Steam Community :: Blackshift

Store Page

Blackshift

All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos News Guides Reviews

Blackshift

Store Page

View Stats:

Global Achievements

Show

All News

Syndicated News

Official Announcements

Update 2.4.5 Released

17 Feb

Bug Fixes:

Fixed a bug where if you left the game open for about half an hour, some animations would slow down.
Fixed the title screen music not looping properly.
Removed a secret entrance from level 3/4 which would end the level if you entered it.
Fixed a bug where using "Undo" in the editor wouldn't trigger autosave.
Fixed a bug where the circular green "disconnected bridge" model was too high, and it would clip into any items placed on top of it.
Fixed a bug where the "complete all levels" achievement could sometimes get awarded early, because it counted secret levels towards the total of 100.

Other Changes:

The music now doesn't (usually) stop when you die.

Blackshift

Bug Fixes

11 Jan

1. Fixed a bug where, if you went through the World 6 cave without shooting the thing that lowers all the docking stations, the game would still let you use the World 6 docking station, even though it wouldn't be lowered. This would then let you fly to the other islands, where you'd be stuck because their docks would still be up.

If you're affected by this bug, and stuck on a remote island, then this update should lower the docks for you so you can continue playing.

2. Fixed a bug where some of the music for a late-game secret event would play when it shouldn't, and not stop.

Blackshift

Join us on Discord

21 Oct, 2024

We now have a Discord server where you can talk about Blackshift. Join us![discord.gg]

Blackshift

Update 2.4.2 Released

4 Sep, 2024

Fixed a bug where explosions would erase opened colour-doors.
Fixed a bug where items could be picked up and dropped while sliding on slippery floors. This is an old bug that was fixed ages ago, but I broke it again in version 2.4.0. Hopefully it can stay fixed now.

Blackshift

Update 2.4.1 Released

12 Feb, 2024

Fixed a bug where the game could crash when leaving one of the secret-related areas.
Fixed a bug that made it impossible to get a secret item in level 9/6.
Made it easier to get a secret item in level 9/9.
Fixed a bug in the World 10 cave where if you lowered one of the barriers and quickly rushed out of the level, the game sometimes wouldn't save that you had lowered it.
Fixed a bug where the silicon detector would sometimes fail to create the particle effect showing you when there's silicon on a level, if you had collected some but not all of the silicon on that level.
Fixed a bug where the graphic for the secret pink teleport would glitch out under DirectX.

Blackshift

The Storytime Update

6 Feb, 2024

Gameplay changes

Some people like lore in their games, so this update adds some. It's mostly optional and hidden. But if you're curious what's going on in this game, you can now find out.
Added more goods to the shops.
Added some extremely hard post-game stuff for the completionists.
Improved input handling; you can press a key a little early (say, pressing “pick up item” a couple frames before you stop moving) and the game will do what you mean instead of ignoring the key press.

Changes to levels

1/3

Moved a silicon crystal.

2/6

Now teaches you that bombs kill mines. Added a save point.

2/7

Added a one-way door.

2/9

Fixed a design bug where the top area was missing a key, making it pointless to visit.

2/10

Fixed a design bug where you could get the secret too easily using a box.

3/1

More satisfying ending.

3/3

Swapped out a yellow gun for a blue gun in one of the ending areas.

5/1

Fixed a design bug where you could skip most of the level.

5/10

Replaced this level.

6/5

Cheeseproofed.

6/7

Streamlined a bit. Cheeseproofed the ending.

7/7

Replaced this level.

9/9

Made the timing section a bit more forgiving.

10/10

Moved the plasma ball to another level.

Options and UI

Added some options:
- Added volume controls.
- Added an option to reset your saved progress.
- Added an option to show an on-screeen timer when playing Level Pit levels.
- Removed the "backgrounds" option.
The game now shows you control hints on the first couple of levels.
Made the "Recent Deaths" list in the Pit more readable.
Improved gamepad navigation in the UI.
Made the pause screen clearer, especially the options page.
Nicer display of gamepad buttons on the control setup page.

Graphics and audio

New and improved graphics for laser turrets, teleports, pits, grills, power generators, walls, the invincibility item and a couple of the enemies.
A couple of new music tracks, and minor improvements to existing tracks.
Added sound effects for the machine that turns grills on and off.
Improved animation for colour doors and everything else that pops up and down.
Improved the look of the lower resolution modes.
Added Metal support on Mac (see “Mac-specific changes” below).
Added antialiasing (MSAA) support to the DirectX (Windows) and Metal (Mac) renderers. If your graphics card supports this, you'll see an option for it on the Options screen.
Added support for high resolution screens.
- On Mac, this means you can play on a Retina display at full resolution.
- On Windows, same deal except MS just calls these "high-DPI displays".

