Hypermancer [v0.0.9] By Sombreve

Release 0.0.9

• This might be the version with the most changes yet, the game is truly starting to take shape.
• I wanted to add a little tutorial for the combat mechanics that don’t take away the urgency of expeditions, so your ship now has little explorer slimes you can defeat and practice against.
• This was also a good moment to setup some tech to branch and adapt Rev’s dialogues in a deeper way.
  Games like Hades that react and adapt to the player are really inspiring to me, and I hope I can do some of that here as well.
• I also added some more in-depth scaling for Rev as he reaches different stages of his growth.
  His silhouette now feel much different as he grows in size.
• Have fun and see you next month!
• Sombreve

Release Notes 0.0.9

General Features:

Made little story intro on New Game.

• Added new slimes that run around the ship. They drop a small amount of Essence.
• Slimes on the ship are explorers, they are smaller and can’t fight the player.
• Explorer slimes are green instead of blue.
• Meant as a safe way for players to learn how to fight the slimes before heading into expeditions.
• Explorer slimes drop Essence instead of Cores, trigger less growth when getting the loot.

• Rewrote every dialogue to fit the new mechanics better.
• Added dialogues on game start, hinting you to defeat a slime on the ship (skipped if you already got the loot from one.)
• Rev will now update his dialogues to better lead the player on what to do next.

• Added ability for Rev to grow you to your maximum size when at the current end of content.
• Rev now grants no Essence at the start of the game. Slimes drop early essence instead.
• Empowering Rev with the slime’s Essence then makes him able to generate Essence when hit with the Hyper Beam.
• Reaching stage 3 makes Rev generate Essence without needed to be hit by the Hyper Beam
• Tweaked loot particles to be more visible with new artstyle
• Tweaked hyper beam particles to be more visible with new artstyle
• Improved cel-shader on metallics, overall easier on the eyes.
• Added SFW/NSFW versioning tech.
• Added DLC support.
• Title screen now shows unlocked DLCs.
• Added some little 2D art easter eggs by artist friends <3

Player related changes:

• Added small slow down and reaction when collecting loot.

Rev related changes:

• Changed Rev progression for SFW version.
• Improved secondary motions on Rev
• Improved shading for Rev’s skin
• Rev’s voice now gets deeper based on his size.
• Added new pants, boots and gloves for Rev. (By PyriahIn3D!)
• Added snapping to Rev so that he always fully turns towards the player when dialogue starts.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed an issue where slimes respawning would be at their biggest size after being respawned.
• Fixed bunch of issues where sounds wouldn’t be affected by the audio settings.
• Fixed issues when moving with the keyboard arrow keys.
• Fixed issues that prevented remapping of movement keys.