Demo v1.2 Is Here

Last time I said a shaker might learn how to swim. He did. Demo v1.2 is out. Here's what's in it.

Shrooms can swim now

The old collection event is gone, and the pond replaced it. Send a shaker in, the water is warm. He'll paddles around at your command and come back with things you can't get anywhere else: dewbells and hat cosmetics off the bottom of the lake. He'll wear one for a few minutes until it dries out. (hats are still in early development stage, art is not final)

Wisdom is gone. Dewbells take over

Wisdom was the traditional incremental solution to prestige progression. I wanted to do something more novel, so we have dewbells, a scarce resource only found at the bottom of the pond.

Caps you find yourself

Caps used to show up before anything explained them. Now the first little cap mushrooms sprout and animate, then the Elder walks you over to one, and you pick it by hand for your first cap. Choppers come later, once you already know what they're for. The Elder also says about half as much as he used to, and says it all in one conversation instead of ambushing you four times. (Sorry!)

Everything I promised last time (returning players please read)

The shop sidebar shipped: compact cards, price at rest, exactly what you're short on hover, and an Auto toggle on every card so the buying handles itself. The wisdom tree is just the Upgrades tab laid out as a skill tree. Prestige lives in the escape menu and the Elder's offers. Spore garden 2 and 3 were removed in favor of a new system.

The game finally fits your screen

A lot of this update work was unglamorous: the escape menu, the garden panel, the card screen and the swim camera all have real layouts at 1280×720 and on small windows now, instead of overflowing off the edges. The web build drops straight into the game's own splash screen instead of a separate loading page, and the game is held to 144 FPS in testing, so slow frames get caught before they reach your machine.

Play it in your browser, tell me what breaks, and I'll keep going as always! Thanks for being here, it means so much to me that you are following along with and playing mushies. More updates to come!