Getting coins from chests used to just be them just spawning around the chest and the player having to pick them up like a scrub.

Now, it's a whole lot juicier! Take a look at the satisfying result of opening a coin-filled loot chest in Lone Survivors!
(ty Godot for tweens!)

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Less than a week until the Lone Survivors playtest goes live!

Compete for the top score in an Endless leaderboard, where the highest placing player will get a Steam reward!

Sign up now by requesting access on Steam:
store.steampowered.com/app/3629280/...

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Lone Survivors Daily!

The newest feature of the Endless mode is Shrines.

Shrines currently offer a random event, intended on adding variety to the endless mode.

They range from spawning elites, bosses, or providing health!

What kind of cool blessing/curses can you think of?

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Lone Survivors Daily

Today, we let the Warrior hide behind statues... or something. 🥸

See below for before and after!

(note: hiding does not help against the monsters)

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Lone Survivors Daily
The Planter - new boss for endless!

Fight against the thorny beast that is the Planter in the endless mode!

The Planter has three abilities:
1. Vines -- shoots out vines from her body
2. Summon Potheads (these little guys aren't friendly!)
3. Grow flowers

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Lone Survivors Daily - Featuring the Final New Ability for the Playtest:

The Cursed Candles

These candles damage nearby enemies, and can be upgraded to slow enemies, shoot flames, and harvest enemy souls!

Check out some GHASTLY gameplay below:

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Lone Survivors Daily: Spectral Blade

Another weapon to join the fray, the spectral blade pierces through enemies and marks them for death.

The legendary upgrade will cause your enemies to release a ghastly pulse on death.

Its... maybe too strong? Tell me your thoughts!

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Lone Survivors Daily: Leaderboards v2

I've been working on adding more content to the leaderboards, and we've attached some more metadata in a similar method to before.

Now, each leaderboard entry contains:
1. Class
2. Character Level
3. Weapons

Check it out below!

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Lone Survivors Daily - Undying Flames

The newest ability to join the roster is the Undying Flames

Perhaps a staple ability type in this genre, this ability just damages nearby enemies over time!

It was pretty fun to make this ability, and it's been on my backlog for a bit now.

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Lone Survivors Daily: Steam Leaderboards

I've been working on adding some additional metadata to my leaderboards in preparation for the playtest.

The newest addition is adding the class played!

When you make a score in the leaderboard, it stores your class and displays it!

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Lone Survivors Daily - Builder Time!

The Builder is one of six classes available in the coming playtest!

The Builder features turrets he can deploy as his active ability, and his progression tree unlocks Dynamite and the Drone abilities!

Check out some gameplay below!

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Lone Survivors Daily:

Talking about performance every day is very exciting (....maybe)

I continued to tackle performance problems. I have done two things (that will take some tweaking) to see some late game gains.

1. Reduce nodes in enemy scenes
2. Reduce navigation calls

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Lone Survivors Daily

I missed a day (yesterday) - I think my video hadn't uploaded properly.

Anyways, I've been working on the Mage classes' meta upgrades, and added in the legendary for the Mage Ball ability.

Take a look at the gameplay below!

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Lone Survivors Daily 42

I am still running into performance issues, so one thing I decided is replacing all of my AnimationPlayer nodes with just using a component that tweens the animations instead.
This way, each entity doesn't NEED an animation player, just a couple of tweens!
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Lone Survivors Daily 41:

I continued working on my endless mode, and have been also working on getting the game ready for playtesting!

That means:
1. Adjusting leaderboard to show in main menu
2. Deactivating hub for now
3. Disabling some features that are WIP for main game

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Lone Survivors Daily 40:

I've been working on adding time of day and weather changes to one of my endless levels!

I also made it so that we can tell if we are in a cave - and resultingly change if it should show rain or not!

Check it out below!

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