Shatter EVERYTHING is now available on Steam!

Thank you for all your support and feedback. I'm looking forward to advancing the game using what I've heard, but for now, please enjoy! 🎉

For the first early access release, I've made the following changes:

- Weaker but more plentiful enemies (extra SHATTERING)
- More timeslow fuel (and more useful slowdown speed)
- Icons appear when you pick up crystals, and crystals are more obvious
- Flamethrower has a sound effect, and uses proper spherical collision detection
- Fixed the random floating reticle in the menu

I'll be adding the names of beta testers to the credits screen as I collect names. Thanks for all your detailed feedback and lovely ideas, and I hope to do you all proud! 😊

In the interest of keeping you informed, I'll be putting my public roadmap of actual planned features here (https://trello.com/b/ZJx2OPum/shatter-everything-road-map). Other suggestions will make my (extremely large) private list, but no promises on them. 😉

There's also a discord for discussing the game here: https://discord.gg/ggGaxey

Happy shattering!!!
Chris

Howdy Folks!

Wanted to give you all a heads up; as this is the final week of development on Update 52, focusing on fixing bugs, there are going to be a whole bunch of pushes to the Alpha branch. If you're currently on the Alpha branch, and don't want to be frequently downloading several-gig updates as I do this final iteration, you have two options:

1. Switch back off of beta branches to mainline

2. Set your update option for the game to "only update this game when I launch it" in the Properties -> Updates section of the game.



As mentioned this past weekend, any and all help is useful in bug hunting for this final push for the update. If you run into functionality issues of any kind (lets hold the gun-inaccuracy/game balance stuff til later), please do create a bug report thread here in the BUG REPORTS section of the Steam Community forum.

The build being pushed today is meant to address a couple things, by altering the way that physics is calculated related to frame rate. These are fairly major changes under the hood, but SHOULD only result in user-side change that is somewhere between imperceptible to better.

- Major physics-related perf. spikes/sudden frame-rate implosion should be majorly improved

- Frame drops due to moving a complex gun over quick-belt holstered items while moving should be improved

- That Meatgrinder bug where a billion items would spawn out of a meatpile/box and then crash you SHOULD be fixed now

- The experience in game when having to run in reprojection should be less spiky and more stable (for our very low-hardware-spec users).

Hope you're all having a wonderful week!

Anton

In this update, we add traditional teleport locomotion (for those who may not like trackpad or our trackpad / teleport hybrid).

We also added a new difficulty mode called Hardcore. Enemies have less health, but do MUCH more damage. You will have to be very careful not to get hit much in this mode.

Also, we are working on adding 3 new bonus levels at the end of the game. The first new level (which will be released in our next update) will have the player piloting a space ship.

Thanks for playing, everyone! Let us know if you find any issues.

Last week was somewhat quiet — spent some time learning Ren'Py things that I probably should have known the first time around.

Ren'py's new built-in UI is a lot cleaner than the old one. I've started rebuilding the menu screens to fit the new UI. As an example, here's the old music room...



And here's the new one!



I fixed some obvious problems, like how the original music room spoiled the names of songs you hadn't unlocked yet. But, I'm still not much of a designer, so it will take some trial and error.

- @scarlet_string

Very late to announce this and there is only a few days left on it, but be sure to grab Restoration at a very low price alongside other games!

https://www.gogobundle.com/latest/bundles/gogobundle-45

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_0KMBy6U-4&t=6548s

Hey all,

A new update releases today with an entire overhaul of all visualizations! Experience all-new mind-melting patterns in glorious 4k resolution! Dozens of other tweaks and adjustments as well like:

New floors and floor effects
Glowstick Pinyatas
Interactive items in the venue to discover
New Explosions
Slow and Freeze time in regards to the venue lights
Lasers entirely rebuilt with 64 unique patterns
New visual effects
New particle effects
New lights in the venue
Upgraded existing textures
Bug fixes
Light color improvements
New menu screen
Improvements to past visual effects

Thanks for playing!

Hey folks,

We're bringing Trove offline at 8AM PDT (3PM UTC) on May 15, 2018 for the May Update. Get the patch notes below.

Downtime may last up to 4 hours but we'll bring each version of the game back online as they become available.

Thanks

Chaos Chests

• To make room for future items we have retired 20 collectables from the Chaos Chest chase prize list. These collectables will no longer drop from Chaos Chests or Golden Chaos Chests but will remain on the Chaos Core Crafter under a new category - Chaos Vault. Here is a list of the collectables:
  
  • Benevolent Bovine
    
  • Echo Wave Cycle
    
  • Hexflame Harrier
    
  • Digital Dragonfly Wings
    
  • Silver Tabby Meownt
    
  • Hydrojet Streamers
    
  • BL-0550-M Off-Road Custom
    
  • Toasty Coaster
    
  • Cobalt Carp
    
  • Brownie Boosters
    
  • Cyclone Skimmer
    
  • Verses of Violence
    
  • Whacky Waffle
    
  • Proto Platypus
    
  • Batty Batoid
    
  • Infini Frigate
    
  • Siramis, Spring's Renewal
    
  • Cinnabar Squad Quad
    
  • Rocket Ship
    
  • Rolling Salvo

Store

• 2 new Double Experience Packs are now available - boost leveling with either a 5 pack or a 30 pack.
  
• The Style tab now has the Mobile Melon mount and the Red Storm costume for the Lunar Lancer.

Additional Updates

• The Radiant Merchant in the Hub has an expanded collection of wares for sale until 4AM PDT (11 AM UTC) on 5/22.
  
  • Class Gem Keys are available for 1 Radiant Sovereign
    
  • Lustrous Gem Boxes are available for 3 Radiant Sovereigns
    
  • Stellar Empowered Gem Boxes are available for 7 Radiant Sovereigns.
• A new set of Dev Dream allies have been introduced. Watch the livestream to win boxes and collect them all! (Note: these allies do not grant Mastery. Further note: Tiny Tea Rex is clearly the best one.)
  
• Luxion now appears prominently on the welcome screen when he has landed in the Hub!
  
• The welcome screen image for Gathering Day will now show Steed Feed instead of the erroneously displayed Shadow Shard.
  
• The Gloaming Guardian costume for Vanguardian is now available from the Shadowy Market for Despoiled Divinity.
  
• Fixed an issue that could cause Challenge alerts to get stuck in a Times Up state in Club Worlds.
  
• The leech effect on the Tomb Raiser's Basic Attack in normal and Banshee form should now work correctly in the Ultra mode of the Shadow Tower.
  
• Knight's "Iron Will" ability will now only apply to friendly players in Battle Arenas.
  
• Updated the text for the Enter a Medieval Highlands World to reflect that the Atlas is actually a large workstation.
  
• The Outpost Adventure to kill 10 enemies of the resistors in Luminopolis should now give credit for all enemies killed inside the sub-biome.
  
• Mycenius, the Club Adventure NPC, has grown tired of his sword collection and now desires Shapestone from his beloved home of Medieval Highlands. His Find Swords in Medieval Highlands adventures have been replaced with Mine Shapestone in Medieval Highlands adventures.
  
• The Fire VFX in the Darknik Dreadnaught fight should now orient correctly.
  
• The Anti-Gravity Gravy Boat and Mobile Miso Bowl can now glide.
  
• The tooltips for Gigastormer Beacons now mention how long they'll last before despawning.
  
• The Market Daily Bonus will no longer tell non-members they must pay rent to use it.
  
• Fixed an incorrect error message that could occur when paying rent for fixtures.
  
• [PS4 Only] Improved invites from both in game and out of game. Note that occasionally invites may not teleport you directly to the inviting player.

Hello! Please check out our latest devlog here!

This month we've been busy working on floor 3, helping water dragons out of a maze, and restoring colour to a coral reef.

Thank you :)

Following some feedback from our supporters we are releasing an additional chapter of The Great Gaias for our Early Access subscribers. This will be about 20 hours of main story to experience and explore with Pots and his companions during their adventures in the capital and even the dreaded City of the Dead! We plan to release more Chapters as the weeks go by until the official release date!

Thank you for your continued support!