Shattered Pixel

Patreon Weekly #53 - June 8th 2020

Added 2020-06-08 15:00:05 +0000 UTC

Hey Patrons!

If you haven't already, go up and look at the attached video. The timing for this reveal couldn't be better, as we've just recently completed a full year of Patreon weeklies!

Aside from what's shown off there, I spent most of this week working on rounding out features for 0.8.1. This week will also be spent on that, with the goal of getting 0.8.1 to beta in about a weeks time.

New Hero Select!

0.8.1 is including a lot of various changes and improvements, but the headline feature is definitely the redesign to hero select and (finally!) the inclusion of Aleksandar's splash arts! I might try to refine a few details before the beta, but overall the new hero select is working well!

The goal of this change is to make one of the game's most common interfaces more pleasant, and to give the player a much better impression of who they're actually playing as. I really want the game's heroes to become proper fleshed out characters, and this is a huge step towards that.

The new interface integrates all of the old hero select features, but in a much more compact and elegant form. The UI even fades over time to let you admire the splash art if you've not tapped or clicked for a few seconds. Each splash art is pixellated to better fit with the game's style, but I also have more full resolution versions which I may add as a bonus feature in a future update.

Also, as Youtube's compression messed with the details a bit, here are the splash art images directly:

Warrior: