Developer posts and news about this game.
After many weeks, I finally have an update! This is the most significant overhaul since February (pun intended) where the world components were redesigned to store multiple layers of data and the world generation algorithm was rewritten to accommodate that. Yes, I spent my summer
New Features The adventure now supports a map, showing progress, and upcoming events. After completing the tutorial, the player now seamlessly continues into an adventure, carrying over all progress and currencies. All text in the game now uses a different font. Added currency co
New Features Islands now feature decorative assets, most notably, trees. When a world timer is active, added sound effects and visible flash at 50%, 10% and the last 10 seconds of the world. Added audio feedback when the player attempts to dash without enough stamina. Added a cor
New Features Added Fairies to islands and are placed amongst the potential locations during world generation Fairies can be rescued and the total amount rescued is now tracked in each adventure. The player needs to rescue a minimum number of fairies from each world in order to pr
New Features Weak aether crystals have been replaced with three new entities: Launch crystal: points in a direction, and will boost the player in that direction. Resets even when the combo is failed part-way through. Complete Launch crystal: doesn't point in any direction. Has 4
New Features None Changed Features None Bugfixes Fixed a gameplay bug where the player's input was ignored when grabbing an aether crystal. Known Issues Stability bug: the game becomes unresponsive in the loading screen while world generation runs. The loading screen is not updat
New Features The player can now change certain keybinds from the settings menu. The game will remember the player's choices. February's hair is now animated. Changed Features The playtest version no longer grants large amounts of currency for the shop. The player can now grant th
New Features None Changed Features None Bugfixes Fixed a visual bug where the glow on the character model's hands lingers after grabbing a crystal until they grab a wall. Known Issues Stability bug: the game becomes unresponsive in the loading screen while world generation runs.
New Features February has a new model and a full suite of animations. Aether Bubble islands now appear in the shop The worlds in the adventure now generate checkpoint islands periodically. These spawn automatically and player does not need to opt into them. Start and end islands
New Features Knowledge fragments now drop from chests and are clearly distinct from aether. The player can collect up to 3 knowledge fragments per world. The shop has been rebuilt and has a new visual layout. The reward screen has been rebuilt and has a new visual layout. Items i
There was a lot of back-end work that went into this patch, which isn't super visible. The biggest change was building the machinery to create, store, test and edit islands easily. I now have a solid foundation for heavy iteration on the world content and I expect to fully recupe
New Features Added a hop. February now starts falling sooner when the jump button is released mid-jump. Jumping can now be queued while airborne. Changed Features Added ceiling detection during the dash (and some jumps). If the player clips the edge of a ceiling with an upwards d
New Features Brand new BGM and SFX. Added a toggle for resetting the respawn point continuously for playtesting purposes. It is bound to F4. Changed Features Minor tweaks to tutorial and signposts to improve the flow of the level and teach the player about the keybinds and mechan
New Features None Changed Features Minor tweaks to tutorial and signposts to improve the flow of the level and teach the player about the keybinds and mechanics. Bugfixes Fixed a bug where the world generation sometimes fails, resulting in a world that is empty after the position
New Features The world generation algorithm is now seeded. Resuming a saved game will show the same options to the player in the shop and world if the same selection is made. Added a player feedback/bug report form from the pause menu. Added a placeholder animation for the player
New Features Areas beyond the aether line in the world are now in sepia, for visual clarity. The number of dash charges the player has is reduced to 1 (by default). Dashes now also cost some stamina as well as a dash charge. Stamina has been rebalanced and starts at the maximum i
New Features The camera is now pushed forwards slightly in the direction of travel, to show more of the world to the player. Changed Features Updated the pause menu so that the text is visible in front of the background. Updated several islands found in the adventure for an impro
New Features None Changed Features None Bugfixes Fixed a bug where the game loaded in windowed mode instead of fullscreen the first time the player plays the game. Fixed a bug where the displayed resolution wasn't automatically updated the current resolution if the player enters
New Features Added a keybind for the player to move the camera to look around in the level. Added compatibility with Steamdeck resolution. Changed Features Updated all menus except the reward screen and shop to use a new button style (and animations). Updated tutorial to teach th
New Features Added a keybind for controller in menus to go back to the parent menu. Changed Features Added animations to main menu buttons and to the world recap screen. Increased default world height, so the player is less likely to go out-of-bounds in the first few worlds. Chan