Alpha 8

A rather big update this week as it brings a whole new category of upgrades for the late game, gamepad support and changes to the procedural generation in Reinforced Waves with the addition of new Square Bricks.

Changelog

New : Gamepad Support

• The game is now fully Gamepad compatible
• Left Joystick, Right Joystick, Arrows and Left&Right Triggers can all be used to move.
• Upgrades are picked through Y/X/A/B.
• Gamepad is automatically detected when used.

New : ‘Immediate Effect’ Upgrades

• There’s 5 of those new upgrades right now : Extra Score, Heal, Refill Shield, Destroy Bricks and Freeze Bricks. Refill Shield is only available if you’ve got the Shield artifact.
• ‘Immediate Effects’ Upgrades are unlocked once you reach the end of the normal upgrades’ pool.
• Their effects are applied instantly and timed/instant unlike normal upgrades.
• They’re not limited in number and can be picked an infinite amount of time (as long as you survive that is).
• Some of the icons for these are quite WIP and will be redone.

Gameplay

• Reinforced Waves now feature Square Bricks, that are 2 bricks tall and have twice the health of other bricks.
• Reduced the Health Multiplier of Reinforced Waves from x2.5 to x2.
• Overall, Reinforced Waves are a bit harder than before but give slightly more xp and score.

Other

• The upgrades are now fully localized in Spanish and German, making those languages complete. However they aren’t proofread yet and with my limited knowledge of those languages, there’s probably a number of errors in there.
• Switched the order of the Detailed Stats Setting options. Never is now left-most and Always right-most.
• Fixed the Label of the Detailed Stats Setting being incorrect.