Freedom Planet
Turbocharged PC/Mac/Linux Version Now In Beta!
To try out the new builds, right click the game in your Steam library and select Properties. Click the BETAS tab and choose the Beta branch. The version of the game that's appropriate for your operating system should download automagically.
If everything checks out, we'll push all of the new versions live in a few days. Enjoy!
Gallery Update! (1.20.2 Notes)
Changes
- You can now open the cards you've collected in the Gallery! Select any card and press A to open it, and it will reveal either a music track, sound effect or character sketch. Press A again to play/view the unlocked content. There are some cards that are "locked" until you complete the game once, to avoid musical spoilers.
- A short cutscene has been added to explain how Lilac, Carol and Milla escape from the royal palace.
- Added a hidden area to the top of Aqua Tunnel's first map.
- Milla's swimming animation has been updated to look less like her running animation. (Thanks to r543 for the base sprites)
- Copyright info and credits have been updated.
Fixes
- (Attempted) Invincibility music playing in cutscenes on rare occasions
- In Dragon Valley, collecting a 1up or Invincibility crystal and then traveling to the next map before the 1up/invincibility music ends would result in no music being played on the following map
- (Attempted) Relic Maze's boss would rarely keeps its red eyes after recovering from a hit, allowing it to be hit again without destroying the arms
- On rare occasions, Stinger Nests in Pangu Lagoon would explode endlessly after being defeated
- Pausing and unpausing during the cutscene right after Sky Battalion would cause the camera to pan right
- Collecting a 1up in the Final Dreadnought maps, or anywhere the 1up theme is not supposed to play (such as certain boss battles) while the invincibility music is playing would cause the music to play indefinitely
- Skipping the ending through the pause menu would bring you back to Final Dreadnought 2
- Dying in a completed save file will no longer cause your death counter to rise
- The shadow on Lilac's cursor in the Mahjong minigame was incorrect
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1.15.5 Update Notes
Changes
- You can now drop straight down from a ladder by holding Down while pressing Jump.
- When starting a new game, short descriptions of each gameplay mode (Adventure and Classic) now appear in the file box.
- The Difficulty setting has been added to the file select screen.
- Removed the rightmost Slime enemy in the final blue hallway of Final Dreadnought 2's first map.
- The DNA Cannon near the first keycard of Final Dreadnought 3 has been replaced with a second Bubblorbiter, primarily because it was unintentionally firing at the player through the loop to the left.
- A few enemy formations in Final Dreadnought 4 have been thinned out, particularly in the giant laser room.
- If you have the soundtrack DLC, this adds the missing Invincibility track.
Fixes
- Changing the music volume in the Options menu will now immediately update the volume of the menu music
- Pressing B to exit the Options menu should work now
- Music volume now properly saves on exit
- The Achievements in the gallery weren't lining up properly when B was pressed to return to the top of the page
- Highlighting Return in the Gallery if you pressed A on the category selection would automatically return you to the title screen
- Milla's "get back up" animation on the Game Over screen has been properly shaded
- In the rainy section of Jade Creek, the hovercraft's ice missile could be reflect by Milla before it hits Neera, preventing the cutscene from completing and forcing players to restart
- The camera would go outside the stage boundaries in the first map of Trap Hideout when pausing and resuming the game
- Thermal Base's header was displaying "Stage 6" for Carol and Milla even though this is their 7th stage
- In Battle Glacier, Milla can no longer fly beyond the top of the screen while riding the Sparky mount
- The second sliding platform in Final Dreadnought 1 will now have its positions reset when the player uses a teleporter to prevent zipping abuse
- During Final Dreadnought 2's boss cutscene, the camera will now move downwards if it's too high
- Final Dreadnought 2's boss can no longer be damaged after it is defeated
- The requirements for the No Death, Speedrunner and Gem Hoarder achievements were being checked in the red hallway of Final Dreadnought 4 rather than when Brevon is defeated
- Filled in a gap in the wall in Final Dreadnought 2's lift section (right before the boss hallway) where the player could get stuck
Freedom Planet OST on Bandcamp!
http://galaxytrail.bandcamp.com/album/freedom-planet-official-soundtrack
We've provided every song in the game at lossless CD quality along with a number of unique bonus and unused tracks. You can grab individual tracks at your leisure or purchase the full 71-track set for $10. We hope you guys enjoy the beautifully crafted music that Woofle, Strife, BlueWarrior and Dawn helped create for this game!
