Drops and Pickups

Hello!

The test-version of the game has been updated with a new gameplay feature. We've added drops & pickups to the game. They currently come in 4 flavors:

• Health: Restores your ship to full health.
• Shield: Adds extra hitpoints separate from your healthbar. It grants 50 extra hitpoints, where a full healthbar is 100. So in theory you can get to 150 hitpoints this way.
• Invincibility: Grants the protection effect you also get when respawning. With the difference that it lasts 10 seconds, instead of 3 seconds.
• Score increase: Grants extra points. It devalues over time so don't wait too long to pick it up. The points you receive is also affected by your multiplier.

The drops are quite rare. On average you get about 1 every 3 stages. So these power-ups won't make too easy all of a sudden.

So; why did we add them? Well, Black Hole Survivor is fairly tough game. It's starts simple enough, but when getting past stage 15 things can get real hectic real fast.  And due to the random nature of the game (where stones spawn, how they shatter, which ships you get in a stage) things will eventually go wrong, no matter how good or careful you play.  In order to mitigate this, we wanted to add a health-pickup. And from there we figured we might just as well add a couple more flavors.

So we hope you like them! We sure do 🥳