Abstrala (alpha demo)

Devlog

• Indicator rings
  January 03, 2025 by jaogwal

  There's a constant ring around the ship that changes with speed, throttle, and engine strain (acceleration) There's also a flashing ring that indicates when orbs escape or are captured. The size of th... Continue reading
• Fixed difficulty and score
  January 01, 2025 by jaogwal

  Found the problem that was breaking difficulty settings and scoring. WebGL builds don't support creating strings by repeating a chracter an n number of times. Replaced those meters with a number. Will... Continue reading
• More HUD and adaptive difficulty
  December 31, 2024 by jaogwal

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  Ring around the ship for speed and throttle Difficulty bars under score User adjustable difficulty modifies the progression of adaptive difficulty. Min difficulty 0 keeps game easy no matter how many... Continue reading
• Blinking orbs. Better adaptive difficulty
  December 30, 2024 by jaogwal

  Orbs now blink to indicate their state. When you chase them, they blink faster to indicate they're stressed and trying harder to escape. Some times a gentler and quieter approach is best. Much wider r... Continue reading
• HUD
  December 24, 2024 by jaogwal

  Added an orb locator to the HUD... Continue reading
• Orb behaviors. Planet hugging. Better score
  December 23, 2024 by jaogwal

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  Completely news scoring system that makes a lot more sense. Score never goes down. Lifetime totals matter. Latest trends matter. Skill matters. Ship will try to level with planet surface. Have fun rac... Continue reading
• Scores
  December 22, 2024 by jaogwal

  Begins to track score. Score is experimental and it's a function of orbs caught and orbs activated. Score may go down if you're activating orbs and not catching them. Some improvements to adaptive dif... Continue reading
• Better visuals
  December 21, 2024 by jaogwal

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  Better starting position Lots of minor improvements to planet tiling. Better heights. Uniform under color. Surface orbs now appear over low spots, not high. Rings are now more uniformly dense. With el... Continue reading
• New shaders and sounds
  December 20, 2024 by jaogwal

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  I made some more cartoonish shaders with posterized colors for a cleaner look. Started adding some tentative sfx... Continue reading
• Cleanup and surface orbs
  December 19, 2024 by jaogwal

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  Better setting defaults. Better planet surface. Orbs on planet. Now you can capture inactive orbs. Go wild!... Continue reading

  
• Random planet surface
  December 17, 2024 by jaogwal

  Planet at the core now has varied surfaces and sizes... Continue reading
• Audio guide prototype
  December 13, 2024 by jaogwal

  Testing a scheme for sound cues to orbs... Continue reading
• Better sky
  December 13, 2024 by jaogwal

  Lots of little improvements to stars and moons Stars are now fixed but their shine and distribution now have more varied patterns. They also have a new shader. Moons also got a new shader with their o... Continue reading
• Adaptive difficulty and game goals and progression
  December 12, 2024 by jaogwal

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  Grabbing 5 orbs jumps you to next level. Levels are still indifferent. Just different color and moons Adaptive difficulty. The better you are at catching orbs, the harder it gets. The difficulty is gi... Continue reading
• Better target orbs
  December 10, 2024 by jaogwal

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  The glowing orbs now appear orbiting, one for each ring. They disappear with the ring so hurry up to catch them. They will activate and start avoiding you when you get close enough... Continue reading
• Better controls
  December 07, 2024 by jaogwal

  User settings. You can Invert Y, swap yaw and roll controls between left/right joysticks (and keyboard groups), and toggle music on/off. Settings are saved. Ship and camera move when turning for a mor... Continue reading
• Better color
  December 05, 2024 by jaogwal

  A complete redo of the nuts and bolts of the rings. Nothing the player can see but a massive improvement over the day 1 spaghetti. This will allow faster and cleaner development. Added some flexibilit... Continue reading
• Music
  December 05, 2024 by jaogwal

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  Added background music (still in... development? composition?) Changes to color coordination. Now it's too coordinated but will be adding some directed randomization to it. Changed distant stars to so... Continue reading
• First showing
  December 02, 2024 by jaogwal

  I started this project as a simple mental health side project to distract myself from harder stuff. It's super rough right now but it's already at the point where I can just play it and be entertained... Continue reading