After pumping out Update beta update 0.50 yesterday morning and taking the rest of holiday 4th of July off, I came back this morning to test my game with the keyboard and mouse rather than my gamepad as I had been using since putting in controller support. I was frustrated to see that changes I had made to make the controller support work had bypassed any users using the keyboard and mouse to be able to use their earned cash to buy upgrades. When I sold my resources using the mouse and keyboard, it would just skip right to the next level and completely skip the ability to buy upgrades! Argh!
That silly little mistake has been fixed now, and both controller and keyboard & mouse users should at least be able to play the game, though I am sure there are still bugs and glitches to find and vanquish.
- This is exactly why I am releasing my first published game here on Steam in early access. I know that once more people start buying and playing this game, people are bound to find little problems that need squashed, but my hope is that I will have all the big problems ironed out before anyone buys it.
Other changes made worth noting in this patch..
- Had the game skip over any resources that you didn't collect, as it didn't seem efficient or useful to show players values of resources which they simply didn't have any at the selling screen. Now the game only shows you the resources you did collect and gives you the option to sell those for points or cash.
- Pictures, diagrams, and better explanation on selling and upgrade screens to better help players understand what they need to push on both a controller and the keyboard to sell resources and buy upgrade items.
- Fixed a random bug that would cause your ship to explode if the enemy shooter ship would hit the kamikaze worm at the precise time you hit the enemy ship. This is something that probably would only happen one game in fifty, but it has been fixed now.
Other minor tweaks and optimizations, reducing some needless code, making the game about 78 kb smaller in size.