Posted May 01, 2023 by Max Oakland
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This update took me a long time because it has so many fixes and additions to the game. We're getting closer and closer to a finished game. The best things I've added are: a ton of new levels, boss battles, and refinements to make the game more fun and playable.⨠Here's a list of some of the fixes and changes Improvements
World 2 (the Polyester Underground)
World 3 (Muddy water) â¨
World 4 (Hills)
World 5 (The Ancient Box Fort)
World 6 (The Factories)â¨
World 7 (Let's Go Chasing Waterfalls)â¨
World 8 (Mountains Call You)
Fixed Bugs:
⢠Can enter shop but it doesnât work
⢠Boss 6 unbeatable leading to soft lockâ¨
⢠Some coins donât make a sound
⢠1UP sound is terrible
⢠Cave of the heroes coins are broken
⢠Entering L7-3 freezes the game
⢠World 7 map button doesnât work
⢠Player Animation for getting canned peaches power
⢠Dying doesnât remove powerups
⢠Getting hurt doesnât remove powerups
⢠Lives arenât implemented - lives should only be in hard mode
⢠Temporarily remove diagonal movement & finish it later
⢠Shop updates for new coin system
- Make the math work
⢠Enemies
⢠The big Moletatoes cause wink to die repeatedly if he hits them
⢠Levels
⢠Home - PERFECT doesnât show up even if you get all the prizes
- 1-1 - Score app still shows up in menus - â¨
- Only one lightbulb makes a good breaking sound
⢠Polyester Underground - Pause removes the powerup jump. Handle this by having a timer that puts it back on
⢠Factory ⢠Enemies and spikes donât hurt player - Gravity from waterfalls is too heavy. Make it slightly easier - Gravity from waterfall sticks in the secret pipe room - Secret pipe room trigger doesnât work consistently
⢠Swamp - 3-3 the spine balls donât hurt the player?
⢠Hills - Boss 1 - If player dies, the sprite doesnât change to die sprite - Swimming ⨠- sprite isnât good - Enemies donât hurt player - Climb - Falling in hole doesnât kill - Canât go into trash can - 4-4 - Merge level 4-3 and 4-4 to make one longer, better level - Coins are all broken - Falling uses the old swim sprite - After defeating boss the stop sign should take player to scoreboard
⢠Box Fort - Many of the coins donât actually give coins ⨠- In the 2nd key room the splortchies are broken - Pre-boss peaches donât always fall down ⢠Factory - UI Keys donât bounce when you collect them
⢠Mountains - Level 3 doesnât go anywhere - On the mountain map, beating levels doesnât move the block (so you canât go to later levels)
⢠Hills - If you get hurt by a bullet in 4-3 secret area, wink becomes invincible
⢠Map ⢠One of the doors in the mountain maze doesnât work anymore
⢠Set the camera to move all directions when the map scene starts
⢠Higher fall in the mountains takes you to a random spot in the ocean
⢠Very slow on DMG. Remove tile animation when moving
⢠Powerups ⢠Player getting hurt when having seed powerup is buggy ⢠Double eye powerup sprite doesnât get set properly on map or in levels - It also shoots way too many lasers at a time ⢠On the map if the player is facing up and has a doubleshot cherry, it shoots in 4 directions ⢠On the map: if player has supershot peach, no laser shoots and sprite is wrong ⢠Death doesnât remove a powerup
⢠BIG Changes ⢠Implement 2559 coins v2 ⢠Update every scene so the coins use the new variables ⢠Update every scene so the menu displays the right coin amount ⢠Lives & Gameover donât work yet
⢠Level Maze ⢠Underground isnât animating ⢠First locked room isnât finished â¨â˘ Music isnât playing ⢠Construction message pops up every time you leave and re-enter â¨â˘ Prizes are not correctly implemented â¨â˘ Sun in 2nd room moves up because floor needs to move down
Fixed
⢠Level 2 ⢠Fixed a missing collision that made checkpoint jump hard ⢠Moved around trampolines to make room for a reward powerup ⢠Added more colors ⢠Fix water animations on map
⢠Swamp ⢠The room before the boss is buggy ⢠Player only faces left ⢠Camera gets messed up ⢠Remove map enemies because death is buggy ⢠From the map, it takes you to the hills level ⢠Splortches need to shoot faster to improve certain puzzles ⢠Not all conveyer belts have been updated to the new way ⢠Illegal Opcode Error (Too many actors in scene?) ⢠2559 money doesnât work yet
⢠Level 1 ⢠Boss battle: if a flying box hits. Wink it becomes invisible until the boss is hurt
⢠Clouds in Stop Sign scene move to weird locations
⢠Stop Sign: DLevoesnât give the correct item ⢠Coin values have been changed from 1-3-5-10 to 1-5-10-20. Coins havenât been updated yet ⢠Collection message pops up before icons are hidden
⢠Instagram is Wink.Winkerson
⢠Outside stop sign crashes if itâs set to palette 3 ⢠The cherry and peach descriptions are wrong ⢠Wink disappears when leaving the hidden tunnel areas ⢠Block the spring from moving to far right ⢠The Seed powerup doesnât disappear when you get it ⢠Coming back from the 2nd secret room in the floating section gets you killed by the plant instantly ⢠Pre-Boss ⢠Buggy sunflower
⢠Hills boss 1 takes too long ⢠More arm movement in powered up walk animation ⢠Shop: Remove pause menu because it removes the custom controls for the shop ⢠Two bosses (finish) ⢠Shop: Change prices to 100, 200, 400 ⢠Mountain level entrance says âWaterfallsâ and the mountain scene causes an illegal opcode
Known Issues:
1. The shop has been removed for now because of some issues I need to fix