Change Log Dump - v0.9.1.0 and prior

Music Credit - MYSTERY MAMMAL. Spotify Link

v0.9.1.0

2025/02/22

Gameplay

SFX

• New - Sounds
  • New sound for incoming shooting star.
  • New sound for incoming Black Hole.
  • New sound for Game Stage change. Also increased visual size.
  • New sound Shield hit
  • New sound Shield destroy
  • New sound Item pickup

Items

• New - Points given when more than 3 hearts are in stock.
  • New sound for pickup.

Music

• New - Menu music and game over screen music. - Credit MYSTERY MAMMAL. Spotify Link

Points

• New - Bonus points for shooting all frozen rocks.

Rocks

• New - Rocks spawn if there are too few and each Game Stage.

UI and Options

Volume Menu

• Fix - Sliders not saving settings.

Known Bugs

• Occasionally Player sprite will not apply on collecting Power Up or Item.

v0.9.0.0

2025/02/20

Gameplay

Player

• New - Passive/Active abilities to purchase in the shop
  • Attract Distance - Distance from Item/Power Up to Player. 500 to 1000 distance units.
  • Attract Speed - Speed at which the Item/Power Up will be attracted to the player. 5 to 30.
  • HATS!
• Change - Increased acceleration speed.
• Change - Increased Machine Gun recoil.

Points

• Change - Difficulty multiplier:
  • HARD Difficulty now 2x bonus multiplier.
  • EXTREME Difficulty now 4x bonus multiplier.
• Fix - Gold Rock and Shooting Star not showing correct Points Pop up value.
• Fix - Actual points not calculating correctly. (Popup value was correct)
• Fix - Star Power Up points not multiplying with Combo Multiplier.

Music

• Change - New in game music. Not permanent (Maybe)

Items

• Change - Reduced Nuke and Freeze countdown.
• Change - Nuke and Freeze Icon now on top of player sprite.

Rocks

• New - Gameplay Stages
  • As time increases, gameplay stages change shown by a ‘>’ underneath the game timer.
  • Each Stage increases the Rock's speed and the max quantity of Rocks.
• Change - Number of Rocks overall reduced during gameplay at beginning of game.
• Change - Max number of Rocks also changes with how many lives the player has. Reduces with less lives.

UI and Options

Volume Menu

• New - Volume controls
  • SFX
  • Items
  • Music
  • Master

Settings Menu

• New - Shop
  • Purchasable using Gold Chunks:
    • Propeller hat.
    • Bowler hat.
    • Attract Dist and Attract Speed abilities.
• Change - Tidied menus. Still placeholder art.
• Fix - Not remembering difficulty after closing game.

Stats Menu

• Fix - all averages not calculating properly
• Fix - all Bullets shot and missed not calculating properly.

Known Bugs

• Occasionally Player sprite will not apply on collecting Power Up or Item.

v0.8.5.0

2025/02/13

Gameplay

Player

• New - Practice mode. Allows player to select any settings and not loose any lives. Score will not be recorded.
• New - If player doesn't fire during the gameplay, no score and no +1 to ‘Games Played’ will be recorded.
• New - Combo Bonus Point Multiplier
  • Stage 5 - 4x

Power Up

• New - Flak Cannon Power Up.
• Change - Star Power Up points now +500

Black Hole

• Change - Spawns much later than before.

UI and Options

Settings Menu

• New - Practice mode toggle.

Game Over Screen

• Change - Last game and High Score stats now include:
  • Difficulty
  • Starting Lives

Known Bugs

• Star Power Up points not multiplying with Combo Multiplier.

v0.8.4.0

2025/02/11

Gameplay

Player

• Fix - Side Power Up only showing gun smoke from one side.
• Fix - Points not rounding with the Points Popup.
• Fix - Dpad left and right not showing boosters or smoke trail.
• Change - Points Popup are now individually coloured according to their Combo Bonus Multiplier.
• Change - Combo Bonus Point Multiplier
  • Stage 1 - 1.50x
  • Stage 2 - 2.00x
  • Stage 3 - 2.50x
  • Stage 4 - 3.00x
• Change - Points now calculated on 'Points Per Rock (50) + Power UP/Item Bonus Points * Difficulty Multiplier * Combo Multiplier.
• Change - Easy difficulty now 0.50 x Multiplier.
• Change - Star Power Up now contributes to combo multiplier

UI and Options

• Fix - FPS counter now remembers it's status between games.
• New - Combo timer gauge.

