Hell-acious

Hell-O everyone!

Today is a significant update cuz we got.... COMPLETE CONTROLLER SUPPORT.

Yep, you can now navigate the menu(s) and play the game entirely with a joypad!  Not only does it feel great but it's just a pretty good accessibility feature.  I found myself really proud because, I for the first time, played a game I made with a controller. I felt like  a little kid again. It was an epic moment.

So onto the myriad of new stuff:

• Skeletons now whip bones at you at high speed when you enter their detection radius machine
• Umbra got a buff -- she deals twice as much damage, and now has a shadow spray attack.
• Refreshed the menu with some shading magic
• Added true Familiars, that like shoot stuff at enemies and linked it all up in the soul shop.
  • There's 5 BATS to choose from
    • Bat Bat - a bat that fires a yellowish orange  attack pellet
    • Ice Bat - a batto that makes the enemies chill or else
    • Thunder Bat - this one does chain lightning style damage
    • Phase Bat - makes enemies fall through the ground, but attacks slowly
    • Rainbow Bat - Has each of the abilities of all aformentioned bats but does it's attacks randomly!
• Disabled Mirroring on certain levels
• Added a neat particle effect and tweaked the darkness on inferno
• Tweaked the Player Spray Attack to no longer impede movement as much as it used to.
• Gave Xya a slow down time ability before her teleport where the camera zooms out more so you can adequately choose a target.
• Added EVIL GHOSTS -- Super tough new enemies that only move when you do, and when they attack it not only hurts, but drains you of souls. These motherfuckers have 200HP and also have the ability to grant other enemies demonic speed and toughness!  WARNING -- THEY ARE TOUGH AS HELL.  In the future, might add some special drops or progression of the story based on them.

Stuff I'm gonna be working on for the next update:

• A new Character who has random abilities!
• Options Menu Integrated
  • Music and Sound Options
  • Controller Input and Cursor Sensitivity
  • maybe a sound preview thing like in old school games ha
• New Levels
• Old Levels get the metroidvania treatment and have more content added to them -- I'm talking more exits and secret stuff.
• Collectible Items
• Character Accessories?
• Art Polish
• maybe something else if I have a random idea

Thanks for reading! If any of this excites you, or if you wanna play it, do try it out and give me your feedback! it would be much appreciated, I welcome suggestions!  

Have a good weekend everyone!