Changelog v0.2

Here is a list of changes that came with version 0.2

Major Changes

• Added a first dungeon for players to fight through in time trial mode
  • The player travels through a forest dungeon, defeating enemies room by room
  • 9 random rooms get selected out of a pool of 20ish
  • Final showdown in a small forest arena
  • Compete for best times
• Recreated the whole visuals of the game
  • exchanged all environment art
  • recreated the hub and the testing grounds
  • changed the player to be female
  • added floating islands and a small pond as first animated environment
  • all units have shadows now
  • enemies wobble on damage & create vfx on spawn & stagger

Improvements

• improved combat
  • the player moves and attacks way faster
  • removed dodge ability (too much overlap with damaging dash ability)
  • enemies attacks are spread out a bit more
  • rebalanced all units & abilities
  • player doesnt get blocked by enemies now
• improved performance
  • fixed camera stuttering
  • unified shader usage
  • decreased particle density
  • optimized assets
  • improved shadowmapping settings
  • simplified enemy logic & utilized way less Update() callbacks
• decreased build size
  • reduced size of images
  • heavily compressed music
  • optimized models
  • removed unnecessary assets from build

Quality of life

• made UI smaller, but increased click area size
• slimes are colored red now to be better visible
• ability buttons can be held for continous cast
• the player gets guided to important areas via environment design
• improved navmesh generation
• cooldown numbers are rounded now (but still calculated correctly)
• life bars are color coded now
• main ability buttons dont change image anymore (was confusing)
• you can aim your dash now independent from your current ability cast
• unified color changes in combat
• testing grounds size decreased (too much empty space in combat)
• ingame timer now stands out more on blink
• regions get triggered when standing on them while they get disabled
• enemies dont blink on hit anymore
• player gets moved to the upper right island when entering hub from another scene
• you can now hide debug UI (hidden by default)
• removed spawn indicator (too similar to autoattack target)
• added return to hub button

Fixes

• slimes that are jumping back dont ignore damage anymore
• enemies dont get stuck after being staggered anymore
• you cant enter another scene multiple times anymore
• autoattack now finds targets when its main target dies
• enemy spawn sfx is now affected by sound slider
• you cant skip waves by killing enemies faster than they spawn anymore