Wink Beta 5.5 Out!

I can't believe it's been over a month since the release of Wink Beta 5! Where does the time go?

You can play Beta 5.5 here

This beta is 5.5 because it doesn't include a ton of new stuff. I've mostly been focused on under the hood changes and smaller tweaks.

However, I have done a lot with level 4: Hills, so check it out! It's not done yet though.

What have I worked on? Here's the list: 

• Updated title: Wink and the Broken Robot
• Implemented animated tiles. This was a huge undertaking and only came about because of a hack discovered by NalaFala on the GB Studio discord. Right now it's only implemented on the map and actually causes some slowdown. The goal is to enable animated tiles on Gameboy too instead of just Gameboy Color. I will be working to improve performance
• Lots of physics tweaks: 
  • You'll find Wink is a lot easier to control!
  • Horizontal bounce makes horizontal collisions feel much nicer
• Improved sprites:
  • Spikee. Now is more obviously dangerous from the top
  • Wink. More obvious powered up sprite
• Improved music:
  • The "main" song is now more than a short loop and sounds a ton better!
  • An altered version of the map music for when you're in the mountains that sounds grandiose and mountainy
• Improved Tiles:
  • Subtle refinements and much more anti-aliasing
• Improved colors & color palettes
• Started designing minigames but you won't see those yet
• New enemies:
  • Moletato (hides and jumps out of ground)
  • Birby (Flies back and forth, an unused variant drops eggs)
• Tons of miscellaneous level refinements
• Engine updates:
  • 13 active actors instead of 10
• Failed attempts:
  • Tried to figure out how to change Wink sprite palette to make it more obvious when powered up. Seems to be impossible at least for me so I changed the sprite instead
  • Experimented with implementing slopes. Didn't work to my satisfaction
  • Make attack stick around longer to enable use of attack for particle effects. Will keep trying

Thanks for reading and I hope you have fun with Wink and the Broken Robot Beta 5.5