Pre-Alpha 1.2.0 - Browser Play + Stage 2 Improvement

Summary:

Can now play in browser without needing to download anything (quality may differ to downloaded), and an improvement to the Clay Caverns / the second stage.

New Features

General / Quality of Life

• Added the ability to play in-browser. Not as stable as the downloaded versions.
• Gave the “Clay Caverns” a minor art pass.
  • Recoloured the tiles, and added a few decorations
  • Made the spikes unique from what is in Marble Meadow
  • Increased ambient lighting, making it easier to see things further away
• Improved “Clay Caverns” gameplay
  • New enemy (see below)
  • Higher level variety (+2 new levels)
  • More spikes
• Added a couple more decorations to the main menu.
• The game now remembers your display mode.
• Stylized the health bar of bosses to match other GUI elements, rather than engine default.
• Added a small credits screen
• The seed of a run is now visible on both game over screens in the bottom left.

Enemies

• Snail Change
  • Takes increased knockback (previously was default)
  • Lowered maximum health, 140 -> 115 (5 hits to kill -> 4 hits to kill without upgrades)
• New Area 2 Enemy: Clay Cannon
  • Moves left and right similar to the snail, but if the player is in front of it, it will pause to fire.

Items

• Nerf to the Overly Bloody Knife
  • Can only trigger once per ‘propagation.’ The Fractalizer still allows it to heal multiple times though.
  • Reduced HP stacking to +2.5 per stack (was +3)
• Adjusted item descriptions
  • Auto Belay, Air padded Boots affected

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the Sentient Geode’s spawning animation cancelling too early
• Fixed the Sentient Geode’s passive rotation not being consistent
• Fixed the Sentient Geode not doing contact damage, a result of the tech debt reduction last patch.
• Fixed the Slime Bosses not spawning slimes, another result of the tech debt reduction.
• Fixed some edge cases that created weird interactions with the Auto Belay
• The snail no longer changes direction upon being hit. Originally intentional, it felt too jank
• The seed ‘0’ is now a valid option and will result in consistent generation rather than random.
• Fixed enemies taking knockback while undergoing their death animation.