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Version 1.1

Gods of the Petri Dish
A downloadable game for Windows

Some polish, recommend features and additions

Additions

  • Atmospheric particle effects
  • Particle trails for cells
  • Pause Menu, opened on escape key
  • Settings menu
  • Alert text, when AI cells see something they will "!"

Removed

  • A test sound that played on start
  • Sent the old shooting sound to the shadow realm

Improved

  • Rebalanced Bloom
  • AI controlled cells now avoid walls
  • All guns now have firing delays so guns are not synced  up

  • Audio

    • Sounds will no longer cut off, multiple noises of the same type can play at once now
    • Repeating noises like guns firing or cell destruction have slight pitch variance 
    • Added a new shoot and hit sound
    • Cleaned the static and other weirdness out of most sound effects
    • Sounds now fade over distance
    • Sounds now obey a volume limit

    Balance

    This is a survival game right?

    • Player faction health halved, it is now the same as the everything else
    • Enemy bullet speed doubled from 5 to 10, it is now 66.6% of the players 
    • Enemy growth factor increased from 100% to 400%

    Optimisation

    • Reduced file size slightly
    • UI elements now turn off when not in use

    Bugfixes

    • Cursor is now correctly centered, player controlled turrets are no longer inaccurate
    • When respawning the player can no longer get permanently stuck in the side of the dish 
    • The dish now plays sound when its hit by bullets

    Files

    • Gods of the Petri Dish v1.1.zip 20 MB
      Apr 30, 2021
    • Gods of the Petri Dish v1 (Jam Version).zip 20 MB
      Apr 22, 2021
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