Since I pretty much put a stop on big-features for the game, as these are the final weeks before we start porting to consoles, I’ve been very busy looking into small features I could still safely add ! These are for the most part cosmetic things, so we now have a larger collection of creatures thanks to adding more bodies,heads and tails. Last weeks version of Residual had 890 creatures, and this version is touching the 3000 !

Linking in to those creatures, the Residex has undergone some changes, and is now much better (I was never happy with that screen in the options>stats menu). Now you get to browse the creatures by “species” discovered, and then show the various creatures within that species. The system is very crude, a species is basically a body-type, but it works!  It makes browsing all your discoveries a lot easier and more organised.   The creatures now also come with names which is a combination of their head,body and tail descriptor.

The game also comes with a new font, this is so that we can have a good font used for all languages (previous font had no support for cyrillic languages like Russian!)  – and of course this week is extremely full of fixes, tweaks and improvements as we’ve been play-testing the game all week long.  It’s cool to see how stable the game is, mostly based on the fact that only 2 or 3 bugs came in today as I type this.. and I already fixed those before they came in!

Yesterdays devlog shows the creation of the little diorama’s in the credit screen:

• added: new font (supports cyrillic)
• added: increase in interface-resolution (bigger font, works better)
• added: redesigned Residex
• added: Furnace can now also prepare fish/mushrooms
• added: made scanning creatures easier (they are less likely to run away when being scanned)
• added: show “identified species” when using dna on prev-scanned lifeforms
• added: first 8 achievements
• added: more tree-variations
• added: caught fish or jumping fish, will continue swimming if landing in water
• added: camera-cinematic when random event happens
• added: crafting-animation and short delay
• added: show +1 in energy and food bar for x seconds when it increases
• added: increased aggressiveness to creatures at night
• added: PDB dialog for putting useless resources in the furnace
• added: save-game stays after lift-off so you can go back and fix hyper-gate
• added: chop-able tree-growth to devices and areas?
• added: roof engines now remove ooze from their vertical-plane
• added: event – break down gadgets in switches for roof engines
• added: new variations of creature bodies+heads
• added: drink from filled flask in hands (not just through inventory)
• added: analyze information to the portal
• added: unlocking of Echonium transmitter near portal
• added: Give hyper-shards for a single freeplaymode on completion/survival
• fixed: Furnace device knowledge never gets unlocked
• fixed: tall-pushables aren’t blocked correctly by floor
• fixed: back-button in galaxy doesn’t work with mouse
• fixed: not being able to place items near echo-pillar
• fixed: device-placement blue-floor rendering is bugged
• fixed: capping mission-list on visor screen
• fixed: increased size of visor screen
• fixed: increased tab-pages on visor screen
• fixed: getting an “eat …” message at Cotton
• fixed: showing “use phaser” when on ladder (which can’t be done)
• fixed: can’t pickup dilithium or sealant when stems are at the same spot
• fixed: players “indoor” status didn’t get reset correctly at all times – causing host of problems
• fixed: auto-pickup fieldgenerator even if disabled in options
• fixed: floating items in hand when using visor-animation
• fixed: uiinventory has word: Requires – non-translated
• fixed: create-resources mission now completes if device already created
• fixed: translate creature sleep-time to planet-based hours
• fixed: improved device-placement
• fixed: water-drinking effects are now more balanced
• fixed: residex creature rendering bugs
• fixed: die/pass-out at teleporter still makes you teleport
• fixed: spread resource-pockets based on min-depth values
• fixed: player getting locked at slurper-plants or after dropping on the floor
• fixed: tree disappears bottom of screen
• fixed: some generators not being able to fixed due to switch being not placed in visible location
• fixed: inventory decreased double when using furnace
• fixed: end-screen text rendering
• fixed: high-temperature make you exhausted/sleepy faster
• fixed: not all artifact-containers got placed
• fixed: cleaned up teleporter code, fixing multiple bugs in the process
• fixed: crafted items now get mounted in hands instead of placing in backpack
• fixed: improved end-screen