SKY DRILL - Release Day Patch Notes

Happy release day!

I'll keep this short: It feels surreal to finally release my own project on Steam. To everyone who's wishlisted and contributed to the game in any way during development: Thank you. I hope you all have fun playing my game.

If any of you have feedback or want to contact me directly for any reason, please send me an email at jacob47skyhigh@gmail.com. Or, join the discord here. Any sort of communication is welcome!

Alright, that's all. Here's the release notes:

Patch notes TL;DR - 3 new characters, new badges, new roguelike endless mechanic (mini shops), drag and drop inventory, plethora of item reworks.

General Changelog

• Replaced lvl 85 floor with new "mini shop"

  • Every 100 floors after the 85th floors, spend boost coins to purchase items during a run.

  • Cost of the item is determined by rarity, and only items you have unlocked can show up here

• Replaced inventory system with new drag and drop system

  • Inventory and equip belt is now slot based. Experiment with this in-game and let me know what you think!

  • Rearrange items easily with drag and drop. Right click to quick-swap equipment from your inventory to your equipment belt.

• Added 3 new characters, each with their own gameplay quirks

  • Honed

  • Scribbler

  • Sky Guy

  • To unlock these characters, complete the relevant badges. Speaking of which...

• Added 4 new badges, and reworked the rewards for almost every badge

• Added donut equipment item (replaced silver cat)

• Added gloves equipment item (replaced voucher)

• Replaced old tutorials with completely unmissable and mandatory tutorials.

• Removed a massive amount of bloat that was causing the project to be significantly larger than it should have been (windows version is down to 164 after 256MB... yikes)

• Refactored the way the game saves.

  • Consequently, older demo saves will not work anymore. However, this is for the best since the game's balance has changed; restarting should feel good here.

• Slightly reworked mochi equipment.

• Added a "restock" tooltip to the restock bell in the shop

• Revised the opening sequence of the game

  • seagull capitalism

• Removed boost coins as a treasure

  • Instead of acquring boost coins as treasures, they now function as in-run currency.

• Updated shop manual

• Moved UI Toast to top of screen

• Added"overflow"slots to the new equipment system

  • Overflow slots are created whenever your equipment exceeds your current slots. After a run ends, you must unequip these slots before starting another.

• Adjusted the prices of almost every item in the game

• Adjusted treasure prices. Most smaller treasures have been nerfed, but bigger ones received a slight buff.

• Added way more treasure past 2000+ depth.

• Buffed The Wizard.

• Updated badge icons (finally)

• Added custom cursor (Kenney's 2D cursor pack)

• Added a load screen with simple diamond splash

• Revised ready ring sprite

• Revised shop visuals

• Revised special shop visuals

• Experimenting with a new style for the UI ( see mini shop ). Let me know what you think.