August has been a little slower than usual thus far, but still a very productive month.

NEW WEAPONS

The most obvious change in this build is the addition of 25 more weapons to Hearts arsenal. Some of these are variations of previous weapons (with 75 weapons you are bound to find some variations!) but some are very unique special weapons like the Disco Bomb. With this, all projected equipment has been integrated into the game!

LOADING SCENES

We also created story loading scenes for after the tutorial and after every boss. It should be clear the tutorial is over now (hint, it's ok if you die). These are (obviously) temporary, since we don't yet have the art to go with them, but they work and we think add a tiny amount of context to the flow of the game. Nothing major, but we are happy we have them.

CREDITS

We also implemented the first version of the game's credits! Now you can check who's everybody who has worked in the game thus far.

SLASH AND OTHER GUEST CHARACTERS

We also integrated a playable Slash (if you unlock him). He plays similar to Heart, but a little bit different (has less health, but a better land evade and an air evade by default). The framework is done for the last two unlockable characters (Robnin and Eclipse) to go in, and that's something we are thinking of focusing on for the next release.

BUGFIXING

We did a pretty hefty amount of bugfixing too. Bugs fixed in this update:

• Copgore doesn't drop enemies [fixed]
• Slash moved to white rooms [improvement]
• Combat Shortgun ignores armor and shields [fixed]
• Recycling the current weapon does not change iddle animation [fixed]
• Improved grenade behavior [improvement]
• Subway has wrong markers configured [fixed]
• Roborang is not visible when collectible [fixed]
• B-DSS equipment triggers pickup menu in other equipment [fixed]
• Duelist gun is hard to figure out [fixed]
• Enemy visibles in menu even when they shouldn't [fixed]
• Kinetic repeller sphere remains active when dropped [fixed]
• 1% legs feet where inverted [fixed]
• Some typos [fixed]
• Explorer hat indicator texture wraps [fixed]
• Frankie shots dissapear if far away [fixed]
• Reducing extra health and base health takes away health [fixed]
• Some unlocks are incorrectly configured [fixed]
• Factory chain boxes spawn weapons not available to player [fixed]
• Equipment without upgrades breaks menu [fixed]
• RocketCam target locking is bugged [fixed]
• HUD feedback improvements [improvement]

PROGRESS UPDATE

This is what reamins to a full content complete version: -Images for transition scenes -Music for level 3 (in progress) -Two extra characters Of those, the music and images are something that won't take any time at all to integrate once we receive them from the artist and musician. Only the two extra characters are left. We also want to improve the feeling of level 2, and (most importantly) level 3, which right now plays too loose. But that's not content, but polish and bugfixing! Also, we need to integrate the endless mode KS stretch goal. The design of the game has changed a lot since the KS, and we are not yet sure how we will integrate this (doesn't fit as well anymore). But we will, we just need to find a solution. But overall, the game is pretty much finished content wise. Since we have until December to finsih it off (tentative date) there's still plenty of time for bug catching and improvements. So overall, a pretty hefty update, we think. We are looking forward to the coming months!

[ 2015-08-21 20:12:10 CET ] [ Original post ]