1.0!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE GAME IS DONE!!!!!!!!! I’ve been working on Egg Ascent for way too long (about 4.5 years??? omg???). I’m so happy to finally be able to say I finished a project it’s been so amazing developing this game and being able to see people enjoy it as much as they have thank you so much for all your feedback and support it genuinely means the world to me!! Egg Ascent is done but it’s not like done done, I’m going to continue to post about the game and interact with every body and I’m planning on adding a level editor in the future, hopefully that happens!! Again thank you so much and for how much of a wait this update was it isn’t like huge but there are a bunch of little finishing touches and a new level that I hope isn’t too much :3c, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PLAYING EGG ASCENT!!! I LOVE EGG ASCENT!!!
Added ending animations + credits
There are 5 endings, each depending on how much of the game you have completed
Added achievements!!!
Most achievements are for golding levels/worlds/the game but there are a few little challenge achievements, been wanting to add these forever but really wanted to wait until the game was done
World/game medals
Every world + the full game now have 4 time medals you can unlock (bronze, silver, gold, dev) for normal and hard mode
World/game leaderboards
Every world + the full game now each have steam leaderboards for normal and hard mode
Extended secret level, is now unlocked through hidden collectables
Removed “save debug times” setting
Level select next/previous page buttons are hidden when there isn’t a next/previous page
Leaderboard no longer has a horizontal scrollbar
Fixed level select scroll sometimes not saving
0.7.4 - Small Fixes/Tweaks
Uh oh there was a oopsie!
Fixed bug where you could suck eggs through walls
Hovering over a time in a leaderboard now shows a 3rd millisecond digit
Added a popup warning about level times not saving when debug mode is first enabled
Added a grey background to popups in the main menu
0.7.3 - Leaderboard Tweaks
Small update that tweaks some leaderboard and time medal related things.
Added the ability to look at level leaderboards and medal times in the level select by middle clicking the level button
Added info button to level select that shows the different ways to press the level select button
“Main menu” button on level complete screen now takes you back to the level select
Changed some levels dev times as they were impossible to achieve (egg6, key9, sticky9)
Toggling slowmo no longer shows the “slowmo used” text
Added sound effect to opening reset time menu
Removed “save debug times” setting
Removed the really annoying dumb awful spring from egg6 hard
Timed portal7
0.7.2 - Time Leaderboard Testing
Very small update but I really wanted to get some testing done on the leaderboard feature before I work more on it, so here it an in testing version of it!!
Time leaderboards
This is a work in progress feature that I was planning to launch with 1.0 but felt I needed to stress test it so I’m releasing it a bit early!!
This is off by default and can be toggled in the timer settings
After completing a level a button will appear at the bottom of the screen, clicking this brings up the leaderboard
Almost everything here is placeholder, if you have any problems or suggestions please let me know in the feedback channel on the discord!!
Level changes
added more to hard mode secrets
key14: made spring wider
portal7: changed ending of normal and hard mode
Smaller changes
Timers now pause when the game is paused
Time reset menu is less finnicky
Fullscreen is now on by default
Added underline when hovering your world/game time in level select
0.7.1 - Sticky Insane Update
Sticky insane update!!!!! New level and a few minor changes, also added a secret little thing to each insane level 😏.
Added sticky insane, which is unlocked by completing all of the sticky hard levels
“Main menu” button in the death screen now brings you to the level select
Optimized level resetting, not very noticeable unless resetting an insane level. Before when resetting key insane it would take my pc 195ms to fully reset the level and it now takes 39ms. Feels a lot better to reset more complex levels.
Menu toys now spawn at the center of the screen in the main menu
Added outline to checkpoint flag sprite
Default settings tweaked
Vsync now defaults to off
World and game timers default to hidden, level timer is still visible by default
Bug fixes
Made egg spikes actually work
Fixed bug where the setting description boxes would show on screen even when the settings menu was closed
Fixed bug where cannonballs would shoot through doors
0.7.0 - Sticky Update
SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG BUT IT'S HERE!!! FINALLY TIME TO GET STICKY WITH SOME EGGS!!! AND MAYBE DO A BIT OF ASCENDING!!!??
