v8.22h - May 24th, 2025
-Added interactions for Frozen Veyeral and Astrayo to both gift delivery events
-Added a new minigame to Voltage Veyeral's event (in the rainy field)
-Text can't be skipped while it's in fast talking mode (This mainly applies to Astrayo dialogue)
-All Zaramech and Glass Flora monsters now bump you away if you touch their main body
-Optimized the drawing of circles for panic attacks, blue safety bubbles, and all monster saw attacks
-A bunch of other tiny optimizations over many battles
-Adjusted the possible answers for some quiz questions that had ambiguously incorrect answers due to the addition of new events
-Adjusted the layering of objects in Shy Momo and Shiny Momo's battles
-Adjusted the way movement speed reducing burdens apply their effect since it would ignore any speed gained by Sugar Mites
-Bug Fix: Saved Quick Gifts in Endless Stress were not loading correctly
-Bug Fix: Roundsaw's broken shell parts spawned a little off center
-Fixed several typos

I finished MOST of the optimizations I had in my list! All that's left for gift deliveries are 4 interactions. One of these specifically needs a new set of bonus gifts that I also have to make. The final patch of v8.22 will be released whenever I finish these! Probably about a week from now as most of these have been.

v8.22g - May 14th, 2025
-Added 3 new interactions to both gift delivery events
-Made A LOT of internal optimizations that shouldn't change anything visually for you, but may have introduced new bugs
-Added some new combinations of backgrounds tinting against certain monster battles for better contrast
-Bug fix: Some of Molten Veyeral's event options did not preview the change to the temperature bar correctly
-In Voltage Veyeral's event the "Take Burden" option will only appear if you are in an area that aligns with Voltage's desires. This avoids very specific and incorrect looking outcomes with the amount of charge gained or lost by taking a burden.
-Bug Fix: In the endless shop, the price of gifts for the 3 main shot types increased faster than intended
-In the endless shop, the price of gifts will now increase even more if you go above 105% love power
-Fixed several typos

This one was a little late, but I spent most of the week finally knocking out a big optimization that I've been putting off for a while. Without getting super technical, I rewrote how the game draws plain color boxes. This was usually done using a built in function of gamemaker, but it can be very inefficient. Examples of this are black squares insides of void walls during battles, and drawing screen sized rectangles to tint the backgrounds. This was also the reason I changed the yellow safety bubbles in the last patch. Those were using gamemaker's default circles instead. But this time, nothing should look any different as long as I didn't mess any of it up!

The new gift interactions are for Dot, Vitrea, and Vibrant Veyeral. This leaves only 3 glyphs and 3 veyerals to give interactions to. There are actually still a few more than that, but those are for the monsters that don't have their own events yet. Those interactions will be added later!

I want to get a few other things done on this schedule, so I'm going to split all the remaining stuff into 2 more patches before returning to the regular schedule. I won't put a date on the next patch, but it will be soon!

v8.22f - May 3rd, 2025
-Added 4 new interactions to both gift delivery events
-Changes to the radiating collection tutorial intended to nudge players towards discovering all the extra card details
-Optimized the way critical bubbles are drawn
-Changed the way yellow safety bubbles are drawn, and optimized them too
-Nix Polyps: Safety bubbles created by breaking a polyp will always appear on the screen even if the polyp was broken off screen
-Gem Battles: Optimized code for drawing the rings and orbitals
-Nova Battle: Optimized a lot of code that was running for gems that were not even on screen
-Bug Fix: Calorie and Pearl's phase 2 rings were always supposed to pulse with the music beat, but they didn't
-Bug Fix: During a battle with a Fallen Heart, the game could crash if the music ever cuts out
-Bug Fix: Music set in the music room would unintentionally revert back to the normal menu music when leaving the music room

The new gift delivery interactions are: Chemory, Hadesoh, Syncron, and Flip Flap

I am knocking out a lot of random things off THE LIST.
Once again, the next patch will be whatever I get done by next weekend.

v8.22e - April 28th, 2025
-11 new stage events (Total: 79)
-Added 3 new interactions to both gift delivery events
-Moved around a bunch of unlocks
-Added Wrathful and Repelling effects to Rage Duet, Venom Veyeral, Vibrant Veyeral, Nix and Tox Polyps
-Made some changes to Ruby and Heliola's Wrathful battles
-Most guardians, Eyeric Glyphs, and special monsters now bump you away if you touch their main body
-In Amber's battle, the top and bottom rows of spikes will now bump you away
-Bug Fix: Dendrohai used Heliola's collision shape for collision with your heart

