We released a post-jam update for our ScoreSpace Jam #16 entry! This update contains numerous gameplay tweaks, fixes, and quality-of-life changes!

Due to the changes in game mechanics and scoring, leaderboards have been reset for this update!

The detailed list of changes can be found below.

Enemies:

• Boss now stops music on death
• Fixed larger enemies suddenly spawning halfway through the screen
• Fixed non-homing enemies not despawning when leaving the screen
• Fixed yellow mechs being able to fire at the player when the player is to the right of them
• Improved death effects for large airships and boss
• Increased time before all enemies attack to 0.33 seconds
• Increased bullet speed of small plane enemies
• Large airships and the boss now clear bullets on death
• Moved the boss’ hurtbox further to the right
• Reduced small plane move speed
• Replaced small drone attack pattern with an angle-locked 3-bullet burst
• Tweaked homing enemy behavior to move in their previous direction if the player moves to the right of them

HUD:

• Added visual feedback for score given from enemies, items, and time remaining
• Attached bomb gauge to player
• Multiplier now changes color if it is either active or inactive
• Reduced size of multiplier
• Replaced timer font

Player:

• Added audio and visual effect for when a bomb is fully charged
• Added damage sound
• Added visible hurtbox
• Bombs are now launched forward instead spawning in-place
• Bombs no longer launch the player backwards
• Bombs now cause a screen clear on use and for a short period of time after it explodes
• Changed draw order of bombs to be over enemies
• Fixed being able to launch multiple bombs by button mashing
• Increased bomb damage by 20%
• Increased bomb radius by 25%
• Reduced hurtbox size to roughly 6px
• Replaced bomb explosion sound
• Replaced shot sound
• Taking damage now causes a screen clear for a short period of time

Scoring system:

• Changed clear bonus to be based only on time remaining instead of also factoring in multiplier
• Fixed being able to continue gaining points after a loss
• Gold items now award points based on multiplier when active
• Increased inactive multiplier decay speed
• Scaled down max multiplier to 100x, and tweaked all item and enemy values to compensate

Miscellany:

• Added bullet impact effects
• Added item pickup sounds
• Added pause button
• Added transition effect between scenes
• Changed bindings of gamepad controls
• Changed draw order of items to be under the player
• Facelift for all menus
• Fixed bullets sometimes being drawn facing the wrong direction for 1 frame
• Fixed circular bullets having oversized hitboxes
• Fixed items not accelerating when homing in on the player
• Fixed items not falling when far away from the player
• Improved background parallax
• Increased hitbox size of all items
• Increased volume of several sound effects
• Made BGM transitions seamless
• Replaced executable icon
• Replaced item sprites
• Revamped tutorial
• The game will now immediately end in a loss if the timer hits 0 instead of if the player gets hit by this point

Thank you all for playing!