Greetings Wardens,

If you're interested in my other projects (namely - Drift King), you'll already be aware that a combination of sickness and a short holiday have been keeping me away, and if ye didn't know that, now ye do! The latter half of Chapter 2 is coming down the pipes at a slowly accelerating pace, but some bugs have been identified! Let us know if you encounter any more!

FUNG - Changelog:

• Fix crash when adding variable radius entities
  
• Fix ignored collisions between small and large entities
  
• Small entities are defined as "smaller than the hashmap grid size" and large vice versa

Enjoy!

Hey all,

We've finally finished our new collision resolution system, that utilises hashmaps to improve collision performance by over 10x! Now we have extra headroom for more complex physical simulations, and can have considerably more particles in a given level.

A new fire/heat system is in progress to utilise the new system, keep an eye out in the future for that!

FUNG - Changelog:

• Reimplemented collision resolution to use a spatial hashmap, similar to food searching

We forgot to post the last weeks update! We've been deep in the optimisation mines so that we can expand the number of entities in a level beyond 500 without slowing down, so that we can add some basic thermodynamics! The goal is to add fire particles that will add a heat value to a grid, which will diffuse and spread over time. This, in tandem with a new wood wall type, will allow for the propagation of fire, and the heating of water, which will add more interesting physics based level mechanics (like boiling water into steam to push something)!

Also, the tamagotchi mode is coming along too, as the FUNG is fed it becomes happier and slowly evolves into more calm behaviours, and a hungry FUNG becomes more ferocious. It'll stay persistent across sessions, unless you let it die and start again.

To keep y'all happy while I continue to improve performance, have a look at 4,000 water particles running somewhat more smoothly than before! (Note the spatial grid is now smaller, since hash lookups are cheap and circle-circle collisions are... less so) The maximum limit before these changes was only 400 water particles at a time

Hey all, I've got that update for y'all to improve the first few levels of Chapter 2 after feedback and extra playtests. The bulk of this week however has been getting back into the captains coding chair and revving up to full development speed by contributing to some open source software (OSS) projects that have either helped the development of FUNG, or helped me keep my sanity. The biggest contributions this week have been to a Minecraft mod called HBM's Nuclear Tech Mod, which was a sorely needed distraction during the downtime between the frenetic pace of working on Chapter 2. If you play Minecraft at all, you'd be doing yourself a disservice to not check out this mod!

https://github.com/HbmMods/Hbm-s-Nuclear-Tech-GIT

Also, if you haven't yet found and played the secret chapter in Chapter 2, you're missing out!

FUNG - Changelog:

• Improvements and fixes made to levels 1, 2, 4, 5, and 13

Greetings Wardens,

This week we're back in action, fixing some issues identified in the earlier levels of Chapter 2, no update yet since we're out of the office for the long weekend in the Grampians, but we'll have something out to you all at the end of the next week!

Have a good one!

- George

A NEW POWER SOURCE.

Greetings once again, Warden. You find yourself at the foot of a building that is somehow over a kilometer underground. The power is still on, which leads you to believe that you can end your reliance on the FUNG and bring consistent electrical power to the surface.

Steel yourself, traversing this decaying building will be anything but simple...

Part 1 of CHAPTER 2 - COLLAPSE is now available, download the latest version and get on it!

FUNG - Changelog:

• ADDED PART 1 OF CHAPTER 2 - COLLAPSE
  
• ADDED [REDACTED] - Find the second secret chapter
  
• New loading indicator - SPINSNEK
  
• Add fullscreen effects (Just on the title screen for now)
  
• Add link to OST in menu
  
• Add option for music to play through level opening video
  
• Rifles can now be given from PoIs
  
• Bridge building further tuned, should run similarly at all framerates (tested at 144hz and 60hz)
  
• Phys Objects can now have custom masses
  
• Phys Objects can now collect secrets
  
• Added double quotes to font
  
• Added trigger fire for when bridge pieces break
  
• Added ability to select a specific entity to fire a trigger
  
• Made lights triggerable (turns them off)
  
• Prevent waterwheels detonating mines
  
• Added new dialogue transitions
  
• Added 2 new achievements
  
• Fix crash when editing a level opening video that doesn't have audio
  
• Fix crash when doors go out of bounds
  
• Fix crash when using number keys to switch tools in play mode
  
• Fix entities not always despawning when leaving the level at the bottom
  
• Fix crashes related to settling water with certain objects in the level
  
• Fix sublevel secrets not being tracked in the menu
  
• Fix menu music stuttering

I hope you all enjoy it, I'm going to be taking my two week Christmas break now! Better late than never!

