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Major Climbing Mechanics Update!

HATCH
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux

Hey everyone,

This update addresses the following issues raised by the community:

- slow climbing / cannot climb a steep wall unless you hop up
- if get caught in the sun, no fast way down
- can easily shoot yourself off the sides of a narrow wall due to poor running mechanics
- that feeling that it's not your fault that you can't make a jump

The changes are still not perfect, but should adequately address the above problems with the following new movement mechanics:

- climb walls without hopping (although you can hop more crisply to speed up)
- can walk left, right, and down walls (but not too steep an angle down)
- generous fall-off-ledge jumping
- running is the default, press shift to walk
- jumping is tighter in general

I've also added a dot cursor to help those with motion sickness.

Please let me know if there are any bugs, i'll improve the mechanics if necessary :)

Below is a video summarizing the update. Hope you enjoy!

Files

  • HatchMac.app.zip 71 MB
    Sep 23, 2019
  • HatchWindows.zip 42 MB
    Sep 23, 2019
  • HatchLinux.zip 68 MB
    Sep 23, 2019
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