Day Sixty Five
I’m back! So sorry I missed a post, it has been absolute chaos for the last week lmao. We were staying in a house in the Welsh countryside and lost internet entirely, not even mobile data was coming through in the one part of the garden that usually got it… I managed to get a couple of pre-written posts out, but I missed one day 😩
I’m back now, though, and just because I didn’t post about what I’m doing right now doesn’t mean I didn’t work on the game. I have still been cracking away at the triangles - which are in alpha now - but I also got a few of the bigger “complete product” jobs done. The “play” button now starts from the square, and will update with the next level to be beaten once you beat the current level. The level select menu has been moved to “practice”, and there’s a new 1CC mode! I’ve been meaning to add this for ages, it will give you each boss one after the other. No breaks, no life resets, just one straight challenge. I’m tempted to add an achievement for beating it on 1CC mode with the 1 life cheat. Will anyone be able to do the whole thing without making a single mistake? That’s probably a little mean for an achievement, but there has to be SOME reward for doing it.
I’ve also done some work in getting a “hyper” mode - basically a higher difficulty setting. That’s gonna take a bit of tweaking, but it should be fairly speedy now that the core is in place for it. I am tempted to also add an alternate fire mode - a wider pattern for the player, with a shot limit that incentivises getting close to the boss… But I’ve got a good chunk of work to do on all three of the remaining bosses, and only 30ish days left to do it 😬 I should be fine, but those extras might be post-release content lol.
What’s next?
Now I’m back properly, I can fix up the last bits of the triangle boss and do the majority of the work on Heptagram Havok. This will be the first boss that is really trying to be difficult, so testing it is going to be fun. You might not know this about me, but I really do suck at games - after the holiday, I somehow lost all my skill at this bloody game and stopped being able to no-hit any of the bosses…
I hope you enjoyed reading about my Polyfury progress. If you have any questions or thoughts, please feel free to leave a comment below. Thanks for reading, and maybe check out the demo:
