Another week has gone past! We updated the Stable Beta on Steam a few days ago, so if you’re a Stable user now’s a good time to play again: plenty of quests and a few new systems has been added for you to play around with~
Now, what have we been up to this week? Our main concern has been Steam Leaderboards for Arcade Mode, which has kept both Vilya and Teddy busy in GUI-making-land:
Now, the highscores will be sorted in 2 different ways. First, how many players were present in the run, which means that single player, 2-player, 3-player and 4-player runs all will have their own highscore entries. You swap between these by pressing up or down (as indicated by the arrows next to the title).
Second, a filter option will let you browse through global scores, friends only, and your own highest score. You swap between these by pressing tab.
These leaderboards haven’t been implemented yet, but they should be in an upcoming patch! What was implemented, though, is the ability to hide your pet:
This function is something that has been on our to-do list for the longest while, and I’m sure a lot of you are happy to finally be able to hide pets that refuse to leave you alone! Go check it out by opening the Pet Menu from your Character tab.
Other than that, Vilya has been cleaning up and improving a few more things in different areas. Among the things she did was adding a bunch of decorations to the balcony in Startington:
As well as transforming this pretty empty area:
…Into something a bit more exciting, featuring decorative snow caves (yay?)!
Our goal with these snow caves was to have the yeti spawn from them, but we aren’t exactly sure if we’ll get around to that or if they’ll simply be decorative in the end.
Lastly, we’ll end the post with some cool animations by Fred, who keeps making gold charges! Here’s the Shadow Clone version:
I agree with Antar.
Love the game!
Couple of questions…
1. Any thoughts on adding filters such as xBRZ?
2. Any chance of getting more/higher screen resolutions?
Yes! Got the high socre =)
Theodore (administrator) wrote at 20/05/2015 23:46:@Zorlac:
1. Maybe some day as an option for those who want it! It’s not high priority though.
2. Perhaps! It’s not much use, though, since the main reason for wanting higher screen resolution is to fill the screen, which can be done by changing to full screen. The resolutions are currently constrained to multiples of 640×360 because anything else will squash the pixels and make the game look worse!
@Zorlac: Why would one want to have filters? It would destroy the whole pixel style.
Oh my god O.o you guys are amazing :|
Pls keep adding such decorations like on the balcony it looks so beautiful !
Snowcaves and the Shadow clone….
I´m so looking forward to this
Wow! I’m loving that Shadow Clone animation! Very nicely done! Especially the way the face tilts upward. I also think you guys should go through with the snow cave spawning idea. It would give them some purpose and it would be cool to have something else function like the beehives.