After a short hiatus, the last few weeks turned out to be rather productive. Of course, the little fellows are unplugging my laptop's power plug as we speak, be compared to a few weeks ago that's a minor issue.
Since I knew I was probably sailing into calmer waters, I decided to take on one of the larger projects we had planned for coming release: Steam Leaderboards!
It proved to be a lot more work than I'd hoped for but I can proudly say that the majority of the work is done! The biggest issue left is that you guys like to have all sorts of emoticons and special characters in your steam names and our font rendering doesn't like that very much... But I'm already working on a solution and it seems I'll be able to smooth things out pretty soon.
So here it is, my second proof of life!
In the final version you'll be able to compare your times/scores with your friends or the rest of the world!
This is Caromble!; A fresh new take on the brick break game! Free the corrupted world and fight evil with physics-based destruction, puzzles, explosions, skill-levels, power-ups, mayhem, more explosions, further puzzles, speedruns, superscore medals, unlockable challenges and some surprises you would't expect in a brick breaker game. Brick break your way to glory and discover a world of nostalgic wonder. Let’s get ready to Caromble!
The full release of Caromble! will feature:
24 levels divided over six chapters
Each level has multiple playable areas
Physics based destruction
Medals for speed runs and highscores
Numerous unlockable skill levels
Powerups
Explosions
Powerups that cause explosions
Explosions that release powerups
Puzzles
And yes... platforming elements (say what?!)
The current state of the Early Access build is:
Buggy
Not fully optimized for performance
Contains the first 3 chapters with 12 areas
And 5 unlockable skill levels
Production quality equivalent to release quality
Very enjoyable
Please help us improve Caromble! Report bugs. Play the game. Enjoy the mechanics. Don't like the mechanics? Tell us about it! Tell us why you think Caromble! is great. Tell us why you think it stinks. Know somebody who might enjoy Caromble!? Help us find them! We're forever in your debt.