To our current players.
Thought it would be best to let you know what's in store for Galagan's Island: Reprymian Rising.
Please note the following was planned from the beginning and isn't things we just decide to do on a whim.
You currently have 25 levels and one boss.
For this stage of the game we will be adding the following:
Damage and Repair
~ Currently your ship's abilities scale as you progress in the game. This will not change much other than it's starting point will be slightly increased. What will change however is down scaling the abilities with damage taken and the opportunity to repair the damage to some extent. The way we will be implementing this is as follows;
You will start with a higher scaling point.
As you take damage you will begin to lose ship speed and gun speed as well as overall health.
You will go through 5 levels of action and then fight a boss.
After fighting the boss a space station will appear.
You will have 3 options available to you in regards to the space station.
You will either be able to repair you ships speed, gun speed or overall life bar.
This will continue throughout the 25 levels, which means you are about to get 4 new bosses.
Meet the Pilot
~ If you can believe it, Galagan's Island has a storyline. Although the storyline itself will be the final installment in the coming updates. You will get to meet him sooner rather than later. Turns out our pilot is also a gamer. After every 5 levels and the beating of the boss, once you go through the spacestation, you will then be taken inside the cockpit. There you will find that the pilot has his own space console that he likes to play games on himself. We will be launching a playable game from this console for you all to enjoy. Once you die in the mini game, it's back to action in the regular bullet hell of Galagan's Island.
Co-Op Mode
~ Currently co-op mode can be played with one or two players, huh?!?! To allow users to test the co-op mode we set it up so one person could play. It operates such that you fly one ship and the other mirrors your movements. We didn't just stick two ships in though, we scaled the game in its difficulty so you couldn't just destroy everything with two ships on the screen. Co-op mode took us some time to get right because we wanted to make sure the game was just as difficult as one player mode without noticing a diffence in the gameplay. We think we did a pretty good job of it...and after much playtesting we realized we really liked running two ships. We attempted to let you control both ships with dual sticks on the gamepad...but we created such a bullet hell as it is, that it became completely ridiculous to implement this without losing the fun of the game. So...what we've managed to accomplish instead, is a very nice AI for the second ship. Maybe you don't have a partner to sit on the couch and blow up space with,,,but now you will!
Linux
~ It's on it's way. Our Linux rig got fried so we've had a delay on this. The port is done, however without the rig working we can't yet playtest to check for bugs. It's coming though I promise.
Achievements
~ Yes they are coming and all the ridiculous glory that goes with the trading cards as well. We've only been holding off on this while we prepare the rest of the updates above.
Storyline
~ Yep...there's a story behind all this madness and a pretty in depth one at that. Hint: It's going to take us through 6 complete chapters of Galagan's Island! Sure hope you like bullet hells cause we aren't going to stop making them!
DLC!!!
~ After the first 25 levels are finalized with all of the above....here comes the all so glorius DLC!! Relax...breathe...it's going to be free! ːsteamhappyː
We have a small chapter of Galagan's Island that will be coming to Early Access users. It will be a standalone game that plays well with the game now and is a lil something unique to the genre. Ever want to be the bad guy? It's coming! In both single and co-op mode!
We will also be adding the soundtrack...this won't be free however...the musicians gotta get paid to! There will be Early Access pricing for the soundtrack and it will include the tracks for the DLC game.
AFTER ALL THAT
.....Galagan's Island: Reprymian Rising still isn't finished.
There is and endzone though. It's going to a grand total of 75 levels!
These will be added as it all began...in 25 level chunks.
Each set of 25 levels added to the game will consist of new enemies, new bosses (including one called The Sandman with asstes run through Google Dream...he's gonna put you to sleep), new formations (theres even one of The Shia), new games to play,new in the ship, new songs for every level and the mini game we are adding as DLC will be updated each time.
Well that's it!
After that's all done we are ouuta Early Access....and Early Access pricing as well. The game is currently $4.99 but will go up to $14.99. The entire soundtrack of approx 85 songs will go for $8.99. The mini game that will consist of 15 levels and it's own soundtrack will go for $4.99 as a bundle. Or the whole kit n kaboodle for $24.99 bundled.
So hate to say like i'm gonna say it...go tell your friends to get in on the deal now!
We hope youve enjoyed yourselves so far, we sure have!
Bullet Hells Kick ♥♥♥!
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