Release note 0.06

Changes in 0.06 (Major release)

• General
  • Game menu added. You can use settings to change resolution, fullscreen, volumes (master, bgm, sfx), and gameplay settings.
    • Left-hand mode: You can change the position of tools and menu buttons to the left.
    • Auto click mode: Holding down mouse button will automatically click the tank.
    • Cheat mode: Cheat UIs appear on the screen. The timestamp is not recorded. You cannot change this setting in game.
  • In browser
    • The game resolution is set based on the browser size.
    • The screen will always be centered.
      
    • Losing focus from the game window will pause the game.
    • Exit button on the main menu is changed to Stop button which mutes the game.
  • Volumes are normalised. The default volume settings are 50%, protecting your ears.
  • Font changed to Monogram.
  • Various UI design changed. Gold fits more than grey.
  • Bottom left message field tells directions to play.
• Game
  • Unlocking increases maximum quantity to drop at once. Unlocking certain number of fish upgrades fish food.
  • Hovering on the button shows the tooltip. Fish tooltip tells you what they eat and drop.
  • You can now hold down the balance button (spacebar) for auto feeding.
  • Objects are moving based on their speed and delta time. Performance drops will affect less to their motion.
• Fish
  • Visuals are modified to reflect what they eat and drop. Body colour shows what they eat, fins and tail colour show what they drop.
    • Gold (yellow) and emerald (emerald) are more distinguishable from brown (paste) and green (pellet), respectively.
    • Collecting fish have pink as their fins and tail colour.
  • Some fish hesitates to eat something; they eat it only when they are starving.
    • Fish naturally hesitates to eat what they drop, i.e. pellet producing goldfish hesitates to eat pellet.
    • Carnivores hesitate to eat meatball, they prefer it only when they are fries.
  • Bigger fish eats more, smaller fish eats less.
  • Eating more nutritious food makes the fish drop more often.
  • Nutrition are rebalanced to match the price of fish.
    • Fish drops more often when they are fed heavily.
    • Based on their base price, expensive fish gives more nutrition when eaten.
• Drop
  • Clicking drops on their intersections will no longer collect them at the same time. Each collectible needs a distinct click.
  • Gold and emerald became bigger to make it easier to click.
  • Bomb added.
    • Bombs hitting something creates explosion.
    • Dropping bomb spends 250 shell.
    • Collecting bomb gives 200 shell.
  • Mold added.
    • Molds are not affected by gravity.
    • Eating mold will get fish sick.
    • Collecting mold gives 5 shell.
  • Potion added.
    • Potions are only accessible when there are sick fish.
    • Eating potion will cure the sick fish.
    • Dropping potion spends 200 shell.
• Decor
  • Added functionality to decors. They decide tools to use, give beneficial effects, and bring about threats.
  • Although they affect overall game behaviour, they are randomly chosen.
  • List of decors (their effects are spoilers, sorry)
    • Pineapple
    • Fishpot
    • Helmet
    • Plants (Seaweed, Coral, and Rocks)
    • Pirate ship
    • Tree
  • List of threats added
    • Algae
    • Bomb
    • Crab
      
    • Mold
    • Pirate
• FX
  • Bubbles are now interactive. They interaction with fish, drops, cursor, and water surface.
  • Explosion added. Explosion kills fish with collision.
• Cheats
  • You can now use cheats using buttons on screen. (when cheat activated, timestamp is not recorded)
  • You can add shells, unlock tools, reroll fish, feed all fish, make fish grow/drop/breed, make fish sick/cured, kill fish, and toggle debug mode.
  • When in debug mode, fish will show timers (hunger, drop, nutrition), feed types, feed low prio, target direction, and hit box. Bottom left, there is a performance counter which goes down from 60 when in low performance.
• Known Issues
  • Target approach fx sometimes not showing when running on browser.
  • BGM does not fade out when changing.
  • Velocity correction is not checked based on delta time.
  • Wave relies on delta time too much, fluctuating crazily when in performance drop.

Changes in 0.05

• Fish unlock mechanism is introduced. The diet of new fish is based on the previously unlocked fish of the fish food.
• SFX volume is normalised. Still, it is too loud I guess.

Changes in 0.04

• In-game menu button actually works, not just resetting the game.
• Lowered warning sound a bit.