In this update you have a new weapon that you can find in crates or buy from the merchant. The Boomerang:

Be careful when it’s coming back. If you don’t catch it in time, it can hit you.



Also now you can send feedback from within the game. While in a level, just press F8 and you can enter your feedback. The last 30seconds of replay data will be sent (typically less than 200k). Your feedback and replay will be sent to Pyramid Plunge’s server, which will then notify me via email. I can then check out your replay to better understand your feedback. If you provide a correct email address I will be able to reply to you.

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Release Notes

Added

• Boomerang
• Press F8 to send Feedback with replay

Fixed

• Exclamation marks to show that an enemy has seen you where not visible in the replays
• Fog should not be drawn in replay, if it was disabled
• Bomb was remaining flashing when it was underwater (but never exploded)
• Fix when doing bomb in MP, opponent was also playing “happy” voice over.

Modified

• Throwables will break breakables when thrown at each other(e.g. stones vs crates)
• When dying we are not only saving the loot, but also the throwables (like crates and vases)
• Notifications at the bottom of the screen now animate and go away smoothly
• Moved around a bit the controls description on keyboard/gamepad when paused (was colliding with the menu on some languages)

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This update changes a bit how you process your death :).

You now get to choose which path to take down the pyramid. And like in the old arcade games you have 3 credits (chances) to use when you die. You can choose another path. Or go back to the same level to take your sweet revenge, and also collect your dropped loot and items!

Release Notes

Added

• Map/Level Backtracker.

Fixed

• Crawlers were not hitting player
• Fix for crash in boss level when rewinding
• Fix for Fast-forward sound playing when going to the next level in multiplayer
• Fix for blue color selection in MP not replaying correctly
• Fix exploding bomb in tutorial in hands gets player stuck in an unsolveable level
• Fix for throwing stone at boss. If it hits another enemy along the way it was teleporting
• Fix for when invincible, and friend still gets hit while being carried
• Fix for jump higher warning triggering in boss when it really shouldn’t
• Boulders should break things on their path
• Felicie sprites should always be in front (even when playing as Felicie), since she’s thinner
• Fix for crash when exiting a room while a gramaphone was playing was trying to stop/add sounds to deallocated structures in replay module
• Fix for farting underwater and hitting crawlers was getting them into an invalid non-existent state
• Fix mummies acting weird and getting stuck when near a gate
• Fix for gramaphone resuming level music when exiting level, ending with shop and level music at the same time

Modified

• Removed some sounds from George ouch sounds when hitting walls as they didn’t fit
• When friend dies, player starts crying
• Moved replay timer to the top (as it would conflict with controls preview in MP)
• Tweak for coins collected to be taken instantly but also give some feedback of what they picked up
• Fade outs of music
• Tweaked mummy attack sprite collision box, as while it was hitting friend, I couldn’t hit it properly

Bonus video of my kids giving me a beating in my own game!

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I’m super excited to release this build. Also as from this build I will be adding some videos showing the major features in the release.

Release Notes v0.6.7

Added

• Instant Replay:
  Now you can rewind at any time during the game the last 30 seconds, to see what you’ve done wrong. This is super awesome in multiplayer to replay some hilarious chase or near misses. Also when you die, you get an instant replay of your glorious death.
  

• Foreground Parallax Effect to add a sense of depth:
  You will see some hanging out-of-focus webs in front of the camera to give the fake illusion of depth
  

• Randomized Cracks:
  Now overlayed on the background to break repetitiveness.

• Alternative tiles:
  Added a second type of tiles, like scaffolding to break the repetitiveness of the main tiles
  
• Added tile bridges to avoid having what appeared to be gaps. After seeing some players trying to jump through the gaps it was time to fix them 🙂
  

• Editable room templates:
  You can now edit the room templates to your heart content. This is just the first step to have an editor. For now it’s just a text file. If you go to the installation directory of the game you will find a roomTemplates.txt. There is some documentation in beginning of the file. Just open with something as simple as notepad. If you’re going to the edit it, just make a copy first so you can revert. The parser is very strict, so keep the same formatting between the templates. If you’re interested to edit them and need some help, check out this forum thread. Also feel free to message me on Discord
  

• Blood Splatters:
  Added blood splatters for that gory feel. This really helps with the notion of persistence – leaving history behind you. Ok by default it is off because I think this game is more focused for younger generation. In fact my own kids are disgusted by the blood splatters. The enemies spew out green while if you get hit you will see red splatters.

