WORM•HOLE

Devlog

• 15/5/2024 Charged Bullet & Thruster Tweaks
  May 15, 2024 by oaktal

  After a year with no updates, I'm giving the player a bullet powerup and trying to adjust the thruster curves to fit some more playstyles. Changes include: Braking the ship will now charge up the remo... Continue reading
• 24/4/2023 Multiplayer!
  April 25, 2023 by oaktal

  Changes include: Added two player mode. Shift main menu logo to the right just a tiny bit. Make wormhole sprite on main menu center properly and always render on screen. Make stars and wormhole on mai... Continue reading
• 23/4/2023 Main Menu
  April 24, 2023 by oaktal

  Changes include: Added main menu. Added music and sound effect toggles... Continue reading
• 17/2/2023 Yes, More Difficulty Tweaks
  February 17, 2023 by oaktal

  I just have to get the gameplay perfect and then I'll make a main menu, I promise. Changes include: Asteroids now spawn with the same orbit direction as the player. Motes spawn with the same orbit dir... Continue reading
• 16/2/2023 Refactor and Tweaks
  February 16, 2023 by oaktal

  Oh man this one hurt but it really was quite necessary; the code sucked. Changes include: Refactored and denested code. Renamed meteors to asteroids to avoid the wrath of astronomers. Tweaked how aste... Continue reading
• 14/2/2023 Diffifulty Recurve
  February 15, 2023 by oaktal

  I got an insanely high score and that was not okay. It felt like if I survived long enough and got into a groove I could keep racking up the points- this was not good. Changes include: Made the curve... Continue reading
• 13/2/2023 Difficulty Escalation, Tweaks
  February 13, 2023 by oaktal

  Tweaked the escalation of difficulty one more time, as well as minor bullet mechanics. Fixed a couple bugs from the refactor as well. Changes include: Decrease maximum meteor spawn frequency. Decrease... Continue reading
• 12/2/2023 Optimizations!!!
  February 13, 2023 by oaktal

  Most of these should have been obvious, but I still feel really smart for thinking of them! Changes include: Refactored code, debloated :NEW() methods. Memoized meteor polygon generation, limited to 1... Continue reading
• 11/2/2023 Quick Tweak
  February 11, 2023 by oaktal

  Changes include: Decreased initial meteor spawn time from 200 frames to 180 frames. Increased the acceleration of meteor spawn time from 1 frame per meteor spawn to 5 frames per meteor spawn... Continue reading
• 10/2/2023 The Big Update of Gameplay and Cheese
  February 10, 2023 by oaktal

  I'm gonna be honest, I planned to break this one up into the next few days so that I could properly test all the changes before uploading them. But then I found one massive bug in the thruster power c... Continue reading
• 9/2/2023 Combos, Score Indicators, Tweaks
  February 09, 2023 by oaktal

  Big flashy combos and point multipliers! More crunch, more game feel, WOOOOOO! Changes include: Added popup score indicators when a meteor is destroyed. Added combos and score multipliers when multipl... Continue reading
• 8/2/2023 Highscore & Tweaks
  February 08, 2023 by oaktal

  The obsessive work continues! Just some extra polish updates and fixing glaring bugs. The day-one patch of indie dev, I guess. Changes include: Highscore tracker! Increased meteor collision radius by... Continue reading
• 7/2/2023 Engine Refitting
  February 08, 2023 by oaktal#changelog

  Hooey! Well it's been like four/five months since I started this "little" project, but I finally got around to refactoring the code and tweaking everything! I'm much more happy with how the game feels... Continue reading