This is, easily, the most stable version of the game so far. And the changes list shows why – it’s a list with few tiny new things, but mostly a bunch of fixes!    I just ended a play session in the game, and even though the game is very stable, there are still a bunch of things I want to improve and every gameplay session goes hand in hand with a bunch of changes on my to-do list.

One thing that has been bugging me was the little hovering bot that flies along side the player. This is PedeyB – or PDB the Personal Disaster Bot.. and I never really liked him! OR at least not how he looked. I wanted him to look cute, but there’s not a lot of room for cuteness in a 10×10 sprite…  until this week I found a way to improve him.

Left is old, Right is new

Adding those little feet that wiggle about a bit, makes him so much more likeable, and that tiny visual change also comes with some newly written dialog. He’s really a bit of a character now.. and has this weird romantic thing for the ship’s replicator. Strange!

Few more weeks of fixing and tweaking, and we’ll call this puppy done!

I also added a few more eyecatchers, make sure to check the video below for the first batch that was added last week:

Full changes list:

• added: more eyecatcher objects
• added: language select
• added: blueprint for echonium-transmitter now unlocked at better time in game
• added: planet-core heath mapping
• added: gave PedeyB more character/cuter look
• added: Random-Events handling code
• added: Event – suit-malfunction
• added: Event – toxic rain
• added: Event – damage to devices
• added: PedeyB log – last messages in Visor
• added: woofer-sound now also scares creatures
• added: Event – Ship attacked by Ooze (re-repair!)
• added: Event – broken backpack
• added: suit-malfunction messages to visor
• added: “share your postcard” message box to snapshot mode
• added: EDP show how many devices we already have
• fixed: rendering bug on “destroyable blocks”
• fixed: PedeyB avatar during hologram
• fixed: permadeath setting information
• fixed: spacing between empty and use on residex screen
• fixed: mouse controls in input-screen
• fixed: arrow-keys now show up as dpad icons during instructions
• fixed: fishing-rod now a Tool instead of object
• fixed: speed of planet-rotation in galaxy-views
• fixed: galaxy-view background art/clearness
• fixed: don’t pop-up dialog when player on instable/moving floors
• fixed: fish on dry-land turn into “dead fish” food
• fixed: dead-player won’t create triggers for surrounding creatures
• fixed: trimmed windowed-resolution options (removed weird ones)
• fixed: remember navigation in menu-screens (settings)
• fixed: repair at echo-pillars now always triggers (was timer-delayed)
• fixed: general interface interaction cleanup
• fixed: disabled placing device at same spot as other device
• fixed: blocking player from packing-up device when holding something else
• fixed: powerrelay switch with connector not capable of grabbing connector and connecting it
• fixed: faster banter/talkback events in dialogs
• fixed: inventory handling for “groups” of items
• fixed: toxic-rain shouldn’t hurt player indoors
• fixed: snow starts falling during intro
• fixed: egg-wasps fly upwards immediately
• fixed: arachnoid can now be “scared” back to it’s nest
• fixed: added correct black edges to intro animation
• fixed: backdrop for on-screen instructions
• fixed: fish not spawning
• fixed: can’t use torch to light campfire
• fixed: “discovered by” on visor rendering width
• fixed: extra spacing for visor text
• fixed: bug with deuterium-slurpers
• fixed: dialog-caching events (when old dialog is still shown)