Cosmochoria
Quick Patch 0.150
0.150
- Better visual feedback when charging gun or sword.
- Fixed issue with Mothership not dying when SHE IS SUPPOSED TO!!! >:(
- Slightly improved damage of homing bullets.
- Improved Volume of plasma shots (too loud — Thanks @eddy_pryce!)
- Removed the 'grain' effect. Mostly to see if this helps with lower FPS on old systems. Let me know if it seems better at all!
Thanks all, hope you're enjoying. :)
NEW WEAPONS! Build 0.149 now LIVE.
Boom. Fixed a bunch of stuff that came up recently (thx Exige & Reise92!) in addition to some additional game-type stuff and of course NEW WEAPONS! woo. :) Hope you enjoy. They get better as you upgrade em. Also, just for Joe @ TenguDrop, i've now randomized 'when' or 'what planet' bosses now attack you. So you never can tell. ;) You're welcome, Joe. Mwahaha.
Going to be focussing on costumes now to get them complete ASAP. We're getting there. We're getting there!
CHANGELOG for v0.149
<*> NEW WEAPON: Homing Blaster
<*> NEW WEAPON: Plasma Blaster
<*> Increased size of crystals.
<*> Tweaked costs of store items.
<*> Tweaked Background Colour/Style.
<*> Fixed timing / freezing issues with certain enemies when picking up items / talking.
<*> Stopped ‘ground warning’ for crabs from hurting you.
<*> Added better instructions on enter name option
<*> Title screen music volume fixed (remembers setting)
<*> Disallowed ~Name Saved~ as a name option. (disabled hitting double-enter by accident.)
<*> Fixed “Lightning” bugs.
<*> Fixed BossWorm bugs.
<*> Boss spawn points much more randomized (spawn on ranges of planets instead of on the same planet all the time). Actual boss order still set....
<*> Made sure there is always at least 1 planet matching an egg.
<*> Engine updates (performance improvements mostly)
Quick Update 0.148
Hugs,
Nate
CHANGELOG for 0.148
- Vastly improved atmosphere entry / exit.
- Fixed some menu screen / title screen glitches.
Quick Patches 0.146
ChangeLog for 0.146
- Water / lave doesnt hurt/slow when youre teleporting.
- Space is a different colour each game. I want to play with ur emotions.
- Wormboss eating bomb from your hands properly unsets the bomb
- Insects show up correctly. Also limited their amount to help with FPS.
- Towers ignore bad plants
- Disabled general enemy spawns during BossWorm
- Message popups not treating time scale correctly. (Freezing things after message is gone)
- Fixed Portals not showing up.
- Fixed Bullets stuck in air when talking to Hermit/Picking up eggs
- Certain bosses don’t spawn unless you’re actually ON a planet.
- Fixed conflict between chest & old man / egg text.
- Fixed some Wasp bugs (not dying when they should)
- Fixed the 'Protect the Egg’ sequence.
WOAH! MEGA BUILD! 0.145
Well, my friends... we're getting closer and closer to having a finished game here.. Ive been working on some huge updates all month, including new enemies, hazards, bosses, mechanics, and all sorts of goodies to start preparing Cosmochoria for it's final phase of development: Story.
Essentially the (normal) enemies are now complete. Everyone you encounter in the game is where it's going to stand for now. More enemies might come later (actually at least one will for sure.. he's half programmed already...) and there will be at least 3 more bosses completed, but I am so very happy with the variety that the game has at this point. ESPECIALLY THIS NEW BOSS. Wow..
I could talk for days about the stuff that's in this latest build. But I wont. Here's a list of what I've done. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, please drop them in the comments, or post in the discussion forum! Hope you guys are having fun. :D
Love Nate
0.145 - CHANGELOG
- NEW BOSS: BOSSWORM - the amount of time i spent on this one boss was worthy of an update in itself, i promise you guys this is the single greatest thing Ive ever done so far in my life. I hope you enjoy kicking his ass after you figure out how.
