Major Early Access Update - World 3 Levels Done!

Though it's been a while since our last update we've been hard at work. This one took a little longer to put together but it's also the largest update since entering Early Access. Here's the notes.

GAMEPLAY

• Added ability to deflect bullets - deflected bullets will kill enemies

• On "Babushka" (Easy) Difficulty when a character is hit if they are powered up they will lose the power but stay alive. If they are hit again without powering up first they will die.

• Tweaked simming

• Applied terminal velocity upward so wind and waterspouts can only launch players a limited height

• Re-Implemented "gap runs" - walking will allow crossing a 1-tile gap, and running will allow crossing a 2-tile gap

• Reduced effect of bouncing off of pig enemies

• Rifle pigs will no longer charge through hotspots that would otherwise cause them to reverse

• Smart bombs now stop and flash near the player, and their explosion can now detonate other nearby smart bombs

• Updated spike trap object to be able to face any direction

• Removed level names (levels will be named 1-1, 1-2, etc)

• Updated some object soundss (Wind, Watersputs, Bullet Ricochet, etc) to not play when off-screen

• Removed unused object behind the scenes that was causing unnecessary errors to be reported

• Stopped some unecessary error reporting

• Fixed handling of players and player characters around death and respawn

• Fixed several problems related to hanlding co-op play

• Fixed signs and their prompts not responding to the player who used them

• Fixed character animation bug around death

• Fixed character animation bugs around swimming

• Fixed character animation bugs involving incorrect arm frames

• Fixed flying and swimming enemies ignoring the "Reverse All" hotspot

• Fixed level editor issue where objects couldn't be clicked (moved or erased)

LEVELS

• Added Home

• Added level 3-3

• Added level 3-4

• Added level 3-5

• Added level 3-6

• Added level 3-7

• Added level 3-8

• Fixed messed up tiles in level 2-7

• Fixed messed up tiles in level 2-8

ART

• Added Jetpig (the previous placeholder art was a pig with wings - he got upgraded to a jetpack)

• Made real smart bomb art to replace the placeholder art

• Added a few background variations for levels (Ocean, Islands, Hills variant)

• Improved mountain background

• Improved boss art and animation (boss is pretty much done, but his environment still needs work)

• Improved character weapon sprites and reworked weapon in some frames

• Updated world map to be somewhat more complete (still in-progress, especially worlds 3 and 4)

• Changed clouds on the world map

• Added metal skins for platform objects

OTHER

• For the Free Demo version we're removing the ability to download community levels, but retain access to the built-in community levels (Boneyard & Bog of Eternal Stench)

• Fixed XBox Series controller icons

• There are probably other changes that we missed calling out here!