More cuteness and character
Author: orangepascal,
published 3 years ago,
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This is, easily, the most stable version of the game so far. And the changes list shows why – it’s a list with few tiny new things, but mostly a bunch of fixes! I just ended a play session in the game, and even though the game is very stable, there are still a bunch of things I want to improve and every gameplay session goes hand in hand with a bunch of changes on my to-do list.
One thing that has been bugging me was the little hovering bot that flies along side the player. This is PedeyB – or PDB the Personal Disaster Bot.. and I never really liked him! OR at least not how he looked. I wanted him to look cute, but there’s not a lot of room for cuteness in a 10×10 sprite… until this week I found a way to improve him.
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Left is old, Right is new
Adding those little feet that wiggle about a bit, makes him so much more likeable, and that tiny visual change also comes with some newly written dialog. He’s really a bit of a character now.. and has this weird romantic thing for the ship’s replicator. Strange!
Few more weeks of fixing and tweaking, and we’ll call this puppy done!
I also added a few more eyecatchers, make sure to check the video below for the first batch that was added last week:
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Full changes list:
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[*]added: more eyecatcher objects
[*]added: language select
[*]added: blueprint for echonium-transmitter now unlocked at better time in game
[*]added: planet-core heath mapping
[*]added: gave PedeyB more character/cuter look
[*]added: Random-Events handling code
[*]added: Event – suit-malfunction
[*]added: Event – toxic rain
[*]added: Event – damage to devices
[*]added: PedeyB log – last messages in Visor
[*]added: woofer-sound now also scares creatures
[*]added: Event – Ship attacked by Ooze (re-repair!)
[*]added: Event – broken backpack
[*]added: suit-malfunction messages to visor
[*]added: “share your postcard” message box to snapshot mode
[*]added: EDP show how many devices we already have
[*]fixed: rendering bug on “destroyable blocks”
[*]fixed: PedeyB avatar during hologram
[*]fixed: permadeath setting information
[*]fixed: spacing between empty and use on residex screen
[*]fixed: mouse controls in input-screen
[*]fixed: arrow-keys now show up as dpad icons during instructions
[*]fixed: fishing-rod now a Tool instead of object
[*]fixed: speed of planet-rotation in galaxy-views
[*]fixed: galaxy-view background art/clearness
[*]fixed: don’t pop-up dialog when player on instable/moving floors
[*]fixed: fish on dry-land turn into “dead fish” food
[*]fixed: dead-player won’t create triggers for surrounding creatures
[*]fixed: trimmed windowed-resolution options (removed weird ones)
[*]fixed: remember navigation in menu-screens (settings)
[*]fixed: repair at echo-pillars now always triggers (was timer-delayed)
[*]fixed: general interface interaction cleanup
[*]fixed: disabled placing device at same spot as other device
[*]fixed: blocking player from packing-up device when holding something else
[*]fixed: powerrelay switch with connector not capable of grabbing connector and connecting it
[*]fixed: faster banter/talkback events in dialogs
[*]fixed: inventory handling for “groups” of items
[*]fixed: toxic-rain shouldn’t hurt player indoors
[*]fixed: snow starts falling during intro
[*]fixed: egg-wasps fly upwards immediately
[*]fixed: arachnoid can now be “scared” back to it’s nest
[*]fixed: added correct black edges to intro animation
[*]fixed: backdrop for on-screen instructions
[*]fixed: fish not spawning
[*]fixed: can’t use torch to light campfire
[*]fixed: “discovered by” on visor rendering width
[*]fixed: extra spacing for visor text
[*]fixed: bug with deuterium-slurpers
[*]fixed: dialog-caching events (when old dialog is still shown)
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