Hello hello!
It's been a pretty busy month of more polish and content. Ever since the demo dropped and I've seen people play it, it's put me on a bit of a path of polishing everything to be pristine.
Most of the work this month has revolved around improving the dialogue boxes and making the menus less abrupt but there's some gameplay stuff in here too.
I've paid some more love to the undo feature too. I'm still ironing this out but you can "undo" a few more things now. This may change quite drastically in the future (stay tuned)
On with the show...
Main changes:
Improve look and feel of UI text boxes
Previously, these looked pretty...terrible. They were thrown together and forgotten about. I've given them a bit of love this month, going from this:
To this!
There's still more to improve, but for now, they have centered text at all times, a border that respects your screen size, cool sounds on coming into view, and they jump into the window. Oh and there's a little icon to indicate to read more :)
On with the rest of the show...
Make popups more consistent in looks. They now match the rest of the game
Bombs beep faster when they're about to explode to give a better sense of urgency
Bump undo count from 5 to 10. 5 was too little for anyone other than me
Reduce the game by 40mb. The smaller the better and I think we can go smaller!
Added footstep sounds to Mr Figs as he runs
Added 15 new levels to the second area
Added "wiggler" enemy/hazard to the second area
Flash the screen orange on an explosion
Slow everything down by 10%. Figs was way too fast for anyone but me
Hide console window
Stop rolling ball SFX playing during main menu in some circumstances
Fix dumb bug with some levels displaying as "incomplete" on the level select
Get undo working on rocks falling into holes
Get undo working on video tape collections
Get undo working on rolling balls
Make stage 1 slugs undoable (sort of)
Add glow effect to stairs and video tape to signal importance
Start shaking screen when holding restart button
Fade out menus so it's less abrupt
Play a big dramatic sound when we enter the game
These will all be coming into the demo in the coming weeks. As usual, I will make a post about that to let you all know. Thanks to everyone that's played so far, it's slowly coming together :)