New stages and Serve control


In the latest update I have added a feature that I've procrastinated doing for quite awhile now, serve control! Up until this point, the angle the ball was served at was fixed so it was the same every single time. I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to give the player some more control over this, but I never prioritized the functionality, until just the other day.

Now, there is an indicator visible while serving to show the angle that the ball will launch at. This angle is a moving target so it will take some timing to get accuracy, but this small feature adds a whole extra layer of control for players. Now when there's that one pesky brick remaining, or a spot you really want to try to squeeze the ball into, you have some ability to control that.

This is just the first pass at this feature so it will likely evolve over time. It currently fluctuates between -45 and 45 degrees, with 0 being a straight up the middle shot. If you have any feedback about this, please comment and let me know! Also if anyone is curious more about how this works behind the scenes then let me know and I would be happy to share.

Aside from that, two new stages were added to Adventure 2, and the stage select map was reworked quite a bit to fit those in and also rearrange the rest of the stages. If you were in the middle of playing Adventure 2 and this causes you problems please let me know. I don't expect any, but it's always possible that there is something I overlooked.

Lastly, a game crashing bug was patched for this release. The bug would occur when choosing to "quit stage" from the pause menu while the final ball was in play. Because the ball wasn't removed when quitting the stage it was still able to go out of bounds and trigger some logic that would attempt to cleanup the current stage, but the current stage was already gone at this time and so a reference error would occur and the game would crash. If you encountered this I apologize! I didn't notice it until working on the serve angle functionality, but it should be fixed now. If you still encounter it, or any other bugs, please leave a comment on the game page so I can investigate. 

That's it for this update! If you play the game and enjoy it leave a comment and let know. Thank you and happy gaming!

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May 04, 2022

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