Here are the 2 small patches I released shortly after last week's patch notes:
v8.22dd - April 20th, 2025
-Fixed a crash due to a new version of gamemaker (although it was kinda my fault too, I left a coding landmine in there)
v8.22dedede - April 21st, 2025
-Added back some of Momo's gift delivery text that was accidentally removed in v8.22d
-Added Anomaly's interactions to both gift delivery events

The new delivery interactions are: Blot, Joule, Null Unit, and Anomaly (added in one of the small patches)

The next patch will be whatever I get done next week again. It's looking like 2 or maybe 3 more weekly patches to finish up the gift delivery events.

v8.22d - April 20th, 2025
-2 new dreams to fulfill (Total: 740)
-Added 10 new interactions to both gift delivery events
-Collision with the main body of many monsters will now bump you away (This includes most Shambles, Veyerals, Newborns, and Gems. The rest will be added later.)
-All "void walls" of any element will now bump you away if you touch them, and if you warp into them with the Boundless effect, it will kick you back to the other side
-Lowered the requirement for one of Echo's dreams now that she can push you away
-Changed the requirement for one of Veyeral Quartet's dreams
-Revamped the system for setting damage and defense values on objects. This should not have any noticeable changes yet, but it may have introduced some bugs
-Bug Fix: During a screen flipped battle, pausing after the battle ends would keep the screen flipped during the results screen

The new delivery interactions are for: All 6 gem monsters, Pearl, Kiwi, Voltage Veyeral, and Venom Veyeral

The attack value system has been adjusted to allow me to add bleeding damage types to monster attacks. Right now all bleeding effects are exclusive to burdens, and some events. I want to add these effects directly to certain monster bullets. For an easy example, it makes sense for blood bullets to cause bleeding damage. None of this is implemented yet, but it will be in the future!

There are now less than 20 interactions with available monsters left, so next update will be whatever I get done by next week.

v8.22c - April 13th, 2025
-Added 10 new interactions to both gift delivery events
-Only monsters that have been loved in the current run can appear as delivery options, but there is no limit to how many
-Added Wrathful and Repelling battle effects to Heliola, Chemory, and Philolu
-Added memory text for all the new bounty gifts
-Added a tutorial scene for Fortress Battles
-Adjusted the elemental defense and weakness values for many breakable projectiles
-Most elemental projectiles from Veyerals and Glass Flora are now completely immune to their own element, but their elemental weaknesses have also been increased
-Fixed some elements of the HUD updating a frame late, causing some jittering (hopefully this doesn't cause other problems)
-Bug Fix: loading a run would temporarily mess up your story medal completion percentage in the stats screen until you started a new run
-Bug Fix: saving during a run did not save any blessing luck values, so loading a stage with blessing gifts present and then rerolling them would delete all blessings

New Gift Delivery interactions: Amalga, Snowball, Roundsaw, Hematoren, Heliola, Prisma, Sentinel 4X, Glacia, Momo, Split Veyeral

I made elemental weaknesses and resistances a little more impactful in some battles. For example, Burning Veyeral's fire rocks are indestructible if you only hit them with Burn damage now, but they break very quickly with Void damage. There are other ideas I have for making element damage feel more impactful in some battles, and I will slowly put them in throughout these event updates. These will not affect the monster's overall defense values, but only certain breakable parts.

Next patch will come when I get 30 total interactions with each gift delivery event. Both events will also get their achievement/dreams in the next one!

v8.22b - April 6th, 2025
-5 new bounty gifts (Total: 48)
-1 new stage event (Total: 68)
-Both gift delivery events have 10 interactions, but only up to 4 are randomly chosen + "Nobody" as the 5th option
-The game now tracks if you have completed deliveries from each unique monster
-Gift Deliveries now require that you've seen each monster's own event before they can appear as a delivery option
-Added Wrathful and Repelling battle effects to Rage Prisma, Ruby, and Scarlet
-Bug Fix: Depending on a monsters name, if they come alphabetically after "hud," then their battle timer would last an extra frame after defeat. This has been standardized across all battles.
-Bug Fix? Potentially, all minigames had a 1 frame input delay, and this MAY have been fixed

v8.22bb - April 6th, 2025
-Oops fixed a little crash. No one noticed, right?

