Evolvio Update

Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024
Game: Straima
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Genre: Action, Indie
Developer: caiys
Release Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015


Happy Wintery festivities Straibros. Hope you get many nice pinkies this Chrimbo! :>

Previous versions of Straima have been made in GameMaker v1 which has since been discontinued, so I spent a bit of time updating Straima to the latest version of GameMaker v2. Since I had to make some changes under the hood due to the engine differences I thought I might as well just generally go through the game tweaking bits and bobs.

The main additions are that now every level and the Infinni Runna game mode have Steam leaderboards and the level editor now supports Steam Workshop (which also have leaderboards). The Steam leaderboards have been incorporated into the menus, so for example you can just look at your chums times, or all of a planet's times. I wrote up a quick guide for the Workshop too which I recommend reading before uploading your weird levels which you can view here.

I wanted to add much more visual clarity and generally a bit of polish overall. So for example, objects, enemies, etc, now have a black outline and a black background blurred shadow so the important stuff stand out. The Adventure mode has also had improvements. Instead of a janky menu to choose your worlds to explore you now have a galactic map with some bells and whistles. Each of the special rooms also has a little theme, rather than them all being big chests (such as a friendly shopkeeper to buy the unlockable hats from).

And just some general niceities...
- FPS increased to 60.
- Added 8 new big background elements to the level editor (and added them to all the levels to spruce them up).
- 3 new music tunes and special room tunes. The game's soundtrack is now available in the Steam media player thingy.
- 5 new unlockable hats.
- Tweaked some levels (particularly in the last world).
- All game controllers should now just work whenever you plug them in and no matter their type.
- Added optional CRT screen shader for nostalgia feels.
- Can now change settings anywhere using the Escape menu.
- 12 new achievements to sign post the Adventure game mode.

Enjoy. And if you still want to play the previous version of Straima then that will now always be able available as a Beta Branch (version_5). :>

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