Alpha 0.2.0 Changelog

Welcome to 0.2.0. This update brings many improvements and additions, mostly small.

Enormous notice: I'm restarting. This page and version will be deprecated or deleted soon and a new page will be made.

Before you read, know that this might miss some changes or accidentally include scrapped plans--this version took a really long time and took a lot of work so I hope you'll understand if I wasn't able to perfectly maintain this post throughout development. If you do find something new that wasn't mentioned, let me know. Anyways, behold:

Additions:

• Ambience (courtesy of the YouTube Audio Library)
• Baskets and carts Garbage code needs cleaning. Don't use the baskets and carts.
  • Items shrink when placed in them
  • Did my best to make driving carts feel good
    • Side-to-side and wheel turn animation when turning
    • Acceleration and deceleration for forward/back movement and turning
    • Can only turn when moving forward/back
• New items
• Unfinished supermarket level (Store 2)
  • Sliding doors
  • Thinner shelves
• Outside scenery
  • Vehicles pass by at random speeds and intervals
    • Features randomized (color, plates, and presence of antenna)
  • Easter eggs!
  • Beautiful outdoor aesthetics thanks to Kenney
  • AllSkyFree skyboxes
• Hanging signs
• Blur effects

Changes / Improvements:

• Game page
  • Title changed from "Store Game Alpha" to "Counter Chaos"
  • Updated page screenshots
• Player "grip" is stronger so you less easily lose items
• Slight motion-blur
• UI freshened up with drop shadows
• Modified hover behavior - pickup icon persists when holding item
• Title screen element hitboxes no longer move so placing the mouse at the lowest part of the collider doesn't cause it to vibrate
• Registers
  • Scan light is now visible (Resolved lighting limit issue)
  • Registers display item prices in the main text box when scanned
  • Changed fonts
• Made credits text neater; organized more like traditional credits
• Rearranged the title screen and added second DVD case
• Minor dev console changes
• Camera monitors have buttons and static when changing
  • Also added night vision

Fixes:

• Lighting issues mostly resolved by reducing mixed light sources in test scene and adjusting shadow distance
• Fixed issue where clicking anywhere on the pause menu threw the held item when unpausing
• Sealed title screen code so hovered objects automatically reset
• No visual glitches (i.e. snapping) when focusing a title object while it is moving upwards from hovering, or when rapidly focusing and defocusing title elements.
• Hovering on objects in-game no longer causes lag

Internal / Optimizations:

• Got better at coding and totally overhauled existing code which should mean faster updates (hopefully 🤞)
  • Menu base streamlined
  • Dev console command creation streamlined
  • Eliminated load time for dev console
• Created a base scene and multi-scene level scheme compatible with level loader

[Note: Store 1 is the store from previous versions. (It's labeled that way on the title screen.)]

Remember: Don't give away access to the game.

keep it tight ✌