Added bouncy eggs
Bouncy eggs will bounce off of any surface they touch
They will break after 4 bounces, or if landing on spikes
Added egg doors
Instead of requiring a key to open it requires a specific type of egg
Added player and egg spikes
Only the player can collide with player spikes, and only eggs can collide with egg spikes
These are only used in harder levels but it’s a cool level design tool that I really wanted in, will definitely be nice to have when the level editor inevitably comes out
Added bouncy egg menu toy
Old sticky level number changes
sticky3 → sticky5
sticky4 → sticky13
sticky5 → sticky15
sticky6 → sticky16
sticky7 → sticky19
Level changes
portal15: merged with portal16
portal16: old level removed and replaced with a brand new level
sticky13 (previously sticky4): added an egg after the first wall jump bit to make it less awkward
sticky15 (was sticky5): changed start position of player; added a sticky egg door at the end
sticky16 (was sticky6): added sticky eggdoor to the first walljump section
sticky19 (was sticky7): replaced last egg with bouncy egg; added a key to hard mode /evil
Sticky egg changes
Wall jumping gives more vertical height, want to encourage wall jumping more because as it is now it is almost always better to just get height from shooting the egg
Egg shooting while wallsliding on an egg tile will no longer stop your momentum
Smaller changes
Pressing the main menu button in the pause menu now brings you to the level select
Horizontal springs will not always shoot you upwards
Fixed issue where eggs would go the opposite direction of springs, made egg spring bouncing overall more consistent
Door optimizations
Bug fixes
Fixed bug where you could jump in the air after quick teleporting with a portal egg
0.6.1 - Portal Insane Update
Portal Insane
Hardest portal level in the game
Unlocked by completing all of the hard portal levels
Wide Springs
Replaced multiple springs next to each other with wider springs
Looks nicer and is probably more optimized 😎
Insane Level Dev Times
Added dev times to egg, key and portal insane
Didn’t add these before because I never actually beat any of the insane levels all the way through in one try
Level Changes (made levels easier)
egg insane made easier (changed cannon timing to be easier to predict right before 2nd checkpoint; raised the ceiling of the 2nd segment; repositioned the cannon, and added a 2nd cannon)
key insane made easier (replaced metal door at end with normal door)
egg9 hard made easier (lowered the walls at the end)
key14 made easier (made spring wider)
key14 hard made easier (made metal door taller, removed spike)
portal3 hard made easier (removed extra portal egg, added normal egg)
Minor Changes
Toy unlock text updated to “[name of toy] toy unlocked: [toy description]”, instead of just a popup with the toy description
0.6.0
Added “egg tiles” and “player tiles”
Player tiles stop the player from walking through them, but allow eggs to pass
Egg tiles do the opposite, allowing the player to walk through but not eggs
Checkpoints
Added checkpoints to the insane levels and the secret level
Holding ALT while resetting a level will reset your checkpoint and bring you to the end of the level
Menu Toys
If you found those secret little egg people that would show up in the main menu when they were collected, those are menu toys
I’ve completely overhauled the system and made it so instead of having to find the secret spots in levels, you can unlock toys by completing all levels in a world
I put so much time into this system because I want it to serve as a sort of achievement system, you will be rewarded with fun menu toys if you complete certain levels or find certain secrets
As of 0.6.0 there is the 3 egg people you can unlock by completing all of the levels in the first 3 worlds, as well as 1 secret toy
I replaced the secret egg people with something new that I haven’t fully implemented but it is worth checking those spots again
New timer settings
Added toggles to show level, world and game timers
With this you can disable world and game timers and only show the level timers
Color blind mode
Threw this together really fast, will definitely improve it in the future
Simply adds unique shapes to the different colored eggs with the goal of differentiating them without their color alone
Normal eggs have nothing, portal eggs have a full circle, sticky eggs have a hollow square, and bouncy eggs (currently unused) have a straight line
Work in progress level progression
Most of the work on this isn’t shown in the game yet as it’s still in progress
The only change added this update is needing to complete every normal level of a world to unlock it’s hard mode, rather than completing every level in the game
Unlocking insane levels is still the same, beat every hard mode level of a world
Unlocking hard mode or an insane level now saves the game so you don’t get the popup a 2nd time
Planning out normal level progression, probably won’t implement until 1.0; you will only be able to play 3 uncompleted levels in a world at a time. If you haven’t done the tutorial for a world you are required to do so, but after you can skip around a little. The next world will also be unlocked if you have 16/20 levels completed. Been thinking about how I’d implement this for a while now since I obviously want the game to be speedrun friendly and this kind of messes with full game runs. If it becomes a problem and people want to run the game while skipping levels I could implement a mini level select that you can open within a level.
