0.7.3 - new powerup system, saving progress

Gameplay

• The powerup system has been redone to be clearer and give a better sense of progression.
  • Level 0 (0-9 blue hearts): single shot
  • Level 1 (10-29): dual shot
  • Level 2 (30-59): wingmen collect hearts
  • Level 3 (60-99): autocollect all onscreen hearts
  • Max Level (100): wingmen assault enemies
• Wingmen can take damage when collecting or assaulting. Hold secondary fire to pull them back to safety. This is the reverse of the original behavior.
• Some enemies’ health reduced to make stages 4 and 5 easier to start on with the new system.
• On mobile devices the primary fire is always on so the wingmen abilities will work.
• Wingmen’s formation in secondary fire was tightened.
• The game now saves a progress file. For now, it unlocks all stages in the game. But starting some time between version 0.9 and 1.0, new save files will have only the tutorial and stage 1 available.

Graphics

• Heavy militiaman (shield guy) gets his own bullets to distinguish them from pikeman’s.

Fixes

• Attract mode shouldn’t bring up pause menu on focus loss.
• Touching the touchscreen should end attract mode.
• Fix minor annoyances in tutorial.
  • Specify how exactly to lock onto enemy (mark with one of your targeting lasers).
  • Fix a way the player could get the bomb too early.
  • When firing wasn’t allowed, targeting laser could be used to make annoying beeps without doing anything.
• Fix title screen timing out to attract mode even after you pressed start.
• Fix some upside-down sprites in stage 4.
• The game has been migrated from LÖVE 0.10 to LÖVE 11, taking advantage of a number of fixes and optimizations.

Stage 7 WIP

Hwacha (arrow cart)

Pouring hot oil

Comic WIP

When the game is at or near content-complete, the comic will be released free in digital form. Print copies will be free giveaways at events as well as sold online.