Known Bugs

• N/A

v0.8.3.0

2025/02/08

Gameplay

Performance

• Change - Large in-game performance increase due to poor coding lol.

UI and Options

• New - Graphics settings to go along with performance increase.
• New - FPS counter - Press ‘F1’.

Known Bugs

• N/A

v0.8.2.0

2025/02/06

Gameplay

Power Up

• New - Freeze - An Item that is trigger by holding the action button. Freezes all Rock in place for a short time.

UI and Options

• N//A

Known Bugs

• N/A

v0.8.1.0

2025/02/06

Gameplay

Points

• New - As rocks are destroyed point indicators spawns at the location of the impact.

Gold Rock & Shooting Star

• Change - Hit sound now increases in pitch as either gets closer to being destroyed.

Bullets

• Change - Machine Gun fire rate decreased.

Rocks

• Change - Rock have different colours depending on difficulty.

UI and Options

Settings

• New - Toggle to turn point indicators on or off.

Stats - Settings sub menu

• Change - Greyed out options now are coloured but transparent when hovered with mouse or selected with gamepad.
   

Known Bugs

• N/A

v0.8.0.1

2025/02/03

Gameplay

Player

• Fix - Potential for any bullet to last for too long after being fired. (Specifically Heavy Bullet)
• Fix - Wrong colour of Bullet impact particles when colliding with anything after Power Up had ended.
• Fix - Shield destroy not triggering invinc frames.
• Fix - 1 frame delay on invincibility frames causing player to die if colliding with anything on first frame of respawn.

Rocks

• Change - Rock debris is now interactible with player and bullets.
• Change - Rock debris now spawns in a random location within the sprite rather than it's centre.

Difficulty settings

HARD

• Change - Reduced Rock spawn speeds - random range ( 1.5, 4.0 )

EXTREME

• Change - Reduced Rock spawn speeds - random range ( 4.0 , 6.0 )

Bullets

• Change - Heavy Bullet now increases in size over time.

UI and Options

Settings

• New - Graphics options. Reduce or increase particles.
• Change - Difficulty and Lives selectors grey out options that aren't available. (Gamepad support needs work on this)
• Change - Settings menu option now have descriptions of changes.

Stats - Settings sub menu

• Fix - Heavy bullets not counting misses and hits correctly.
   

Known Bugs

• N/A

v0.8.0.0

2025/01/22

ALL EXISTING DATA WILL BE ERASED

Back-end Code

• Change - refactored almost all game-play code to streamline Power Up and Item collection and depletion.
• Change - Optimisation pass.

Gameplay

Player

• New - Booster sprite and animation while accelerating and rotating.
• New - Smoke trail while accelerating and rotating.
• New - Sound FX while accelerating and rotating.
• Change - Increased default player acceleration and rotation speed from 0.11 and 4.0 to 0.13 and 4.5 respectively.
• Change - Flashing animation while Power Up is ending now flashes between current Power Up sprite and default sprite.
• Change - Increased Bullet speed on all Bullets to 15, Machine Gun to 20 and excepting the Heavy.
• Change - Player Shield now flexes and rotates on impact.
• Fix - Heavy bullet can last longer than intended if fired during last few frames of Power Up duration.

Black Hole

• New - Increases in size and intensity as it collides with rocks.
• New - Now creates particles that circle itself when colliding with objects.

Gold Rock

• Change - Gold Rock remembers HP from previous appearance.

