v0.0.9 menus are back on the menu

This week is mostly menu stuff, as April nears it's end and I hope to shift this thing into a beta soon. That won't mean much change in terms of patch schedule, but I'll be focusing on tuning the gameplay more and getting even better sound and art to flesh out the feel. Oh, and a trailer. Games have trailers, and this here is a game--a good one even. There were a few non-menu things, so let's start with those:

Added sound effects for obstacle chunks hitting things

Before, you'd blow up an obstacle and you'd get the boom. It's a pretty good boom on it's own, but now you'll hear the sounds of the debris ricocheting around! The glassy ones sound glassy and the rest share a "normal" sound because they're all made of the same stuff.

Fixed some color/order bugs related to the time-stop

As part of some of the transition-related stuff (below), I tracked down a few cosmetic issues and solved them. The basic set up was get time stop, wait it out, notice the wrong background color tick in when time starts. Things should flow more smoothly now.

Menu pages are now platform-specific

For example, you can't change the window size or display mode on mobile, so the option is gone. I also dropped the rumble toggle from platforms that don't support it. If I took something that was working or missed a dead option on a platform, send me the notes with the GIVE FEEDBACK option in the menu.

ALL the transitions!

I think last week I said there'd be some power-up updates in this release, but I got pretty carried away doing UI polish instead. It's a lot of little things that add up to a huge UX improvement, with basically every interaction with the menu being smoothed out into a short animation. I also fixed a few mouse/tap related issues while doing this.

• Splash screen now transitions to game with a wave instead of a fade and cut.
• The menu slides from and to the corners when it is shown or hidden.
• Changing your selection animates the options and descriptions.
• Changing pages (like opening the OPTIONS from title), animates with size changes.
• Starting a new game (and quitting to title) transition game elements instead of just jumping to a ready state.
• The position of the "<<" and ">>" on the window size option is now consistent regardless of value.
• There's a custom mouse cursor now! It reflects the clicking state. It shouldn't show up on mobile.

This week's release was a lot of fun to work on; I really got swept up in the big effect of these little changes. I hope you find the game more put together--let me know by tweeting at @epiblitikos_ or using the in-game GIVE FEEDBACK menu option. Thanks for playing!