[Archive] Monday Update #3 - A new World news

Map Menu

After creating the first two bosses I decided to redesign the map menu, because the old one was to overloaded and confusing. I removed the whole highscore-section and changed it to a tooltip-window, which pops up when you hover over the score value of the boss-section.

The free space is now used for the new animated world map. It's a tall inline-frame with water, islands and space areas and can be controlled with the scrollbar on the right side or the mouse wheel. I hope this is more user-friendly than the old map with one page for each area.

Every mission has 3 difficulty levels: Normal, Hard and Unique - and 3 game modes: Standard, Casual (easier but with penalties, tbd) and Hardcore/Extreme (oneshot gameplay).

The difficulty levels change the whole boss-fight and are successively unlocked. Beating them changes the mission color on the world map and unlocks 1 of 3 progress-medals (currently placeholders). The 4th medal is for the optional extreme mode.

The normal difficulty unlocks the next boss, but doing a higher one rewards new equipment, which will be highlighted by decent symbols on the specific progress-medals.

Update Notes

• Improved performance of 2d/menu objects
• Improved performance and sharpness of the post processing effect
• Improved the sidescrolling effect
• Fixed wrong shadows on smaller resolutions
• Fixed wrong deep values on all water surfaces
• Fixed wrong normal mapping on outdoor surfaces
• Implemented Boss 01-01
• Implemented a new animated world map
• Implemented borderless window mode
• Implemented wind-effect while moving
• Changed Boss 01-02
• Changed the map menu
• Changed the pause menu
• Changed the overall design goals

I try to release a demo (first 3 bosses) with the next update, but currently have Tenosynovitis (Sehnenscheidenentzündung) in my left wrist and therefore can not work or play too much on the computer.

Thank you
- Martin