• Explosion scorch marks:
  This adds a bit of more realism and also adds to the notion of persistence again

• Random dark level:
  A lot of players were asking me for this. I was reluctant to add it, but it was easy to add. So that extra glow stick will come in handy 😉
  
• Progress bar when generating levels. Sometimes the level needs to restart from scratch because it’s not solveable. Instead of seeing a black screen, at least you get to see a progress bar even though it might do a Microsoft thing where the progress bar seems to go backwards!
• Drawing of player names in the Won Round screen in Multiplayer.

• Precise Jump control toggle:
  Added option to Controls settings to use precise jump controls (default). To jump higher you just keep pressing the jump key, but I understand that some might want the control of the jump to be easier. So with precise jump control disabled, if you press the jump key, it will just jump to the highest point. It’s off by default, because I don’t recommend it.
  
• Auto-use health pickups toggle (on by default). In the previous build, the notion of collecting pickups and triggering their use manually (perhaps even giving them to your partner) was introduced. However I was noticing that new players were not using the health packs. So I’ve decided to revert the behaviour and if you pickup health packs they are used immediately.

Fixed

• Fixed pause menu so that water effects are also shown in the snapshot take before pausing
• Stopped using “she” and “you”, especially because you can change between Giorgio and Felicie
• Handle rare issue where entrance or exit could not be placed. It should regenerate the rooms from scratch
• Fix for objects causing damage to enemies when hit slowly by throwables (inc stones)
• Fix for landing on Mayan with Giorgio (friend) being carried was getting Giorgio hit instead of Mayan
• Fix for avatar color selection. Due to typo it was not working as intended. When single player and you select blue, it will now use the default colors, but when in multiplayer will use blue to not be confusing with cyan
• Loot should be affected by water when it drops in it

Modified

• C4 now flashes. It also flashes faster as it gets near it’s detonation. Just a small touch but really helps to know when it’s going to detonate, because the fuse burning up was not so visible.
• Explosions are now a bit brighter as I’m drawing them after the lighting pass
• Changed the Egyptian mural (although I still need to redo the tutorial ones. But I will soon be revamping the tutorial once again, so I didn’t waste time on it just yet)
• This is not really visible just yet, but now the game supports bigger levels. So this will be actually be visible in the next update.
• Tweaked multiplayer dying phrases
• Tweaked Felicie’s volumes and lift sounds as they were annoying
• Level End transition improvement. Nothing major, just some minor annoying stuff which made it look awkward, like glow particles and water rendering when everything fades to black.
• Some sounds volume balancing: Giorgio, jewel pickup, splashes, break vase/crate
• Player gets hit only if snake/mummy/guard are attacking (others still hurt you if you touch them, like spider or scarab)

I really miss that retro CRT feel, where the sub pixels of the CRT blend together in a way that can never reproduced by the new flat screens. I’ve always wanted to experiment with a pixel shader to make the feel of the game look more retro. And I found a couple of cool shaders on shadertoy that emulate the CRT retro feel. I think the game looks better, although by default it is turned off. For one thing it could be your video card might not support the shader, and secondly not all players like the CRT feel.

There are two versions that you can select from, v1 and v2.
I prefer v2 as it simulates even an animated subtle Moiré effect. The bloom effect gives it another touch. You can tweak the shaders to your liking as each shader has it’s own settings. Check out the video of the shader in action. Make sure to switch to full screen to see the effect, but even better, you should just play the demo if you haven’t already :)https://www.youtube.com/embed/sXpHLQkXN64

Since I revamped the menu system, now it’s super easy for me to add another menu. And it’s been a while since I wanted to allow players to customize the multiplayer.
Two things that often propped up during multiplayer playtests were the following:

• One of the players would spoil the fun by stealing the opponent partner and place her on death traps. Of course this is also the fault of a player leaving the partner unattended. But I thought to add an option where you can disable stealing opponent friend.
• The other one was that players thought they can throw their partner at each other to steal their coins. But honestly I thought that was kinda weird to have in the game. But since players seem to expect that, I have added an option to allow hurting your opponent by throwing your partner at them.

v0.6.6 Release Notes

Added

• New Menu system with transitions & icons
• Graphics settings included CRT shaders for that retro feel
  • two different CRT shaders with own settings
• Multiplayer settings to turn on (or off) the heat a notch
  • Can steal opponent partner (default on)
  • Throwing the partner at an opponent will hurt the opponent (default off)
  • Enter the players’ names
  • Start with an inventory item (wip)
• New Felicie Sounds (over 100 wavs).