UI and Options

New - Difficulty settings

EASY

• Points Multiplier  = 0.75x
• Accel and Rotate speed multiplier = 1x
• Rock spawn speeds - random range ( 0.5, 1.5 )
• Rock max speed = 4.5 (Black hole slingshot)
• No Bullet collision with player

NORMAL

• Points Multiplier = 1x
• Accel and Rotate speed multiplier = 1x
• Rock spawn speeds - random range ( 0.5, 2.5 )
• Rock max speed = 7.5 (Black hole slingshot)
• Bullet collision with player

HARD

• Points Multiplier = 1.5x
• Accel and Rotate speed multiplier = 1.2x
• Rock spawn speeds - random range ( 1.5, 5.0 )
• Rock max speed = 15 (Black hole slingshot)
• Bullet collision with player

EXTREME

• Points Multiplier = 2x
• Accel and Rotate speed multiplier = 1.5x
• Rock spawn speeds - random range ( 5.0 , 8.0 )
• Rock max speed = 24 (Black hole slingshot)
• Bullet collision with player

Settings

• New - Settings Menu.
• New - Difficulty selector
• Change - Moved Lives selector to Settings menu.
• Change - Reset High score now defaults Player lives to 2, difficulty to Normal, and all stats to 0.

Stats - Settings sub menu

• New - Average accuracy
• New - Average time survived
• New - Average bullets shot
• New - Average bullets missed
• New - last accuracy
• New - last time survived
• New - last bullets shot
• New - last bullets missed
• New - last difficulty
• New - last starting lives
• New - Bullets shot total
• New - Bullets missed total
• New - Games played total
• New - Games played (Difficulty) each
• Change - High score + time survived + pps + avg hit + difficulty + bullets shot + starting lives
   

Known Bugs

• Game crashes if gamepad connection is made during initial load of game??
• Power up sprite not always applying correctly

v0.7.9.3

2025/01/11

Gameplay

• Fix - Machine Gun can go into negative ammo while in invincibility frames.
• Fix - Machine gun not going into invincibility frames after ammo reaching 0.
• Fix - Shooting star sound plays but if player dies at the same time it doesn't spawn.
• Fix - Respawning on top of power up and rock = insta kill.

UI and Options

• N/A
   

Known Bugs

• Game crashes if gamepad connection is made during initial load of game??
• Heavy bullet can last longer than intended is fired during last few frames of Power Up duration.

v0.7.9.2

2025/01/11

Gameplay

• Fix - Rocks not spawning if 0 left in game area under any condition.
• Fix - Power Ups and Items cancelling invincibility frames when collected.
• Fix - Nuke being overridden when collecting a 1 Up.
• Fix - Shooting Star, Black Hole and Gold Rock now spawn with intended randomness.
• Fix - Star Power Up now comes to a complete stop when slowing down instead of occasionally moving backwards slightly.
• Change - Player gains a short invincibility window after picking up a Power Up or Item.
• Change - Collecting an Item or Power Up while invincible will start shorter invincibility window mention above.
• Change - Collecting a Nuke or Machine Gun Item while already having either, will override the other.
• Change - Balanced rock spawn depending on time. Rock quantity should increase over time. More work to do with this.
• Change - New Player sprite when Ghost Power Up is collected.
• Change - Gold Chunks now carry over after losing a life. Still no purpose though lol.

UI and Options

• N/A
   

Known Bugs

• Game crashes if gamepad connection is made during initial load of game??
• Heavy bullet can last longer than intended is fired during last few frames of Power Up duration.
• Machine Gun can go into negative ammo under an unknown condition.

v0.7.9.1

2025/01/09

Gameplay

• Fix - Invulnerability when collecting a Power Up or Item while player flashing animation was in progress.
• Fix - Rocks not respawning if 0 Rocks existed in game area.
• Fix - Shield not wrapping around play area with player.
• Fix - Nuke not Nuking.
• Fix - Player dying on collision with Blackhole during invinciblity frames.

