Seablip News

New

• Player Skill Menu added (work in progress) - you can now level up the player the same way as your crew (the player will also have special skills)
  
• Crew max health increased (health +1 extra per level).
  

Visual:

• The enemy ship in battle is now framed at the same height as the player ship.
  

Another small update after some feedback from players (thanks for all feedback):

New

• All gold rewards from a seabattle are increased.
  
• The demo lacks high-level enemies to showcase the variety of upgrades/weapons in Seablip. To address this, I've added an extra medium-level octopus enemy and a hard-level pirate on the world map for those seeking a greater challenge than an easy ship.
  

Bug Fixes: Fishing

• Bluegill did not require bait
  
• Fish sometimes do not flip in the correct direction when declining bait.
  
• Performed some minor optimization on fishbait behavior
  

Saving/Loading

• Fixed an issue for new players concerning how startup preferences are loaded/saved. It likely wasn't causing any harm
  
• Fixed another problem that might be linked to an extremely rare bug preventing players from starting a New Game/Load Game
  

New:

• I have added more hair options to character customization (The missing hair has been replaced) Additionally, a duplicate hair option has been corrected
  
• The NPC mini talk bubble (indicating if NPC has dialog) is now adjusted to become transparent if the player looks in the wrong direction (talking is not possible)
  

Bug fixes:

• Text misspelling: Grandpa dialog on Spirit Bay
  
• Backpack upgrade event can happen twice (only one version should play)
  

New:

• I received feedback that the main story progressed a bit slowly in between dialogues and have adjusted the timing and removed some not-so-important parts of the intro. I hope it feels a little better now.
  
• I increased the normal animation speed for dialog text (you can modify the speed in settings).