I’ve been kinda radio-silent over the past month. The first part of that was due to simply not getting that much done, but in the latter half of the month I had a better (and more exciting) reason for foregoing updates: I’ve been hard at work building out the initial…

Despite what it might seem like, I’ve actually been working on quite a lot of different things for Rhythm Quest recently! Let’s get right into it… Game/Music Speed Mod You can now change the speed of the music to make the game more or less difficult: Some of you might be wondering…

I’m continuing my break from working on world 6 levels for now. I’ve sent out the current build to some internal beta testers to get some feedback on the difficulty scaling and reception to the newer mechanics, so I want to give myself a chance to let that feedback come…

Somewhat unexpectedly, I took a break from working on levels this month to focus instead of **performance and memory optimizations**. …

I’m continuing to just roll ahead with levels! It’s funny, I feel like there was a long period of time when working on new levels and thinking about the mechanics felt intimidating, so I would just procrastinate on it and work on other miscellaneous things. But now I think it’s…

Despite not having a lot of time/energy to throw around this month, I somehow managed to finish working on level 5–5, tentatively titled “Brilliant Boulevard”: As is usual with the last level in each world, there are no new mechanics here, so it’s just combining everything from the previous…

The bad news is that it’s been 2 months since my last devlog post! The good news is that I’ve finished 3 entire levels in that time: Level 5–2 This level introduces green enemies that are placed at the beginning of a flight path, so you need to pretty…

I’ve completed work on level 5–1, tentatively titled “Gleaming Glassway”! This is the first level in world 5 (Crystal Caverns). I’ve got a =ton= to talk about for this level, but first, here’s a video of a full playthrough of it: Mechanical Identity World 5 is going to focus on the…

Working on Rhythm Quest off and on (~2–3 days per week) makes it harder to find time to do these devlogs, but I’ve still got a bunch of updates to report on nonetheless. New Promo Art First and probably most exciting, we have some brand new key art for Rhythm Quest, courtesy of…