A list of all monsters with delivery interactions now:
Scrambla, Boiler, Knot Knott, Calorie, Rendy, Lila, Photoxai, Ombroah, Unit Lulu, Burning Veyeral

The next patch will happen when delivery events have 20 interactions! There will no longer be a limit to the available delivery options, but they will be determined by which monsters you've loved in that run

v8.22a - March 30th, 2025
-Added Sandrome's event (Total: 67)
-Added Rendy's interaction to both delivery events
-The forgetful burden effect will not apply to the first part of a Gift Delivery event, since your character is not the one perceiving those gifts
-Bug Fix: Special and gem monsters would not appear with bounties in endless mode

I've added Sandrome's event now, so I can be working on interactions with all other monsters simultaneously for both events.

It's still March 21st until I wake up on the 22nd, alright!

This time I've added Storm Veyeral's event, or at least a part of it. As a SPOILER WARNING, I'm going to explain this new event in detail, and my future plans for it, down below. The main takeaway is that I'm going to be patching more content into it, along with other small stage events. The patches will come randomly every few days for the next few weeks!

Early Access updated game version to v8.22

• 1 new Event (Total: 66)

• Rage Boiler and Voladrome's battles are now affected by the wrathful battle effect (I will also be applying wrathful effects to all the remaining Rage Battles during the next few patches)

• Bug Fix: You could encounter one of the new stage events while you had a burden effect that would make all challenges impossible to pass
  
• Bug Fix: Day Bloom was accidentally left at +1 burn defense when all other gifts in the flower set were buffed to +1.5 defense
  
• Bug Fix: Rerolling monsters would not always correctly reroll gift challenges that became incompatible with the new monster

Storm Veyeral's event is a sort of an evolved version of a Free Gift Event. I'm calling it a Gift Delivery Event. Some time after a fight with Storm Veyeral, you will get a scene from the perspective of Storm Veyeral who meets with another monster of your choice. During this scene, the other monster will give Storm Veyeral 1 or 2 gifts to deliver to your character. Then after the next battle, Storm will show up to actually give you the gifts that you chose in the previous scene.

Right now, the only choices are always Scrambla, Boiler, Calorie, and "Nobody" which is just Storm Veyeral finding a random gift on her own. The plan is for every single monster with a scene portrait, to have a possible interaction in this event! When I've added enough of them, the choices you get will depend on which monster's you've loved during the run, and if you've actually seen their individual event before. (This way the portrait's aren't spoiled too soon!) There will be around 50 unique monsters with portraits that will qualify.

The purpose of this event is to have more interactions with all the different monsters, and also see how they behave when your chosen Zaraden isn't around. Each monster has their own pool of gifts, and can have different reactions depending on what character you are playing as. There are also some interesting things that can happen when you get to choose gifts that you won't actually receive until after the next battle. I might also play around with how long the delivery takes.

For the next few weeks, I'll be patching in more monster interactions for this event. Along with more Stage Events here and there! Sandrome's event will also be added soon, since it will be the same type of event. Many of the interactions will share the same text between the two, so I'm kinda working on both at the same time! These event's will also get their own Dream/Achievement, but I needed to make more possible interactions first.


As I said above, I'll be focusing on patching Storm Veyeral and Sandrome's events for the next few weeks.
(Sorry Chionotoh fans, I promise she's next. Actually, I don't promise, I can't be trusted!)

I'm also revealing what type of event all the remaining monsters get. Except for one which I haven't completely decided on yet. It's mostly all Bonding Time though.

• Sandrome (Gift Delivery)
  
• Voladrome (Bonding Time)
  
• Shanx (Bonding Time)
  
• Dendrohai (Bonding Time)
  
• Lavalin (Bonding Time)
  
• Chionotoh (Bonding Time)
  
• Ventra (Bonding Time)
  
• Blizzard Veyeral (???)

I won't plan exact days for the next patches, but expect something every few days!

Thank you for playing!
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v8.21a - March 13th, 2025
-2 new Events (Total: 65)
-Moved around some unlocks
-Adjusted the behavior of Null Glacia's spikes
-Changed the wording of Null Glacia's battle tip
-Bug Fix: The Bonus Tetrid gift cap was unintentionally halved in all modes
-Bug Fix: Getting tetrid bonus gifts would reduce boss level in The Towers
-Bug Fix: The 12th and 15th gifts saved into the 7th Quickplay loadout slot would fail to load