Version 0.90 adds many new features, more content, animations, many more levels, a new stage and more to ARKFRONT.
Features:
- Added voice-overs for powerups and major events like moving between stages.
- Added a final cinematic to the game to tie it all together.
- Created a new category of level for the campaign.
- 17 new levels added to the campaign. Now 113 total levels!
- Added an entire additional stage to the campaign, significantly increasing play times.
- New boss firing patterns. Added in multiple strategies to make this more random and interesting.
- Ice economy: collect ice and trade it to Outposts for additional gold. Use it or lose it!
Improvements and Fixes:
- Fixed a longstanding crash in the campaign where selecting certain levels in the campaign could lead to a crash.
- Reduced repetitive dialogue.
- Removed full screen tutorials as they were too disruptive to play.
- Added even more screen shake and juice.
- Improved the tutorial by adding an arrow pointing towards the first outposts docking bay.
- Fixed the way dialogue is handled at the beginning of each stage to correct for the intro animation.
- Improved the balance of several levels in Stage 2.
- Cleaned up the codebase to make long-term management easier.
- Incremented version number to 0.90 – Almost beta.