DASH: Danger Action Speed Heroes News

Happy Monday DASHers! Another patch (1001 p. 12) Early Access test build is live now on Steam
This build introduces new features as well as numerous bug fixes
(Restart Steam and let the Steam client download the new build)

18th of Feb 2019
Early Access 1001 rc. 12 (test build)



UPDATES:
- Introducing the Slapbat! A new flying enemy of the King Slap family :slap: (currently with a bug where you are invisible whilst touching them - *have fun with this till next update!! It's sort of inspiring...*)
- New inspiring mini map when creating
- World Record replay ghost's alpha (transparency) is relative to player distance
- New building cursor sound effects to create more variation in the editor
- Fixed layer order issue with load slots and overlay box
- Fixed crash when running Training

- Baby Duka & Leary

Happy Friday DASHers! A new alpha pre-Early Access build is live now!

We are continuing from the alpha branch which soon will be changed to clean Early Access branch (EA) meaning new folders and the game resetting your medals and levels (this build doesn't)



(Restart Steam and let the Steam client download the new build)

- Pre Early Access 1001 rc. 10


UPDATES:

- New entirely fresh and DASHingly *fast* compression system! No more waiting time on long levels or reruns!
- Make levels with up to 1000 tiles (as we are getting closer to endless tiles)
- New World Record ghost: Watch the fastes player's run! (follow the ghost by pressing 'D' or R2 on the controller)
- Take screenshot where you wish in the level prior to saving it
- New Main Menu design
- New head-bounce-counts-as-ground-check mechanic update!
- and more!

We still have a long a** list of errors which we are going through so worry not - more polish and fixing is going on, on a daily basis :bdfireeyes:

The build is going through some rough changes and there might be some errors which is temporary. Feel free to play it and report any major issues you're experiencing!

If you wish to help test the new build in its entirety, please go to your local appData folder and erase all content (levels, player data etc)

- baby duka & leary

Before closing the Alpha dev, we're launching one last patch this year including some polish, optimization and added details!



Alpha build 253 patch 02
21-11-2018

• Fixed error when opening Settings tab in Editor when moving the cursor simultaniously
  
• New music: updated Rooftop theme by Baby Duka
  
• Adjusted volume on Rooftop theme by B. Magic
  
• Implemented one atmospheric layer of audio depending on week day for the Editor; the audio while editing will change during the week
  
• Added more detail to the jungle detail tile (flowers and leaves) to create more dynimacs with color
  
• Changed splash screen to be less dark-toned and more about DASH World; also removed animated gifs which did not give the wanted effect. On the contrary it was slightly confusing
  
• Updated Main Menu button sprites to be darker encreasing contrast and attention
  

Soon we will put up an article/post mortem of the open dev and all the goodies we've accomplished together :urbansocial:

WE WILL BE BACK AS SOON AS 2019 ARRIVES WARMING UP FOR THE EARLY ACCESS LAUNCH 1st QUARTER OF THE YEAR

The final build of 2018 is live
Let your Steam client update and press PLAY



Alpha build 253
2-11-2018

This is the final real update before 2019. Patches will be uploaded but no further implementations will happen for the rest of the year.



Changelog for build 253:

GAME:
- Introducing new Hero: **Max Leap** - one rabbit who never settled down
- Introducing new tileset: Rooftops with 2 new backgrounds and 2 new music themes (urban themes from the game Urban Pirate by Baby Duka and B. Magic)
- Setting a lock on the new introduced implementations to encourage more gameplay
- Made head-jumping more precise
- Took all Heroes' Speed stat 1 down in the Menu (not in the game). This is to give more space to faster heroes in the future
- Introducing new filter: Best Rating. Also moving the Alphabetical filter to the bottom placing the Best Rating levels in the top
- Made it so that every time you erase or place a tile the time file is erased. In order to avoid uploads of levels which can't be completed.
- Fixed a bug where you were unable to upload a level with a straight record (ie. 00:05.00)
- New default Worlds in the Play Menu (formerly known as the Run Menu)
- New Max Leap emojis on the Discord! (Join now for the best experience!)

DASH WORLD:
- New splash menu, bidding player welcome and showing featured news/content
- Introducing new Sharing option: Click the sharing logo next to the title of your World and receive a unique ID link. This link can be shared anywhere you like (the Discord, Twitch chat, Twitter etc).
If a player who is already logged into DASH World clicks the link, the World will be transferred to their unique DASH World account!

PR:
During the rest of November 2018 we will make a move once again to get people on board. During this period we will like to encourage you to make the ultimate Worlds and share them on the Discord. If you have made a cool World which is outstanding we will take and make it one of the default Worlds all players receive as they get the game in the future!

Thank you all alpha testers for being here and giving feedback. It has been a great piece of dev and the game has become far more than we could've imagined ourselves! THANK YOU and looking forward to 2019!

There will still be patches uploaded.

DASH ON!

Build 252 patch 02 07-11-2018

Let the client update and press PLAY



This new build should fix

- the resoultion issues with the shader and Pause Menu. Surface should now strect according to window size

- the Linux-controller-crash-issue: The game should not crash when playing with controllers on Linux. The game might not read the proper input yet and it might display a wrong icon referring to the wrong type of gamepad but it should work all the way through!