We are releasing a build midweek, which is not the usual, because we think we have improved the experience considerably in the last few days. We've improved COPGORE considerably, fixed some nasty issues with Slash's quests and changed how we detect and correct problematic collisions with the terrain. These changes will be made available on MacOS shortly.
COPGORE
Fighting COPGORE is now easier and less error prone. We've changed a lot of it's behaviour and the camera, so we hope things work better. We have a couple of issues and ideas to get in there, but it is now much better and less buggy than it used to be.
QUESTS
We've been testing the quests thoroughly and have discovered some nasty bugs. Now that we've fixed them all, completing the main story should be doable without major hickups.
TERRAIN COLLISIONS
After lots of trials, errors and tests, we think we've got a fix to prevent players getting trapped in the scenary. We're confident this is a good version of the system.
Still, should anyone get stuck in the floor or in a wall, please let us know with a screenshot.
INPUT
We have done some reworking of the input system, mainly to make it easier to port and adjust for each platofrm. We have tested it in several machines and are quite happy with it, so we're rolling it out. Ideally, it should get rid of some of the input configuration issues people were experiencing.
GAMELAB AWARDS
Heart&Slash is a candidate to GAMELAB's Spanish Videogames Industry Awards: http://gamelab.es/premios2015/candidates/ [site in Spanish]
Members of the Spanish Videogames Academy and the general public can vote for the categories each game will be nominated for. Apart from Heart&Slash, there are many other cool games, some of which we have voted ourselves in previous industry fairs. We'd be grateful if any of you would go there and vote for whatever games they think is the best. Even if it's not ours.
BUGFIXING
And, as always, bugfixing, bugfixing...
- Disabled buggy minimap in spacelift and replaced with a (temp) progress report
- Slash does not spawn on final battle
- Slash Quest 7 triggers without scrapping part
- Roborang error when aiming tripod
- Induction shield below feet when picked up
- [(ISIG) JDEzekude] COPGORE struck into antenna
- [Leudic] Talking to computer in DOCTOR quest 1 triggers error
- [Leudic] Killing Slash in the tutorial might reset its quest line