Celtreos News

The next Celtreos patch is live!


A number of possible slow-downs have been fixed, including issues with certain weapons, among other things.  A few cases of excessive memory use have also been addressed.


A number of things in the game are more animated, such as a few weapons and defenders.  Interface elements like buttons now display a glow when you hover over them with the mouse.  Minor improvements have also been made to artwork in some parts of the game.

This game was first released in 2017 but has been updated over 65 times (including late 2021), on average once a month, making huge additions such as:

• New stages
  
• Improved soundtrack and brand new songs!
  
• Two-player mode
  
• Many, many new weapons over time, and the ability to customize weapon arrays
  
• New ships, and an entirely new ship-customization mode
  
• New power-ups and other game items
  
• New enemies, and even a 2nd end-game boss!
  
• New gameplay features such as Achievements, Fragments and rotating stages
  
• New controls such as ship slow-down and changing default speed
  
• Improved game artwork continuously (making more detailed backgrounds for instance)
  
• Support for the latest operating systems, computer hardware and game controllers!
  
• Redesign to support wider-screen format
  
• Upgrading effects and voice to support positional sound
  
• Continuous improvements to performance and other low-level aspects of the code
  
• Localization of the in-game UI to French
  

A big update to Celtreos!


Several songs have been tweaked, including: “Disposition”, “Navigation”, “Obliteration”, “Assignment”, “Acquisition”, “Confrontation”, “Flow” and “Excursion”. Also, songs have been re-exported with higher-quality source instruments for even better sound!


Several weapons have new, unique impact animations!  There have been other artwork and animation improvements too; for example, the icon for the Lightning effect is now much cooler-looking.


There are two new “smoke” colors and two new “stream” colors!  There are now a total of 10 options for ship exhaust effects.


When you use the “Test…” function in the Ship Editor, you will now see a series of clustered power-ups at the beginning to make it much easier to test different setups (such as multipliers, rapid fire, defender pods, or powered-up default weapons).  There are also enough of these laid out to work well in two-player tests.

More ship configuration options, and a more useful “Test Mode”.

The next Celtreos patch is live!


The entire user interface of the game has been localized to French (but long-form text such as the introductory story and game-end story are still in English; also, weapon names and their voice call-outs are still in English).

To enable the French interface on the Mac, either set the system-wide language to French or use System Preferences (“Language & Region”, “Apps” tab) to set the per-app language for Celtreos to French.


There have been some minor performance improvements to the game, and some small artwork tweaks (such as the background in “Shipyard Attack”).

The next Celtreos patch is live!


A number of stages now have much more detailed backgrounds!  A few other smaller pieces of artwork have also been enhanced, along with some animations and effects.


A few songs have been further improved, including: “Obliteration”, “Flow”, “Disposition”, “Acquisition”, and “Achievement”.


The Test Stage has some new things to shoot at, and a few other stages in the game have had minor content tweaks as well.

Stage backgrounds look better than ever.  And there are lots of other tweaks, too!