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Small update out on the test branch that fixed a possible slowdown causing bug.
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Butts.

Thanks!

New Test branch version is up with all 235 achievements, switches to the Mime special, and a few other small things. Still need to take care of the sound test issue.
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Butts.

I'll add some sort of colorblind mode to list of things to try to get to. Thankfully the color lasers aren't used too often.

235! http://steamcommunity.com/stats/348800/achievements/
I'm going to have a lot of icons to draw...
Still working on getting a large amount of them actually implemented, once that's done I'll be putting the Achievement build up on the test branch while I work on the icons.
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Butts.

muddersmilk posted...

Booted up Chester yesterday. Was super excited to find all my save progress from the Desura version carried over! Did not expect that at all.

Also I am not very good at this game. Still a lot of fun though!

I just unlocked the mime. What does his special do?

Right now it does nothing! Going to make a few changes to him once I get Achievements finished up. Going to have him turn the screen completely black and white and ignore the elemental damage system. His special will super saturate the world and the elemental bonus will be multiplied during that time.
And on the topic of saves I'm hoping to get having multiple saves in in one of the next few patches.

Terastodon posted...

113 achievements!

...possibly not correctly implemented yet @Ainoxi.

Haha yeah, it's a bit wip right now and you may see some random unlocks. The actual achievement patch will take care of any odd ones being unlocked and reset them. Might get it up tonight in a partial state.

Sound test and those other slight bugs added to the 'fix it' list as well, thanks for the constant feedback!
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Butts.

Thanks for pointing that out, I'll add it to the list of things to take care of for the next patch.
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Butts.

GTM posted...

I AM SETTING THE MARKET VALUE

http://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/753/348800-Bitty%20Cupcake

Oh no, you've been undercut!


Anyone manage to get a badge yet? I'd help you out if I could.


Is there a game that had 516? Because that would be pretty amazing.
I think I'm aiming for around 100 Achievements broken down into 7 categories. Collectibles, General Stats, Game Progress, Chesters, Special Attacks, Challenges, and Other.
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Butts.

HGTM posted...

I need 3 more cards D: where are the boosters

or I can sell them for $1.40 each assuming people want to buy them!

HOLY WHAT?! That's where the real moneys at!


I have a general pacifist one that isn't level specific (just not starter world.) Didn't think of making them level specific but I suppose that what I could make sure it's actually challenging. May make it one per planet. Thanks!
If you have any more ideas for challenging ones let me know, that's the category that's lacking the most right now and you seem to have some solid ideas.
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Butts.

Thanks, may get around to trying to declutter a few areas that have a bit too much going on.
Ideally if it does well enough on Steam I want to actually go through and recreate the art assets and re-place all of the decorative sprites so the levels feel a bit more distinct from eachother.

Breaking achievements down into 7 categories and have... 61 achievements so far. Well then, that might be about enough.
Might have them up with placeholder art as early as tomorrow night.
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Butts.

Nice, I like the idea of a super challenging one to get.
Maybe in the same vein I'll have beating the end boss on the hardest difficulty without using any specials. Close to as tough but with a much shorter overall time investment.
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Butts.

I like the way you think.

Looking at the current list of planned ones, this game is gonna take some doing to 100%.
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Butts.

Oh wow, those sound like they could be frustrating.

I think I'll make it so it'll fire off once you input something after X minutes. So you sit back down to start playing and the game just pops up "WHY DIDN'T YOU CALL?! WHERE WERE YOU?"


Hah, the poke at him is good too.
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Butts.

HaRRicH posted...

Take A Break - pause for fifteen minutes.

Haha, I do like the idea of idling and coming back to an achievement you didn't expect. Might make a good secret one.

Maybe something like
"Made a sammy - Vanished for 15 minutes." - Icon of sub sandwich
"Why didn't you call? !- 15 minutes without contact."
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Butts.

Getting to work on some achievements, anyone have any interesting ideas for bizarre/intersting ones?
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Butts.

That all sounds pretty straight forward to me.

And my god, I figured I would get at least a few, but the amount of people emailing the support email I have listed asking for keys to bribe them for positive reviews is astounding.

foolm0r0n posted...

Ainoxi posted...

Thanks for the recommendation! How's Clash Cup going, looks about ready to go on the Steam page.

In the final stretch, a few months to go

Nice, looking forward to it! Get a chance to show it off at MAGFest this year?
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Butts.

muddersmilk posted...

I now own Chester (again)!

<3 <3

Up on itch.io, https://bennfried.itch.io/chester-one
I'll spruce the page up a bit later on.
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Butts.

foolm0r0n posted...

Do itch.io and upload lots of gifs of your game, you'll prob get more attention than Steam

I do love making gifs. Looks like they make setting things up pretty quick and painless too, I'll take care of this tonight.

Thanks for the recommendation! How's Clash Cup going, looks about ready to go on the Steam page.

LOLIAmAnAlt posted...

I have a suggestion
You know how when you menu switch the art style you have it so it tells you what the differences are in a small blurb.
Could you have it so when you menu switch the characters it tells you what their special does?
It may help dum dums like me >_<

Good idea! Just started working on a redesign for the switching overlays, I'll add that in too.

And idk if this is intentional but for the quick chester change button, if you pull the trigger without actually changing the character the quick change will no longer switch characters.

Noted, I'll patch that up. Thanks!

Also adding to Humble soon as well.
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Butts.

GTM posted...

If I can nitpick, the O key for Options looks sorta like a D

I was thinking the same thing, almost lazy solved it by putting in a zero.

