Hey fellas

Chunky update for you which focuses on redesigning the Summon System for trinkets as well as optimising the game by figuring out new ways to reduce lag caused by enemies or objects.

Patch Notes:

• Edited the descriptions of Summon Trinkets to display how many summon slots the player has.
  
• Summon slots have been overhauled to be more consistent. They are now Summon Slots = Trinket Slots - 1. This also means that the max summons have been increased from 6 to 7.
  
• Summons display the summon count when spawned.
  
• You’re now given a prompt when you respec your player stats to confirm your decision.
  
• Updated the portraits of Forgery and Orchestra.
  
• Updated the sprites of all Augments. They were falling behind when it came to their pixel art as they were all done pretty early on in development.
  
• Fixed the camera not following the player after unlocking the doors in Fizzing Foundry Part 2.
  
• Redesigned Leaping Dash to be more of an aerial counterpart to Streamlined. It increases the jump height of all dash jumps instead of only those done on the wall.
  
• Leaping Dash’s wall jump has been reduced slightly in height to fit the redesign.
  
• Adjusted the description of Streamlined and Rubble Duster Dashes.
  
• Fixed a ceiling at the start of Fizzing Foundry Part 1 having a lower collision box than what was shown.
  
• Adjusted the height of two of the pipes that dispense salt before Forgery’s boss room. Now they actually hit the bolide on the ceiling.
  
• Added Bucket Beacon Trinket. A new summon that takes 3 summon slots and is very powerful.
  
• Reduced the price of the Fastening Nut Trinket: 1500 -> 800.
  
• Reduced the price of the Whistle Trinket: 4500 -> 1200.
  
• Summons only emit light when they are visible.
  
• Changed Summon afterimage layer.
  
• Fixed the Slider Trinket not working outside of the Shop.
  
• Fixed misplaced pipe tile in Fizzing Foundry Part 1.
  
• Fixed the hole in the tileset in Cyan Apiary Part 1.
  
• Stopped Summons from attacking while in cutscenes.
  
• Fixed the “Not Enough Slots” text appearing while equipping Flavours on weapons with more than 1 slot.
  
• Increased the Panic Status Buildup of fireworks to make the effect realistically proc during the level.

Optimisation:
New section for all the steps I've been taking to reduce lag so it can run better on all systems. This is of course a process, so it won't eliminate all lag right now. But hopefully it can make the experience smoother without affecting the game play itself at all.

• Previously all weapons were drawn and loaded even while in the inventory, now it’s only for weapons that are equipped. (may cause some weird quirks because of this change, we’ll see if any are found)
  
• The game used to check every frame if you held items to give to vendors, now it only checks once when you talk to an NPC.
  
• Streetlights will now check if they are alive before worrying about if they are to be hue shifted due to the Nightmare effect.
  
• Entities like Streetlights and Boxes will no longer check for status effects since they are immune to them anyways.
  
• The game would constantly recreate recurring colours for text and afterimages. This seems to cause a decent amount of lag so now all the recurring colours are global variables and made once when the game starts.
  
• Enemies used to all check when they were touching the spawning boundary around the camera to spawn. Now there’s a new system where enemies are now sorted into sections based on the camera guide of each section. Only those enemies will be checking for spawning conditions.
  
• NPCs would lag the game due to loading vendor inventories every frame. Now it only happens once when the vendor is opened and only for vendor NPCs.
  
• Reduced the code loading for the bolide bubbles on the walls in the Fizzing Foundry.
  
• When Giwormous would attack the player during the level of Whittle Road Part 1, its body segments would still linger around. Now the worm is despawned when the next attack segment is triggered.
  
• The Titlecard UI that appears at the start of each Level/Area seems to cause a lot of lag due to it converting a string of text into capital letters.
  
• The visual cracks in pipes that create bolide particles have been toned down to only activate on screen in Fizzing Foundry Part 2.

Happy Easter! (depend on your timezone)

Game is on sale and I am very active on my Discord and on the Steam Community Discussions so if you have any questions or anything you want to clarify before you buy, let me know and I'll help as much as I can.

Plenty of content coming in the future, I am have WAY too much fun making this game lol.

Hey fellas

Small update to add in some limited time Easter Content for this Sale!

Patch Notes:

• Added the Dread Carton as a limited time purchase from Mr. Basanta after completing Croissance City.
  
• Potentially fixed Girthworm Arena Match crashing after completion.
  
• Reworked the code when collecting an item from the podium after an Arena Match to hopefully not cause it skip past the collection stage.
  
• Fixed the cloud effect spawned from shooting the Chalkskin, Grin Launcher and Teslauncher from not appearing at the correct position.
  
• Fixed Whistle Trinkets crashing the game when spawned. (whoops)

Don't worry, the weapon will remain in the game in the debug menu, just won't be accessible in standard play.

Hey fellas

This update focuses more on UI changes to make systems of the game more understandable. The game will directly tell you why the player is restricted when equipping, upgrading or purchasing items.

I've also added two weapons as well. Don't say I don't look after ya.

Patch Notes:

• Added the Gorgie, a new shield that is a boss weapon for the Giwormous boss.
  
• Added the Overdyer, a new gun that’s currently in debug mode only.
  
• Tweaked the layering of the blocking particles to appear behind the player.
  
• Added a new Bandage Cosmetic, bought from Mr. Basanta after Whittle Road.
  
• Loading… augment is out of debug mode and found in Croissance City Part 2 to better explain the “space” mechanic of augments.
  
• Edited the Loading… augment description to be more clear.
  
• Swapped the Storage Addon item with the Button Mashing augment to make the augment space system more clear.
  
• The hidden room to the left of the second checkpoint in Croissance City Part 2 has been made a little more obvious to prevent accidental skipping of an important item.
  
• Added an indicator that the player needs to equip a glove if looking at the trinket page without one equipped.
  
• ERROR prompts appear when the player is denied purchasing, equipping or augmenting.
  
• Added indicators to help indicate to players how many trinkets and augments they can equip.
  
• The space of Augments is now indicated by visual instead of by a number.
  
• Social links to Youtube and Discord have been added to the side of the Title Screen.
  
• Overhauled the UI for Arena Matches to display the difficulty and be given red text instead of white to imply that Mars is writing these match descriptions.
  
• Fixed typo from Mr. Basanta at the start of Fizzing Foundry.
  
• Very slightly tweaked the BR-35 Exothermis sprite.

I've been lately asking questions on Reddit for ideas for names and weapons, been good way to engage with people and potential players.

Hey fellas

Small update after studying some more playthroughs, something I am so grateful for. It appears that mechanics aren’t explained too well, specifically when it comes to weapon heating and the fact you can equip two weapons at once.

Patch Notes:

• Renamed the Player Stat: Ingenuity to Focus. Should make the stat more straight forward.
  
• Reworded the description of Storage Addon, Weapons Parts and Weapon Tech to be more straight forward with their usage.
  
• Rewrote Mrs. Basanta’s intro dialogue to better explain the weapon heating mechanic and how to avoid it.
  
• Rewrote Mr. Basanta’s post-weapon choice dialogue to better explain that multiple weapons can be equipped instead of trinkets.

I plan for more improvements to come, and the sooner done, the better. Thank you so much for the feedback!

I am also aware of performance issues when it comes to the steam deck and areas like Whittle Road. I will be brainstorming ways to fix these to get the game running smoothly.

Hey fellas

Since shields are pretty new, they're probably unbalanced, but for now I've done some work to fix issues when it comes blocking explosions. There's also been this lingering bug since the dawn of time that the FOG from Whittle Road follows the player after leaving the level. Surely this time, it will be fixed...

Patch Notes:

• The hitbox for explosions have been adjusted so there needs to be line of sight with no shield in the way to count as a hit. Since the hitbox is instant, it can spawn inside the player.
  
• Going left before fighting Orchestra will not longer kill the player and play the cutscene again with strange effects.
  
• Powersaws no longer linger in the air after Compass has been defeated while doing their projectile attack.
  
• Darkmatter Oiseau has been adjusted slightly to not spam their "jumping projectile attack" half the fight. Now only done if the player is climbing up the walls.
  
• Darkmatter Oiseau shouldn't have that lingering charge effect follow them after getting staggered
  
• The fog should no longer follow the player outside of levels.

Hey Fellas

Big update that adds in a whole new weapon type that should change how you think about making builds. There has been quality of life improvements as suggested by players and the intro Hospital has seen a level design revamp after some careful study.

• Introduced the “Shield” weapon type. Shields block damage and reduce the heat of the other weapon, providing an aggressive-defense playstyle
  
• Added 5 new shields and 1 variant
  
• Changed “Base Damage” to “Base Power” to fit with shields
  
• Changed how the position of weapons on the player’s back are calculated
  
• Fixed the weapon positions on the Cosmetic Dresser to match the player
  
• Can’t swap weapons in menus to prevent confusion
  
• Touched up on my french and fixed the arena starting countdown
  
• Slightly altered Fizzing Foundry Pt 1 level design
  
• Added a new Sandpit Match post-Fizzing Foundry
  
• Fix collectables appearing after in Nightmare stages
  
• Added a new conversation with Mr. Basanta post-Fizzing Foundry
  
• Fixed the Cyan Hive spinning forever in a corner
  
• Change the auto screen save opening to be in the corner to be more accurate
  
• Allow menus to remember where they previously were when navigating
  
• Reworked the intro level design to properly teach the player about high jumps and dash jumping after play feedback
  
• You can now shoot the Pigeons, heavily requested feature
  
• Somewhat fixed the camera getting funky when the players gets off screen
  
• Streamlined some key binding issues and updated the menu slightly
  
• Changed how save files store sprites for the files screen, should prevent strange corruptions

Credits:
Kenji the Fish for the shield concept and the BR-35 Exothermis weapon
Dirty Giuseppe for the Le Brella shield concept in the Discord Server
Jahkra for assisting with intro Hospital level design
The Graceful Whale for UI suggestions
Sir Tip for presenting valuable first-time player footage to study

Hey fellas

Just a smaller update to fix some annoying issues when it comes to resizing the game window

Patch Notes:

• Made it so the game will move to the middle of your screen when adjusting if it's windowed, bordered, fullscreen as well as when you change the screen size. Changing from fullscreen to windowed made the top of the window get stuck in the top right of most monitors.
  
• Made the cursor visible at all times. Now it's much easier to move the screen around and less annoying.

Hey fellas

Just a little update to get me used to adding content on the regular. When it's not fixing bugs that you guys have pointed out, it's mostly just random ideas that come to mind that I can't resist putting them into the game.

Patch Notes:

• Added the Wakidashi, a new melee weapon able to be purchased from the shop after Mont Blanc.
  
• Overhauled the melee weapon size code to allow for smaller than average weapons.
  
• Hammers are slightly longer due to the overhaul.
  
• Croissance City Part 1 (Intro) has its level design adjusted to make the first money pickup acquirable before being taught how to dash.
  
• Added lore description for the Chalkskin weapon.
  
• Tweaked how the player’s base melee works.
  
• Fixed issue where multiple enemies killed on the same frame would not add to the kill count combo properly.

I do plan for major things to come soon once I get a solid enough player base that can help reduce the strain on the constant testing.

Cheers.