UI and Options

• N/A
   

Known Bugs

• Game crashes if gamepad connection is made during initial load of game??
• Heavy bullet can last longer than intended is fired during last few frames of Power Up duration.

v0.7.9.0

2025/01/08

Gameplay

• New - Force Field Item. Protects from 3 hits.
• New - Hat.
• New - Golden Rock. Fully goodies.
• Change - Reduced Rock spawn percentages.

UI and Options

• Change - Animation for invincibility frames on respawn and ending of Item or Power Up.
• Change - Tweaked some sprites.
   

Known Bugs

• Game crashes if gamepad connection is made during initial load of game.

v0.7.8.0

2024/12/28

Gameplay

• Change - Bullet speed was additive regardless of movement direction and player facing. Now only additive when facing forward 180 degrees of movement direction.
• New - Recoil effect. Negative speed is added to Player with certain ‘Power Ups’ and ‘Items’ when shooting.
• Fix - L & R Bumper buttons not firing 'Machine Gun'.

UI and Options

• New - Sound FX for 'Heavy', ‘Spread Shot’ and ‘Machine Gun’
• Change - Debris from Rocks, Player, Shooting Star and Bullets have new effect.
• Change - 'Heavy' 'Power Up' now has new Bullet sprite.
• Change - Gun debris when firing angle and animation modified.
• Change - ‘New Version available/Up to date’ message now only appears in the menus.
   

Known Bugs

• Game crashes if gamepad connection is made during initial load of game.

v0.7.7.0

2024/12/27

Gameplay

• New - ‘Machine Gun’ Item. Has 200 ammo.
• Change - Increased ‘Heavy’ Bullet size.

UI and Options

• New - ‘Lives’ amount selector in main menu.
• New - ‘Machine Gun’ ammo counter.
   

Known Bugs

• Game crashes if gamepad connection is made during initial load of game.

v0.7.6.0

2024/12/26

Gameplay

• New - Black Hole. Pulls in an destroys anything it collides with.

UI and Options

• New - "Press fire button to respawn" message when you lose a life and are ready to respawn. (Avoids respawning on top of Shooting Star or Black Hole)
• Change - Total time played now reads Hours and Minutes.
   

Known Bugs

• Game crashes if gamepad connection is made during initial load of game.

v0.7.5.0

2024/12/25

Gameplay

• New - ‘Heavy’ 'Power Up'. Player moves slow but fires a Heavy bullet that passes through all rocks.
• Change - 'Nuke' cooldown timer to 0.25 seconds.
• Change - Increase Star 'Power Up' points to + 250.
• New - SFX for bullet colliding with 'Shooting Star'. Bding!

UI and Options

• New - ‘Heavy’ Sprite.
   

Known Bugs

• Game crashes if gamepad connection is made during initial load of game.
• Game records bonus points depending on what 'Power Up' is currently active rather than what bullet collides with a Rock.

v0.7.4.0

2024/12/24

Gameplay

• New - '1 UP' Item. Gives you an extra life.
• New - Maybe you can kill the shooting star?? ; )
• Change - 'Shooting Star'. trail effect.
• Change - Reinstated bullet decay sound.

UI and Options

• New - '1 UP' counter.
   

Known Bugs

• N/A

v0.7.3.2

2024/12/22

Gameplay

• Fix - 'Side Shot' 'Power Up' now has screen shake when fired.
• Fix - Screen shakes when a rock is destroyed and doesn't stop until another rock is shot.

UI and Options

• Change - Further streamlined behaviour of menu controls.
• Change - 'Side Shot' sprite.
• Change - All new Help/Controls screen.
   

Known Bugs

v0.7.3.1

2024/12/22

Gameplay

• Change - 'Shooting Star'.  A bit slower

UI and Options

• Change - Streamlined behaviour of menu controls.
• Change - Player and Rock Sprites.
   

Known Bugs

• Side shot sometimes deactivates but timer continues to run. Colour also deactivates.
• Screen shakes when a rock is destroyed and doesn't stop until another rock is shot.

v0.7.3.0

2024/12/21

Gameplay

• New - 'Shooting Star'. It's coming for you!
• New - Bullet reload sound.

