What's up Pixelmancer fans, Gem here and welcome to update 0.49!
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- Enemies are now aggroed when below max health - Anima can now pick up soulstones (Soulstones are on the lowest priorities for Anima) - Added a dedicated layer order system (This a new system to prioritise the order of sprites to appear, for example Pet and Player graves will always be displayed on top of enemy graves, your aim cursor will always appear on top etc) - Added rain effect to Tier 2 world (Dark Forest)
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I've been wanting to add some sort of rain effect to Dark Forest as that was my initial vision for the world, however I didn't know how I should've implemented such a system without being heavy on the performance and to look decent but thankfully I recently learned how to make a particle system and then remembered maybe I could use this to make the rain effect without tanking performance as I originally envisioned
Pixelmancer Update 0.48 - Quality Of Life Changes From Community Feedbacks
What's up Pixelmancer fans, Gem here and welcome to update 0.48!
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- Changed explosion effect to the new particle system - Added sound to Stadie's fireball - Changed Novacast explosion to blue - Added the rest of the re-design of menu buttons - Added increase view distance feature in setting (This was added as a community request, please note that the game is designed with 0% view distance, any changes to view distance may have unforeseen issues) - Added visual indicator when Soul Hunter spawns - Added an effect when collecting soulstones - Changed victory text to "Level Completed" - Audio settings now save (For some existing players, you may need to re-apply your audio settings once more) - Improved start up speeds for first time players
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View distance (Zooming out) was one of the biggest community requests I've received and it was no easy task to do as a fully 2D game there is no such thing as "Zooming out". It's just an illusion effect of scaling down sprites on the screen
I've had a lot of positive feedback regarding the new particle system and I've been slowly adding more and replacing some sprites with particles
One recent feedback I received was adding a visual indicator when the Soul Hunter spawns, so now your Pixelmancer will visually "say" something when the Soul Hunter appears
IMPORTANT PLEASE READ - Regarding your save progress
If you have already been playing the game after 17th October (Patch 0.44) then you can ignore this entire post
What's Going on?
- If you haven't logged into the game since 17th October (Patch 0.44) then you will lose your save progress after 26th November
Why?
- Patch 0.44 introduced a new save system which works far better than the old for many reasons including speed, low file size and performance. However the old save system is still in the codes and causes issues with loading times. The reason the old save system is still in the codes is because if you login after patch 0.44 then your old save system gets converted to the new save system
What do I need to do?
- Make sure you have launched the game at least once after patch 0.44 (Between 17th October and 25th November) and just quickly go to settings or upgrade menu and go back to the main menu to ensure the auto save function has kicked in for the new save system
Pixelmancer Update 0.47 - Anima Pet Army, New Particle Effects & Ability Wheel!
What's up Pixelmancer fans, Gem here and welcome to update 0.47!
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- Added Ability Wheel (Anima is the first ability in the game) - Added Anima pet (Anima can be raised from the dead, more gravestones means more Anima pets fighting for you) - Added beautiful particle effects to the fireball and pixelstaff, also Stadie's fireball! :D (This will make the game look more colorful and pretty for your eye balls) - Re-designed Fireball Range upgrade icon - Updated all Steam achievements to new design - Fixed player facing left direction when letting go of L3 on the controller - Increased menu transition speed for faster navigation - Changed weapon wheel from HUD to game world - Improved hitbox for Soul Hunter - Removed the very small health regen from pets (This feature was always added as a placeholder and part of troubleshooting the health system, there will be new ways of healing your pets in the future) - Fixed key displays for Pixie Reborn in menu - Added key displays for Weapon Wheel in menu - Optimised the game to use less memory and also increased loading times - Improved input latency on Steam Deck
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This update is a big one! I've had the idea to add Anima since I added gravestones before early-access launch, I'm excited that it's finally here, you can now feel much stronger with your pet army taking over the enemy lands
While working on this update, I thought I'd take the time to expand on the particle effects, I hope you like the new particle effects for the weapons and also Stadie's fireball. During a big fight it just looks like colourful fireworks being exploded on your screen and I personally think it looks great! Hope you will think so too
Pixelmancer Update 0.46 - Soul Mastery Feature!
What's up Pixelmancer fans, Gem here and welcome to update 0.46!
