Retro News

[p]Hello everyone![/p][p][/p][p]It's been a couple of years since the last update. I wanted to let you all know what the future of Retro looks like.[/p][p][/p][p]I've been busy finishing my college degree and working on other projects. So, it's unlikely Retro will be receiving any updates in the future. However, if you find a bug, feel free to send me an email or message and I'll try to put out a fix.[/p][p][/p][p]As my skills have improved I've realized I have been charging too much for Retro. I think it's only fair that I make the game $1 USD (the lowest Steam will let me make it), especially because it won't be receiving further updates short of bugfixes. To celebrate, the game will be 50% off starting tomorrow, January 6th 2025, and I'll schedule deep sales often.[/p][p][/p][p]I'm not done with game development, in fact quite the opposite. I have a project in the works significantly more ambitious than Retro, so hopefully that will be finished soon. I'll post an update when it comes out.[/p][p][/p][p]Thank you to everyone who has played. I hope you're all doing well.[/p]

Fixed a bug where the "corruption" stage of the story mode wouldn't let the player progress when they hit the score requirement.

Have a great day!
-Matthew

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Hey everyone!

I made a couple of changes to Retro recently, here it is!

Difficulty changes

• Helicopters in Dogfight now have less health
  
• Decreased the point requirement to progress from Ball Protectors in story mode to 100
  

Gameplay changes

• If two bullets collide in Dogfight, they will both be destroyed
  

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where a distortion effect wasn't applied in the intro of the story
  
• Fixed an issue where the player won't be told when they can progress during the "corruption" portion of the story
  

And a lot of optimization updates
I went through nearly all of the code in the game and revised it to be a bit more performance-friendly.

Thanks
Thanks for playing Retro! I'll talk to everyone later!

-Matthew

I've been working on my next game! You can follow my progress on Twitter.

Hey everyone, it's Matthew.

Music Update history
Back in September of 2020, I promised an update for all of the music in Retro. The main menu music was replaced when I announced it and I was working on replacing or updating some music. For the time being, I temporarily replaced some music with the songs I was more proud of.

Fast forward to April of 2021, I canceled the music update. I've been busy with school, work, and working on my next game so I just didn't have the time to work on Retro.

Recently, I revived the music update and here it is! To kick off the update, Retro will be 80% off for 2 weeks (starting tomorrow, Steam wouldn't let me start it today for some reason)!

Changes in this update:

• 2 new songs: Hired Guns and Carbon. These are used for Zombies and Ball Protectors.
  
• All arcade songs have been updated.
  
• The soundtrack has been updated with these new songs.
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed objects to appear before the player was supposed to be able to see them.
  
• Minor optimization improvements.
  

Come talk to me!
If you run into any bugs, want to ask me questions, or just want to chat, please email me at [email protected] or shoot me a DM on Twitter! I'd be more than happy to chat!

Love yourself
These past couple of years have been rough for everyone. I know it's super easy to feel bad right now and be upset with the general state of the world. I just want to say that I'm super proud of each and every one of you for persevering through this time. I really hope you are in a good mental state as it is extremely important to stay positive in a time like this. But most importantly: love yourself, even if you don't feel like loving yourself. If that's hard for you, please reach out to someone who can help. I really want everyone to be happy so don't be afraid to ask for help.

Thank you and talk to you later!
I can't thank everyone who has played Retro enough. You all really mean so much to me and I am so thankful for all of you. I really hope you have a fantastic day and I'll talk to everyone again when I release the settings update!
-Matthew

P.S. I've been working hard on my next game. You can see more about it and check out my progress on Twitter.

Hey everyone! It's been a while. I've been busy working on my next game (you can check out my progress on my Twitter).

I got word about some bugs in the game, so I took some time and fixed them.

If you run into any more bugs, please email me at [email protected] and I will get on it as soon as I can! Please tell me what the bug does and how it can be recreated so I can fix it. You can also email me about anything else, I'd love to chat!

I can't believe it has already been over a year since I released Retro! It feels like I just released it last week. Since the launch, I've been busy working on a couple of different game ideas. I've worked on about six different game idea and gotten to a playable version for a couple of them. However, I lost interest in each of them but I think the project I've been working on for a couple of months now is something really unique and I'm pretty confident I will finish it! So, keep an eye out for that!

Because I'm already busy with my other game and other stuff, I'm not sure I will be able to get the music update finished any time soon, if at all. I do want to get it finished but don't get your hopes up. Sorry again.

Now to the changes in this update:

• Fixed a bug that caused the boss fight to be unbeatable. Sorry to anyone who wasn't able to beat the game because of this.
  
• The player can no longer go off of the screen on the boss fight (I have no idea how this happened, but it's fixed now).
  
• Cleaned up some unnecessary objects in various mini-games.
  
• Minor optimization improvements.
  

I hope you have a great day and I'll talk to everyone again soon!
-Matthew