We've Launched!
After three years of hard work, the first release of Freedom Planet is now availabe for purchase on Steam! A great big THANK YOU to all of our fans who helped us make it this far!
We still have a lot of plans for the game, but hey, what are you waiting for? Help us fight off Lord Brevon and his army of shade troopers!
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Once again, we thank you all for helping us completely transform this game from a small retro experiment into an explosive full-fledged indie adventure!
We are not completely done, of course! We still plenty of plans for the game and we'll keep you posted on those after launch fever has calmed down. Until then, go ahead and play! For Freedom!
We launch on Monday!
We wanted to get the game up on Steam today, but, sadly, we have just learned that Steam does not release games on weekends. So although everything's good to go for our launch, we'll have to wait until Monday for our storefront to update. Hang in there for just a bit longer, folks!
What To Expect
The launch version of Freedom Planet will include the content that we had initially planned for the game. You'll be able to play Adventure mode as Lilac and Carol, and Classic mode as Lilac, Carol or Milla (when she is unlocked). There are a multitude of different achievements to collect, as well! Once launch fever settles down, we'll get started on expansion content that includes the remaining two characters, Milla in Adventure mode, and more.
The first couple of weeks after launch, we'll be keeping a sharp eye on our community and dishing out patches to fix whatever issues may crop up. Our testers have been super awesome at helping us, but there are some things that can only be discovered and tweaked if we have thousands of people playing the game at once.
Freedom Planet is our first nosedive into the gaming industry, and rest assured, we're 100% devoted to making sure things go well. We thank you infinitely for your patience with us over the past few years, and we're eager to finally share our game with the world!
Final Release Date Change - July 19th
We have decided to postpone our release by two and a half weeks. Our final release date is Saturday, July 19th. We're quite sorry about this and we understand that not everyone is going to be happy about it, but we think it's for the best considering all of the stuff that's going on in the next few weeks.
Our biggest reason for this delay is, quite simply, Steam summer sales. If we released at the end of this month, not only would Freedom Planet be drowned out by the huge selection of discounted games on Steam, but the huge amount of traffic would make it hard for players to load our storefront. Not only that, but we're sure that many of our outside fans will be emptying their wallets during the sale, so we hope that waiting a little longer will give them a fair chance to save up again. (In case anyone is curious, the retail version of Freedom Planet will be $14.99. We think this price is fair considering the amount of content and soul we've put into it. This and the fact that we skipped over going on sale was done out of respect to our backers who have been so patient with us since the beginning.)
Entire articles have been written about why releasing an indie game in the heat of summer sales is suicidal. We're quite bummed out that we didn't anticipate this, and we're relieved that we caught ourselves before disaster struck. We'll take it as a lesson learned for next time, and we really hope that other indie developers don't make this critical mistake!
Another big reason for this delay is, of course, Florida Supercon. Our trip to Miami is going to give us a valueble chance to see people playing the game in person. For the first time ever, we'll be able to get real-time feedback from a large number of players, and it would be silly of us not to take advantage of it to help make our game as polished as it can be. (On a side note, if we released at the end of June, we'd be flying off to the convention right as the game launched and would be unable to manage any problems that come up until we returned. Whoops!)
Thank you for reading, and we'll keep you informed on our progress. With all the stages complete and the cutscenes coming along smoothly, we'll be pumping out new trailers, screenshots and gameplay footage very soon!
Freedom Planet Teespring Campaign!
Freedom Planet t-shirts are now available on Teespring for a limited time! Each shirt is adorned with full-color digital prints of the three main heroines as drawn by Kiwiggle. She has graciously allowed us to feature her artwork on the shirts. :)
The way Teespring works is that we have to sell a certain number of shirts in one month. If we meet our target, the shirts get passed out; Otherwise, nothing.
In our case, we'll need to sell 100 shirts by the game's release date on June 30th. Help us out by spreading the word! And of course, if you feel like buying one yourself, that's a big help too. ^_~
>> Click here to check out our Teespring page! <<