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0.6.1 - Portal Insane Update

Aug 7, 2023

Portal Insane
- Hardest portal level in the game
- Unlocked by completing all of the hard portal levels
Wide Springs
- Replaced multiple springs next to each other with wider springs
- Looks nicer and is probably more optimized 😎
Insane Level Dev Times
- Added dev times to egg, key and portal insane
- Didn’t add these before because I never actually beat any of the insane levels all the way through in one try
Level Changes (made levels easier)
- egg insane made easier (changed cannon timing to be easier to predict right before 2nd checkpoint; raised the ceiling of the 2nd segment; repositioned the cannon, and added a 2nd cannon)
- key insane made easier (replaced metal door at end with normal door)
- egg9 hard made easier (lowered the walls at the end)
- key14 made easier (made spring wider)
- key14 hard made easier (made metal door taller, removed spike)
- portal3 hard made easier (removed extra portal egg, added normal egg)
Minor Changes
- Toy unlock text updated to “[name of toy] toy unlocked: [toy description]”, instead of just a popup with the toy description

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0.6.0 - Portal Update

Jun 1, 2023

Added “egg tiles” and “player tiles”
- Player tiles stop the player from walking through them, but allow eggs to pass
- Egg tiles do the opposite, allowing the player to walk through but not eggs
Checkpoints
- Added checkpoints to the insane levels and the secret level
- Holding ALT while resetting a level will reset your checkpoint and bring you to the end of the level
Menu Toys
- If you found those secret little egg people that would show up in the main menu when they were collected, those are menu toys
- I’ve completely overhauled the system and made it so instead of having to find the secret spots in levels, you can unlock toys by completing all levels in a world
- I put so much time into this system because I want it to serve as a sort of achievement system, you will be rewarded with fun menu toys if you complete certain levels or find certain secrets
  - As of 0.6.0 there is the 3 egg people you can unlock by completing all of the levels in the first 3 worlds, as well as 1 secret toy
  - I replaced the secret egg people with something new that I haven’t fully implemented but it is worth checking those spots again
New timer settings
- Added toggles to show level, world and game timers
- With this you can disable world and game timers and only show the level timers
Color blind mode
- Threw this together really fast, will definitely improve it in the future
- Simply adds unique shapes to the different colored eggs with the goal of differentiating them without their color alone
- Normal eggs have nothing, portal eggs have a full circle, sticky eggs have a hollow square, and bouncy eggs (currently unused) have a straight line
Work in progress level progression
- Most of the work on this isn’t shown in the game yet as it’s still in progress
- The only change added this update is needing to complete every normal level of a world to unlock it’s hard mode, rather than completing every level in the game
- Unlocking insane levels is still the same, beat every hard mode level of a world
- Unlocking hard mode or an insane level now saves the game so you don’t get the popup a 2nd time
- Planning out normal level progression, probably won’t implement until 1.0; you will only be able to play 3 uncompleted levels in a world at a time. If you haven’t done the tutorial for a world you are required to do so, but after you can skip around a little. The next world will also be unlocked if you have 16/20 levels completed. Been thinking about how I’d implement this for a while now since I obviously want the game to be speedrun friendly and this kind of messes with full game runs. If it becomes a problem and people want to run the game while skipping levels I could implement a mini level select that you can open within a level.
Old portal level number changes
- portal3 → portal4
- portal4 → portal5
- portal5 → portal6
- portal6 → portal7
- portal7 → portal19
Level changes
- egg7: remade end, completely remade hard mode
- egg9: added 2nd spring to end of level, completely remade end of hard mode
- egg10: completely changed end of hard mode
- egg13: added walls to prevent from skipping entire level, remade hard mode
- egg15: changed hard mode to stop from skipping entire level, kept skip in normal level
- key3: tweaked hard mode
- key11: lowered the door
- portal0: changed positions of eggs
- portal7: added arrows pointing to golden egg, made golden egg closer, looks more like an S, added cannons and egg tile to hard mode
- sticky1: added small new section at end of level
- sticky7: removed spiked in the beginning, added a spring at the end (made easier)
Tiny key changes
- Tweaked door opening jump, you will now always be boosted upward if unlocking a door with a key in your mouth while in the air, if you hold DOWN you won’t do a little hop :)
- Changed position of key collision when being sucked, this should prevent sucking keys through walls and keys getting stuck in unsuckable positions
Updated controller support
- Changed the way controller aiming works, you are now able to grab eggs that are behind other eggs
- There’s a cursor controlled by the left stick, the further you hold the left stick the further the cursor is aimed in that direction
- Feel like this is the best way to implement controller aiming but it still feels really bad so I’m probably just going to give up on it here lol
- Will probably add controller support in the menus at some point but I wouldn’t recommend using a controller to play this game at all
Smaller changes
- Tutorial text boxes now show the proper keybinds instead of just the default
- Added “save debug times” setting, allows you to toggle whether or not times will save if on debug mode
- Made so you can right click to teleport to a portal egg after you’ve shot a different egg, before if you shot a portal egg then any other egg you wouldn’t be able to
- Added fps cap option to settings, set to 60 by default, can set to 0 to uncap
- Fixed sticky egg jump buffering
- Hitting escape on the main menu now gives a prompt to close the game instead of instantly closing it
- Turned down volume of cannon & cannonball sounds
- Added way to toggle discord rich presence, either go into your savefile and change the “rich_presence” variable under “Settings” to false, or use the “discord” console command, think it was causing a crash on windows 11