Shaduln posted...

Chester boughted

<3

TomNook posted...

Is this only being released on Steam btw?

Will be on GMG as well, but that'll just be Steam keys so basically the same thing. Might look into Humble/GOG.


New patch is live for non-beta build
-All new keymapping that isn't completely horrible
-You now switch styles/characters by holding C/S or the Trigger buttons and hitting Left/Right
-V-Sync was added to options
-Reorganized a lot of songs to prevent the same one from repeating on a planet
-Few small changes to earlier levels to make them a little bit easier

And if anyone gets any foil card drops, I'm coming for you.
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Butts.

Test build of the new keyboard controls is up, should be able to install it by right clicking Chester One in Steam, Properties, and choose to participate in Beta.

Testing it a bit to make sure nothing is horribly broken before making it the live build.
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Butts.

You got the super rare Steam Shutdown card!
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Butts.

Trading cards should be live! May touch up some of the art at some point, but they're good to go for now. You might need to restart your Steam client for them to start dropping.

Also working on new keyboard controls that I should have patched in tonight.
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Butts.

Waiting on approval, but now that I missed the launch with them anyways I may take another few days to redo/touch up some of the art.

HookedOnSonics posted...

Pretty fun but I don't have my controller with me and it was rough to play with keyboard so I'm gonna wait til I get home to really dig into it

Yeah, those keyboard controls are pretty questionable, hoping to have a small patch out tonight that improves them a bit.
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Butts.

No problem, thanks for letting me know anyways kind of slipped my mind to have the checkpoints not seem so checkpoint-y on D: mode.
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Butts.

Are you playing on the hardest difficulty? If so they're disabled for that one, but I definitely need to make that more clear. Maybe I'll have them explode instead of ding.
Otherwise if you aren't on hardest that's a bug I'll need to try to take care of quickly.
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Butts.

Hmmm, yup that does appear to be missing everything. Just checked the map file and it seems fine, I've encountered this a few times and had to either load another level then come back to that one or restart the game completely. Need to hunt down whatever is doing that.

And you can post images and mention people now?! That's new.
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Butts.

It's up!

If (haha, if) you find any bugs let me know!

Changes from the old PC/XBLIG
-Slightly improved UI
-Steam Cloud save support
-Some small changes to a few enemy types/placements
-Small adjustments to a few levels
-Higher quality audio
-Stamps drop a lot more often

Trading Cards should be up sometime over the next 2 days and after that I'll probably start diving into Achievements.
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Butts.

Thank you, that means a lot to hear it compared with a game like Braid.
Hoping that some of the things I'm working on for it now can help get it closer to that level of polish that some indie games have as well.

Finally have everything set up on my current laptop to actually work on it so should be able to crank out a few small updates fairly quickly. (And my god, I actually commented some of this old code! Haaaa, won't need to go completely insane jumping back into this.

First up is probably some simple UI adjustments, enemy/checkpoint placements, and possibly Achievements. Then maybe finally to Mac/Linux support.
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Butts.

Gatarix posted...

hey aga! it's been a while

Delayed heyo!

GTM posted...

cool I summoned aga!

2.99 means 75 cents during the summer sale amirite


alternatively I can still take advantage of our blackmail agreement

75 cents? No way! Chester One is some top shelf game, we're talking like 99 cents. High rollers only, my friend.
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Butts.

Thanks a lot for all of the support!

foolm0r0n posted...

Wow is this game seriously still XNA?

Haaaah yeah. Can't even get XNA to install on my current laptop so need to work from an old machine on any updates for it. Kind of annoying, but hopefully porting it over to Mono should take care of that problem at least.
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Butts.

Going with $2.99 for now. I figure it's quite a few years old and while fun it's not the most polished experience out there. Also hoping to get it in front of as many people as possible and hoping that that price point helps.

If I do get around to redoing the UI, adding achievements, and polishing up a few other things I may raise it to $4.99 if I feel like it warrants it.
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SantaRPidgey posted...

no mac version

mean

The meanest!
Mac and Linux versions might be coming soon depending on how porting it over to Monogame games. Should be possible, but I haven't looked at this code in years (or done much programming in general in that long) so it might take some doing.

TomNook posted...

Don't think I can get it. I remember the original having a glitch that stopped you from being able to 100% it, and it drove me wild.

Oh god, I was just thinking about that glitch while playing through earlier today.
So so sorry about that. I had placed the item (I think it was a ship piece?) in a way that it fell through the ground and vanished as soon as the level started. Unfortunately I could no longer patch it once I had found out about it. Whoopsies. I'll throw together a save file that has everything but that piece unlocked for ya!

Dark Young Link posted...

Sweet!

If I don't get it this week, I'll get it the next for sure.

What's up Aga? Haven't seen you in ages!

Appreciated!
It is going good, decided to take a bit of a break from game dev to focus a little bit more on art for a while. Slowly working my way back towards gamedev little by little.

It has been ages! Good to still see a lot of the same names around here.
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Butts.

Whoa, noticed that quickly!
Might miss the 20th depending on how a few things go, but should be out sometime soon.

This is the original XBLIG game with a few minor changes, Steam Cloud saves, and Trading Cards. Hoping to get around to redoing the UI and adding in Steam Achievements at some point if there is interest in them.


United is still being worked on to a lesser extent right now, hoping to have the new-new-new version of that showable sometime over the next month or two as well. That game has gone through a lot of versions.


And I miss this place too! Might need to try to hang around a bit more often.
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Butts.