Beetle Uprising News

We promoted our build from last Friday to the Beta branch. Let us know if you try it, and whether you see any issues, before we roll it out to everyone in a day or so.

Here's what's new:

• New detail textures were added to the beetle visuals. Some of your existing beetles might change appearance (especially ones that had gold/yellow highlights). But this should add a lot more visual variety that you can breed for, including rare recessive "unlocks".
  
• Double-click in combat does a forced-march (like shift-click).
  
• Mouse wheel scrolls the item and beetle inventories. Shift-mouse-wheel moves the beetle selection (like Tab).
  
• Updated particle effects in combat, including different colored goop splashes for enemies vs friendlies.
  
• First steps of Breeding screen rework.
  
• Activity lists are sorted differently.
  

We have a new build for everyone. Here's what is new:

• Whole new area: The Trash Bin of Happiness. This includes the unlock of the map area, a new combat mission, and new tasks in that area. It gives out eggs with genes that give some useful stats.
  
• Fix to rewards UI to be able to scroll properly in all cases.
  
• New genetics manual.
  
• It is a bit easier to breed for special attacks.
  
• Blocks input while on modal dialogs, instead of passing through zooming, panning, etc to the underlying scene.
  
• Other small UI fixes.
  

The following Beetle is from The Trash Bin of Happiness. It has higher level visual genes, which can have more interesting colors and shader effects.

Darrin

We promoted a new build just now on the Beta branch. Remember that the Beta branch is open for everyone, but that you only have one shared save file across branches. Here's what is new:

- Whole new area: Trash Bin.
- Fix to rewards UI to be able to scroll properly in all cases.
- New genetics manual.
- It is a bit easier to breed for special attacks.
- Block input while on modal dialogs, instead of passing through zooming, panning, etc to the underlying scene.
- Other small UI fixes.

We'll promote this to everyone after a few days of folks testing here. Let us know if you try it and see issues, please.

Darrin

Thought I'd share some videos of people streaming our game. Pretty fun stuff. Lots of excitement...
ShirlieRox:

• https://youtu.be/loGb7ukD4dY
  
• https://youtu.be/_F3OWeXv9aM
  
• https://youtu.be/yWBKQIoUP3Y

GrayStillPlays

• https://youtu.be/Di7LQTAm-As

EveryNightXRiot

• https://youtu.be/5M--VzMMoc4

French Language

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgre8dl2emQ
  
• https://youtu.be/lwAYUd7Wuu8

We have released. The game is now live on Early Access. This is the first game Iocane Games has shipped, although the team has shipped a lot of great titles together and on other teams.

We are busy adding more content, fixing issues, and making the game easier to play and more fun.

We really hope you enjoy it. Leave us comments in the forums. Upload screenshots of your best looking Beetles. Like this one: