Status

0.23.0 - Levels and Replays!

Hazard Pay Playtest · published

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New Features

  • Surveillance Replay - Completed levels now play back a security camera replay before showing your score, complete with CRT overlay, VHS effects, and tape noise. Skippable with ESC/Space/Enter or gamepad

  • Replay Tape - Replay your best completions from the level preview screen with a cassette tape button

  • Sector 1 Restructure - Reorganized Sector 1 progression with new tutorial levels for buttons, cloth mechanics, and grates based on playtester feedback

  • Sector 2 Progression - Full Sector 2 overworld path with scientist, blood bridge, scanner, and battery tutorials plus story transitions

  • Sector 3 Progression - Populated Sector 3 with tongue creature mechanic levels

  • Sector 4 & 5 Gate Dialogue - Director-voiced dialogue at sector gates that branches based on your choices

  • Gate Requirement Chains - Each sector gate now requires completing all preceding sectors

  • Once-per-visit Dialogue - Some dialogue lines now show once per visit, revealing new information each time

  • Font Support - Added pixel-perfect Chinese font fallback

  • Level Editor Improvements - Dual-panel layout, search filters, cursor preview, auto-scroll, and per-tile text editing

Improvements

  • Tutorial Streamlined - Removed redundant tutorial steps; flow is now simpler and faster

  • VHS Effect Overhaul - Unified CRT/VHS shader with separate modes for rewind and surveillance

  • Pause Behavior - Pausing now freezes gameplay while keeping the world visible behind the overlay

  • Ico Hints - All pulsing hint icons now blink in sync with a smooth fade

  • Dialogue Speech - Cleaner character voice system with per-character pitch

  • Bubble Timing - Speech bubble animations now use consistent, coupled timing

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed level editor thumbnail overlap when generating icons quickly

  • Fixed VHS flicker during manual level reset

  • Fixed level complete animation offset on wider displays

  • Fixed dialogue balloon flickering on first appearance

  • Fixed floating speech bubbles when speaker is removed mid-dialogue

  • Fixed breath vapor not updating position during undo

  • Fixed breath vapor not restarting after level restart

  • Fixed crash when exiting level during active dialogue

  • Fixed dialogue text scrolling to wrong position on long lines

  • Fixed leaderboard showing stale scores after completing a level

Removed

  • Removed unused shaders and 111 unused texture masks (smaller download, an entire MEGABYTE!)