Fixed

• Support for thumbstick in menu
• Fix for enemies who have hp 2+ where them could hit you back. Also added more feedback when you hit them by bouncing them a bit with the hit
• Do not allow using inventory when jelly fish
• French merchant texts were not fitting
• Fix for burp not playing due to play random voice over cancelling delayed sounds
• Fix for teleport when felicie throws giorgio near a ceiling
• Fixed crash when visiting potd without internet
• Do not allow secrets triggered by dropped objects
• Fixes for teleport of character when dropped

Modified

• Make re-picking up something you dropped faster
• Do not give bigger jump for Felicie in shop
• Repeat key

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I have finally released the update for the early access and demo where you can now play as Felicie too.

Giorgio is too fat to be carried! So she pulls him from his ear haha.
She’s more nimble than Giorgio and so you might find her a bit more challenging to control. But once you get used to her movement, you will be zapping faster through the levels (of course if you’re not dragging Giorgio by his ear).
Ah yes, she doesn’t fart too, because you know… she’s refined 🙂

Watch the new trailer:

Release Notes

Added

• You can now play as Felicie and pull Giorgio by the ear and throw him around
  • Felicie runs a bit faster when not carrying Giorgio
  • Voices for Felicie are not complete yet
  • There are some minor known issues when playing as Felicie, e.g. color of text is not swapped, or if Giorgio dies in Multiplayer it says Felicie died. Will be fixed in the next build.
• Re-enabled switcheroo. This is a ghost-like entity rarely found in crates, which will swap the souls of Giorgio and Felicie. So if you’re playing with Giorgio, you start controlling Felicie (or vice-versa)
• Warning to press jump button to jump higher. This is to re-inforce the tutorial that you have to keep the jump button pressed to go higher.
• Global timer for speed runners. You now get an incrementing timer at the bottom across the levels.

Fixed

• Fix for erroneously swapping player’s x-scale when throwing rope on a single tile
• Fix for crash if player gets hit by an arrow while pulling up friend
• Fix for disappearing enemy when being hit at the edge (during the delay before it switches direction, causing an image_xscale of 0)
• Fix for animated pickups on P1 in multiplayer being off
• Fix for crates getting teleporting when throwing them in a corridor along the ceiling (managed to reproduce only with Felicie)

Modified

• Jellyfish in multiplayer changes color
• Dropped loot can trigger traps too. It look quite odd for a red jewel to fall on a switch and it doesn’t get pressed!
• Health pickups go in inventory now, so you can drop them to give them your friend. This was quite requested, where players wanted to have more control on health packs, so they can donate them to their partner.
• Accept Enter key in menu (suggested by Linux gaming group). This was quite stupid from my part to omit the Enter key to select a menu item 🙂
• Disable double kills during boss fights because otherwise scores are too high (recommended by Jonathon)

I’ve been very busy to get the demo out and finally it’s released. I was quite astonished when preparing the release notes how much items were in the list. Download the free demo from the Steam.

Thanks for all the bugs reported by the community on the Discord server.

And I also did this animation 🙂



Here’s the full Release Notes for v0.6.2 (which includes the demo build)

Added

• Trigger pause menu when window loses focus (does not work on Mac)
• Fall sprites for Felicie when walks off a ledge
• Die sound for enemies
• Warning sound for enemies (for now just mummy)
• Create hit stars (not for all objects yet, especially enemies attacks, boulder and gate)
• F10 to swap gamepads for player 1 and player 2 (useful when playing MP of course)

