Hello!
It's been a bit over a month since I released the demo for Mr Figs. The
reception has been largely positive but it's given me a good amount of work to
chew on.
The demo was in a mostly-ready state at time of release but it has brought up some niggles and quality of life features that people want. These aren't available yet but are actively being worked on.
What's coming up in the next demo update?
Hold r to restart
Upon the next demo release, you'll be able to hold down r (rebindable) to say adios to Mr Figs and start the level again. This comes from watching some Let's plays and seeing people complain about menu-diving.
Press u to undo
You can now undo the last 5 moves of Mr Figs. These undos replenish as you walk. Also one caveat, for now they only work with rocks. This is subject to change. I may add more objects that can support undo but for the time being you can push a rock and undo those moves. It's very handy for accidental rock pushes or brainfarts.
When can we expect the demo update?
Within 2 weeks.
The above is implemented but it needs some fine-tuning and a good amount of testing to make sure you can't cheese levels etc...
The rest of this month's updates:
- Hide cursor in game
- Remember a user's resolution preferences
- After you've selected a resolution, the game will continue to open in
that resolution
- Add option to see tape spoilers or not (defaults to "dont show me spoilers")
- Add some visual flair to area select menu
- Rework the visuals on both the level select and area select
- Darken the main menu
- Add a prompt to hint at restarting
- Fix a bad placement of stairs in the first area
- Change the resolution menu to be a scrub
- Add some more tapes (find them yourself)
- Add sound effects for undoing
- Add sounds for prompts when they're explaining things to you
- Fix the spacing of level select items on the menu
- Add a click sound effect to all buttons on the menus
- Fix bad display name on second area level
- Improve area select arrow sprite
- Added a piece of missing wall to a late level in the first area
- Fix potential crash on frame-perfect changing of animations
- When the exploding slugs blinked, there was a very slim chance it could crash the game
- Add in cracked ice (second area)
- Add in sound effects for stepped flames (second area)
- Add turn based bombs (fourth area)
- Shake the screen when a rock stops sliding on ice because of a collision
- Start work on achievements menu
- Add 5 more levels (second area)