Developer posts and news about this game.
New accessibility option to fully light a screen (might be useful for making screenshot maps, e.g.) Remove a potential red herring from a tricky qbit Fix orientation of a couple spikes for visual consistency in a particular zone Fix 3 typos in various hint menus
I have spent the last two weeks in a blissful kind of agony. When I'm not playing Derelict Star, a very humble-looking 2D exploration platformer that looks like it could run on a Commodore 64, I'm thinking about it. At least a half-dozen times I decided I'd had enough. Faced with
Added more values for the "game speed" assist option. Now goes from 25%-200% instead of 50%-100% Added new "checkpoint behavior" assist option If set to "custom", allows you to place your own checkpoints on solid ground If set to "custom + progress", it will also remember any bat
couple of weeks ago on X, someone reposted Braid and The Witness creator Jonathan Blow into my feed. He was sounding off about a new indie action-platformer called Derelict Star that I hadn't heard of, but which has quietly gained an audience among movement platformer enthusiasts
Added two new shortcuts to toggle between fullscreen and windowed mode: F11 and Alt+Enter Some users reported the game started up on the incorrect monitor, which was a pain to deal with when the game was fullscreen. This should make the process easier to deal with by toggling ful
Add new "prevent knockout" assist option Allow player to use the assist menu hotkey when knocked out Ensure "install power cell" is always the top option in the ship terminal when available Fix bug introduced by 1.0.6.0 (old hardware graphics support patch) that erroneously cause
I had some reports of players with lower spec hardware having the following visual bugs: The light circle around the player was only visible in dark rooms All areas were blue and were not correctly palette swapping to the area-specific colors I root caused this issue and it turns
This is a very small hotfix patch to prevent a situation with a new feature which might have caused the player to lose progress. Prevent player from using the "fold" option in the ship when carrying a cell or qbits
Another small patch based on feedback I've gotten in the past few days. Added new information query option in derelict terminals to see your current collected qbit status Added new menu option to your ship's terminal once you've completed the story Don't restart a song in a parti
Thanks so much for all the positive feedback folks! If you're enjoying yourself and haven't yet left me a review, please do! It helps out soooo much with the Steam algorithm. And now for another round of cheese prevention and quality of life updates: Can now trigger respawn manua
This is a small patch to fix some minor things and smooth out a couple rough edges some folks ran into. Make "interact" (e.g. the prompt with the down arrow, like when using a checkpoint) input harder to accidentally trigger on analog stick. Now only triggers when it passes the o
Derelict Star is out now! I'm very proud of how it turned out. I hope you enjoy playing it as much as I enjoyed making it :) -❤️gate