Fixed

• Removed using down key to drop items as it could be triggered near a ladder when trying to go down just before. This annoys the player. Spotted by retrome in the following bugs:
• – “Felicie jumps trough the wall when you step down from the ladder to the platform, interesting case. Expectation: Felicie keeps to stand near you. https://youtu.be/7V0rUSqrg9E?t=1034“.
• – “You can drop Felicie when moving down on ladder, this happens pretty often. Excpectation: you keep Felicie. https://youtu.be/pRjaHFLFYyY?t=237“
• – “When you step down from the ladder to the platform then Felicie may fall down of the platform. Expectation: Felicie keeps to stand on the platform. https://youtu.be/pRjaHFLFYyY?t=810“
• Fixed some ordering of objects and traps
• Fixed bug reported by retrome: “Felicie starts to jump after she hit by explosion when you carry her, funny one. Expectation: you keep to carry her or she takes a damage and you drop her down. https://youtu.be/pRjaHFLFYyY?t=1785“
• Fixed bug reported by retrome: “Arrow hits Felicie when you carry her but she takes no damage. Expectation: Felicie takes damage and you drop her down. https://youtu.be/7V0rUSqrg9E?t=1973“
• Fixed bug reported by retrome: “Felicie is floating after you use a teleport item. Expectation: she stand on the floor. https://youtu.be/pRjaHFLFYyY?t=669“
• Fixed bug reported by retrome: “Felicie flies through the item. Expectation: Felicie breaks the item. https://youtu.be/pRjaHFLFYyY?t=185“
• Fixed bug reported by retrome: “Felicie jumps through the wall. This may cause a game over. Expectation: you drop Felicie down near yourself. https://youtu.be/pRjaHFLFYyY?t=424“
• Fixed text misalignments for all languages
• Fix for boulder weird scaling when stops on a particular direction
• Fixed inconsistencies with explosions. You can now destroy chests with bombs. Also sand dunes and spider webs will be removed by explosives. Even gates, switches and launchers will now be removed. Also tweaked coin effects of explosions.
• Fixes for window height when entering name
• Fixed for blinking eyes in tutorial (reported by Jonathon)
• Fix consecutive kills rewards
• Mummy walk had a missing frame for a leg
• Fixed issue with enemy keeps running
• Fix for weird size of screen when pressing F1 (not easily reproducable)Also if surface of pause screen is lost, then we resume to avoid crash. Spotted by Retrome. Thanks for the testing!
• Fixed issue with scrolling friend when near explosion and being carried. Also solved potential problem when a thrown object of the explosion kills someone.
• Boulders and other stuff should not be destroyed when they hit you while invincible
• Fix for p1 gamepad disconnect, but p2 gamepad doesn’t get moved to first slot
• Fix for throwing friend, but when sliding was not hitting enemies
• Crate without a flipped question mark
• Fix for teleport when friend is blinking and thrown in a corner

Modified

• New Tutorial Explanation Backgrounds
• Updated translations (inc for demo)
• Update Gesture animation to be Carlton’s dance (awesome for taunting in MP)
• Vases rotate slightly when thrown and break on contact
• Throwables now do not collide if sliding speed is too slow
• Animated exclamation. Also Fixed issue with exclamation doing “shadows” in the top-left of the level (due to rendering issue)
• Made enemy pause at the edges
• Made mummy to comes walk faster at you when he spots you
• Show version in menu instead of game. Show details in game only with F2 toggle
• When climbing, carried objects should be near hand
• Showing “perfect” faded out in level summary and made sure it fits in all languages (although for now I kept it untranslated)
• Tweaked deceleration when throwing on land (Also Experimented with controls while throwing in mid-air but reverted and didn’t commit that, as it felt fake)
• Updated app icon
• Updated splash screen

I finally added the new graphics for enemies in the Egypt world. I also updated some other Egypt world graphics like the mural and doorway. It’s coming together nicely. The Mayan enemies will be next :).

Here are the full release notes for this update v0.6.1:

Added

• Polish language support
• Added sound for throwables bounces and slide
• Dead body landing sound
• Show Play As although disabled for now
• Friend Falling in mid-air animation
• God rays from open chest

Fixed

• Dead bodies are now in their own layer (they were appearing behind ladder/door)
• Throwables should hit even if they are sliding (including friend)
• Fix for remaining alive (running away) after being killed. Should also fix issue with occasional running away after dropping
• Fix for incorrect direction of dead bodies when killed enemies
• Multiplayer – Light fade out when exiting. Also when jellyfish, light of friend is disabled
• Fix for German death reason sentence
• Fixed collider for spiders/scarabs when cornering so they don’t touch you if you’re on the other side of the corner
• Fixed issue reported by retrome regarding ladder climbing up/down fast when ladder is near a wall and you press direction keys
• Typo for !myid in Russian
• Tentative fix for collision detection with enemies, where enemies with hp 2 would not report the second collision if falling on their head twice, if using a normal GM collision event.
• Fix for friend not getting hurt when still dropping in mid-air and being hit by an arrow
• Fixed typo in text said by merchant when he says Welcome Back

