Hello Alpha testers! After 3 or so months, a new version has been uploaded! Here are some of the highlights.

New Opening Cutscene

There's a new opening cutscene, which introduces the Sage as a 'master of the Infinite'.

Revamped Main Menu

The Main Menu has been simplified to one screen! It's a lot easier to navigate.

Computer Glossary

The Computer has been given some definitions! Hover over a highlighted word in a Computer and get more details on the Lore and other tidbits!

Revamped Movement

The Player movement has been tweaked tremendously to add exponential acceleration and friction! A couple of Alpha testers complained that the acceleration was too fast and the deceleration was too slow. I agreed - the movement code was always my biggest pain for the longest time. Luckily, I enlisted GPT-4 to help and I got it working within the hour. Let me know how you feel!

Gravity for Black Holes!

The Black Holes were simply just another wall, but bigger. I have added a 'Suck' feature to the Black Holes, where if you get too close the Black Hole drags you in.

Here is the full changelog:

• Added new Opening Cutscene (with Input key selection).
• Added 'gravity' to Black Holes.
• Added Glossary support for Computers.
• Added one in-Trial cutscene (Trial 7).
• Added Launchpad SFX.
• Added DecreaseSize to Waypoint.
• Changed look of Waypoints.
• Changed Player Movement to have exponential acceleration, friction.
• Changed Splash Screen.
• Changed Computer entries.
• Changed ExitCloud to be clearer on open status.
• Changed version to Alpha 11.
• Fixed Sage dialogues having awkward Player positioning.
• Fixed Character names not being centered in Dialogue.
• Fixed Player tints not showing.
• Rewrote Distortion 2, 3, some Computer Entries, both Roam dialogues.
• Renamed Darsa to Wright, Motoo to Winfried.
• Finished the first Roam level.
• Unified all Menus into the Main Menu.
• Moved 'Delete Save' button to Options Menu.
• Disabled Cheats on Debug builds.
• Improved Computer Visuals.
• Bullets vanish when hitting a Black Hole.
• Smoothed out Shrink zoom-in.

Alpha 12 is now in the works!

Here is a preliminary list of features I plan to add:

• Add the Second Roam Level.
• Update the Ice Floor logic; Make it more predictable and more like Ice.
• Update the Powerup acquisition process! I changed the particle in this version but it's still terrible. I'll add an explainer cutscene for each of them.
• Add basic Steam achievements!

- Broc

[ 2023-09-27 21:34:11 CET ] [ Original post ]