And another update! Mr. Jello is much happier with the results of the changes involving juiceness and is now a lot calmer... his task list is still huge, but a weight has been lifted off his shoulders. The main changes in this update focus on quality of life and accessibility.
Board
The Support cartridge now costs 15 Jellocoins
The Molotov cartridge now costs 15 Jellocoins
The Portal Gun cartridge has been added to the base cartridges. Description: Choose a player to instantly switch places with.
Quality of life
Added juiciness effects to the cartridges and when moving across tiles
Added juiciness effects to items on the room screen, lobby, and general buttons
Added juiciness effects to the character selection screen
Added small visual effects to the Pew Pew Pew, Molotov, and Whac a Mole cartridges
Players no longer need to press another button to add a bot — everything now happens on the same button
Players can now play local mode using only controllers. The first player will have it defined whether they'll use MOUSE & KEYBOARD or CONTROLLER depending on the device they use to enter the mode.
Added the option to change the match settings directly in the lobby
Changed the camera position when using selectable character cards like the Whac a Mole
Accessibility
Added a UI scaling option for the Board HUD, aimed at helping players with 4K monitors have a better experience
Added an option for a default Board ZOOM pattern, aimed at helping players with 4K monitors have a better experience
Added the option to change the mouse cursor to 2X, 3X, and 4X versions
Bugs
Fixed the alternative cursor bug on clickable objects in the menu
The lobby values in local mode are now correctly updated
Fixed some issues with the alternative cursor on objects with altered areas
Known critical bugs
Starting the game and reconnecting to a match sometimes fail; the chances are higher with 4 players and/or setups with very different performance levels
Buying a D10 cartridge while heading to the shop using the Scroll Of Town Portal cartridge consumes the D10 as if it were the shop portal scroll.
The match room may have issues if players join and leave it, especially if they are players who were already in the room. (For now, it's best to recreate the room if this happens)
Current development priorities
The juiciness issue has now been mostly resolved — there will still be a few fixes and adjustments, the reason being that it yields similar results with less effort across many more areas.
Enlarge the board
Juiciness improvements
Improve the board game loop
Speed up the bots and prevent issues with them on the board
Match stability
For those of you who read this far and don't know how to join the playtest: just head to the Steam page, and at the bottom you'll find the option to redeem the free open playtest of our game!
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