0.1.10 ~ Spells, Hotkeys, Fixes

0.1.10:   Spells, Hotkeys, and Fixes

You can now equip spellbooks in your right hand, which allow you to cast spells with right-click! This is the first step towards a skill/spell system, and a big changeup for balance and gameplay. Real badasses might want to play on difficulty 2.

There is also a hotkey system, finally. Hover over an item in your inventory and push any key to bind it. Pushing that item's hotkey will equip or dequip it, without the need to open your inventory.

New Spells:

• Kinesis - Telekinetically move and crush a foe that is weaker than you.
• Meteor - Materialize and throw an explosive flaming rock.
• Tiny Sun - Throw a rapidly expanding ball of plasma that detonates upon collision.
• Gravity Sphere - Create a hyder-dense ball of juice that attracts and consumes enemies.
• Copy Weapon - Clone held weapon with increased velocity.

I'll keep adding spells as time goes on, I hope to have a ton of them that expand the lore and physics of the galaxy. Your suggestions are more than welcome! Some have suggested spells to weld monsters together, summon creatures, or just kill monsters in new ways. I want to get an ice, lightning, and soul system in the game soon.

Fixes:

• Spawning system has been improved, so monsters should be more common on the overworld.
• Rubber Ball Cannon is no longer useless!
• Overworld dirt is a little less painfully vibrant, don't worry, the rainbow soil will be back for a biome in the future!

Future Plans:

For the next couple updates I'm going to be working on optimizing the game to run better on everyone's computers, and hopefully allow me to squeeze some more action into the game. I'm going to rework the Doll System for what may be the last time, which should free me up to make more interesting monsters and items.

I'm also considering completely overhauling the stat system, which has not changed since 0.0.1. I'd like the community's input on this. My thought is to make it so that stats level up as you use them, and give the player some base stats: brain, muscle, sense, and spirit. There is a thread for discussion here: https://itch.io/t/1380827/stat-system-overhaul-help-me

I'll also be generally making new items and monsters, and trying to increase replayability, and diversity of the wilderness.

I hope everyone has a good week, and enjoys what is to come! :)

Changelog

## [0.1.10] 
### Added 
- Bind hotkeys by hovering an item in inventory and pressing any key 
- New Spells!   
    - Kinesis - Telekinetically move and crush a foe that is weaker than you.   
    - Meteor - Materialize and throw an explosive flaming rock.   
    - Tiny Sun - Throw a rapidly expanding ball of plasma that detonates upon collision.   
    - Gravity Sphere - Create a hyder-dense ball of juice that attracts and consumes enemies.   
    - Copy Weapon - Clone held weapon with increased velocity. 
- Treasure Chest in Wawsp Queen's castle 
- Some items have descriptions  
### Changed  
- Ground is no longer painfully vibrant  
- Fiery explosions now ignite enemies
### Fixed  
- Monster spawns should now be much more common in the Overworld  
- Rubber Ball Cannon is no longer useless  
- Pineapple and Rubber Ball Cannon now scale with Player damage properly  
- Item stats now display in a consistent order  
- Wawsp Queen ai glitch