Newtonia on Steam Deck and Steam Machine Newtonia has now been played through, hands-on, on both a Steam Deck and a Steam Machine, and it is fully supported on both. It ships as a native Linux build for SteamOS (no compatibility layer), it was built controller-first, and every screen in the game (menus, options, pause, the online lobby) works from the pad, from the Deck's touchscreen, or both.…
Newtonia v1.54.0 New late-game content The mid-teens onward are now a full escalation ladder, each new threat with its own intro screen: · Interceptors (level 16): fast vanguard ships in the station's waves, with a tighter fire window. · Tough Elites (level 17): asteroids pairing TOUGH with a second special - armoured, teleporting, and quantum variants. · Bombers (level 18): slow barges that st…
Newtonia now has online leaderboards. Every clean run of your personal best can be uploaded straight from the game-over screen - or automatically, if you'd rather not be asked - and lands on a global board shared across Steam, iOS, Android, and desktop, with each entry carrying its pilot's platform. Solo and co-op boards - co-op runs chart separately, and in online co-op both pilots claim their…
Unless you had it disabled from a previous version, replays will now be automatically saved and watchable from the main Replays menu item. You can also toggle the auto-save replays from the Options menu, it will reflect the value in your preferences.ini, but can now be configured via the GUI. Feedback welcome!
Auto-saved replays are coming soon to Newtonia. To preview the feature, edit your preferences.ini and set auto_record_replays=1 · macOS ~/Library/Application Support/cc.gfm/newtonia/preferences.ini · Linux ~/.local/share/cc.gfm/newtonia/preferences.ini · Windows %APPDATA%\cc.gfm\newtonia\preferences.ini
Playing co-op on the same network/wifi as your friend? Now you can auto-connect directly over LAN no internet required! Supports Android and all Steam platforms. Also, as a bonus, in online play you will now see your friends username on screen.
This is the biggest update Newtonia has shipped since launch: you can now play two-player co-op online, across platforms. How it works? Pick ONLINE from the menu and host a room. You will be given a 5 letter room code and a share link copied to your clipboard - either will work. They can join from a completely different platform. Works without additional accounts, if you have Newtonia you can p…
G'day Newtonians, We're currently testing an online co-op release of Newtonia. To help us test, you need to change to the 'netplay' branch of Newtonia. · Right click on Newtonia in your steam library games list, and click Properties · Click "Game Versions & Betas" · Select "netplay" · Close the Properties window · The game should now queue an update, which will install the netplay branch Then,…
Cross-platform cloud saves now supported in Newtonia. Keybinds and resolution are still kept local only, let me know if there are any settings you would like to persist in the preferences file. High score, and last game save are now persisted to the cloud.
From level 11 onwards, a Mini Space Station enemy will spawn and constantly shoot at you. It only takes one hit to kill though, and gives 1000 points, so prioritise killing it!
Implement real macOS full screen to get game mode working properly. Also, fix SDL2 build for macOS, it now uses an SDL3 shim. Let me know if you have any issues on macOS.
Add options menu (BETA only) · Able to change smoothing and kb sensitivity via the options menu (BETA only) · Added two new fields to preferences.ini for smoothing and sensitivity · Extreme values may not work correctly · Camera smoothing of 0.0000 disables smoothing completely New preferences · p1_keyboard_sensitivity=1.00 · p1_camera_smoothing=0.0040 · p2_keyboard_sensitivity=1.00 · p2_camera…
Confirm the users intent to quit. Repeatedly pressing escape/back will no longer quit automatically, the user must confirm they intend to quit (with the shoot/confirm button)
Add Nova weapon: screen-clearing secondary with charge mechanic. 100 kills grants 1 shard, 10 shards give 1 charge. Nova charge kills all asteroids on screen · Fix asteroid speed cap, prevents ultrafast asteroids flung by black hole · Fix overlay text positioning on gameover screen · Reduce black hole gravity for ships in god mode, allowing escape from the gravity (in god mode only)
Display controller face buttons in circles on OSD · Display "left stick button" and "right stick button" for controller stick buttons · Display keybinds for shoot and next actions on OSD · Display "=" correctly on OSD · Enable OSX Game Mode
Changes · All P1, P2 and general keybinds can be configured in preferences.ini · Separate rotate view keybinds for p1 and p2 Preferences file location · OSX ~/Library/Application Support/cc.gfm/newtonia/preferences.ini · Windows %APPDATA%/cc.gfm/newtonia/preferences.ini · Linux ~/.local/share/cc.gfm/netwonia/preferences.ini Current Preferences & Defaults · fullscreen=1 · rotate_view=1 · friendl…
On the help screen, display the controls of the most recent input method (keyboard/controller) · Always configure keyboard input, even if the player starts with a controller
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