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Full Layers Deep update
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Hello Onions🧅
What changed
- UI and audio
- Gameplay
- Performance
Layers Deep changes
Sorry the updates have not been as frequent. If its ok with you guys I think an update every other month seems more realistic. Sometimes the wheels of industry turn slowly, but we are marching confidently ahead otherwise! If more frequent updates and communication is something you want more of, you can always join our community Discord, Eric and I are pretty active there and tend to answer questions as soon as they arrive.
There's a button on the main menu that'll take you right there in the bottom right corner.
The Great Reconstruction
After making our demo and playtesters playing it for so long, we have been constantly refining systems, controls, and every little inch of the game.
Visual Overhaul
We built all new dev tools to help us make the game way faster!
A big problem Eric and I noticed early on in development was load times were not very favorable. Filling each level with hundreds of sprites added way too much burden on ram. So we've switched almost entirely to tilesets! Now I can stamp hundreds of bushes and rocks everywhere without added any performance hitches!
Ok.... but what about actual gameplay? Anything new there?
Remember that grapple hook we teased?
Well we finally have proper implementation. Were still testing it out and tweaking it to be just right. But there are multiple ways to move with this grapple. You can swing like Spider Man and also Zip to points like Sekiro! 🕷
Well be showing off this feature more in the future, so stay tuned! 😜
Movement Overhaul
The movement has been completely reworked to address player feedback.
We are adding some more things to help you guys test out the new movement and systems. Eric has built new challenge rooms that can be accessed through the main menu. In those rooms we will test new mechanics and platforming. Also... all times will be recorded and displayed in the games UI, so feel free to post your times in the discord! 😅
THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!
Were still in the early days of development, the road ahead is still long. But we have made so much progress and cant wait to keep pushing this game forward. Its because of all of you that we get to live out our dreams of making this game. Every day is an absolute joy. 🧅
ONION ONION ONION ONION ONION
Josh | Tall Order Games
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