Major Update 1.7.0

Brave Escape — Update 1.7

Features

Bonus Levels

All 7 worlds now include 10 Bonus Levels each, unlocked by collecting the world's green ram.

• 5 worlds have been restructured - Serpent's Hollow, Thunder Ridge, Moai Chambers, Glooming Depths, and Glacial Falls. 5 existing levels from each have been moved into the Bonus category, and 5 brand new levels have been added.

• The remaining 2 worlds have received 10 brand new Bonus Levels added directly.

• 45 new levels in total. 70 Bonus Levels across the game.

• Secret Levels and Red RAM are now available in Easy difficulty.

Battle for the Habitats

Brave Escape is participating in Battle for the Habitats, a global games event running from Earth Day (April 22) to World Environment Day (June 5). The event spans 100+ games with a goal of raising $1 million for the Rainforest Alliance and Oceana. As part of the event, two free exclusive character skins have been added:

1. Cockatoo skin — inspired by Cookie, one of the event's hero animals.

2. Dugong skin — inspired by Dougie, one of the event's hero animals.

Max FPS

• You can now configure the maximum FPS the game renders at.

• Options: 60, 120, 240, or Off (uncapped)

• To uncap FPS: set [c]Vsync=Off[/c] and [c]MaxFrameRate=Off[/c]

• For true Vsync: set [c]Vsync=On[/c] and [c]MaxFrameRate=Off[/c]

Improvements

Difficulty Renaming

To better reflect the intended experience of each mode, we’ve renamed our difficulties to Standard and Brave. We believe these titles provide a clearer picture of the challenge ahead. This change is purely cosmetic and has no impact on actual gameplay.

• Standard (formerly Casual)

• Brave (formerly Standard):

Outlines and Transparency

• Colin and Floyd can now be configured to display an outline when they overlap each other. These outlines can also be configured to always appear.

• Colin can be configured to appear transparent when overlapping Floyd.

Audio

• Added a 3.. 2.. 1.. countdown sound effect.

• Upgraded FMOD to 2.03.12.

Design

General

• New title screen (let there be light... and animations).

• Improved UI throughout title screen.

• Added more detail sprites to world select room.

• Created new icons to represent event characters for tutorials.

• Improved the Prologue; refined art and added animations.

• Improved ground and background tile sprite colors and variation for all caves.

• Improved inner tiles of all ground tiles.

• Improved lighting from torches in all caves.

• Improved end of level flag animation in all caves.

• Added colors to pressure plate sprite arrows in all caves.

• Added torch light flicker to several caves.

• Added ambient plant movement to most caves and made them interactable.

• Improved tutorial signs for Snake, Moai, and Drone events.

• Increased contrast in Colin's face.

Ancient Cave

• Improved moving ground tiles in Ancient Cave.

• Improved background colors and contrast.

• Added particles to the Ancient Cave torches and made them interactable.

• Adjusted the background parallax speed in the Ancient Cave.

Glacial Falls

• Improved floating iceberg sprite.

• Revised background.

• Added charging sign sprite to charging stations.

• Added wind particles to Drone.

• Added idle particles to Wind Tunnels.

• Increased the number of snow particles.

Glooming Depths

• Improved background; added and refined details.

• Added a surface animation when landing on Switch Platforms.

Moai Chambers

• Improved spawn indicators for Fireballs and Geysers.

• Improved color for all lava sprites and their frozen counterparts.

• Improved lava pool light.

• Improved colors of background.

• Improved moving ground tiles.

• Improved lava spawner sprites.

Thunder Ridge

• Improved power source sprite.

• Added more foreground/background details with plants.

Serpent's Hollow

• New background.

• Improved