It’s been a minute! Happy new year, everybody. I hope this one is going better for you than the last one. After a brief hiatus to recharge and celebrate the holidays, we’re back on with some updates. A lot of work has gone into assets for the new “ice world” that will become the setting for Act 2. In addition, the leaderboard server is now live. I’m new to running a game server so please bear with me as I work out the bugs – please let me know if you run into any issues!

New and updated:

• Polished up nice looking icy asteroids
• Added ice asteroids near icy cave walls
• Added sound effect for bullet impacts on ice walls
• New theme-based dust particles for icy blue cave walls
• Added dust poof when player explodes on a wall
• New ice blue wall theme
• Added scanlines to the ghost shader
• Show random astronaut dialog when no dialog has been connected in the level editor
• Improved laser animation so that the player can better see when lasers are about to turn on
• Added username prompt on gameover screen
• Improved the look of the 3D planet hologram in the level chooser
• Added basic sound effect when reactor and player beam out at the end of the level
• Added “how to play” tips to letterbox at level transitions

Fixes:

• Fixed leaderboard configuration
• Fixed dust poofs when the player dies
• Fixed rounding error in time
• Fixed letterbox flashing on before it fades in
• Fixed game losing focus and pausing when using PrtSc for screenshots