Modified

• New Enemies Graphics (For Egypt). The Demo for Steam Festival will only have Egypt available
• New Boss Graphics, boss end animation
• Revert “Fixed issue where you couldn’t pick up just spawned loot” – it wasn’t behaving as expected
• In the boss level only, Dead enemies will fade away and spiral dust come up
• Some sparks coming out of torches
• Improved Lightning from teleport and zappers
• Friend now gets hit if thrown against enemy which isn’t killed (hp > 1)
• Breakables now break even if dropped vertically. Also tweaked frictions
• Increased slightly loot colliders
• Update Egypt Mural
• Added glows to angels
• Updated create and vase breaking sprites
• Do not break stuff with friend if not too fast (i.e. not really thrown at her)
• Updated Merchant graphics
• Loot sound muffled the further away it is
• Avoid generating murals behind entrances
• New Egypt Door Graphics
• Chest is now the same for multiplayer and singplayer (loot only)
• Tweaked prices for shop
• Avoid friend blur when falling vertically and not being thrown
• Tweak to volume of coins and loot drop and also changed dead body land

I’ve been working on the sprites for the last 3 weeks or so, using the concepts from Samuel Suarez. Apparently I had to redo over 400 sprites! WOW. But it was worth it. The new characters are more lovable. Hope you like them too.

Pyramid of the Day was tweaked as well. The time bonus was giving too much points. Also I added a 1000 bonus points if you get any of the following perfect:

• enemies killed
• loot collected
• secrets found

Here are the full release notes for v0.6.0.

Added

• New Graphics for George and Felicie
• Motion blur when falling to fast
• Dust cloud when jumping
• Different animations when jumping vertically/horizontally and landing
• Offsets while carrying objects
• Felicie Slide sound effect
• Option to disable fog from pause menu (useful for slow GPUs)
• Show hole after finding a secret
• Semitransparent Flags for multiplayer
• Show time in multiplayer

Fixed

• Fixed rare teleporting issues (hopefully)
• Delayed sounds sometimes wheren’t playing (like burping when eating beans)
• Fix for Felicie flipping flopping when whistling and she’s directly above you
• Do not allow entering keys for name if he’s using the keyboard for controls
• Fix for friend triggering switch when carried
• Fixed C4 pickup animating the whick when not lit up
• Fix for when you pick up opponent friend and she is still sliding from a throw, she will be hovering on your head
• Pulling rope animation and fixed issue where the player would be misaligned by a tile
• Fix remaining stuck in mid-air when using teleport or zapper
• Fixed bug with menu selection screen re-appearing if you keep it on English
• Do not show friend marker if jellyfish
• Fix for whistling in mid-air (if you press action key a lot while falling)
• Fixed issue when breathing underwater, where text remained green
• Don’t pick up friend if dead (especially for multiplayer)
• When playing pyramid of the day always reset to first world
• Fixed issue where pyramid of the day of mayan was the same as egypt
• Scorpion attack wasn’t hitting friend
• Fixed issue where you couldn’t pick up just spawned loot

Modified

• Disabled switcheroo for now (as I still need to create graphics for them)
• You can move horizontally on the ladder
• You can know pick up and reattach a bomb
• Can use inventory while running and swimming
• Show next key to press to continue instead of green triangle in tutorial
• Switch remains slightly visible when pressed
• Allow to jump again after jumping on an enemy
• Tweaked score for time bonus Added +1000 if you get enemies, loot, secrets perfect

I have added support for the following languages:

• French
• Italian
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Chinese
• Japanese
• (and soon Polish thanks to two guys from the Discord community)

The above were translated by translators (actual persons) but not professionals from the games industry, so I’m expecting there will be a lot of inconsistencies. And Localization QA is quite expensive.

If any of the above languages is your native language, I would really appreciate it if you could double check it and report and weird translations 🙂

Join the community on Discord to give suggestions and get daily updates on art and development.

Meanwhile here’s a preview of the upcoming redesign of the characters