UI and Options

• New - Splash Screen.
• New - Title name - MASSTEROIDS.
• New - Gamepad and Keyboard menu navigation.
   

Known Bugs

• Side shot sometimes deactivates but timer continues to run. Colour also deactivates.

v0.7.2.3

2024/12/19

Gameplay

• N/A

UI and Options

• New - Added 'Total time played" to the main menu.
• New - Splash Screen *Credit - Dick Valentine
   

Known Bugs

• Side shot sometimes deactivates but timer continues to run. Colour also deactivates.

v0.7.2.2

2024/12/19

Gameplay

• N/A

UI and Options

• Fix - Missing Ammo counter GUI
• Change - Bonus multiplier colour depending on multiplier.
   

Known Bugs

• Side shot sometimes deactivates but timer continues to run. Colour also deactivates.

v0.7.2.1

2024/12/18

Gameplay

• Fix - Gamepad support?? PS controller untested.
• Fix - 'Ghost' Power Up destroying Rocks on collision.
• Fix - 'Nuke' countdown not resetting when action button released.
• Change - 'Nuke' Power Up activation time changed to 1 second.

v0.7.2.0

2024/12/18

Gameplay

• New - Gamepad support
  • R Trigger - Accelerate
  • L Trigger - Decelerate - Star power Only
  • Bottom Face button - Shoot

v0.7.1.1

2024/12/15

Gameplay

• Change - Nuke item activation time to 3 seconds.
• Change - Side Power Up to only shoot sideways.
• Change - Rate limited the Bonus Power Up to once every 7 frames.
• New - Bonus point multiplier.

UI and Options

• New - Bonus point multiplier GUI element
   

Known Bugs

• Pause screen text alignment shifts after second time pausing.

v0.7.0.1

2024/12/15

Gameplay

• Change -  Spawn location of rocks. Previously spawning just in the x position off screen of the destroyed rock.
• Fix - 'Nuke' ‘Items’ countdown timer being set to 0 seconds on first pickup.

UI and Options

• Nil

Known Bugs

• Nil

v0.7.0.0

2024/12/15

Gameplay

• Change - 'Nuke' Power Up change to ‘Item’.
• New - ‘Items’ - Items are collected then stored until used by holding down action button for a set time.
  • 'Nuke' - Bonus Points +40 -1 if Points is an even number.
  • 'Nuke' - Activation timer set to 5 seconds.
• Change - Increased Player regular (no power up) acceleration speed by 10%.
• Change - Ghost Bonus Points to +70

UI and Options

• New - Average Points Per Second display for Highscore and current game.
• Fix - First launch give 'undefined' error on Score.
• Fix - Alignment of text for 'Star' power and 'Bonus' in ammo counter location.
• Fix - Ghost bullets crash when spamming

Known Bugs

• Volume Control busted

v0.6.7.1

2024/12/10

Gameplay

• Change - Bullet variables.
  • 'Ghost' - Speed now +20.
  • 'Ghost' - Flight time now 0.10 seconds.
  • 'Ghost' - Points per Rock now +50.
  • 'Ghost' - Now fires two bullets at an angle.
• Fix - Rocks now can be shot when off screen.
• Change - Nuke countdown timer to 7.5 seconds

UI and Options

• Change - UI overhaul.
• New - Backgrounds.
• Fix - Best time not saving to High Score.

Known Bugs

Ghost bullets crash when spamming

First launch give 'undefined' error on Score

v0.6.6.1

2024/12/10

Gameplay

• Change - Version number scheme.
• Change - Nuke timer to 10 seconds.

UI and Options

• New - Screen size adjustable. Maintains aspect ratio.
• Fix - High Score Time Survived not functioning.
• Fix - Player character persisting on other screens after Game Over.

v0.6.6.20241209

Gameplay

• Change - Bullet speed changed for:
  • ‘Bonus'- now +25
  • 'Ghost' - now +15
• New - Player and Bullet impact effects on collisions.
• New - Nuke Explosion effects and particle effects.

