About Update:

This update aims to keep the player in the action, reducing the amount of pauses or dull moments in the game.

New Features / Changes:

• [New System Change] Upgrade Button (bottom left) that gives the player a list of upgrades they can buy. The list of upgrades refreshes when everything is bought, or when the refresh button is used (cost 3 cells).
• [New System Change] Enemies now drop cells that the player can collect (seen at the bottom left). Cells are used to buy new parts from the shop.
• [Feature] The upgrade screen now has a Delete button. Click on that and you will be in delete mode. While in this mode you can click on parts to remove them and make room for new parts
• [Feature] New part: Bomber. Shoots a bomb that explodes on impact, or explodes after a timer.
• Mouth part is now wider, taking up more room on the body
• Extender is shortened, and art is changed
• Extra body attachments can no longer be hit by enemies, as well as your own parts.
• "Bug" enemies removed
• Enemies can no longer hit each other

Design for the future:

Playing this game for some time, and seeing some other people try it had me thinking about the controls of the game, and the act of the player getting larger. It's really awkward to control a huge creature and keep body parts out of danger. I couldn't find a good solution to this, and settled with  just removing the possibility of extra body parts being destroyed.

This lead to the game design gearing towards a more traditional vampire survivor game, upgrades are just abilities that help you kill enemies, and enemies only move towards you. In this way I can focus on how future parts and upgrades let you kill enemies in more interesting ways, instead of having to balance around your character's hitbox and how to keep enemies away.

I'm not sure when the next update for this game will be, I was hoping to do a steam launch but my inspiration for the game is waning, it's feeling too much like any other Vampire Survivor game. I might start a new project, or update some existing ones I have, follow me if you wanna see those. 

Thanks for reading, and thanks for playing!