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Space Bandit

Releasing on the 29th of July!!
Yo! Space Bandit will be releasing on Friday, the 29th of July!
Can't wait for people to finally play this.

Also, it's going to be on a big Early Access discount so don't miss out on it!

Let's play with Dev
Come watch me play :)

Let's play with developer 👷
Come watch me break down the best features of Space Bandit: the best hardcore top down shooter set in space made by me this NextFest!

🏆 Daily Leaderboards, 💀 New Boss & ✨ Optimizations
A few people requested Daily Leaderboards so am giving the people what they want. Scores are measured by the max level reached + max kill streak (you'll notice your max kill streak is now part of the game over screen). Time isn't a factor in the score as I'd like to give people time to plan their attack.

This update also brings a new boss at the end of Zone 1 to mix things up. He's pretty easy to beat once you know how (I hate bosses you have to grind). You can even buy his super weapon in the shop (if you can afford it).

Lastly, the update optimizes how particle effects work so older systems shouldn't see frame rate dips during large gun fights.

Enjoy :)

⛲🐛 Some feature suggestions from community & bug fixes
- Added a slider for cross hair radius when using controller.
- Adding tool tips in pause menu to explain gun/item mechanics.
- Added feature where player swaps similar guns that have more ammo automatically.
- Added a kill streak counter.
- Removed virtual cursor with axis stick.
- Fixed bug where trigger could rebind to negative motion.
- Fixed infinite slow mo glitch.

Big controller support patch 🎮🩹
Thanks to everyone who's tried the demo so far.
While the response so far has been great, I'm getting a lot of feedback suggesting the controller support needs some love. So that's exactly what the first patch does 😎

Thanks and if you have any suggestion, jump on the discord and ping me: https://discord.gg/VzYpD6r


Changes:
- Added analog precision when moving with left controller axis stick.
- Added a push force when rounding wall edges to make movement smoother on controller.
- Teleport destination now controlled by same bindings as movement.
- Teleport now flashes the teleport binding.
- Fixed bug where keyboard bindings would sometimes be shown in prompts when using controller in tutorial.
- Fixed bug where Pause menu was shown on right trigger.
- Zone 2-1 now a little easier.

Space Bandit Demo OUT NOW!
I've entered the Space Bandit demo into this June's Steam Next Fest... but figured why not release it early for all those people waiting for it :)

Some small fixes from demo feedback : )
- Made cursor icon bigger.
- Guns now bounces always(instead of only after thrown) to be more visible.
- Hint messages now are only shown once to the player.
- Added melee to controls cheat sheet.
- Other small bug fixes.

No more loading!
By popular demand, loading between deaths is now gone. Enjoy and thanks for the feedback everybody.

Space Bandit stream with developer 🔫👨🔫
Do you like glorious pixel art gore?? Come watch me commit Space crime today!!!

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