UI and Options

• New - Time survived in Game Over Screen.

Known Bugs

• High Score Time Survived not functioning.

v0.6.5.20241208

Gameplay

• Change - Bonus points changed for:
  • ‘Tiny'- now +75
  • 'Ghost' - now +30
• Change - Rocks have chance to be slower or faster than before.
• Change - New explosion effects on all objects in game.

UI and Options

• New - High Score system.
• New - Game Over Screen with:
  • Total Points scored.
  • Total time survived.
  • High Score.
• Change - Main Menu buttons change colours and scale.
• Fixed - Pause screen. Now renders correctly on first open.

v0.6.4.20241206

Gameplay

• Fixed - No animation for destroyed Rocks while player has invincibility frames.
• Fixed - Exploit on Pause Screen not stopping internal 'Power Up' timer allowing multiple Power Ups to exist.

UI and Options

• Added - Particle effects spawn from the bullet impact point and will be same colour as bullet.
• Change - Rocks particle effects now always same colour as Rock.

v0.6.3.20241205

Gameplay

• Fixed - Rocks turning orange when shot while using spread shot
• Change - Increase 'Bonus' bullet speed to 20
• Change - Power Up selection drop percentage in favour of Spread shot and Tiny.

UI and Options

N/A

v0.6.2.20241204

Gameplay

• Fixed - Bug where game would crash when after a player dies and a bullet hits a Rock.
• Fixed - Power Up being destroyed if it is spawned off screen.
• Change - Slightly Reduced player hit-box
• Change - Rock destroy animation.
• Change - Added bonus points for Power Ups
  • 'Tiny' +50
  • 'Ghost +25
  • ‘Spread’ +50

UI and Options

• New - Add key binds for volume control

v0.6.1.20241203

Gameplay

• Point values for ‘Power Ups’
  • Change - ‘Tiny’ (From +0 to +50)
  • Change - ‘Ghost’ (From +0 to +25)
  • Change - 'Spread' (From +0 to +50)

UI and Options

• ‘Pause Screen’
  • New - Added ability to return to ‘Main Menu’ from the ‘Pause Screen’
  • New - Added text “Press 'Q' to 'Return to Main Menu”

v0.6.0.20241203

Gameplay

• New - New power up 'Bonus Multiplier'.
• New - SFX for Rock destroy while ‘Bonus Multiplier’ is active.
• Change - Re-shaped and reduced Player hit-box.
• Change - Increased Rock hit-boxes

UI and Options

• New - ‘Pause Screen’ - press Escape key 'Esc' during game play.

v0.5.3.20241203

Gameplay

• Change - Nuke Power Up now gives points for the number of Rocks in the play area when count down timer ends.
• Change - Reduced bullet decay time on normal bullets and Spread bullets.

UI and Options

• Change - UI fonts to a pixelated style
• Change - Power Up count down timer to decimal instead of integer.
• Removed - Change Log screen. Now opens link to this page.
• Fix - Re-scaled Help controls text in ‘Help Menu’

v0.5.1.20241202

Gameplay

• Change - StarPower Up - Increased acceleration and turn speed. Added ability to brake.
• Change - TinyPower Up - Increased acceleration and turn speed.
• New - Invincibility frames after any power up finishes for 1 second.
• New - Nuke Power Up.

UI and Options

• New - Change Log screen.
• New - 'Version number' to 'Main Menu' and 'Change Log' screen.
• New - Silly colours. IDFK

v0.5.0.20241202

Gameplay

• New - Star Power Up. - Player destroys Rocks during collision. Can't Shoot.
• New - Spread ShotPower Up. Player Fires three shots at once. Two shot capacity.
• New - Tiny Power Up. Player is reduced in size by half. Two shot capacity.
• New - Ghost Power Up. Player can phase through Rocks. One shot capacity.
• New - Bullettimeout after 5 seconds

UI and Options

• Fix - Ammo GUI alignment
• Change - Made power ups rotate