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Controls & Interaction Added gamepad support for menus. Added gamepad controls to descriptions and the A button to the interaction keybind list. Added target cycling with Q / RB. Spores are now spent when pressing the button instead of releasing it. Hold the interact button t
Continued gameplay and balance adjustments Improved interaction and targeting clarity Various small bug fixes and polish
Upgrades chest re-enabled.
Reduced difficulty, increased resource gains, lowered upgrade costs, and fixed flower revival costs. Added shrines that boost mushroom spawns; mushrooms spawn more often and visibly release two spores each. Den upgrades now automatically grant a creature. Cleansing tiles now revi
Fixed flower shield cost.
Economy increase and upgrade cost reduction.
Increased early economy. Moved upgrade inventory to a chest rather than the mushroom tree.
Improved interaction targeting and highlighting. Fixed several object interaction issues. Difficulty tweaks to make the game slightly easier.
Hot fix for tree sprite.
Small update to 0.2.0 adding in background trees and reducing difficulty slightly.
Small balance improvements. Early economy ramps up faster.
- Added laser sight guide when targeting shootable objects. - Fixed projectile tracking issue. - Foragers now bring spores back to the tree by themselves. - Spores load into tree cap from container now to make it more clear tree is shooting them as ammo. - Bug fixes.
Added soft lock prevention to the beginning of game. Added target indicator line for shootable objects. Other small cleanups.
Small Hotfixes
The full loop is here! The first level is now winnable as well as losable. Your progress is saved as well if you quit out and come back. There are basic menus now for the main menu, and pausing. Many more small improvements to game feel and controls and readability.
Biggest update is that enemies are here! Along with trees as walls, and moose as defenders. Many other visual and targeting improvements have been made based on feedback from the previous build to hopefully make the whole experience more easy to understand and less unpredictable.
Economy teaks and initial sludge enemies
A few quick fixes based on first playtester of 0.0.9: - Economy accelerated - Flower Shield feedback (visual + SFX) - Fixed visual bug with spore coin purse
Major rework of all game systems. Highlights below: - Grid snapping movement system - Tree inventory system (click on spawn tree) - Safe grove zone system (lock in groves by cleansing all tiles in a region) - Single action button interaction (E or LMB) - Simplified currency syste
Completed a game loop! Added pollution spread mechanics so beware! Tooltips for abilities added as well as progress dialogue pop-ups. And many more minor UI / visual tweaks.