Day 4 Update and What We're Working On

[p]Just a quick update today. We blew past 500 reviews which has personally been a long time goal of mine. A Black Hole sized thank you to anyone who's left a review. If you haven't already please leave us a Steam review, it really helps us a lot!

We're currently at 90% positivity which means the tag will show "Very Positive" on the Steam page. Which is a huge compliment and achievement for us, but we want to aim even higher and see if we can earn the "Overwhelmingly Positive" tag by getting up to 95%.[/p][p]Our plan to do this is simple. Keep adding fun new modes for the foreseeable future. We don't want to make any promises for how frequently we'll add new stuff, but we are inspired by the Mini Motorways devs (Dinosaur Polo Club) who have continued to add new game levels to their game years after their game was launched. Cory and I are having a lot of fun working on this game and we hope you're continuing to enjoy the new game mode.

Cheers,
Andy (Aarimous)
[/p][h3]Live Developer Q&A Tomorrow[/h3][p]Cory and I are going to do a live Q&A episode of my podcast Scope Creepers tomorrow on my Twitch channel. I will record the stream and make a post on Steam once the episode is published on YouTube.
[/p][p]Planned to start around 12pm CST (6 PM GMT) on Friday December 19th.

Please let us know if you have any question you'd like us to answer or feel free to drop by and ask us live.
[/p][h3]Zen Mode Added[/h3][p]We added a new mode. It’s called Zen Mode. In this mode there is no timer, no upgrades, you simply just need to break 1000 asteroids. If you like this mode let us know, we can add more types of Zen modes that are longer, shorter, or that focus on other game mechanics.[/p][p][/p][h3]Giant Grid Mode[/h3][p]Cory is working on Giant Grid which currently has 840 (!?) nodes in the tree. We wanted to get that out today, but we ran into a few bugs and loading issues since that’s like 4x the size of the main game mode’s tree.

[/p][h3]Roguelike Mode[/h3][p]I’ve started to work on Roguelike Mode which will be our first mode which has a fair amount of new development work.

The general idea is: What would it be like if each time you bought an upgrade you instead got to choose 1 out of 3 random upgrades with random values based on a randomly rolled rarity.

I'm hoping to have a beta build ready for testing tomorrow (Dec 19th), but that is subject to change since it’s already the end of the day on Thursday and tomorrow is a Friday after a long week of work supporting the launch. Plus I have the itch to dive into the new POE 2 league or play the new TFT Set.
[/p][h3]Speedrunning[/h3][p]Lastly, a few people in our Discord community are trying to get a Speedrun.com category of the game made so we can have some official world records. But for now a huge congratulations to Kaede who set (from what I can tell) the current Normal Mode World record of 1 hr 9 min 39 sec. [/p][p][/p][p]A time which blows my mind since my best time is around 2 hours and I thought I was playing fast. So now I wonder… is a sub 1 hour run possible? [/p][h3]Patch Notes:[/h3]

• [p]Added Zen Mode[/p]
• [p]Added an achievement for beating Zen Mode[/p]
• [p]Updated the German translations. Thank you Davidak for helping us out. Please reach out via Discord if you’d like to help us review or add your given language.[/p]
• [p]Adjusted the game mode screen so the previous and next button are now in the corners of the screen instead of all crammed in the bottom center. In the future we plan to rework the selector so it’s easier to find a mode that suits the vibe you are looking for.[/p]
• [p]Added Giant Grid Mode as a coming soon game mode[/p]
• [p]Added Idle mode as a coming soon game mode[/p][p][/p]

[p]Ok.. so it ended up being not such a quick update. But hey I'm excited about this game and I could talk about it for hours.[/p]