is for you. Oh, we hope you like biscuits too.
Bikkits!
More YouTube friendly!
In an effort to make the game more friendly YouTubers and streamers, we now allow people to set their names in the game options. Names can be 3 characters long (arcade style!) and will appear above/below the avatars in the corners when playing. If you've seen any of Stumpt's videos of Friendship Club, it looks a bit like that. Less editing work for you - hurrah! :)
8 Players?
We've been working on supporting up to 8 players! It's all under the hood at the moment, and there are still a few issues to iron out. e.g. What do we do with the game scale? Shrink the players? Make the arenas bigger? What about split screen? Will there be too many bullets on-screen? Who or what will the new characters be? Questions like these (and others) will need to be answered before it's ready for release on Steam.
That said, if you're coming to Bristol Video Games Social XIX next weekend, you might just catch a sneak peek of it -- we're hoping to have it set up to get some feedback. Come along if you're in or around Bristol!
Stay friendly!
- Ashley
What are you most looking forward to from Friendship Club? 8 player mode? AI/bots? Online multiplayer? Something else? Let us know on Twitter, Facebook or really spoil us and use the Steam community! :)
Full Changelog
New things (as above):
- Lots of new and updated furniture!
- Turbo bullets (large) can now blast through furniture and walls!
- Tasty-biscuits Statistics menu!
- Set your name in the game. Youtube-friendly feature.
Code (game):
- Added all the new furniture.
- Made turbo bullets go through furniture and walls.
- Players can now set their names in the options.
- Bubble particles in the speed machine are now batched into the same draw call.
- Added cursory support for 8 players. We have debug builds where this is enabled.
Code (engine):
- Fixed a bug in the HSV shader where switching back to regular texture shader broke everything.
- Added AngelScript library for both Windows and OSX releases.
- Added AngelScript bindings for lots of engine functions (input, rendering, filesystem).
- Debug builds now work properly on Windows again. Whew! They were totally broken for ages.
- Max gamepads set to 10, not 16, 32 or some crazy number.
- Project path is now relative instead of fixed.
- Added catmull-rom and bezier spline functions.
- Added some more matrix multiplication functions.
- Added basic Scenegraph functionality.
Art & Animation:
- 4 more bullet colours
- 4 more bullet reticules
- 4 more bullet reticule pips
- 4 more bullet casings (timmy's house)
- 4 more bullet casings (the wonky wagon)
- 4 more character skins
- 4 more character avatar heads (happy, neutral, sad)
- 4 more character select heads
- 4 more round win coloured stars
- 4 more rugs (timmy's house)
- 4 more rugs (the wonky wagon)
- 4 more coloured team hats.
- 4 more finger of god skins.
- 4 more game win drop-down skins
- 4 more game win drop-down avatar faces (empty)
- 4 more character gib sets
- 4 more character "gun charging" animations
