Release 25 - New NPC, Achievements, and HUD Changes
the stamina wheel now appears next to big jay while in use instead of on top of the hud the stamina wheel now has the ball meter text removed the stamina wheel now correctly hides when empty new billboard art added to the city level added a new area to the beach level with a new npc hermit crab npc added to the beach level shell island has been expanded with additional shells that you can pick…
First off, sorry this update was such a long wait, I had a lot going on that prevented me from getting it out in a timely manner, but I will be doing my best to do better in the future. The main addition to this update is being able to interact with background objects, trees, pretty much anything with a outline on it can be interacted with in some way. For controller users, we will be updating…
Hanging Pumpkin Lantern accents added to the pumpkin party level. Flying floating paper lanterns have been added to the pumpkin party level. Piles of leaves added under the trees in the pumpkin party level. Wall surrounds and rock reefs added to the pumpkin party level as accents. Sitting cardinal accents added to the pumpkin party level. More breakable pumpkins added to the pumpkin party level…
fixed an issue with the sinking barrels not functioning correctly on the beach level added code for handling saving, loading, and end of level grades for levels 10, 11, 12 (upcoming) added place holder assets for levels 10, 11, 12 on the level select screen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CORE GAME CHANGES{ FPS is no l…
fixed an issue with the sinking barrels not functioning correctly on the beach level added code for handling saving, loading, and end of level grades for levels 10, 11, 12 (upcoming) added place holder assets for levels 10, 11, 12 on the level select screen
Removed and repositioned some of the bird poops on the city level to make it slightly easier Removed the random floating speed pad in the dinosaur valley level that was just hanging mid air in the distance Added two new check points to weird woods so falling into the water in certain parts of the level is less punishing Widened some of the floating debris chunks in the silly sewers level to mak…
Pumpkin Party is now out. There may be changes to this level in the future depending on feedback we get in early access or minor cosmetic changes to the level. Sinking barrels now sink slightly slower. The crab at the start of the beach level no longer clips through coins. Slightly adjusted the position of the barrels on the beach level to better make the route to the shell island easier Added…
cloud ratlas level select square has been moved with a future level select square. so now when you look at the level select you will notice a gap in the levels, encouraging peoples to find the unlockable level(s) adjusted to position of the grading badge and level select buttons on the level end screen to look better better lighting added to the game over screen trees added to the game over scr…
keys now have a sound play for when they unlock something (portal keys, cheese keys, etc) the button puzzle on the temple level now has a sound play when correctly solved the colored beach balls for the ball puzzle on the beach now vanish once the puzzle has been solved fixed an issue where the ball puzzle on the beach would remain solved if the level was reset the lock on the treasure chest on…
icing splats added to the dessert level added assets into memory to prepare for 2 levels to release Two new levels are planned and they are both around 60% done each. More QOL fixes are planned. Apologies for the lack of updates they past 2 weeks, one of the upcoming levels has a lot to it and is probably our largest map yet.
fixed an issue where hopping on a bouncy object like the beach chairs or the trampolines would not reset the fall timer causing the player to build up way too much downwards gravity
fixed an issue where level 7 data would not load correctly from the save file (cloud level scores) fixed an issue where one of the level place holder squares would not appear under certain conditions added code for loading level 8 and level 9 save data for when they are added to the game the cloud level S rank now counts as an S rank that can be used to unlock level 6 adjusted cloud level rank…
added an alternate route around the hot air balloon segment on the first part of the cloud level fixed an issue where the achievement for beating the cloud level would not trigger
the cloud level is now unlockable there has been a giant cannon added to the woods for no reason in particular tons of asset files added for level 8 preparation removed the stairs that were sitting out of reach on the temple level reduced the size of the controller diagram on the pause screen the cheat jump key and first person mode have been disabled for non dev users fixed an issue with the s…
check points added to weird woods check point added to silly sewers smoke stacks added to some of the buildings on the city level as accents increased the amount of bounce on the flan in the dessert level so you do not have to hit it in the dead center in order to bounce between cake layers removed the stair case entrance to the huge dead tree on the temple level and replaced it with a moving p…
moved the ice cream boss checkpoint to prevent a endless death loop added a check point closer to the octopus boss on the beach level moved one of the seagulls on the beach to make one of the jumps a little bit easier added a alternate route to shell island on the beach level. this also serves as a way around the island with the 4 crabs, so now you have two paths you can use to get to the treas…
the pillars on the beach level now correctly block the octopus boss projectiles and break after 5 hits the secret chest on the temple level now activates and spews coins when the rat is close enough to it torches and a giant stone owl head added to the secret chest area in the owl temple level progress made on the upcoming cloud level and assets added to prepare for cloud level release
octoboss normal health reduced to 12 from 15, if the player is in normal mode, health will start at 15 king slime health reduced to 15 from 12 in easy mode, in normal mode health is at boss start gator boss health reduced to 20 in easy and normal is reduced to 30 boss scoop (the ice cream boss) has had his easy mode health reduced to 35 and the normal mode health is still 40 the train to the pi…
We will be releasing Big Jay's Rattastic Adventure on March 21, 2025. We decided to delay the original February 12, 2025 release to March, not because we need more time before the early access release, but because we want to release into early access with more polish, achievements, and other features that will hopefully make the game feel even better to play upon release. We apologize to the fa…
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