Welcome back to another episode of Screaming Into The Void. This month has been pretty productive. I thank my holidays over the Christmas period for that one. As a result, we've got a fair amount to get through. Once again, there is no video devlog this month. They take time and to me, the game is higher priority. I will get to doing one eventually... On with the show! This month:

• Add speech audio for all characters
  • Mr Figs (and other characters) now have cute (or not-so-cute) voices to go along with their dialogue!
• Add third area "chasing-square" mechanic!
  • These have been lifted and shifted from the second area to the third area. They're quite devilish but I'm sure you'll have fun with them
• Add fast flowing lava
  • Run before it gets you!
• Add poison status effect
  • Stay in the green sludge for longer than 2 seconds and you're out!
• Add particles to ballistas when they're exploded
  • This is a fun one. When you blast a ballista, parts of it will fly out everywhere!
• Fix a 3 year bug with pushable rocks
  • I've finally gotten around to spending some actual time with my loveable rocks. They are now entirely foolproof. Previously, you could probably refer to them as "janky" which made me sad
• Make sound effects play more sensibly
  • We no longer play sounds out of view. Or too many instances of one sound. And we nicely randomise the sounds so we don't get the same one playing multiple times in a row
• Add more portraits for dialogue
• Make foreground particle effects correctly span the entire playable area
• Polish the end of the second area with some more scripted dialogue and intermediary levels
• Add more hidden things to a few levels
• Improve the pressure plate sprite for the second area
• Rework the shading on my main man, Mr Figs
• Add more sound effects for a whole lotta stuff
• Make ballista arrows hitboxes more forgiving so death feels fair
• Get ordering of level select correct
• Add support for hidden levels
• Fix a crash in the keybindings menu
• Shrink Mr Figs game size down to ~100mb