- NEW ENEMY: Crawlers
- NEW CORE MECHANIC!! Treasure Chests appear when completing a planet. Chests contain crystals, bases, costumes and artifacts (artifacts coming soon).
- NEW COSTUME: Find the Tighty Whiteys.
- “CRITTERS” Spawn eventually on completed planets.
- LAVA!!! Thank you Jessi for the inspiration to get it done. Thank you Toma for the original idea! Such a good addition and solves the issues of the damn bite planets. :)
- WATER!!! Doesnt damage player, but slows you down. Water does damage enemies slowly.
- NEW HAZARDS: TEJON MONUMENT: prevents you from using your jetpack if you are caught nearby. Can be destroyed.
- NEW PLANET SHAPES!
- NEW MUSIC (esp for “Protect the Egg” :)
- NEW ‘Always Up’ Camera Type (Tight). Can choose between “Loose", “Tight", and “Off” for camera now.
- Added screen-edge notifiers to show when they’re incoming and from what side of the screen.
- Changed boss spawn points a bit.
- Increased size of robotoaster.
- Better death sound.
- Crystals, diamonds, bricks & powerups now push out to a planets surface if they are stuck in a planet.
- Nicer jet smoke. More like fluff now, but… powerful awesome fluff.
- Jet smoke bounces off planets.. (I will NOT apologize for spending time on this.)
- Danger zone now warns you sooner that you are getting close to the edge..
- Danger zone now depletes your energy waaaaay slower.
- Opening a Chest causes an ‘explosion’ that kills all basic enemies on the screen. This doesn’t touch your towers.
- More Animations and goo.
- Fixed fast plant speed. Now faster.
- Cleaned up Alien AI Code
- Improved UFO AI.
- Increased range of towers.
- Slightly Improved Ability of Towers to Kill ground enemies. They still act as a ‘distraction’ though.
- A little warning when things are coming out of the ground….
- Re-allowed (slight) slowdown when crouching in space even without space friction upgrade.
- Gravity now reverse proportional to planet size. (ie opposite of reality… small planets = small jumps, giant planets = moon jump) Let me know what you think of this...
- Better load screen tips. I do hope you enjoy.
- Fixed Evil diamonds disappearing when touching planet.
- Fixed Seeds resetting after killing BigJelly
- Simplified HUD a bit so it didnt feel so cluttered.
- Fixed a bunch of bugs with "Protect the Egg".
- Fixed some wasp bugs.
- Made seeds SHINY so you can see them better.
- Slowed the rate at which the ‘sun’ does damage to you.
- Sword reflected bullets are not 100% accurate.
- Sword price raised to 3000!! (sorry… it was always meant to be a late game thing…)
- Sword doesnt reflect Fireballs. You can thank @Meltdownjack for that.
- Fixed glitch with ‘last' text showing when teleporting.
- New VanityCard Sound. :) And it’s true!
Build 0.142: Bug Fixes & Tweaks
Cheers,
Nate
Build 0.142 Changelog
- Fixed Ice dragon causing ALL bullets to be ice! (So Sorry for this!!!)
- Reduce knockback distance on all enemies
- Eliminate Knockback entirely on hives - was sending them into the planet haha.
- VacuumDragon gives a powerup.
- Takes VacuumDragon more shots before he rushes at you.
- VacuumDragon rushes at you with slower speed.
- Shooting VacuumDragon charges up his big crystal blast.
- Show Crystal points / crystal value upon collection
- Matched Diamond points = diamond value to eliminate confusion
- Sattelleyes Drop Timebombs sooner / closer to the surface
Build 141: New Enemies & BOSS! HNY :)
Anyway, there have been some great new updates finished up in the past week or so. Including new Jelly Enemies, and their bum head of a boss: BigJelly.
To celebrate the addition of this new boss, I've added some sick new tunes and tweaked the placement of the boss stuff a bit, but hopefully you encounter the boss without too much difficulty. If you dont find him, let me know and I can drop a hint or a straight up spoiler on how to get him to show up.
