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Quadrablaze

Workshop Is Going Away
To help simplify the process of development I've decided to suspend the use of Workshop for Quadrablaze. There were some things I foresee causing issues in the future if I kept it going, such as custom ship file size limits and moderation. I don't have anything in place to limit the size of ships being sent over the network and if the Workshop became popular I'd have no way of moderating it. I could put in a place a file size limit but it would just be a random number that I make up. I could also add an option to toggle off syncing custom ships. That would complicate the code quite a bit and it makes more sense at this point to simplify things instead.

So, I'm removing the ability to see the Workshop. Custom ships should still work in the current version of the game but trying to upload them to the Workshop may give an error. When Update 7 rolls out, all of the in-game Workshop and Custom Ship features will be removed.

I'll be working on more ships to add to the game once I'm finished working on other features. First, though, I plan on testing having a user profile system. It will save and load user settings and presets based on your Steam Account instead of reusing the same save folders/files for everyone.

Going free
First things first, I'm going to be making Quadrablaze free soon!

What's the hold up?


I'm still working on Update 7 when I have time. Between having a full-time job, another game project (or two), house/yard work, and other hobbies, my time is quite split. I still enjoy game development so I don't plan on giving it up any time soon!

Update 7


For Update 7 I've been working on updating the health and weapon systems so that they're easier to modify and code for. That's mostly done, I just have to test to make sure the player, enemies, and multiplayer are still working properly with all the new changes. Then I can start adding in some different weapons!

After that, I'll work on adding in a game mode with an end-goal and some progression outside of doing matches. That progression might include getting special weapons, cosmetics, and possibly ships if that ends up making sense when the time comes.

For current users


For the those of you who own Quadrablaze before it becomes free, I'd like to do something special for you in-game. I still have to research how it'll need to be done but I'll look into adding in some special weapons and/or cosmetic items for those of you who got in early!

Alpha 6.1e

Changes



  • Feedback menu should now send a copy of your Player.log instead of output_log.txt with each submission
  • Switched Rewired's input method to use SDL2 instead of RawInput in Unity
  • An experimental GameGoal script was enabled, which was set to show that you've "won" after defeating one boss, and is now disabled. Oops! It was only there for testing.

Update Alpha 6

Alpha 6


Changes



  • Alpha 6.13-6.14

    • All ability upgrades now have 6 tiers each. Some abilities have been redone (ex. Respawn ability works on a timed cooldown instead of being a one-time use ability).
    • Tier 4 Dasher enemies (the blue ones that teleport) have been made easier to deal with and should no longer damage you upon teleporting on top of you
    • Camera shake strength slider in the Game options tab
    • Bug fixes and internal enemy database storage change

  • Alpha 6.10-6.12

    • Removed difficulty options
    • New player/enemy movement physics
    • Multiplayer host can now kick other players out while in the lobby menu
    • Added prompt that shows when attempting to go back to the Main Menu during a round
    • Added a note in the Feedback Menu that usernames will uploaded when submitting bug/suggestions (username is included to give credit to the person uploading it)
    • Default controller Left Stick X axis was bound to the Ability Wheel for some reason (I bet a ghost did it)
    • Fixed the XP collection acting derpy
    • Fixed Dash ability movement
    • Other assorted fixes and additions

  • Alpha 6.09

    • Ability wheel and cooldown bar hotkey icons now properly reflect the correct hotkeys they are assigned to

  • Alpha 6.08

    • Fixed the SharpBody ability insta-killing the TriClone boss. It now checks if you're touching a boss's hit spots to do damage instead of their whole body.

  • Alpha 6.07

    • Fixed upgrades not being removed upon finishing the match
    • Health now goes up by 1 every 5 levels. (ex. Level 5 = 6 Health. Level 10 = 7 Health...)

  • Alpha 6.05

    • Main menu background
    • Projectile damage is now set (big oopsies!)
    • Title disappears immediately upon pressing a menu button


Note

The menu navigation on controller (and with keyboard arrow keys) may not function as intended. Sometimes buttons aren't automatically highlighted in some menus which prevents directional navigation. The mouse will be required in order to re-highlight the menu buttons. In some menus, pressing the menu cancel/back button on the controller (such as the B button on the Xbox controller) will cause you to change menus at unintended times such as when in prompts or dropdown sub-menus. I'll have to look into this later and fix the menu system.

Alpha 6.10-6.12 Updates

Changes



  • All ability upgrades now have 6 tiers each. Some abilities have been redone (ex. Respawn ability works on a timed cooldown instead of being a one-time use ability).
  • Tier 4 Dasher enemies (the blue ones that teleport) have been made easier to deal with and should no longer damage you upon teleporting on top of you
  • Camera shake strength slider in the Game options tab
  • Bug fixes and internal enemy database storage change

Alpha 6.09 Update

Changes



  • Alpha 6.09

    • Ability wheel and cooldown bar hotkey icons now properly reflect the correct hotkeys they are assigned to

  • Alpha 6.08

    • Fixed the SharpBody ability insta-killing the TriClone boss. It now checks if you're touching a boss's hit spots to do damage instead of their whole body.

  • Alpha 6.07

    • Fixed upgrades not being removed upon finishing the match
    • Health now goes up by 1 every 5 levels. (ex. Level 5 = 6 Health. Level 10 = 7 Health...)

  • Alpha 6.05

    • Main menu background
    • Projectile damage is now set (big oopsies!)
    • Title disappears immediately upon pressing a menu button

Update Alpha 5.22
It's finally ready. Can still use some bug fixes here and there, but the most important part is that you can play Quadrablaze with friends!

Multiplayer Features

  • Host a Peer2Peer lobby with privacy options
  • Invite friends from within the game (opens up Steam overlay)
  • Search for public lobbies (only shows lobbies with the same game version)
  • Automatically syncs custom ships and colors
  • Quick Match tries to find any available match or starts up a new lobby


Known Issues

  • Starting a second round may result in extra bugs. When one enemy bug starts, it generally snowballs and breaks other unrelated enemies. If you find that enemies don't act quite right, you may have to restart the game.
  • Deformer (enemy that drains your shields) animations may not play on clientside but will look fine for host
  • Higher tier Exploder (red enemy with blaze ability) can be instantly destroyed when running into them. Gotta disable that later.

Keep up to date

More multiplayer progress #3
This may be the second-to-last update before I take it out of the multiplayer_test beta branch. Afterwards I'll start working on more abilities and weapons. Also more enemies will be added afterwards.

Changes



  • New internal ability/weapon code to make it easier to create new ones!
  • The red explosive enemies now do damage to anything nearby instead of just who touched them
  • Enemies spawn in random locations around the arena instead of in a clockwise loop
  • Free Trinity boss spawns outside of the arena

More multiplayer progress #2
Another step further to completing the multiplayer side of the game. Of course, more game features will be added afterwards and bugs will still be present.

Multiplayer features added to the multiplayer_testing beta branch

  • Lobby searching
  • Lobby privacy settings
  • Spectate players after you die
  • Game quits back to the lobby after everyone is dead (possible bugs added here)
  • Nametags above players' ships
  • Made adjustments to how custom ships are uploaded and imported. It now uses json to store data instead of xml.
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