v0.5.2: Battle of the Bop 🧑‍🎤

Additions

Spellsinging improvements. The battle with the “Florist” in the Midnight Shore has now been improved with:

• Tutorialization

• HP and Favour indicators

• New animations and attack effects

  • Includes a beat-synced battle bop animation for Tytti :D

• Dynamic and extended music

The codebase was also updated with:

• Better music controls,

• Utilities like: [c]InputIcon.cs[/c] for handling multiple input schema icons ,[c]TutorialTextController[/c] for player-input-driven tutorial screens, [c]HideableCanvasGroup[/c] base class for common show/hide canvas controllers, and more.

Also

• The horrible “ladders skillcheck” has been improved

Changes

• AdjustedBattle system core loop refactoredcleaner Beat/Bar/Verse separation, better camera handling, improved metronome and win condition handling

• Cameras now scales all sprites while blending

• Curiosity skill check decoupled into its own [c]Study[/c] mechanic; introduced generic [c]Skillcheck [/c]

• Music lowpass applied inside the shed; alternative music on the roof in FloristQuest

• Camera rotation now accounts for character movement direction; arrow keys repurposed for camera spin. Wait, was this supposed to be in? Uh… I’m gonna keep it a secret. Nobody press arrow keys okay!

• Water sounds and twilight water planes tweaked

Removals

• Lots of old stuff stripped from [c]BattleManager[/c] and startup / pause scripts

• Old skill check rune assets deleted

• Background music objects removed from scenes (now handled by [c]SceneContext[/c])

• Unused FMOD assets cleaned up

Fixes

• [c]WithAlpha[/c] switched from UnityEngine package extension to a custom one — was breaking non-editor builds

• Wrong animator parameter usage in the Courage skill check corrected

• Collision handling in battle made more robust

• TMP warnings from the runic font suppressed to clean up the console

• Pond sound fixed in water audio pass