What's New

• Secret areas!
• New "endgame" content (for the demo).
• Collectibles!
• NPC companions can now be commanded to actively follow the Player or remain in place, instead of needing to be summoned.
• Fast travel points to enable backtracking throughout the entire game.
• NPC speech bubble text is now animated.
• Some new sound effects.

Changes

• Reworked physics system for carried objects! No more getting squished by having things land on your head, auto-picking-up objects, or getting things stuck in walls.
• New foreground and logo color palettes!
• New logo!
• The "command" musical sound effects for Theo are much less annoying.
• The trap pit during Theo's first appearance now gets filled in to prevent the Player from falling back in.
• Temporarily removed debug options for demo build (can still be manipulated manually in the options file).
• Several puzzles have been updates and reworked.

Bug Fixes

• NPC speech bubble text no longer stutters when the NPC is moving.
• NPC speech bubbles now remain completely within the camera.
• Objects can no longer get stuck overlapping the ground or other objects when thrown or set down by the player.
• Objects can no longer be picked up or set down through gates.
• Gate open/close sound effect no longer gets stuck if the Player moves through a door while it is playing.
• Lasso "pull" input prompt now has the correct text.
• Player can no longer launch themselves or other objects upward or downward by lassoing things in mid-air.
• Fixed several backtracking issues, such as lever, button, and gate states not saving properly.
• Updated respawn logic to target the last valid place the Player was standing to prevent possible skips.
• NPCs no longer collide with each other.
• Camera focus now properly returns to the Player after lassoing objects in mid-air.
• Lassoing large objects no longer launches the Player backward.