I completed Rooftop Cop a year ago this month and during that time it was featured at a number of festivals and garnered some nice attention from different publications and the like. It even got two IGF nominations which I still feel funny about!
Anyway there were always a few things here and there that irked me and as much as I tried to not let it bother me it always kept nagging at me. SO! This update address those things, which weren't huge, but I feel much better about the whole project in general now which feels really good. Thanks to everyone who has taken a chance on this game and sent messages or said hi, it's not easy to find a place for something like this on Steam -- yall are the best!
Here is a list of changes, which is more-or-less comprehensive:
MENUS
- title splash updated, loads faster
- individual games' splash screens all updated
- transitions are even more neat now
PART 1
- attempting any action is more clear, via animation
- collected citations and current deficit are separate and tallied together each time the timer runs out
- citizens now have income
- citizens may now commit more and different small "crimes", like loitering and littering
- you may now "watch" a citizen
- assigning citations, placing fences, and watching are now separate tools
- citizens sometimes don't pay citations
- bunch of graphics updates
PART 2
- unintended slowness reduced (4000+ physics objects...)
- intended slowness retained :)
PART 3
- some graphic/sound fixes and updates
PART 4
- now persistent within a session, can leave and come back
- debris more frequent and is less cruel about its distance from the raft
- birds blink less often
- individuals are generally more content
PART 5
- now persistent within a session, can leave and come back
- sticks near water are wet