Slime 64: Slimes of the World has received an important update, bringing its physics more in-line with the final game!
Game physics have been updated to better reflect the final game.
- Rock is easier to control while rolling on the ground.
- Subtle tweaks to gravity, with changes to jump, fire jump, air hover, and air updraft to generally preserve existing capabilities.
- Introduced "Air Resistance" - Air Updraft will be less effective and be usable for a shorter duration while moving at high speeds. This is to prevent players from being able to vault mountains, and to let us better design levels that keep the player contained, while not restricting much existing movement.
- Resetting the stick to Neutral is no longer faster than simply holding forward. This primarily effects the Fire Slime.
- Using a drift boost upon launching off of a mushroom restores full control to the player.
- Air hover does not instantly halt all downward velocity, instead fighting against the gravity.
Game-wide improvements!
- New Bell sounds! Collecting bells in quick succession sees them play an ascending scale. Bell placement was modified on some levels to work better with this feature.
- New level transition effects.
- 3D Portal text! (This is still in active development, and will see more improvements in the full game)
Some levels have been modified, but usually only in subtle ways to improve the player experience.
The hidden developer slimes were relocated in Water Trial 1, Water Trial 2, and Lilypad Lagoon.