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Finally Pushing an Update

Chitinous Carnival
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android

Yo yo,
So... it's been... awhile. Gone through a lot of rough patches back-to-back-to-back. Pondered giving up on the project in there, but I managed to push through and get work I wanted done two years ago done a couple months ago.

As usually, this was available to Patreon supports early in October.  It includes various glitch-fixes found by them:

  • You save are broken.
    • It's gonna happen at least 1 or 2 more times.
  • This is running Godot 4 so...
    • Vulkan is the current back end.
      • This loses some hardware support because writing GLES2 shaders for Godot 3 is starting to get limiting and cumbersome.
        • Also, the plugin I use for dailogue had Godot 4.X exclusive features I needed.
      • I can't run the window's build under wine, so I'm just kinda exporting and praying like I do with MacOS
  • The new scene is down the following route:
    • Fun house > Pull out > Push it in > Show no regret
      • Revisit fun house
  • The jitter shader is back
    • This time not on top of text
      • It can be turned off in the settings
  • Enter/Space now skips dialogue scrolling
  • A shit load of internal redesigning, rewriting, re-implementing, and re-building. Turns out a game made for a game jam isn't exactly "well designed software".


Next update is gonna introduce some major shifts to CC. I'm planning on axing the branching paths idea. It's far to big of a scope for me to work on alone. Additionally, I would rather focus on the content I'm more interested in making: the infestation stuff. No ETA on the next update, but hopefully it won't be a multi-year gap.

I'm currently just enjoying the holidays, and trying to relax after a stressful 2021 and 2022. Hope you can find some rest during this holiday season

- Quan

PS: I can no long be found on twitter. I am however on Mastodon.

Files

  • Windows 64 Support Build 162 MB
    Version 9
  • Windows 64 Free Build 81 MB
    Version 9
  • Linux Supporter Build 82 MB
    Version 9
  • Linux Free Build 82 MB
    Version 9
  • Mac Supporter Build 105 MB
    Version 9
  • Mac Free Build 105 MB
    Version 9
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