- George

Hello once again, I hope you all had a great Christmas, surrounded by people that you love!

Next week, on Friday, we'll be releasing the first half of Chapter 2 (15 levels), instead of the planned whole chapter (20 levels). This is because we've decided to fill the chapter with more puzzles that we developed during playtests, and to further flesh out the story. The gap from this first half of the chapter to the second will not be anywhere near as long as the gap between chapter 1 and 2, since we already have all the design elements ready to go.

The upside to this, is you'll get 10 more puzzles, and they'll be considerably more difficult than everything faced so far. If you want to get to the bottom of the apparent self-immolation of the world, you'll need guts and brains.

Our final code update for this chapter will be released alongside the chapter content, since our build scripts have already been updated to include COLLAPSE, and we don't want to leak anything early.

Once again, Merry Christmas, and have a fantastic new year!

Not gonna bore you all with a long one, just know that things are going.

FUNG - Changelog:

• Tool edit dialog improved, adds custom options for bridge parts
  
• Show Phys object start velocity as an arrow in play mode
  
• Add trigger effect for losing a level
  
• Option for level to be played without FUNG running
  
• [REDACTED] AI and weapons finished
  
• Relink all bridge parts at level start, with new point constraint math for more consistency
  
• Fix shift-moving levels breaking on secret chapters
  
• Show trigger groups on triggers in edit mode
  
• Add hidden PoIs, can be unhidden by other PoIs
  
• Don't show tool options in sublevels, they share the top level tools
  
• Fix misaligned level image in menu
  
• Add water counter to water dropper

Have a Merry Christmas, everyone!

- George

Not all things go to plan, especially in games development. Even with the blistering pace of work over the last 3 weeks, we're still a little behind on the release of the second chapter. On the upside, we've managed to eliminate all known bugs in the new mechanics, and catch quite a few unknown ones in the process! The bridge building tools have been playtested thoroughly, and have been reworked to be easier to understand and use. We have also been extensively playtesting the levels developed so far (about 19 levels), and tuning them so that they're difficult without being unfair.

We're sorry for the delay, but we're not going to release anything unfinished or untested, our respect for our audience extends to the quality of our gameplay, and we want you to feel that you're getting your time and money's worth. Not all is lost however, today's update is probably the last code change required for Chapter 2!

Our plan was to take a 2 week break after the 22nd to recharge over the Christmas break. Instead, we're going to finish this off over those 2 weeks and release Chapter 2: COLLAPSE on the 5th of January, and then we'll take a break! Don't feel too bad for me though, I honestly love the process of making games, it's been a fantastic year of triumphs in both Drift King and FUNG. Also we don't have any employees yet, so I'm only burning my own time off, I wouldn't dare force crunch upon anyone else.

FUNG - Changelog:

• Updated framework to LOVE 11.5, including Ogg Theora fixes!
  
• Bridge builder tool vastly improved based on playtesting
  
• Show bridge attachment points to ease bridge design
  
• Mass now taken into account in collision resolving/dynamics
  
• Levels can now be moved around by shift-clicking the left/right arrows in edit mode
  
• New custom cursor animation when a level is running
  
• Icons added for water wheel, anchor, hose, and water tools
  
• Make [REDACTED] tools only show when the respective modes are enabled
  
• Added enemy AI for [REDACTED]
  
• Improve painter tool edit layer visibility
  
• Prevent bridge pieces from being attached to themselves
  
• Fix bridge builder part deletion causing serious physics bugs
  
• Disable collisions between water wheels and FUNG
  
• Fix water wheels deforming excessively
  
• Fix tools not being given from a PoI that has no image
  
• Fix food cursor icon being offset
  
• Quieten continuous placement sounds (for water dropper)

Thanks for your patience, everyone

- George