Aloha again!
This month has been mostly focused on polish (the quality kind, not the
language) yet again and fixing up the new undo/rewind system which will come out in
the next demo release.
The new undo system is quite involved and has even breeded some new mechanics which then means new levels need to be made. Not a small thing but it's taking shape!
I haven't gotten as much as I wanted done this month, Silksong has my attention in a chokehold and I'll be glad to see the back of it so I can regain my spare time and spend it here instead.
On top of that, I'm taking a small but needed break from the dev of Mr Figs. It could be days, weeks or even months who knows. The fact is I've worked on this almost every day for about a year and a half and I need to step away for a short time.
If you see lack of activity on my Discord, here, everywhere else, that'll be why.
Realistically, I'll probably be back to normal in a few weeks
Anyway...
This month's changes:
- Blur the game when we open a menu
- Nicer font sizes on everything
- Make the level select look better
- Get stressed tiles working with undo
- Add an overlay while undoing for a bit of spice
- Create non-rewindable bush
- Create non-rewindable rock
- Create non-rewindable slug
- Create non-rewindable stressed tile
- Center popups
- Fix some rare crash with exploding slugs
- Remove some dangerous in-game options like deleting your save
- Small optimisations to bullets, holes and stressed tiles
- Tidy up some earlier levels
- Add some levels explaining the new undo system
Anyway we're ploughing on!
Once I'm done chillaxing, I'll be focusing on adding more levels to the first area
which demonstrate the new undo system. Once that's out of the way, I'll
probably shift focus to creating more levels for the later parts of the game.
I'm also conscious of Next Fest next year and getting ready for that. I'll need
to make sure the demo is iron clad when the time comes.