Developer posts and news about this game.
the new 4-tone color swap palette format is coming together quite nicely, i think! set up a new scene where I can tweak colors and save pre-fixe palettes for retrieval in game later - these "curated" color schemes will be mixed in with ones that get set from local star-system and
**As always, all assets, sounds, code, and other constituent parts of DRONE SMUGGLER were created by a human being.** DRONE SMUGGLER's sci-fi spacefaring, high-score-chasing fun is getting a new look this summer. "The Widening" is an in-progress development initiative to bring DR
Informal Patch Notes for 0.1.9 In no particular order, here are some notes about EA0.1.9: Fixed incorrect capitalization on HUD UI Pyxel shade labels - should be rPx, gPx, and bPx (the DRONE SERIF font shows lowercase as a downward-shifted glyph, will take a look at this at some
v0.1.8 is here and brings a bunch of fun new things to DRONE SMUGGLER :) Here's my high score from testing for this release: While the changes introduced in 0.1.8 aren't revolutionary, there's a lot here in the background and just below the surface that helps reach my current goa
There have been a lot of changes in the time since the DRONE SMUGGLER Early Access launch and, since the game as of 0.1.7 is really hitting a lot of good notes for me right now, I thought this would be a good time to step back and make a plan for what's to come. I've been collect
v0.1.6 has made way for v0.1.7 - here's the best I could do... not quite as good as the one from 0.1.5 but I think I can safely say I had longer sustained fun gameplay this time around so I'll take that trade :) That's also a significantly less-upgraded ship than the 0.1.5 high s
v0.1.6 Update - Asteroids & Spawn Rate Tuning! First and foremost, here's my v0.1.5 high score: There was a point in the pre-EA prototype life of this game where I had the difficulty and spawn rate tuned really well for certain ships - I had put up a high score of like 30,000
Change Log - DRONE SMUGGLER v0.1.5 Early Access - Repair Kits! Fixes Fixed an issue that caused a crash when the game launched on a machine with no detected gamepads/controllers Changes Added some hue and scale variation to the "movement particles" effect Adjusted volume level of
Dev Notes: What ways will DRONE SMUGGLER allow players to modify their ship's performance and features? Hey there! Thanks for checking out DRONE SMUGGLER... while hard work is underway to bring forth some of the more roguelite-ish features for ship upgrades I thought it was impor
Change Log - DRONE SMUGGLER v0.1.4 Early Access Fixes: Fixed an issue where the spawn rate scaling (relative to score / high score) was adding the level's minimum spawn rate each time it was updated while the score was less than the high score Changes: Pause menu displays current
Change Log - DRONE SMUGGLER v0.1.3 Early Access Fixes: Corrected spacing and sizing of shadescopy analysis UI elements (the colored bars at the bottom of the HUD) so that they should now appear more uniform Changes: Directional input and button activation input for controllers no
Change Log - DRONE SMUGGLER v0.1.2 Early Access Fixes: Asteroids now factor in their attributes correctly when determining lateral (side-to-side) and angular (rotation) velocity Asteroids now have a (still relatively intense) upper limit on lateral and angular velocities Controll