In addition to that there have been some more general updates, tweaks and optimizations. Here's the good stuff though:
- NEW ENEMY: LilJelly
- NEW BOSS: BigJelly
- New Music: Specific to Mothership and BigJelly Bosses.
- Laser Sword can now charge up by holding the swipe button. Charged sword shoots a laser.
- Fixed issue with sword not damaging bosses correctly.
- Reduced health of mothership boss.
- When fighting mothership, jetpack regenerates faster?!?!?!? Must be some sort of special field.
- Hitting mothership in her weak spot causes heavier damage.
- Moai Moai Statues now slowly regenerate completed planets.
- Reduced frequency of wasps spawning slightly
- Slightly Reduced frequency of UFO’s in early game.
- Reduced damage from fireballs.
- Made Fireballs do damage in a ‘hit’ style, triggering your adrenalin / invincibility so multi fireballs cant decimate you.
Anyways, thanks again for the amazing support this year. If you like what you've been getting in this game, I would love a steam review from you! If you dont like what I've been laying down, please dont feel shy about chiming up in the forums, your feedback can definitely help shape the game as I move forward, or else it will be met with a snarky comment as I might be too high on my horse at the time i read the comment :)
Huge love my friends, may 2015 bring your dreams to fruition.
Respect,
Nate
Build 140: Tweaks to that Last Build :)
0.140 Changelog:
- Randomly Spawn some normal diamonds in the field like 2-3 per game.
- Reduced amount of Evil Diamonds slightly.
- Crystal Monster can only eat 10 crystals at a time. If he’s full dont eat more.
- First Boss drops a Diamond instead of Gems.
- Increased time where Sucking Dragon is ‘warming up’ to shoot. If you kill him before he shoots, he will give back all crystals he took.
- Made hearts partially transparent.
- Explosions no longer remove powerup.
- Make Legit diamonds tink on bullet hit
- Music @ -50db = off. Dont play at all.
Build 139: NEW ENEMIES
Huge love & thanks for playing. If you dig what I'm doing here, I would love a review. Even if you don't dig, I'd love to know what you hate so much about it. It's cuz he's naked, right? It is, isn't it? I knew it.
Changelog: 0.139
- NEW HAZARD: Timebomb
- NEW ENEMY: Eye Orbiters
- NEW ENEMY: VacuumDragon
- Increased quantity of Evil Diamonds.
- Increased Planet Requirements for when Robots (Toasters) begin appearing.
- Fixed Pause menu missing black background
- Fixed Pause menu sound settings still active / functional while unpaused if on sound settings
- Fixed Option Type Your Name being still active when unpaused.
- Added subtle Plant ‘rustle’ sfx when you walk by a completed plant.
- Removed Setting name from Steamname… Will think of better solution for this...
Build 0.137 - More Maintenance Type Stuff
Anyways here's what I've been working on the past week or so (with the exemption of some barebones code of a few more hazards and enemies which should make it into next week's build).
Any questions, or issues, don't hesitate to drop em here or in the bug forum.
Hugs,
Nate
0.137
- Setup in-game menu to match title menu
- Enabled gamepad / keyboard nav on in-game pause menu.
- Egg Hatching sequence cancels out the calm timer.
- Added plant count as they are completed - to show how many plants you’ve planted. Should appear as score above you as you plant. Adds to your score too.
- Robot Touch Damage happening again
- Fixed Store prices not showing up on purchase confirm screen.
- In-game Full pause / Options menu. Now synced up too so adding options to the title screen will add to in-game menu too. Thanks Scirra for global layers!!
- Make sure spawning planet is never Mr. Beardington's planet.
- Wasps Knockback when hit with laser turret.
- Fixed Bad plants not growing properly.
- Fixed Pet Lasers and Fireballs — Check collision on new enemies (Satellite Demons and Evil Diamonds)
- Engine based performance and stability updates.