Crafting Manual - Version 1.5


Version 1.5 is out!

(edit: 1.5.2 bugfix)
I've added a crafting manual which you can use to figure out how to make things, instead of having to rely on trial and error only.
It works like this:

It wont show you how to make something, just which things are possible to make using the object you smack the crafting book against.
It's something I dont remember seeing in any other games but I sort of got the idea from how the Guide in Terraria works.

I've also refactored the menu system completely, its now much easier to add and move stuff around in the menu.
With the menu refactor also comes mouse support for all the menus and a whole new File menu for choosing to overwrite your save or save to a new file, as well as loading from any save. It even has screenshots for each save!
The save files also list the date they were saved, the number of jobs completed, and your name (Which you can also set now in the menu)

Finally I updated the way the player moves visually to be smoother, and fixed some bugs that caused jerky movement relating to the timer for moving when you hold down a direction, moving feels a lot nicer now I think, especially on a Gamepad thumbstick.

With this update I have all the features I originally planned for the game minus a few details (settings menu, and touchscreen support for a mobile port).
But I'm not done with it yet. I'm really liking how its turned out so far and I'm planning on building it into a much more complete game that is good enough to be my first commercial release.
It should only be a couple months of free time work for me (plus probably a whole lot of time dealing with marketing and who knows what), its still going to be a small game but I'm pretty excited to make this into my first finished game!

If you want to follow development, follow my new game dev twitter account here: https://twitter.com/cammymoop

Thanks for reading!


Files

Buildslime 1.5.2 - Windows 10 MB
Aug 09, 2019
Buildslime 1.5.2 - Linux 12 MB
Aug 09, 2019

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