Hi everyone. With Frosty Games Fest now done (hello to our new friends!), it's time for another update. This patch ended up doing more than I thought it would. Most of these are from finalising the main game's world and features. Which btw, is getting very close to releasing!
Gameplay
- Feature: Map Screen now matches its colors to the terrain's colors (instead of generic grey).
- When recharging health at a station, after a few seconds the recharge rate will increase in speed. So total recharge time is now much faster when you have lots of health pips and missiles. This speed increase does not apply for bombs, as there's so few of them.
- When shooting a secret block, there's now a short sound effect to go with the reveal of the weakness hint.
- When a bomb detonates, there's now a short screen shake effect.
- The tunnel enemies will now auto kill themselves if they find themselves stuck for some reason. This mostly effects the main game, where there were some paths that was hard blocked if they got stuck inside a tunnel.
- When you do a moonwalk, there's now sparks. There is no gameplay effect, just a small visual nod to acknowledge the existence of the moonwalk tech ;). I wonder if there will ever be a practical use for it...
UI
- Fixed the navigation between Cancel and Accept buttons in the Virtual Keyboard screen to be neighbours.
- Fixed Virtual Keyboard layout: S and T were swapped by mistake.
BUGS
- BUG FIX: The DEL button on the Save File screen would run every frame.
- BUG FIX: The Map Hint that appears after some time or after fast travel can remain on screen even after the button was pressed.
- BUG FIX: Can't Ball-Dash in lowest grass terrain. This was due to counting that tile as terrain instead of as non-colliding tile.
- Bug FIX: Ball-Dash couldn't dash through pick ups. This is now possible, though note that since it's technically a short-ranged teleport, you don't grab the picks when dashing through them.
- Bug FIX: Potential silent crash when exiting to menu and playing the game again. This was related to a system from the full game that isn't really used in the Demo (though it's possible to trigger).