Escape From Earth
Escape From Earth Engine Update #1
so we are all alive and not dead yet lol.
We are sorry for the lack of content or major updates but the studio is going throw a very bad patch right now this is why there has been a huge lack of updates and streams from Stefan and the team Click me to find more info about what is going on at the studio.
Know back to this blog post.
If you check the beta tab on escape from earth you will see the engine testing branch. This is a separate build of escape from earth with a brand new collision engine test build along with brand new selected language. This is all heavy beta and testing and the new collision engine might be scrapped if it's not good in our eyes, We would like feedback on it as the moment we are happy and not happy with aspects of it.
Unity update
This might still happen when I have way more time to dig into c# and start learning or mess about more with bolt 2.
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Game Engine Update
Game Engine Update
So most of you will know game maker studio 1 was what escape from earth started in and when game maker studio 2 come out we made the move over as it was not much work to swap over to gms 2 as not much had changed loads. This brought a number of updates to the game along with all new levels and changes to how the game handles and even runned and handled better.
We have made the choice today that we are going to in 2 weeks time to supporting escape from earth game maker edition meaning we will not be doing any updates to it adding new content only bug fix's or fixing major crashes. The unity update will bring a lot of changes to the game along with supporting mac and Linux. The plan we hope in the next couple of weeks will be to release beta access to the new unity game build and when it comes to that time we will post an update.
Yes will be also doing some of alpha 1 things in this update along with removing some things or replacing them but only time will tell. We are looking forward to working on the unity build and move to bring lots of changes. We will post updates lots on the game and process.
Team
DarkNight-Studio
Studio/Game Update
A couple of weeks ago we were verified as a game studio with discord to show we are the real deal along with help to show we are the official studio and place for people to hang out.
There is a possibility of new people to join the small team coder to help speed up work on Escape From Earth along with a level designer to help speed that up and allow us to work on other things to do with the game and not worry about the sections.
We are talks about reducing the price and making a starter DLC/supporter DLC that will get your name in the game's credits along personal message in the game but this is still in talks between me and the team/people who help on the game we might release more on this later but nothing is set in stone.
Upcoming Game DLC
The coming weeks we will be releasing escape from earth first DLC this will continue with the current music for the game along with a couple of other sounds tracks we use and have license/permission to sell.
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Scary Alpha 1 update Road Map
Escape From Earth Alpha 1 is going to be one of the biggest updates we have done to the game so far and below is the plan for this update. There is no time frame on how long this will take as there will be some major changes to how the game works. Yes, there will be a patch to fix any updates in current build along with improvements to the game but no new content added as we would like to focus our time on the big Alpha 1 update.
Skill Trees
You will be able to spend your hard-earned skill points on a number of things from regenerating mana/health to a set number or damage upgrade and power-ups or other things to help you out along your journey.
Level Overhaul
This update we will be adding something 2 dimensional to levels so you can flick between e.g grass view of a level and then press a button and it will swap to snow version and show you hidden areas or ways to cross area you can access. You will need to have Mana to do this and once Mana is used it's gone unless you have the skill to regenerate your Mana over time. If you run out of mana and don't have the upgrade you will have to trade some coins to regenerate it. You can do this from the shop sign at the start of each level.
New Levels
There will be a couple of new levels added to the games these levels are from testing out ideas we had when debugging new ideas along with major edits/changes to older levels people like the feel of.
First Mini-Boss
There will finally be something to fight in Escape From Earth that will give you a challenge and a special reward after you have defeated it.
XP Systems
You can finally earn XP from that annoying ai the just went splat before.
AI Changes
The ai will be a lot more deadly now and take much more health depending on the game mode along with how much health it has in number along with the bar and it will show about how much damage you did jumping on it. You can do more damage if you have chosen to upgrade it.
Graphics
New Menu Graphics
Better planet Graphics
New Grass Tile Set
Better Tutorial
The tutorial level is going to be deleted and remade completely to make it a much better experience to play along with being able to replay the voice/see the text again if you’re stuck.
More Languages
If you played Escape From Earth you will know about our Super, Organised, Personal, Hyper, Intelligent, Assistant aka Sophia. So Sophia come about from me and a developer joking about Siri and Amazon Alexa being ai voice on devices and we should add one to the game. So a couple of months ago I ask caz a friend of the studio to record Super, Organised, Personal, Hyper, Intelligent, Assistant but you can call me Sophia and some other things for the tutorial level. This update will add more of Sophia voice to the game along with her talking you through the tutorial. At the moment we only have plans to do this for English unless we can find some people speaking the languages below to do it for free or cheap. They might have voice support in the future.
English (Voice Yes)
Portuguese (voice n/a)
Spanish (voice n/a)
French (voice n/a)
German (voice n/a)
These things might come in this update but there are not confirmed. There just some of the long list of things we have talked about maybe adding in this update but alpha 1 is going to be huge update it's self. If you see e.g 1.2.5G or something in the game these are just used for version control :).
New Menu
Better Audio
More Sound Tracks
More Levels
New Game Modes
New Aliens
New Planet Graphics
New Dialogue System
Tablet Shop
More AI
Description for stuff
Power-ups