The Maze Project Update 0.2

The long awaited update 0.2 is here! Features brand new stuff, new progression and new dangers to watch out for!

New Game Progression

A new game progression has been added that features new puzzles, secrets and new manifestations. Also, now you can actually finish the first maze!

The new progression also features brand new achievements for the first time. But be aware, these achievements can only be awarded in saves where cheating is disabled.

New Items

There are quite a few new items in this update. Some of them are required for actual progression, while others are only optional that can ease the gameplay. Be prepared for finding and assembling various parts to be able to progress and get to that sweet exit.

The game will also now try to give you hints for what kinds of crafting recipes are out there.

Interaction Highlighting and Input Hints

Ever noticed that white outline that appears when aiming at an item? Well now it appears on every interactable thing there is, not just items, allowing you to be able to spot these things much easier now.

Along with this, new input hints have been added to the game that appear at the start of a new save. They give you hints as to what various controls do, for example toggling the flashing on by pressing the F key.

Various Improvements

Various improvements and quality of life changes have been made. The most notable one is the saving system, which has been revamped to be more secure and compatible with cloud saving. Unfortunately, older saves that have been saved before 0.2 will become corrupted in the newer version and thus resulting in them not being able to be loaded since the system is not backwards compatible due to security issues.

Another improvements are UI focused, which should make the UI much easier to interact with. For example, now you can close various UIs by pressing your inventory key instead of reaching all the way to the escape key, or if you like it the "mouse style", you can also press the new close button now.

The improvements also reach out to various manifestations. Some of the logic has been changed and improved, meaning that they are now more hostile with perhaps new surprises.

-- Also, watch out for secrets!!!!

Changelog

• Added further game progression.

• Added new items: Cookie, Enhanced Cookie, Scrap, Large Scrap, Wet Scrap, Bandage Kit, Expansion Pouch, Keycard Part #1, Keycard Part #2, Old Circuit Board.

• Added new player effects: Confusion.

• Added new achievements: Craftsman - achieved by crafting an item for the first time, Wanderer - achieved by walking 10,000 steps, Back through the void - achieved by dying for the first time, and 9 other hidden achievements.

• Added a new manifestation that spawns when provoked by the player.

• Added a new manifestation that hides in one of the new rooms.

• Added new DoorWalls that will become available once the player has repaired the maze’s mechanism by putting the gears in place.

• Added a new Mechanical Spray that sprays various effects on a player that’s in its proximity, activated after the maze’s mechanism is repaired.

• Added interaction highlighting.

• Added input hints when launching a save for the first time.

• Added a new way to reset keybinds.

• Added the ability to toggle on/off HUD by pressing F2.

• Added the ability to close the crafting menu by pressing the inventory button or with a new dedicated “Close” button.

• Added the cheat menu to the keybind options.

• Added “Early Access” text below the game’s title in the main menu.

• Added a new button for bug testers in the lower left corner of the main menu.

• Added more environment details.

• Added the ability to open crafting menu even when the player has no items in their inventory.

• Rewrote the logic for the first maze exit wall for checking whether all players are in the exit to close the door.

• Added a brand new achievement management system.

• Modified the Evil Duckie to provoke one of the new manifestations.

• Evil Duckie now has a five minute cooldown.

• Updated the mannequin manifestation to be a little bit more hostile.

• Improved checkpoint saving.

• The game now refers to the structures by their respective IDs rather than by their names.

• Revamped a part of the game’s saving system.

• Changed the json serialization from Unity’s standard one to Json.NET

• Changed the unsafe BinaryFormatter saving method to a better one by encrypting json.

• Added sound normalization to music.

• The maximum amplification for UI sounds has been changed from 0.5x to 0.3x.

• The sound normalization now happens at the end of the sound processing.

• Tweaked the planar reflection probe on the MirrorWall so the reflections don’t glitch out as much.

• Minor light optimization.

• Added pathfinding to the Memory Wall light.

• Localization adjustments.

• Updated the detection logic for FearWall.

• Renamed “Menu” section to “Other” in the game settings.

• Added sound attributions in the Credits and Attributions menu.

• A few mysteries have found their way to the game’s code.

• Fixed a bug where clients connected to the host were not able to see networked structures in the cheat menu.

• Fixed a bug where the scroll view wouldn’t scroll when the mouse was on a transparent area in the crafting menu.