Sunday Post - Rusty Seas Alpha Update!

It's finally ready!  Got the next release of the Rusty Seas alpha, and it's a doozy!
What's new:
- Intro and tutorial
- Dialogue system with puppets and voice noises
- 2 more levels
- Boss fight at Fashion Vixen Photoshoot
- Implemented Rustheaps as collectables, which show up in the warehouse when you get them
- End of level score screen, with high score system
- Quality of life fix that makes normal stages skip to the next wave if there's nothing left to collect and no enemies left to defeat.
- Feeling like a REAL GAME!

What's coming up next:
- Options features, including volume sliders and key rebinding
- Saving
- The return of Nymph as a miniboss in Crumpled Cornershop
- Usable items for powers and special attacks
- Shop system for items and outfits
- More conversations with Lalo, including the ability to call for advice
- Implementing more NPC's and dialogue, including Corner Fox.
- Music (going to look into putting together a 'demo reel' of the game and show it to the artist for the placeholder music I've been using on stream, and see if it's possible to work out a deal to use the tracks!)

Legitimately excited about this release, since I've been working on it for over a month and a half now.  I'm going to ease up on Rusty Seas for a while to work on commissions before I get back to it full time.  I'm stoked to see the characters actually express and converse now that I finally have a dialogue system, and... it's just starting to feel like a real game, y'know?

So thank yinz so much for supporting me while I continue to work on Rusty Seas!  Expect plenty of art next week as I shift gears towards warm-up drawings and commissions!

Also:  Don't hesitate to let me know of any bugs or breaks in the game at this stage.  There may still be some rough edges on this alpha release, but I want to make certain what's there DOES work as it should.  If anything is severe enough, I'll put up a patched version ASAP!