I’ve been continuing to try my best to clock in some hours toward fleshing out the Rhythm Quest level editor! Here’s some quick demos of what is now possible in the editor:

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…