The game is inching closer to its completion but there are a lot of things which have not yet been discussed in the DevLogs.
The topics for this DevLog are:
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Power Up System
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Decor System
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Early Access
Let's get into it!
As you play more of the game you will soon realize you cannot pick up each energy manually, it's better to leave it to the robot helpers. But power ups are things you absolutely do not want to miss.
They spawn randomly, last only a few seconds, but if you manage to pick them up, the rewards are great! Here is the summoning horn power up ready to be picked up:
Power ups can be upgraded using power up tokens which you get one of each time you level up, starting at level 12. You can spend the power up tokens here and modify the power ups to your liking:
The summoning horn spawns a bunch of energies when it is picked up. It can be upgraded to make it spawn more often, make it spawn even more energies and it can also be made to have a chance to spawn large energies. Large energies explode into several regular energies when picked up.
Other power ups do things such as spawn temporary robot helpers, increase energy pick ups for a while, increase spawn rates and much more.
The Hub is your base of operations. In the beginning, it looks something like this:
This clearly won't do and you will have to pimp your hub in the way you want. That is what the decor system is for. You can spend energy in The Hub to buy decor tokens. These tokens can be traded for decor items. Besides looking dazzling, the decor items actually increase the XP gained when picking up energy. With some hard grinding you can pimp your hub to look more like this:
Some decor items can be interacted with and have their own related achievements. There are many more decor items to unlock, but I don't want to show all of them off here.
The UI for buying decor tokens and decor items is still work in progress, but right now it looks like this:
Yes, this decor item shows you how many hours you have played!
Lastly I wanted to touch upon early access. I mentioned that I was considering launching the game in early access in DevLog 01. This is no longer the case and the game is nearing completion. Instead, the game will be released in full. There game is going to offer several hundred hours of play time. A smaller beta among friends and some people who contact me is going to be held to ensure the game's quality.
If you are interested in participating in a beta, feel free to contact me on Steam or on Discord.
There is now an official Discord server for the game: https://discord.gg/62FCUKa5G3.
Come hangout and discuss the game!
Make sure to Wishlist Energy Collector today:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2017540/Energy_Collector/