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- Added Soul Mastery feature! (Defeat X amount of enemies to increase your Luckstones) - Added Luckstones (Luckstones is basically your luck level (Yellow gems), the higher your Luckstone the higher the chance for Soulstones to drop) - Added tips in the menu - Changed Novacast description - Re-adjusted the Soulstone icon on upgrade button (It was off-centre and it was triggering my OCD lol) - Added 15 Steam Achievements - Increased fire rate for Novacast - Fixed the out of mana indicator for Novacast
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Soul Mastery is here! I've had quite a few requests to increase the drop rate of Soulstones but I had a feature planned where you can play to increase your Soulstone drop rate. Introducing a new gem called "Luckstones" which can be increased through the Soul Mastery system
I was expecting this update to go live next weekend as I thought it would take longer than expected, I surprised myself that I had already finished working on the update today and added a bunch of quality of life changes and bug fixes on the way
What's up Pixelmancer fans, Gem here and welcome to update 0.44!
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- New weapon wheel system (Hold L2 or TAB key) - Novacast (New Weapon!) - Most of the menu interface re-designed
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This update took a while to develop because I also needed to develop a weapon selection system. While developing Novacast and the weapon wheel system, I also felt the need to re-design the menu and categorise the unlocks, I hope you like the new design
For my next update, I will be working in the background to change the steam achievement icons, they look good now already but I ended up creating what I think is slightly a better design
As for the next game version update, I will be working on a new luck system - the idea is that you can increase your soulstone drop rate by playing the game
Pixelmancer Update 0.44 - New Save & Load System
What's up Pixelmancer fans, Gem here and welcome to update 0.44!
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- Completely re-designed the save & load system from scratch for better
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I had to re-design the save & load system due to issues with the previous one, the previous saving system would keep old codes that were changed or removed and cause issues with new updates. The new save & load system works better and much faster and has much lower file size which improves Steam Cloud's upload speed and also cause less issues with sync
IMPORTANT PLEASE READ - The first time you launch the new update, you will be on a white screen for about 5 seconds, this is normal as it's converting the old save to the new save. On your second game launch the game will launch faster as it'll be on the new save system. I've tested the new save system many times with every condition I could think of and its working, you shouldn't lose your save but I deeply apologise if the save converter failed and you lost your save
Pixelmancer Update 0.43
What's up Pixelmancer fans, Gem here and welcome to update 0.43!
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- Re-designed the menu background - Soul Hunter achievement should now work better (Soul Hunter must hit you to get the achievement) - Increased Soul Hunter spawn audio - Added more Steam achievements - Added a gold effect for maxed out upgrades - Removed "Max" text from maxed out upgrades - Fixed paused bug in main menu - Health for enemies and pets are hidden until taken damage
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Hope you like the new menu designs with the juicy golden look for maxing out the upgrades :)
Pixelmancer Update 0.42
What's up Pixelmancer fans, Gem here and welcome to update 0.42!
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- Added over 30 Steam achievements! - Fixed bug with Pixie's gravestone icons appearing incorrectly - Added Soul Hunter zerg rush (I wouldn't stay after defeating a Soul Hunter the 3rd time) - Pixie has more aggro than Stadie now - Re-adjusted the upgrade menu to fit the text on screen
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I didn't realise how much time consuming adding Steam achievements were, I spent majority of yesterday on working on this update haha
I still plan to constantly add more Steam achievements from time to time
If you have any feedback or suggestions you can contact me through the Steam forums (Community Hub)
Pixelmancer Update 0.41
What's up Pixelmancer fans, Gem here and welcome to update 0.41!
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- Aim cursor no longer aims to the right when not touching R3 on controller - Cursor starts towards the middle of the screen when using the controller - Added more Steam achievements - Going back to menu is now instant - Improved menu transition smoothness for 60hz displays - Improved gameplay camera transition smoothness for 60hz displays
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- Fixed a few save file loading issues
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Pixelmancer has only been live for 12 hours and I've already received good feedback from the fans, I started working on this update the moment I woke up :D
The biggest request I've received so far is wanting more Steam achievements, I've added a few more achievements with todays update and will focus on bringing more Steam achievements this week including the ones for player upgrades
