Weekly Update! 10-14-18 (Seeker Shot, dialogue) (Patreon)

Hey everybody! Another week, another weekly update! Unfortunately I don't have a huge amount to show off this week as much of what I did is behind-the-scenes stuff, but that doesn't mean nothing got done, so let's dive into it.

First off, as you can see in the gif above, is a new bullet type! Aptly titled the Seeker Shot, it chases down enemies after being fired in short, saccadic movements. It doesn't do a terribly high amount of damage per hit, and you can't shoot it if there are already Seeker Shot projectiles in play, but it stays out on the field longer than any other bullet, acts passively without any extra effort from Alicia's part, and functions in some interesting ways with the different trigger types (for instance, the Rapid Shot trigger makes it pause for shorter amounts of time between each movement). It's not a particularly effective primary weapon, but as Alicia can equip two blaster chip sets at any given time, it acts as a great secondary! You might have to put in some extra effort to find it though, as unlike most current upgrades, it won't be sitting out in the open.

That's all the visual stuff I have to show you for this week, but fret not, for progress was still made elsewhere - namely in dialogue! Last update we had a total of 3 cutscenes and 3 environmental dialogues. This update, we don't have any new cutscenes (as I've mentioned before we're aiming for only a few of them to avoid breaking the pace of gameplay), but we've nearly quadrupled the environmental dialogues, with 8 new conversations, making for a total of 11! The update's not even out yet, so who knows - maybe there will be some more before we finish up? Aside from that, I also spent some time redesigning more rooms, planning future content, and doing some minor bug testing/fixing.

Orexius and LustFire weren't able to do much this week, as they were both occupied elsewhere - Orexius by his dayjob's weird hours and some stuff happening IRL, and LustFire was on vacation.

Well, that's about it for this weekly update. Sorry it's a bit on the smaller side - hopefully we should be back to normal this week and able to stream again, but I can't say that with confidence, as Orex is still dealing with some IRL stuff. Because of that I'm not going to have an official streaming schedule again - we'll try to stream at the usual times if we can, but no guarantees yet.

As always, thank you all so very much for your support, you guys are amazing! I'll see you in the next update!
-A42