Bug fixes

Overworld
- Fixed a bug that caused your craft to spaz out for a frame or two at the end of paths.
- Fixed a bug that made the starfield appear to move when the camera performed certain manoeuvres.
Editor
- Fixed a bug where the preview of your selected object at the bottom left would get lighter or darker as you moved the camera around.
- Fixed a bug where using the delete tool would not auto-save your level like the other tools.
- Fixed a bug where if you made a level with no player, then when the game added the player for you, if you had placed a mirror in that spot, then even though it would delete the mirror to put the player there, it would still act as if there were a mirror there.
Graphics and UI
- Fixed a bug where colour doors would sometimes have pixely artifacts around the edges of the top circle part.
- Fixed a bug where the screen dimming effect on the pause and get-ready screens wouldn't always reach all the way to the edges of the screen.
- Fixed a bug where the green teleport effect would display incorrectly rotated when using the DirectX renderer.
- Fixed a bug in the Level Pit where level previews would load in reverse order.

Windows-specific changes

Improved display of non-Latin characters in the Level Pit.
Steam isn't supporting Windows 7 anymore, so I've bumped the minimum Windows version requirement to Windows 10. Blackshift itself doesn't care, so you can try your luck with older Windows if you want.

Mac-specific changes

Added Metal support.
- Metal is Apple's new graphics API, which is replacing OpenGL on Macs.
- This is now the default, but you can still select OpenGL if you want.
I've bumped the minimum MacOS requirement to 10.14. This is the oldest MacOS I can test on, and Steam is soon going to require 10.15+ anyway.

Blackshift

Update 2.3.7 Released

18 Nov, 2020

Changes to campaign
- Minor changes to levels 1/6, 1/9, 3/8, 5/1, 5/6, 6/5, 7/4.
- Major changes to levels 7/3, 9/3.
- Moved a plasma ball from level 6/2 to 10/10.
- Moved some silicon crystals between levels. This update may affect your crystal count if you had already collected some of these ones.
- The overworld pause menu shows you the total number of silicon crystals you've collected, separately from the number of crystals you're holding right now.
- Added some tooltips to the overworld pause menu.
Level Pit & editor changes
- Players' flags are now shown in more places throughout the Pit UI.
- Added "Awards" page, which ranks top players by various criteria.
- Added "Recent Deaths" to each level page. You can only see this if you've already beaten the level.
- A tick icon is now shown on levels you've already done.
- The first player to beat each level is now memorialized on its page.
- Player names in the "Best Time" box are now links.
- Added a "Delete" tool to the editor.
- Fixed bug where, when using the "Back" buttons in the Level Pit, you'd sometimes end up on the wrong tab of somebody's user page.
- Fixed bug which caused the "Number of plays" and "number of wins" stats on players' pages to be wrong.
Bug fixes
- Fixed bug where black rectangles would appear on some floor tiles on Windows.
- Fixed bug that could crash the game if an object teleported to a space that another object was moving into.
- Fixed bug that could crash the game if you deleted the last unpublished level on your user page.
- Fixed bug that made it impossible to unbind gamepad controls.
Miscellaneous
- If you try to use a gamepad on the main menu without configuring it, a message now pops up directing you to Options.
- The wall-follower enemy has a little bump on one side to show you which wall it follows, but it's always been on the wrong side. This is now fixed.

Blackshift

Update 2.3.6 Released

29 Oct, 2020

Fixed a crash which could occur when playing Level Pit levels with long laser beams in them.
Fixed a level editor bug which made it impossible to place teleports on top of slippery floors.
Fixed a layout bug on the options screen on Windows when you changed the renderer.
Fixed some incorrect usage of the gamepad API which may have been causing issues on Windows.
Added more detail to the logs and to the dumps that the crash reporter saves on Windows.

Blackshift

Update 2.3.5 Released

29 Sep, 2020

Updated SDL to the latest version (2.0.12). This version has some gamepad compatibility fixes, performance improvements and general bug fixes.
Added an option to run the game at 30 FPS. Normally it tries to run at 60, but if Blackshift can't manage 60 on your machine, this option will at least give you a consistent frame rate.
Fixed a bug where pressing Esc during the end credits could lock up the game.
If you run in windowed mode and resize the window, the game now remembers what size the window was next time you run it.
Changed how the game deals with lag: there is now a limit to how many frames it will skip.

Blackshift

Update 2.3.4 Released

27 Sep, 2020

This update fixes a bug whereby exploding objects could cause the frame rate to drop considerably.

Blackshift

See More Content

No more content. So sad.

You can help: share a screenshot, make a video, or start a new discussion!

Returning to where you were last on this page...

Cancel