Old portal level number changes
portal3 → portal4
portal4 → portal5
portal5 → portal6
portal6 → portal7
portal7 → portal19
Level changes
egg7: remade end, completely remade hard mode
egg9: added 2nd spring to end of level, completely remade end of hard mode
egg10: completely changed end of hard mode
egg13: added walls to prevent from skipping entire level, remade hard mode
egg15: changed hard mode to stop from skipping entire level, kept skip in normal level
key3: tweaked hard mode
key11: lowered the door
portal0: changed positions of eggs
portal7: added arrows pointing to golden egg, made golden egg closer, looks more like an S, added cannons and egg tile to hard mode
sticky1: added small new section at end of level
sticky7: removed spiked in the beginning, added a spring at the end (made easier)
Tiny key changes
Tweaked door opening jump, you will now always be boosted upward if unlocking a door with a key in your mouth while in the air, if you hold DOWN you won’t do a little hop :)
Changed position of key collision when being sucked, this should prevent sucking keys through walls and keys getting stuck in unsuckable positions
Updated controller support
Changed the way controller aiming works, you are now able to grab eggs that are behind other eggs
There’s a cursor controlled by the left stick, the further you hold the left stick the further the cursor is aimed in that direction
Feel like this is the best way to implement controller aiming but it still feels really bad so I’m probably just going to give up on it here lol
Will probably add controller support in the menus at some point but I wouldn’t recommend using a controller to play this game at all
Smaller changes
Tutorial text boxes now show the proper keybinds instead of just the default
Added “save debug times” setting, allows you to toggle whether or not times will save if on debug mode
Made so you can right click to teleport to a portal egg after you’ve shot a different egg, before if you shot a portal egg then any other egg you wouldn’t be able to
Added fps cap option to settings, set to 60 by default, can set to 0 to uncap
Fixed sticky egg jump buffering
Hitting escape on the main menu now gives a prompt to close the game instead of instantly closing it
Turned down volume of cannon & cannonball sounds
Added way to toggle discord rich presence, either go into your savefile and change the “rich_presence” variable under “Settings” to false, or use the “discord” console command, think it was causing a crash on windows 11
0.6.0 - Portal Update
Added “egg tiles” and “player tiles”
Player tiles stop the player from walking through them, but allow eggs to pass
Egg tiles do the opposite, allowing the player to walk through but not eggs
Checkpoints
Added checkpoints to the insane levels and the secret level
Holding ALT while resetting a level will reset your checkpoint and bring you to the end of the level
Menu Toys
If you found those secret little egg people that would show up in the main menu when they were collected, those are menu toys
I’ve completely overhauled the system and made it so instead of having to find the secret spots in levels, you can unlock toys by completing all levels in a world
I put so much time into this system because I want it to serve as a sort of achievement system, you will be rewarded with fun menu toys if you complete certain levels or find certain secrets
As of 0.6.0 there is the 3 egg people you can unlock by completing all of the levels in the first 3 worlds, as well as 1 secret toy
I replaced the secret egg people with something new that I haven’t fully implemented but it is worth checking those spots again
New timer settings
Added toggles to show level, world and game timers
With this you can disable world and game timers and only show the level timers
Color blind mode
Threw this together really fast, will definitely improve it in the future
Simply adds unique shapes to the different colored eggs with the goal of differentiating them without their color alone
Normal eggs have nothing, portal eggs have a full circle, sticky eggs have a hollow square, and bouncy eggs (currently unused) have a straight line
Work in progress level progression
Most of the work on this isn’t shown in the game yet as it’s still in progress
The only change added this update is needing to complete every normal level of a world to unlock it’s hard mode, rather than completing every level in the game
Unlocking insane levels is still the same, beat every hard mode level of a world
Unlocking hard mode or an insane level now saves the game so you don’t get the popup a 2nd time
Planning out normal level progression, probably won’t implement until 1.0; you will only be able to play 3 uncompleted levels in a world at a time. If you haven’t done the tutorial for a world you are required to do so, but after you can skip around a little. The next world will also be unlocked if you have 16/20 levels completed. Been thinking about how I’d implement this for a while now since I obviously want the game to be speedrun friendly and this kind of messes with full game runs. If it becomes a problem and people want to run the game while skipping levels I could implement a mini level select that you can open within a level.
