Hello!
I'll be releasing Skyformer in 1.0 on July 30th!
Notable updates from Early Access to 1.0
- Up to 4 player multiplayer co-op.
- Highly customizable game settings with presets such as creative, casual, and hardcore.
- Jetpack (allowing you to build/manage things from above).
- Jump upgrades (e.g. double/triple jump).
- Planting system automation features (e.g. harvesters).
- Ability to place and remove plants manually anywhere in the world.
- Improved item recipe balance to accelerate progression, especially around iron and copper recipes.
- Accelerated early game progression and smoother tutorial.
- Improved world map design to make exploration smoother.
- Ability to drop and pickup items.
- Scrap Processor allowing you to turn excess items into scrap to exchange for upgrades and cosmetics.
- Various new inventory management features.
- New languages: Spanish, German, French, Brazilian Portuguese.
- Helpful visualizations to make drone routes feel more like conveyor belts.
- Significantly improved charge drain mechanics to make things more fun and prevent unexpected deaths.
- Improved drone route editing, with much longer ranges and ability to edit the routes from any location.
- Ability to build factory and storage buildings as part of the base.
- Many new base building pieces.
- Weather map functionality improvements with new tooltips.
- Bulk Constructor item, which allows crafting things in bulk.
- Revamped many UIs to be easier to use.
- Emotes.
- Cosmetics.
- Visual displays on all computer screens in game.
- Easier to use resource detector.
- Additional Steam Achievements.
- Countless bug fixes and sources of crashes fixed.
What's next?
Controller Support
Controller support will be the first thing I'm working on once the 1.0 is out!
However, Skyformer will always be better overall on mouse and keyboard if you have a choice between both. Controller support is quite complicated due to the number of different controls and complicated UIs. There will be many UIs that will need redesigning to make it work, so the timeline is unpredictable at the moment.
Additional Maps
The concept of a new map has been planned out, but won't be able to work on it in the near future due to lack of sales at the moment. If sales increase to help fund development this could change!
Thanks again for all the support and feedback to bring Skyformer to where it is now :)