Developer posts and news about this game.
Finally, the first main pass on the World 8 is complete, and it's out now. Quite a few new features concerning enemy behaviour was added, allowing for fully new obstacle types centered on the environmental hazards, and hopefully one of the most annoying enemies in shmup history a
Fixed incorrect text in some locale files (including English) leading to the word"Route" not being printed on Route Reset screen Reduced the radius of default player bullet and added offset for player bullet spawn point Reworked shotgun bullets so that their damage would falloff
Fixed the Secret on World 3 not being properly tagged as a Secret
Fixed incorrect font assignment for Achievements line in main menu for non-latin locales Added achievement sync points to level start Added more default bindings for controls (Z to shoot, X to use Special, C to rotate turret)
An update is being pushed out of our shipyard to integrate the Steam Achievements into the game! As is usual in the Early Access state of the project, it's all highly experimental both on the side of how achievements work, as well as how they are implemented in-game Steam API -wi
Added localization support for English, Ukrainian, French, German and Japanese languages ( Note : localizations to French, German and especially Japanese are experimental and created using machine translation; their verification are in priority, but not short-term; if you detect
Pushed out an update for the Demo to reach feature parity with the current release. So the shop and second route are now accessible in the Demo build just like in the full release. Please enjoy! ːsteamhappyː
After a solid set of internal feedback, an update is in order. Made Malxian Flower spores damageable by player Reduced Malxian Flower spore speed and increased deceleration Reduced Malxian Flower HP to 2 (was erroneously set to 3) Reduced Malxian Flower reload rate from .45 to .6
Finally the new world update has arrived! I was hoping back then to push it out by March, but here we are where we are :) In any case, here's what was added: Added World 7 with a bunch of new assets, 2 new enemy types and a boss (as per tradition) Added Route system support to Wo
This update adds the ingame Shop and the possibility to replay routes to gather more money for the shop. It also lays the groundwork to many future systems and mechanics. Added ingame Shop with a set of permanent bonus items at "reasonable" prices Fixed a persistent typo in level
The World 6 update is here now! This is a relatively large update that ahs actually touched upon many systems “under the hood”, as during the development I actively stumbled on several severe edge cases that broke the way the game worked, and those never got triggered just becaus
In this dev diary the process of making a bullet is shown, as well as the progress on systems being implemented for Level 6
Added visual flair to Level 3 boss, because I cannot not agree that floating green head might call internal horrors of ....learning to fly Reworked some visuals on Levels 3 and 5 to reduce cases of problems with distinguishing damaging foreground and safe background. The process
The time has come to actually launch the project in Early Access state! Both the game and the demo should be accessible to everyone after this point ːsteamhappyː Compact Plasma Gears has taken quite a lot of time and effort to develop to the state it is in now, and we're barely a
Supposedly fixed session timer and campaign winstate for the game Fixed sprite UV looping on certain large sprites
Updated art assets and certain balancing on Mission 3 Disabled additional functions and plugins to hopefully further offload engine
Main changes Some enemy projectiles can now be shot down by player (missiles, mostly) Added UI icons for better readability of current ship state Updated weapon powerup visuals for better readability Another rework of Shotgun (projectiles are now faster, but less powerful and liv
Main changes Added framerate control to game Settings Added character selection to Level Select Menu Bosses now produce points when hit Reduced clamping on boss damage Ion blast now also removes bullets in small radius Bosses now have correct points bonus Weapons are now not lost
New features Primary implementation of Level Selector, currently without character switch Balance Provided gun turrets with anger issues medication Reduced eagerness of the Gondola Restructured certain areas of Level 5 Other Art modifications on Level 5
Changes Modified Boss 1's behaviour to be more dynamic Modified behaviour of Gondola on Level 5 to make the thing properly dodgeable Minor balance changes on Drone Gunships to reduce projectile spam Overall balance changes to levels 1, 5 Fixes Fixed late arrival of in-menu audio