Release Notes

New Content:

• Onboarding level included
• New background models for the main level
• Loading screen in between levels
• Skip button for onboarding
• Textures to the background models
• Boiling VFX for phase change
• Queen added as boss for the onboarding
• Added grass to the main
• Final animations for bosses
• Destruction of bosses when beaten
• Level looping from onboarding->main->onboarding->main->etc
• Stopwatch added to the time-based levels
• Tutorial gifs to show what to do in every phase of the onboarding
• Laserbeam attack to the queen
• Damage textures for the bosses
• Vibrations to wands when shooting and getting hit

Changes:

• Hitmarkers shown on interactables
• New textures for bosses
• Final rigs for the bosses
• Card attack works differently now, to make it easier to understand
• Smoke VFX used
• Debuffed player does not shoot frogs anymore, they don't shoot anything anymore
• Elemental VFXs on dummies
• Updated terrain to fit the setting more
• Health bar no longer visual
• Loading screen updated visuals
• Spawn animations for the queen in the relevant phases

Bug Fixes:

• XR stage messing up the textures
• Onboarding phase 3 to damage players if they are hit
• Queen can take damage
• Properly cleanup actors from previous levels

Build Improvements

After playtesting we added the onboarding level to the build. The onboarding level was a huge improvement, acting as a safe zone where players could try out the controls. Due to some players thinking that the onboarding took too long, we added a skip button. This was also helpful for players that wanted to play another round. We added a boiling effect to the teacup boss to indicate that the phase changed, and we hope that players will know more easily see when they reached the second phase. In addition, we added damaged textures for each enemy to make it extra clear that the players' attacks are effective and that the health is going down. We also added the queen to the onboarding and gave her attacks and animations to make her look a bit more threatening. The onboarding now also featured GIFs to explain the gameplay to the player, which made it easier for the player to know what they had to do in the onboarding.

To make the gameplay more immersive we added textures and extra assets to the level. We also added vibration and lights to the wand prototype, which worked great as haptic feedback for players.

Finally, based on feedback we also updated the card attack to make it easier to dodge and to understand for the players. This made the game more enjoyable to play.