Current updates:
- Optimized the game a little bit by removing unnecessary code and sprites.
Some of them include:
- an unused sprite for Local Multiplayer
- an empty sprite
- a useless sprite
- scattered and unused code
- Removed the "Do the five." button because it was buggy. It messed up the code of the buttons used in the menus. The info can still be found in the Settings menu, below everything else.
- Guest usernames are now randomly generated. I don't know, it had a nice touch to it. Might remove it later because it's kinda useless.
- Enemy movement was fixed due to my horrible experimental code that messed up the cloning.
- Added Loot Crates (doesn't work just yet! I'm working on adding the exclusive skins and power-ups. You can find some in the Cat.io Test Edition project.)
- Updated the game engine from PolyEngine 1.0 to PolyEngine 2.0. It might sound little but it actually helped out with some performance issues.
- Made it so the FPS can't go higher than 33 (approx.) due to bugs with the menu buttons.
- Added "Go Back" functionality in the skins page because it was lacking exactly that.
- Fixed a few bugs.
- Fixed a bug where it was impossible to kill enemies. Turns out I forgot the "forever" loop in the cloning code.
- Removed "Play on Your Face" mode, because it took up a lot of code and it didn't matter.
- Added all menu buttons! Thanks to this, it makes it sorta possible to play on mobile devices!
(although you might run into A LOT of performance issues. I haven't tested it out, but I have before. it wasn't pretty.)
Extra News!
Hopefully, I can get out the next version of Cat.io, 1.11.0.
Here's a few updates I had in mind:
- Removing the "Go to page one" functionality in the skins page.
- Adding "Next Page" and "Prev. Page" buttons in the skins page.
- More themes! Most likely event themes, backgrounds, or seasons and holidays, like the Cat.io Logo.
- Updating the "Main Menu" graphic (the one with the cats and the enemies on them) because it's so old.
- Possibly removing the nCOV-19 info.
- Adding more things to the settings.
- Moving Low Detail Mode to the Settings menu.
- Adding more songs to the music select option in the Settings menu.
- Fixing a few bugs if any.
- New skins (I don't know what yet.)
- and more!