Soon, better pictures.
Videos?
1. Probability 0 progress.
I've done a lot of thinking about new P0 enemies: replacing the old 'random status effects while you're deep down for no really good reason' with new 'enemies who fuck up your shit real good' sounds like a good idea to me.
FOR EXAMPLE:
An enemy who temporarily disallows the use of all abilities (you're reduced to basic punch, single jump, only vertical-down star).
An enemy who latches onto you and increases gravity. (safe fall height decreased)
An enemy who removes your HUD and your ability to pause the game.
An enemy who adds shitty vision restrictions -- 'blinds' you a little bit.
Stacking effect.I'm thinking about different ways these 'fade out'. Respectively:
As long as you remain in its area of effect.
Until you pick up a bubble (it forces its own item into the item queue to remove the restriction).
For a fixed period of time.
Permanently.
The effect stacks and stacks until you are blind forever. Might fade, but slowly? Not sure. Permanently is probably ridiculous, but remember I'm playing around with making a game that maybe won't go on forever for the people who are
way too good at it.Additionally, there is no doubt that I will add a mode that allows you to experience even these horrors of horrors within the first few minutes of starting over after dying! This is important, because I'm probably not going to allow you to bump into any of the above sorts of assholes before you get to around 1km (which can take a bit of time!).
2. Starseed Pilgrim progress.
The focus here's been on the endgame, too. There are also some tutorial woes (see: P0 too).
Have discussed a lot of possibility to flesh out layer #3 (I'm not going to clarify this) and have discussed the endgame taking place in layer #1. I have to be careful about save files... what happens when you fail the endgame?
Should stepping into the endgame be an irreversible decision? I think it'd be okay especially if I were to give fair warning. Even if it totally screws up your save file... yeah, I think it'd be okay! Right? :x