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Hello, I'm ExclusiveKnight! I am the main developer of 2D Platformer game. The previous development blog mentioned about optimization and the world. More things has been happening outside those two categories. I have been prepping new sound effects and new features for the game, but haven't yet implemented those yet. The world is far from being finished, and that explains why there wasn't any updates earlier.

I planned a few things for the update like new textures, sounds, revamping the GUI, and so on.

Sounds

I haven't mentioned anything about sounds in the game, but there's going to be new sound effects added to the game. The current music used in the main menu and in the levels will be changed, a more fitting music to say the least.

Optimization

Yes, this was mentioned earlier, but it will be a quick heads up of what to expect in the update. The current code in the game have been improved (such as locking variables) and added variables for decreased workload + lines of code.

The results from the optimization of a few game files were quite shocking. To the left is before the optimization, and to the right is after the optimization.

This reduced the size of the game by a ton! And in fact, the audio files doesn't sound worse.

New World

The world is still far from finished but I thought of making it much, much more better with actual world design. No not one of those games that was worked on for under an hour with horrible game design. Why is this good for the 2D Platformer game? Well, I always to make it big and long, so you can have more things to do. Hidden paths, Easter eggs, and... I don't know. But it will be much better.

Score System

This system was implemented since the birth of the game, but since there are coins I thought of revamping it a little bit by adding a few variants, one that gives +5 points, another gives +10 points, probably more coming soon. The coins seen in the game look outdated since they are just a picture of a coin from Google pictures with no transparent background (that's why there's a white border around them).

Main Menu + GUI

The Main Menu got some love again! I've added a simple plain colored background. GUI (Graphical User Interface) when playing the game are going to be changed to a better design, but that'll come soon.