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0.5.2 - Time Medals Update

Aug 25, 2022

Time medals
- You can now earn medals based on your level times
- You can view the medals in the level select
  - Medals in order from worst time to best: Green > Silver > Gold > Diamond > Dev
  - Only visible if timer is enabled
- Can also see if a level was completed, and what medal you got for a level, through the pause menu
Death counter
- Finally added a death counter!!
- Count goes up every death and level reset
- Can be toggled in “settings > game > show death count”
- Can see level, world, and game deaths
  - To see level death counts, pause the game during the level
  - To see world deaths, look in the bottom right of the level select
  - To see total deaths, open the settings menu
- Will figure out where else I can put it but threw it in the pause menu really quickly because I know people have wanted it
Level changes
- Egg hard 18: Remade entire level
- Key hard 16: Remade entire level
- Key 19: Changed position of key
- Egg insane: Added cannons
  - Probably going to remake this entire level at some point but probably not
- Key insane: Remade start of level
- Egg 13: Removed the crazy ass skip, there’s still a skip in the level I just didn’t like being able to finish the level with a single spring it felt kinda lame
- Portal 6: Made easier to complete without early teleporting
- Sticky 7: Made easier to complete without early teleporting
- Egg hard 13: Added second spring
- Egg hard 14: Changed position of golden egg to be closer
Smaller changes
- VSYNC SETTING!!
  - Didn’t even realize this game was just stuck with vsync on for 2 years but it was
  - Now there’s a toggle in the game settings, right under fullscreen, feels a lot snappier on my dookie butt 60hz monitor crazy I never realized this lmaoo
- Cannon shoot & cannonball break sounds now don’t play if they are too far away
- Button juice :3c
  - In the level select the buttons clip out of the box, looking into a way to fix this
- Remade tutorial text boxes
  - Now show key/mouse prompts instead of just saying “w key” or “right click”!! Currently this doesn’t change depending on your custom binds but the groundwork is set up
  - Text boxes no longer show in hard mode levels
  - Changed these to set up for localization
- Added graphics page to settings
  - Contains screen shake, fullscreen, and vsync setting
- Spring directional influence is stronger
  - Not sure if this was a well known feature or not but if you’re holding a direction while bouncing on a spring you will be sent more in that direction, made it influence the direction a little more to make it a bit more impactful
- Sticky eggs now have a longer reach while going at high speeds
- Console now pauses the game when opened
- Can now toggle fullscreen even when the game is paused
- Timer is now on by default
- Settings description box was remade, size should be more consistent
- Added spacing to settings tabs
Bug fixes
- Fixed restarting level while it’s already restarting, caused screen flickering
- Stopped spring from playing the bounce sound multiple times at once, used to play it super loud
- Fixed bug where dying and teleporting at the same frame would fling you

