"The Art Update"

Update version 1.9.1.0 Change Log.

I am excited to release this update, I really feel that it ups the fun factor. The game feels much more cohesive now. 

Fun fact - The background stars during gameplay are actually individual objects that are generated on the fly with randomized size and speed constraints.

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-----Gameplay-----

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New - Added an unlocking feature to gradually unlock ships.

New - Added crate counter HUD meter.

Changed - Enabled Alpha Fighter ship's laser to start in ready state (Buff).

Changed - Reduced Flare Runner ship's acceleration (Nerf).

Changed - Increased Flare Runner ship's Dodge-Roll timer (Nerf).

Changed - Further reduced the number of spawned asteroids for Easy mode.

Changed - Reduced the number of spawned asteroids for normal mode.

Changed - Required crates for Easy mode now 3, previously 1.

Changed - Required crates for normal mode now 3, previously 2.

Changed - Slightly increased spawn rate of mega sized asteroids.

Changed - Updated difficulty screen to include text and icon descriptions.

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-----Art-----

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New - Added several color palettes, now 28 total.

New - Added Occasional background comets.

New - Added cursor to pause menu popup to make the selection choice clearer.

Changed - Added more asteroid sprites for variation.

Changed - Swapped out several color palettes.

Changed - Updated asteroid explosion effect for smaller particles.

Changed - Added explosion effect to all ship’s death animations.

Changed - Updated background stars animation.

Changed - Updated title screen art.

Changed - Updated all menu screens art.

Changed - Updated end credit sequence resolution, art, and effects.

Changed - Updated ability Icon art.

Changed - Updated ship screen menu's ship icons animations.

Changed - Adjusted slow thrust effect for Nimbus, Flare Runner, Goshawk, and Alpha Fighter ships.

Changed - Sound Menu cursor and Data Menu cursor to match the rest of the menus.

Changed - Slightly modified the dodge-roll animation for Roy Jr, Flare Runner, and Alpha Fighter ships.

Changed - Adjusted the Pause menu popup coloring to work better with most color palettes.

Changed - Adjusted title screen choices colors to work better with all color palettes.

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-----Sound-----

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Changed - Lowered the volume of the asteroid explosion sound.

Changed - Added random pitch variation to the asteroid explosion sound.

Changed - Added random pitch variation to some of the beep sounds.

Changed - Added random pitch variation to the dodge-roll sound.

Changed - Swapped the laser sound and added effects.

Changed - Swapped the torpedo sound and added effects.

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-----Other-----

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Changed - Redid the fonts, and repositioned all of the text fields throughout, so that they now scale with screen size.

Changed - Slightly modified some of the ship end-credit text descriptions for clarity.

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-----Backend-----

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Modified the asset deletion queue to be more efficient.

Removed deprecated files.