Old portal level number changes
portal3 → portal4
portal4 → portal5
portal5 → portal6
portal6 → portal7
portal7 → portal19
Level changes
egg7: remade end, completely remade hard mode
egg9: added 2nd spring to end of level, completely remade end of hard mode
egg10: completely changed end of hard mode
egg13: added walls to prevent from skipping entire level, remade hard mode
egg15: changed hard mode to stop from skipping entire level, kept skip in normal level
key3: tweaked hard mode
key11: lowered the door
portal0: changed positions of eggs
portal7: added arrows pointing to golden egg, made golden egg closer, looks more like an S, added cannons and egg tile to hard mode
sticky1: added small new section at end of level
sticky7: removed spiked in the beginning, added a spring at the end (made easier)
Tiny key changes
Tweaked door opening jump, you will now always be boosted upward if unlocking a door with a key in your mouth while in the air, if you hold DOWN you won’t do a little hop :)
Changed position of key collision when being sucked, this should prevent sucking keys through walls and keys getting stuck in unsuckable positions
Updated controller support
Changed the way controller aiming works, you are now able to grab eggs that are behind other eggs
There’s a cursor controlled by the left stick, the further you hold the left stick the further the cursor is aimed in that direction
Feel like this is the best way to implement controller aiming but it still feels really bad so I’m probably just going to give up on it here lol
Will probably add controller support in the menus at some point but I wouldn’t recommend using a controller to play this game at all
Smaller changes
Tutorial text boxes now show the proper keybinds instead of just the default
Added “save debug times” setting, allows you to toggle whether or not times will save if on debug mode
Made so you can right click to teleport to a portal egg after you’ve shot a different egg, before if you shot a portal egg then any other egg you wouldn’t be able to
Added fps cap option to settings, set to 60 by default, can set to 0 to uncap
Fixed sticky egg jump buffering
Hitting escape on the main menu now gives a prompt to close the game instead of instantly closing it
Turned down volume of cannon & cannonball sounds
Added way to toggle discord rich presence, either go into your savefile and change the “rich_presence” variable under “Settings” to false, or use the “discord” console command, think it was causing a crash on windows 11
0.5.2
Time medals
You can now earn medals based on your level times
You can view the medals in the level select
Medals in order from worst time to best: Green > Silver > Gold > Diamond > Dev
Only visible if timer is enabled
Can also see if a level was completed, and what medal you got for a level, through the pause menu
Death counter
Finally added a death counter!!
Count goes up every death and level reset
Can be toggled in “settings > game > show death count”
Can see level, world, and game deaths
To see level death counts, pause the game during the level
To see world deaths, look in the bottom right of the level select
To see total deaths, open the settings menu
Will figure out where else I can put it but threw it in the pause menu really quickly because I know people have wanted it
Level changes
Egg hard 18: Remade entire level
Key hard 16: Remade entire level
Key 19: Changed position of key
Egg insane: Added cannons
Probably going to remake this entire level at some point but probably not
Key insane: Remade start of level
Egg 13: Removed the crazy ass skip, there’s still a skip in the level I just didn’t like being able to finish the level with a single spring it felt kinda lame
Portal 6: Made easier to complete without early teleporting
Sticky 7: Made easier to complete without early teleporting
Egg hard 13: Added second spring
Egg hard 14: Changed position of golden egg to be closer
Smaller changes
VSYNC SETTING!!
Didn’t even realize this game was just stuck with vsync on for 2 years but it was
Now there’s a toggle in the game settings, right under fullscreen, feels a lot snappier on my dookie butt 60hz monitor crazy I never realized this lmaoo
Cannon shoot & cannonball break sounds now don’t play if they are too far away
Button juice :3c
In the level select the buttons clip out of the box, looking into a way to fix this
Remade tutorial text boxes
Now show key/mouse prompts instead of just saying “w key” or “right click”!! Currently this doesn’t change depending on your custom binds but the groundwork is set up
Text boxes no longer show in hard mode levels
Changed these to set up for localization
Added graphics page to settings
Contains screen shake, fullscreen, and vsync setting
Spring directional influence is stronger
Not sure if this was a well known feature or not but if you’re holding a direction while bouncing on a spring you will be sent more in that direction, made it influence the direction a little more to make it a bit more impactful
Sticky eggs now have a longer reach while going at high speeds
Console now pauses the game when opened
Can now toggle fullscreen even when the game is paused
Timer is now on by default
Settings description box was remade, size should be more consistent
Added spacing to settings tabs
Bug fixes
Fixed restarting level while it’s already restarting, caused screen flickering
Stopped spring from playing the bounce sound multiple times at once, used to play it super loud
Fixed bug where dying and teleporting at the same frame would fling you
