Developer posts and news about this game.
To speed things up and make the game more exciting, a new mechanic was put in place to make the ball accelerate towards the shield if things are lined up properly. Some other changes include refactoring the sounds to go through a global mixer. This paves the way for more granular
After receiving some new player feedback and actually seeing the struggles during LIV testing, locomotion has been changed to a grab-and-pull style. This is the first iteration, but works well enough it needed to go in the default branch to stop the bad first impressions. Use the
Music has finally come to Rockochet! About 9 synthwave tracks have been added to fit the pace and style, be sure to post on this update with your feedback. LIV support has been added, so you'll be able to broadcast your mixed reality streams starting with this update. Finally, ad
There are not many changes this time, just some minor changes to the paddle graphics. Namely: Inventory now flashes subtly when catching orestones non-lit inventory LEDs are a little bit darker to better differentiate
This update brings a new Powerup, the Multiball! Catching the mutliball canister will immediately spawn a new ball moving in the direction of your shield. This should speed things up and make the gameplay very interesting. Additionally, the shader caching issue for new players is
Now that the oxygen system is done, it is time to revisit the Powerup system. There's already one available, called the "Force Pusher", but more will be worked on this week. Under consideration: multi-ball Some kind of explosiveness, maybe a grenade oxygen tank Fast or Slow down
Today's update is a minor change to the Oxygen indicator. Starting at 30% the following happens: Breathing sound, starts slow and increases with frequency until out of oxygen "Oxygen" label cycles from white to yellow or Red if below 15% color cycling gets faster
Here's a cool little graphic on how the main menu has been revamped to better orient players to the center.
Introducing the Oxygen System! To the left of your mining inventory is an oxygen indicator that starts at 100 and slowly ticks down to 0. When your oxygen runs out, Game Over! However, fear not because mining Ice Orestones will replenish 20% oxygen. All levels have been re-balanc
This week will introduce the first hazard to the game. It will be an experimental "timer", but instead of seconds ticking down, it will be an oxygen supply that can be partially refilled by collecting Ice ore.
Version 0.5.0 is a big update with changes to the way the shield gets upgraded and the game is won. Rather than requiring 3 orestones per level, this number is arbitrarily set for each level to better fit with the difficulty. The other big change is each level is customized for a
Level 2 has been redesigned to also remove the unattainable Iron core. A few more features were added to make it look more appealing.
Level 1 has been redesigned, mostly to make it look nicer, but also to remove the Iron core that is unattainable.
For those curious how the new Level Designer works, here's a 100% hand made level. This all told took about 13 minutes to complete, so we'll be able to pump out some levels pretty quickly. The only limitation should be our imagination! Here's the video:
Work over the last couple of weeks has been driving towards a refactor of the following items: Level Design In the current release of Rockochet, levels are procedurally generated using a 2D + height terrain algorithm. While this is great for spherical objects, the time it takes f
The past 2 weeks were taken up mostly with devops implementation to make code-to-build more automated and resilient. The break was good as it helped to come up with a new approach to the "catching orestones is too hard" problem. Rather than tinkering with speeds or spawn angles,
During the mad dash to release I kinda left a DevOps mess (well, mess according to my OCD) thus needing to spend a good chunk of this week retooling some of the backend workflows and solidify the game's released numbering. Also, There has been a lot of feedback since the release
This is a re-balancing update. Some players were remarking that the ball and stones were arriving at the same time. The stone spawn velocity now starts at 50% and ramps up to 100% speed to give players a chance to catch up to normal game play. The other alternative is to slow the
Hotfix to fix a bug with shield not launching under certain conditions.
Notice: all leaderboards have been reset due to a redesign on the first few levels. This is a big redesign to accomodate the "New Player" experience. For the first 5 levels, the ball has been slowed down, and certain features are disabled to help dole out some of the features. Th