Development Blog

Player

• Shield level visualization is now in the avatar’s face mask
• Improved visualization for fast-falling and fast-dashing
• Gun overheat visualized in avatar hands
• Dash activation visualized in avatar legs
• Must now dash into enemies to Shield-bash
• Player will no longer accelerate passed a maximum fall speed
• Bullets now have pixel perfect collision
• Sword damage is now consistent

Level Editor

• Pressing T will toggle controls overlay
• Checkpoints and Buttons now save properly
• Two-way platforms can now be placed
• “Delete all objects” button added (found in the change grid tool)
• Levels can be deleted from the load screen
• Last Played and Last Deleted levels are automatically saved for convenience
• Tool buttons now highlight when selected
• Visualization for cut/copy
• Player can now pan view by moving cursor to window edge
• View pan now has acceleration

Objects

• New doorway and button toggle
  • Doorway will destroy both Player and Enemies if it closes on them
  • Doorway blocks enemy bullets
  • Doorway can be sliced open with sword
• New bullet redirector
  • Can redirect  player and enemy shots
• New Phaser
  • Players can shoot through it, but not move through it
  • Enemies can move through them

Shell/UI

• Each level now has two optional objectives
  • Passive: Complete level with no enemies damaged or destroyed directly by the player
  • Poke: Complete level with no shield pokes
• Leaderboard saving is now active for every level
  • Will save automatically update on level completion (if record made)
  • View top 15 on level select screen

Enemies

• New bullet art and patterns for all enemies
• New EDGE enemy
• New RAILER enemy
• Basic Enemy can now be stood on
• Fly enemy now shoots in 4 diagonal directions (up from 2)
• Sitting under Fly enemy no longer stops it from shooting
• Heavy enemy moves continuously

Levels

• All levels reworked
• 29 New levels

Various bug fixes and visual improvements.