Build 1.8.3-a now live

New Content

• Controller players can now use the d-pad throughout the game and menus. This means that due to mismatching preferences.ini files, player keybind preferences have been reset. Added a system message to advise and give instruction on changing

• Added controller vibration on shoot, collect, parry and death

  • Added a menu option to toggle vibration on and off, defaults to On

• GUI updates

  • The level now shows in the bottom right instead of top right

  • Current kills and collectibles found are now tracked and show the total number available, e.g. 4 / 7. This text will turn green and play a sound when all enemies or collectibles have been killed/found. An additional sound is played when both targets have been met

  • The timer now starts off Green and turns white once the S-tier time for the current level has elapsed

• Audio

  • Added Audio Controls to the options menu to allow configuring of music and sound effects volume

  • More sound effects added

  • Player death

  • Signpost text

  • All enemies killed

  • All collectibles found

  • All enemies killed and all collectibles found

• Added a Credits menu where the link to HeatleyBros youtube channel now lives, more credits to follow

Changed Content

• General

  • The game will now autosave after every level has been completed

  • Some jumps have been nerfed to reduce unfairness

  • Spike collision masks reduced in size to feel more fair and not cause deaths where the player doesn’t think they’ve hit the spike

  • It wasn’t obvious which platforms were “crumbling” platforms until the player landed on it, now, the sprite of crumbling platforms shows the first step of the crumble by default

  • Save files are now deleted upon game completion to prevent loading and writing multiple entries to the leaderboard for the same run

  • New music after killing a boss

  • New music after completing the game

  • The dark green colour commonly used to text elements has been lightened

  • Changed wording from “KOs” to “Elims” on the end of level score screen

• Woodlands

  • 1-3: Extended a platform so the player no longer has to leap of faith possibly to their death

• Streets

  • Updated the room between levels in the Streets zone to contain the updated tileset

  • Adjusted2-3Updated the signpost text to show the buttons required to perform a downwards jump

• Pond

  • The boss felt a bit too vulnerable, especially with max damage bonus modifier, boss health has been increased from 500 to 600

  • Snails took too long to attack, this timer has been reduced from 180ms to 120 ms

  • During the spot the difference mini-game, the time each item spent on screen before being hidden was harsh, this has been increased by 50%

  • This zone was lacking collectibles, more have been added

Bug Fixes

• Another attempt has been made at the “getting stuck in the side of platforms” issue, hopefully it’s resolved now

• Previously if you loaded game, your name was not written to the leaderboard upon completion - this has been resolved

• A bug was discovered where the Parry Hotter achievement could be unlocked through one enemy shooting another, this has been resolved.

• Fixed an issue where if the player’s controller disconnected on the menu screen, the game broke. Note: There is still frame drop when a bluetooth controller connects or disconnects, this is a known issue with Game Maker and cannot be helped, see https://github.com/YoYoGames/GameMaker-Bugs/issues/5389 for more information

• Beach mini-game walls were the wrong sprite