Waves 2: Notorious News

I will be streaming some Live Dev of Waves 2: Notorious over on Twitch today from 3 PM GMT. These streams tend to run for 3-4 hours so feel free to pop in and say hi!

The stream will mostly be focused on turning the "Attract" prototype I built last week into a working Item and I will also be fixing some bugs, and tracking down some localization issues.

You can join the Discord or follow me on Twitter for notifications on when I go live as well as just hanging out with other fans of the Waves games!

Join the few, the proud, the multilingual!

If you speak any languages in addition to English then perhaps you can help translate the text in the game so that others might enjoy it as much as you do!

I'm using a site called localizor to manage the community translation of the game and so far Polish is winning by about 30%.

Joining is free for translators and you can suggest translations and vote on them, the top voted translations go into the game.

https://www.localizor.com/waves-2-notorious

If a language is missing from the list then just leave a comment or DM me either on Twitter or Discord.

Several members of the Discord are already hard at work translating the game into French and Polish and will be happy to help if you have any problems.

For the next few hours, I will be live over on Twitch creating the new "Attract" Utility item (aka a black hole).

Part of the next update will be a re-vamp of all the Utility Items in the game.

Utility Items are (as their name implies) not about killing things but being generally useful. They use Energy instead of Adrenaline and the most popular Item to date has been the default "Stop" (aka slow-mo).

It's important that every item in the game have a use but so far Stun, Repel, Rage, Barrier, and Glitch have not lived up to their potential always being out-done by Stop.

I intend to change this.

Today as part of a Live Stream I converted the old Glitch (previously called Emergency Teleport) into a brand spanky new Dash move (also called Glitch).

It lets you do things like this...



or even this...



oh and let's not forget about this...



Your ability to Glitch through/over things is only limited by the Cooldown and having enough energy and the Overdrive will cause a shockwave at the location you were at stunning nearby enemies.

I've been enjoying this Item a lot and I can't wait until everybody else can get their hands on it!

I will be aiming to do a Live Stream of some Dev work every Saturday and I will try to announce them here, on Twitter and on Discord so make sure you're following at least one of those!

Cheers!

Rob

If you've just joined the Waves community recently or you've been around since the start you can find other fans on the Squid In A Box Discord Server!

By joining the Squid In A Box Discord Server you can:

• Ask the Devs direct questions and get a direct answer.
  
• Promote your stream of Waves!
  
• Chat with the Devs and other fans about almost anything.
  
• Share pictures of your pets!
  
• Organise multiplayer games.
  
• Use Waves themed Emotes (clearly the best bit).
  
• Submit Bug Reports (It is still early access after all).
  

Join us over in the Squid In A Box Discord!