LOL, It’s a horde survivor after all, not a typical shooter.
Also, that’s hardly 10% of the wave’s enemies on-screen in that shot.
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Hey guys!
I’ve decided to replace the game’s arbitrary feeling ‘combo’ system with a new ‘power’ system. Here’s how it works:
- Collect stars to gather power levels
- When you complete a power level, gain a large time bonus
- Subsequent levels are harder to fill but give a proportional amount of time
- Reach a certain level (20?) to ascend
- Discarding powerups resets your level
- Losing a powerup makes you lose 5 levels
This power system will help make the arbitrary-feeling combo system more approachable and concrete.
Sadly, it’ll push back the update time by possibly another week 
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I vastly overestimated the difficulty of this change. The system is already done!
Expect a new build sometime today 
A new build is OUT!
Featuring:
- Power and level system (levels just give combo slots every 5 levels for now)
- New items
- New stats
- Reworked waves
- Melee weapons
- Improved maps and art
- Lighting
- Huge optimizations
- Powerup improvements
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Oh yeah, forgot to mention: there’s now 2 max dashes, similar to Hades. I haven’t yet made items to affect that stat, though.
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Known issue where ascending with lots of powerups crashes the game. I’ll fix it ASAP.
Edit: fixed.
Hard at work on the character/weapon system. It should hopefully be ready sometime this week, and you’ll be able to pick out a character, weapon, and melee weapon.
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-Okay so.. I started my run with 100k stars lol
-The names end up off-screen for me when I’m hovering on one:
-I think that piano sound during your runs don’t really fit the vibe. It felt kind of jarring whenever I heard it.
-It would be good if when you go through the powers, the specific power also changes font colour to highlight it. I know you have Power 1, 2, 3… but it might help with even more clarity.
-In the tutorial, I noticed you’ve got some highlighted text with a wobble effect. I’d actually increase it a bit.
Other than that, goddamn this game is fun. I couldn’t figure out which power gave me that rapid fire, but it’s one of my favourites haha.
It’s coming along really well!
The 100k stars was a debug thing I forgot to remove. I’ll fix it in the next build.
About the piano, could you record a quick clip of it so I know which sound you’re talking about? I’m assuming you mean the level-up sound, which will be changed in the next build.
As for the names, I’ll fix that next build too.
As for the colour/power thing, I sort of want to keep the Power colour being that orange, so I sadly can’t change that.
A power increase sound and effect will be added for clarity though.
As for the tutorial, it’ll be overhauled next build since the game has changed quite a bit since it was written.
Thanks for the kind words!
Ah, that’s a problem. How would you suggest I combat it?
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A new build is OUT!
Featuring:
- Character system
- Weapon system (sadly still the starter weapons only for now)
- Fixes
- Performance improvements
- Slight balancing changes
@lZebl , eat your heart out 
Sadly, I didn’t have a huge deal of time today, but many more characters and items are planned. There will eventually be ~10 of each!
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can I get that version XD
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Timmy tuff knuckles 
gonna be my favourite character
@Frozen_Fried
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Yes, it’s out on Itch.
Thanks mate!
3 more characters are planned for the week:
Minton McMoney (econ character)
Sprayotron 9000 (shoots the whole magazine at once)
Sk8erboi (high mobility)
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u mean the 100k hearts one : >
lol, no - the fixed one.
@lZebl you fell for this huh?
This is actually a friend of mine pretending to be famous - he thought it would help with the game’s success / be funny.
Seems to have worked
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Cooked up a crazy build here:
This could be wave 20 material!
Running Timmy Tuff Knuckles with Medkit is pretty OP.
Edit: got to wave 20, but noticed some performance issues to fix.
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A new build is out!
- Fixed max dashes stat
- New character: Minton McMoney
- Heart no longer freaks out at low FPS and covers the whole screen
- Made Power system less forgiving (less time)
Art is still my main bottleneck, so I spent my time mostly drawing the new character.
I also got sidetracked by a 30-minute run, which is a good sign
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Isn’t that many stars unhealthy?
And who is this educated green guy with glasses? Silently sneeks in and throw some projectiles then goes away? It never goes in to fight,