0.6.0 Early Access is out now!


Howdy everyone! Early Access version 0.6.0 is out now!

3-ish months in the making, this update includes a lot of polish on existing stuff and adds some new stuff too. With some much improved art and a better designed overworld the game is feeling much more like an actual video game! From what I have planned this is the 3rd of 5 releases (The 5th being the full release!) Now that the game's foundation is better figured out, future releases should have even bigger content updates.

I also figured out how to do language support. The foundation has been implemented, but I'm gonna wait until the full release to for-real finish it. I've found a font that supports a really good amount of languages. So far I've tested English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean and they all worked! I have no idea the process to get official translations, but at worst the game will support fan-translations.

Older saves will still cross over, but I've rearranged the levels a bit, so the overworld will have some broken looking paths. The game will still function just fine! All existing stuff has been at least changed a little bit, so maybe consider starting a new save?

I'm not good at keeping track of all the changes but here ya go (some minor spoilers):

New Stuff:
- Overhauled art
- Overhauled overworld
- Two new worlds
- 13 new levels
- New SFX
- New music

Adjustments:
- Buffed/ improved Badges
- Adjusted/ tightened player movement a bit
- Adjusted levels and bosses (earlier levels are a little easier)
- Got rid of bad levels (I think it was 6)
- Better fitting colors from Paintbrush friend
- Improved drawing minigame

Performance:
- Songs are now loaded based off a loadlist per level instead of just loading them all at the start (this cut the RAM usage by 75% lol)
- Tilemaps are loaded at boot now, which should eliminate load times and stuttering on older machines.

Options:
- New option: HP Display
- New option: VSync (Vsync was on by default before, you can turn it off now if that brings you joy)
- Better fullscreen behavior (should be faster)
- Game will fullscreen at boot, if you last played in fullscreen

QOL:
- Better 2 player device select (you now have to hold for a moment, also there's a warning for sharing a controller)
- Added the ability to cancel to several menus

Bugs:
- I fixed so many bugs, I don't remember

Thanks for playin!

Files

Garbanzo Quest Windows 373 MB
Version 0.6.0.188 Jan 06, 2023
Garbanzo Quest Linux 376 MB
Version 0.6.0.188 Jan 06, 2023
Garbanzo Quest Mac 376 MB
Version 0.6.0.188 Jan 06, 2023
Garbanzo Quest Windows Demo 207 MB
Version 0.6.0.190 Jan 06, 2023
Garbanzo Quest Linux Demo 210 MB
Version 0.6.0.190 Jan 06, 2023
Garbanzo Quest Mac Demo 210 MB
Version 0.6.0.190 Jan 06, 2023

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