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0.5.1 - Bug Fixes

Jun 27, 2022

Hovering over settings now shows information on what that setting does
- Does the same with key binds
- Is a bit buggy but thought it’d be nice to have
Levels now also complete when walking over golden eggs
Fixed “level auto reset” resetting level without a pb set
Controllers no longer vibrate when playing with mouse and keyboard
“metal door flash” setting no longer shows in demo

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0.5.0 - Key Update

May 30, 2022

Custom key binds!!
- Located in Settings > Input
New mechanics
- Metal doors!!
  - Like normal doors but the opening is delayed
  - Added a “metal door flash” settings which flashes the metal doors lock every time it ticks; thought it was a bit jarring but also that it could be useful for understanding the timing so I made it a setting :)
- Fragile keys
  - Same as keys but break on impact
  - Is used in some hard mode levels, replacing normal keys
General changes/additions
- Can now access the settings while in a level through the pause menu
- Debug mode
  - Toggled in Settings > Game > Debug Mode
  - I’ve been using debug tools during development and wanted to give the option for players to use them too to practice some of the harder levels, or to just mess around with
  - They’re very basic and aren’t very polished at all nor are they very intuitive; might expand upon these later if they are actually used
  - If debug mode is enabled, your times don’t save
  - Here are some of the debug features that are useful, leaving out some stuff that doesn’t have a use outside of bug testing
    - Debug console: open with ~ key, some cmds below
      - “help”: without arguments lists all the commands, with the name of a command tells you the use of that command
      - “level {WORLD_NUM} {LEVEL_NUM/i (for insane)}”: brings you to a specified level
      - “wipesave”: wipes your save, restart required
      - “ttw”: toggles targetting eggs through walls
      - “debug”: toggles debug mode
      - “free”: starts the game in demo mode
        if you wanna run demo%
        only allowed to submit demo% if debug mode is disabled, disable by using “debug” command, only way to get debug mode back is by restarting game since there is no option in demo mode (might change this in the future)
    - Flying: F key
    - Teleport: T key
    - Stop: G key
    - Fixed cam: Mouse5
    - Setting spawn: V key
Other smaller changes
- Remade “level auto reset”
  - Now resets the level if you are over your PB, even if you haven’t completed the level
- Settings menu options made more aligned
  - Not sure if I like the way it looks at the moment, but it feels clearer than before
- Holding jump while opening a door in the air will make you jump higher than normal
  - Not sure if this was noticed but if you open a door in the air you do a little air jump :)
Level changes
- Made this part really detailed so it’s easy to change times on speedrun.com :)
- Repositioned keys in various levels
  - Attempting to make key levels more playable on controller, doesn’t entirely fix the problem but I will be working on this more
- New level positions
  - key1 → key4
  - key2 → key5
  - key3 → key6
  - key4 → key7
  - key5 → key9
  - key6 → key15
  - key7 → key16
- Added cannons to some levels
  - egg4 hard
  - egg8 hard
  - egg15 hard
  - egg18 hard
  - portal2 hard
- Replaced key with fragile keys in hard mode for
  - key6 (was key3)
  - key9 (was key5)
  - portal5
- Made egg9 slightly longer
- Changed end of egg13 (might change again at some point idk if i like it)
- Portal19 hard added more spikes
- Remade key0 hard
- Remade end of egg9 hard
- Changed area surrounding golden egg of egg13 hard
- Made last section of sticky6 bigger
Bug fixes
- Fixed sticky egg not jumping off of the wall
- Fixed bug with speedrun timers giving you a 10ms lead when starting from the level select
- Fixed key getting you stuck into the wall (again)
- Fixed bug where eggs would collide with each other (i think??)
- Fixed bug where when keys would break and unlock a door in the same frame and the key would still respawn

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