Finally, nearly after 9 months since the code reset, the first R3 release: the 2.0 is here! Exactly one year after 1.0.

There is a lot to cover, so I recommend to read this announcement before playing.

Note: the R3 versions break backwards savedata compatibility. R2 scores cannot (for now) be imported to or used in R3 or viceversa.

Gameplay:

• The speed increase curve is much more forgiving; in r2 at a score of 200, Marieta was nearly uncontrollable; while at r3, 1000 points are still pretty controllable.
• Value flowers (those flowers with a number) have been replaced by superflowers.
• Superflowers cannot retain their value for much long. Wait a few seconds, for it’s value to start descending; if it reaches 0, it will transform into an Evil Flower.
• Evil Flowers dash towards Marieta when it comes close, in an attempt to push you out-of-bounds.
• Spikeballs now appear with a more visual-appealing animation. When spawning, they will fade in, and blink for some seconds to warn you for their presence. When dispawning, they will blink a couple more times and fade out.
• Inline Skates are back! Now with a more “pro”-looking sprite and all of it’s flaws fixed. Increase your speed and gain protection against spikeballs.
• New item: the stop boots. Hop into them to stop for a while. (…) And yes, that’s it.
• New item: the bubbleshield. Head inside one of those bubbles to protect you against spikeballs, but be careful because the bubble pops really easy!
• When playing, a star will appear near the score display to indicate if you’ve made a new record.
• Now the score display will increase it’s value slowly and the flower icon will bounce to visually indicate that the score is raising.
• The old solid background green color is now green grass. It might be hard to notice at first glance, but it makes the background less empty.

There’s finally sound! Sound effects for the menus, background rural noises when playing and other effects when touching flowers or interacting with items. Thanks to these sounds, the game feels even more alive!

Handover Multiplayer The Singleplayer mode is still here, but we have a new addition, a multiplayer mode. For up to 4 players and play in a single computer playing by turns and then comparing everyone’s score.

There’s still a lot more to add, but it’s pretty playable, even if that means that in case of a tie the conclusion might be a bit unfair… This mode has a maximum of 12 players, but for now it’s limited to 4 for performance reasons. I will unlock more players in a future update.

Menus:

• All the menus have been recreated with a much more visual approach. The icons are more important than the text, this allows for identifying the options faster and better fitting the minimalistic approach of the game.
• Some options are unavailable and they are grey-out and unselectable.
• Move the cursor in the menus using WASD, accept with E, and go back with Q; mouse support is implemented in some menus.

Options:

• You can enable or disable the blur effects that have some UI elements.
• The Top Menu backgrounds (Marieta moving like crazy or the flowers falling in the top menu) can be enabled or disabled.
• You can show an FPS Indicator (now displaying the real FPS instead of random numbers); coming with an advanced version for those wanting more accurate stats.
• You can enable or disable either the rural noises, in-game SFX or the menu cursor sounds in case you don’t like them or you prefer silence.

Also, the readme text file now has evolved into a PDF manual, it’s still pretty simple but it now has images of the game and the items.

Ok, so I think I described everything that it’s in here. It was pretty long so I hope that I did not miss anything.

This update is really big, but there’s a lot more planned. I hope to not take that long between updates (remember when I said that R3 will take 2 months instead of the current 9? heh, fun times…)

Remember to rate and like the game if you had a good time playing it.

That’s all for me, have a nice day!